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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
In the can
Some fun but blurry pics of yesterday's The Vinyl Six recording session are online. I like the piece very much, and we got a bunch of really terrific takes. It's pretty thrilling to hear the fantastic chamber players of Avian Music play the piece as if they've been living with and performing it for years (they premiered the work a year and a half ago). It's a nice contrast to the frantic and just-learned-this performances composers usually enjoy. Avian director Peter Flint plans a CD of rock-inspired chamber works, for release probably in 2008. I voted for the title "RockBird".