Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
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Chicago s own Third Coast Percussion, joined by composer Blood Orange, are among nominees.
Some of the group talks about how they make daring and wondrous music like few artists can!
This mind-bending group has been together for 16 years, has three Grammy nominations and even won in 2017. The thrill does not ever end, said Robert Dillion with Third Coast Percussion. Obviously this year we wish we could be in LA with everyone else.
The ongoing pandemic means they will have to celebrate here in Chicago this year. We re getting together in our rehearsal studio, safely distanced from one another, said David Skidmore, also with Third Coast Percussion.
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Devont strong /strong é Hynes new album, em Fields /em , is nominated for two classical Grammy awards this year.
With a new year comes a new season of Play It Forward,
All Things Considered s chain of artistic inspiration, where we ask musicians to tell us about their work and the people who inspire them, after which we ask the person mentioned for their own, and so it continues. This series often takes leaps from one genre to another, which makes Devonté Hynes a tricky and exciting place to jump back in.
Hynes doesn t hew to any one genre: under the name Blood Orange, he produces pop music; under his own name, he writes evocative scores for TV shows and movies
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