Category Archives: eighth blackbird

So far, so good

Today we traveled from Chicago to Easton, PA, where we’ll be playing a concert at Lafayette College Friday night. All in all, a very smooth day, with an on-time flight and no airport snafus. A couple wrong turns didn’t prevent us from ultimately finding the Comfort Inn, and we were seconds away from a nice [...]

Brave new world

 
8bb Performing Arts Association has appointed Chris Richardson as Administrative Director, the ensemble’s first full time administrative employee. Up to this point, any and all admin work has been divided up among the players, but thanks to 8bb’s growth and continuing success this is no longer a feasible arrangement.
Below is a short bio:
For the last two [...]

Proper iPod usage

Tim came into rehearsal today and announced that he’d cleaned out his iPod, leaving on it the works of only two composers. This led to a lot of commentary from the rest of us (”Wow, what a purist” and “You know about playlists, right?” being my two favorites). He made us try to guess which [...]