“We have some music of this type, then, meanwhile, there is something else going on here. Meanwhile, over there there is something else entirely.”
This is how Stephen Hartke describes the origin of his new piece Meanwhile, a set of six character-pieces that 8bb premiered several weeks ago at University of Richmond, as part of an [...]
Since Tim joined the group I have been made painfully aware of how much I don’t listen to music. Especially new and post-classical music. Whereas Tim has already been to 57 concerts, purchased 812 CDs, and downloaded 12,349 tracks of everything from Machaut to Eötvös this week, I’ve managed to pass the first guitar battle [...]
Clarke Bustard, blogger and long-time reviewer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has written a very positive piece on his blog about the Modlin Center’s successful attempt to get 8bb introduced to the “downtown crowd” in Richmond, at the First Fridays artwalk.
Bustard writes of a “sturdy cultural barrier”, marked by the “Beltway, a rail line and [...]
