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15 AprThoughts by ETHEL 3x aka Quad Cities Artist
The final concert of our residency for Quad City Arts was fantastically beautiful! They had set up a stage with attractive lighting in a ballroom at Augustana College in Rock Island. The seating was arranged cabaret-style, around large tables, with beverages for purchase at the bar. Although the large, carpeted room would have sucked the [...]
Read More ...11 AprThoughts by ETHEL 2x aka Quad Cities Visiting Artist
ETHEL has been having an absolute blast playing children’s concerts in the Quad Cities. With the exception of our two concerts at area high schools earlier this week, our audiences have ranged in age from 3 years to 5th grade. Common knowledge dictates that 750 kids in one room for 45 minutes should spell mayhem; [...]
Read More ...10 AprThoughts by ETHEL… aka Quad Cities Visiting Artist
Hello from Davenport, Iowa – Tema here, reporting after our first two days of work for Quad City Arts. We have had an absolutely spectacular time in our first two jam-packed days here in the Quad Cities and are looking forward to the rest of our time here this week–in addition to Friday night’s concert, [...]
Read More ...22 MarETHEL: Conversation w/ Composer Kevin James
ETHEL, along with the Australian ensemble, Speak Percussion, and The [kāj] Ensemble, will premiere three multi-media works in acclaimed contemporary composer Kevin James’s Vanishing Languages series at Roulette March 28 + 29. Each work features live musicians w/surround sound audio content drawn from field recordings of the last speakers of nearly extinct languages. ETHEL recently [...]
Read More ...07 MarTedxManhattan with Kaki and Ulysses!
Happy March, ETHEL-ites! Tema here, back from ETHEL’s Spring break, which I spent in Tanzania blissfully cellphone-less. Just before I left, though, I had the great pleasure of serving with ETHEL as House Band & Music Curators for 2013′s TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat. Who hasn’t been inspired, uplifted, or jolted into deep thought [...]
Read More ...22 JanA Night at the Museum : ETHEL plays @ The Met!
Tema here: ETHEL has recently been named the Ensemble in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar, and we couldn’t be happier to appear regularly at such a treasured New York City landmark. We appear as often as we can — so long as we’re in town! — every Friday and Saturday evening [...]
Read More ...05 NovETHEL: Composer Conversation w/ Rob Van Riswik + Jeroen Strijbos
COMPOSER CONVERSATION w/ ROB VAN RISWIK + JEROEN STRIJBOS By ETHEL’s Ralph Farris ETHEL is now in the Netherlands, where we are premiering “Cross Avenue,” by composers Rob Van Riswik and Jeroen Strijbos. This is our first project with this brilliant collaborative-composing duo, and I am thrilled that they made the time to do a [...]
Read More ...09 OctGlow! : & Some Questions with Kaki King
Tema here: Greetings from Atlanta, where ETHEL has just finished the first day of a MONTH-LONG-TOUR-EXTRAVAGANZA. More on that soon, but first… Kaki King has been blowing up lately, which is why you should all go out and buy her new album, “Glow.” Not to mention- it is SO GOOD. You should turn the volume [...]
Read More ...12 SepGrand Canyon Music Festival & NACAP 2012
Hello ETHEL-ites, Tema here, one of the two new ETHELs, just back from my first big ETHEL trip out West for the Grand Canyon Music Festival and the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Program. What a whirlwind it’s been, but I couldn’t have asked for a more appropriate or heartfelt induction into this new world. Dorothy [...]
Read More ...07 JulRalph Farris Speaks with Joe Jackson
ETHEL’s good friend Joe Jackson has just released a brilliant Duke Ellington tribute album entitled The Duke. Joe was kind enough to answer some of my questions about the project, and his working style. (Full disclosure: ETHEL performs on the album as well, and you can pick it up HERE…) RF: You have spoken of [...]
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