Needing a Band(age)

My Audience Connection class is in full swing and below I post my first sound clip of the semester.  Lawren read a blog post by Molly Sheridan (Mind the Gap) about a school band t-shirt that “created” an uproar.  Darwin is turning in his…now where did he go exactly?…….

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Be A…part?

There is constant debate on what relationship an artist needs to have with their audience, and whether there needs to be one at all!  I mean who needs ticket sales, donations or any audience at all really?  Oh yeah, ALL OF US, not to mention what does the audience need?… I need to get something off my chest….

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Audience Connection Final – part 2

The final two dream big Arts organizations from the Audience Connection final (here is part 1).  Also, as part of their final I wanted them to take a genre of music and redefine it into more clearly understood sub-genres i.e funk, techno funk.  I have included clips from two that were very well thought out and presented.  For the Holidays, at the end of the post I have included audio from a rehearsal of Franz Biebl’s extraordinary Ave Maria with yours truly conducting Choirs from Evangel University and the College of the Ozarks….

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