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Jane Ira Bloom Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson at Buckley Recital Hall

Courtesy of Jane Ira Bloom | Posted on July 20, 2017

Where

Buckley Recital Hall
Amherst College - route 9
Amherst, MA
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When

Fri, August 11, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Jane Ira Bloom
saxophone, soprano
Dean Johnson
bass, acoustic

About

Award winning soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom presents “Wild Lines,” her new work for jazz quartet and spoken word, inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The 80 minute suite of compositions inspired by poet Emily Dickinson alternated musical compositions with fragments from the poet's writing in a newly imaged musical landscape. Bloom’s reimagining of Dickinson was ignited when she learned that the poet was a pianist and improviser, reaffirming Bloom’s intuitive connection to the jazz-like quality of Dickinson’s writing. Join us for a collaboration across time between two pioneering women artists - one a 21st century jazz musician, the other a 19th century visionary poet...

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