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069 - A Musical Informance to Celebrate the Solar Eclipse
I did a poll on Instagram recently to see if any of my music teacher friends had ever hosted a musical informance. A few said "yes," a few said "no," but a surprising number of respondents chose the third option: "What's an informance?"An informance is basically an informal performance or as Eastman professor Dave Headlam describes, "A performance for the information age." (source: Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory)There's a teaching component and a performing component, and depending on how you structure it, a conversational or interactive component.In Ep. 068, I showed you in real time…
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