Boston Microtonal Society Concert

From Brian Sacawa's blog, Sounds like Now, at
http://briansacawa.com/blog/2006/11/02/in-between/
we learn:

With the Boston Microtonal Society concert coming up in less than two
weeks, I've been busy getting Bob Hasegawa's Ajax is all about attack
under my fingers. I'm always surprised at how difficult it feels to
learn a new quarter-tone piece. For me, it's often like learning to
play the instrument all over again—the response time between my mind
reading the notes on the page and my fingers depressing the often odd
key combinations is much slower than if I was sight reading regular
notes. Of course, there's a simple explanation for all of this:
quarter-tones don't appear very frequently in music, which results in
a much steeper piece learning curve than usual.

There's more in his post, and more about the concert on the Boston
Microtonal Society Web page. http://www.bostonmicrotonalsociety.org/

Sunday, November 12, 4pm
Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Admission $10 ($7 students/seniors)

Prent Rodgers