the noble bocce ball
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I finally downloaded the recording for How to be a Deep Thinker in Los Angeles from the Midwest Composers Symposium. (For those of you composers from the visiting schools who still want the recordings, email me and I will upload them via YouSendIt.)
Here's the recording.
Okay, what is wrong with this recording? THERE IS NO BOCCE BALL.
Oh my goodness. I was only able to listen to 3 seconds of this recording. (If you listened to the whole thing, please let me know how it is. I'm sure it's awesome because Tyler rocked the piece, but, alas, I hear no ball rolling.)
This adds to my realization that a few people don't take this bocce ball seriously.
Conversation in point: I attended Bonnie Whiting Smith's simultaneous realization of two John Cage's pieces (51'15.657" for a speaking percussionist), and afterwards ran into Allen Otte, professor of percussion at CCM and member of the group Percussion Group Cincinnati.
I thought we would be talking about the concert, but instead he opens with this:
"I…
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