Via the indefatigable Steve Smith (whose gig-going schedule apparently doesn't miss a beat even when he's down in Richmond VA visiting his fiancée), I learn that eighth blackbird are jumping on the bandwagon with both feet: they have just unveiled their newly-minted blog (apparently maintained by their newly-minted member -- I wonder if "must blog" was listed among the audition requirements?), and they have also just pulled the shrinkwrap off of their first podcast, which features an brief interview with the great, famously irascible composer-pianist Fred Rzewksi.
(Context: they are talking about the improvised cadenzas they each play in Rzewski's "Pocket Symphony," a work commissioned and recorded
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