Back at DePauw University for our last of four visits, we took part in Carlos Carrillo’s Microfestival, the idea of which was to unite students and teachers for a week of concerts. The programming centered on works from the last thirty years, including music by Takemitsu, Crumb, Andriessen, Tom Albert, and Chen Yi (who had [...]
(This is a continuation of Perpetual Students.)
Another unique UMich residency activity was coaching two of the University of Michigan’s student orchestras.
(A personal digression: Orchestras can be savage beasts: impatient, unruly, defensive, arrogant. I have seen them turn conductors into aggressive ring-leaders, wielding batons only for protection from potential physical, musical or psychological harm. It is [...]
We will never leave college.
After accumulating a combined total of some 50 years of university study, the members of 8bb now spend several months each year teaching, coaching and generally making a nuisance of ourselves at all manner of liberal arts colleges, state universities and music conservatories around the US.
It is always a refreshing surprise [...]
