[NewMusic] Braxton on FOX

[damon]

Sounds better than the last time I heard Braxton's music live... I like 
the clueless bass player.
damon

On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of ted brinkley
>
> i hope it is not a little known secret that HS kids
> are the perfect cohort for exposure to all kinds of
> cool guerrilla shit under the guise of "band" or "jazz
> ensemble"......
>
> y'all talk about building audience (and personnel
> pool)---HS teaching may be potentially fertile soil
> for "outreach".
>
> --GC
>
> no accident this happened in the cleveland area.
>
> PG:
> I am in complete agreement with Mr. Brinkley on this one. I have a new
> job teaching at Oakland School for the Arts, and am working with middle
> and high school kids - it's been going really well so far. I mention 
> it,
> because I brought in Braxton's Composition #338 recently (I think 
> that's
> the # anyway...). They were pretty amazed by the notation.
>
> I've also brought in some of Pauline Oliveros' Orchestra Meditations,
> some of Jon Raskin's graphic scores, some of my newer graphic pieces,
> etc. In addition, we've been doing some free improvisation - on the
> first day, everyone had to improvise for 15 seconds, in reference to
> Andy Warhol's comment that in the future everyone would be famous for 
> 15
> seconds...now we're doing more free improvisation (mostly solo...) with
> a mind to think about some essential "musical parameters" like: tone,
> intonation, timbre, rhythm, melody (no melody), form, intervals,
> scale-wise movement, arpeggios, etc. Each student has to listen and
> comment on how the improviser dealt with those elements. We're up to
> improvising for a minute now, (it gets a little longer every week), and
> from time to time I compose graphic scores on the blackboard that they
> have to play. They're really digging it, and they all admit that
> improvising "is really scary".
>
> They also know they are going to have to compose at least one
> "traditional" piece for ensemble (and solo) this year, as well as
> composing a graphic score, or "directions for improvisation". We're 
> also
> covering all the usual technical stuff as well (scales, arpeggios,
> interval studies, etudes, duets, long tones, rhythm studies, etc.).
>
> But yeah, get them while they're young, and open their ears and expose
> them to a host of ideas before they think they know what it's all 
> about.
>
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