October 29, 2008 by Bruce Hembd

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Mind the Gap


Interesting comments from Yo Mama .

At the Butts in the Seats blog, the author writes about recent comments by Yo Yo Ma as televised on The Colbert Report. This stood out to me:

He commented that the blame doesn’t flow in one direction, “Most American artists, intellectuals, and academics have lost their ability to converse with the rest of society. We have become wonderfully expert in talking to one another, but we have become almost invisible and inaudible in the general culture.”

Any nominees for “Joe the Horn Player?”

At AZOOMA, we are trying to bridge this gap with a new public outreach initiative. It is focused on bookstore concerts and post concert chats, among other ideas.

Read the entire “Butts” post here. At Adaptistration, Drew McManus takes this a step further and allows viewers to see and vote on recent appearances by Ma, Lorin Maazel and Alex Ross.

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Mind the Gap
Published on October 29, 2008 by Bruce Hembd

Archived under: General
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