Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloom is at her most enthusiastic when discussing her work. She calls Modern Drama her "most ambitious project to date" in terms of orchestration and harmony and says she gives her best live performances at the Village Vanguard, her favorite New York City club...
Currently, Bloom's musical experimentation focuses on combining improvisation with live electronics and dancers. Her recent work deals specifically with the ways sound sources can be considered and altered...
Which means that Bloom used a recent National Endowment for the Arts grant to create a satellite system of twirling microphones above a Symphony Space stage in New York and then pushed the sounds through speakers. It's not really surprising that Bloom is the first musical artist to have become involved in the NASA art program...
...HARVARD rehearsal centered around two of Bloom's pieces--"Two-Five-One" and "an abstract ballad" called "Desert". And Bloom took the session as seriously as her charges. She knew exactly how loud the triple forte should be, exactly how to dovetail each section with the next...
...Improvisation, (Third) World Culture and So-Called Performance Art." Tonight is the culminating concert. And in November, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis are coming for a two-day deluge of workshops, master classes, and discussions. In the absence of advanced Jazz courses from the Music Department, workshops like Jane Ira Bloom's and the Marsalises have to work wonders. They seem...