It has taken 6 years to get to this point. Years of begging Steve Reich and the Bang on a Can folks on bended knee; of finding co-commissioning partners for 80 very expensive minutes of music; of planning dates with managers and presenters; of hiring an “entourage” and working out the complex logistics. Then, this [...]
8bb arrived in Richmond VA over the weekend, in advance of the world premiere of The Only Moving Thing. The next three days will be a busy, stress-filled hell, but I will still try to post short “miscellanies” with photos from rehearsals.
Over the past two weeks we have essentially been hibernating in our Chicago rehearsal [...]
“Imagine you are an egomaniacal, mid-20th century Russian violinist. It should have that sort of hysteria.”
“That should be fine; it’s my favorite sort of violin playing anyway…”
Working with composers is one of the chief joys of this job, especially when the composer at hand is as personally engaging as David Lang.
David worked with us on [...]
