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further fidgety

January 3, 2011

Matt Jenson and I have been burning the midnight oil writing Fidgety Fairy Tales, Part 3.

The piece will receive a staged reading at Nautilus Music Theatre using (gasp!) adult actors, as part of the Rough Cuts works in progress series. Shows will be Monday January 10 and Tuesday January 11, both at 7:30. As usual the Monday night show will be in Nautilus’s Lowertown studio. Tuesday night’s show will be in Minneapolis, at a location I will post here as soon as I know.

Admission is $5 or what you can afford. I would appreciate any comments you have to offer on the piece.

Update: The January 11 show will be at Open Eye Figure Theatre.

Yes, there will be singing sheep (image from Cheyenne branch of U of Wyoming)

Yes, there will be singing sheep (image from Cheyenne branch of U of Wyoming)

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the whizbang

July 8, 2010

I had an opportunity to see many people from the community loosely known as the West Bank last night at the Hinkley memorial event. There were many wonderful musical performances in a number of genres, all having roots in traditional music of Europe, Africa and North America.

There’s a lot to say about it, and I won’t say it. Today I am thinking about the role musicians play in bringing coherence to a community. Music, even vocal music, being an abstract form that people seem to need in order to make sense of their lives, their emotions. Yes, it is abstract but it is experienced so directly, through our bodies, our ears, our dancing feet. It pulls us into harmony with ourselves and with one another.

The status that Bill had was a result of his importance to a community of  free thinkers who were trying to move into something new and to create a new world. Bill and Judy’s music helped to knit the community together. And so here we are. Still standing.

The Palm Room--photo taken by a new world at flickr.

The Palm Room–photo taken by a new world at flickr.

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