{"id":150,"date":"2009-06-08T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:01:19","slug":"tour_of_musical_baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/06\/tour_of_musical_baltimore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of (Musical) Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dproject.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/dproject.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dreary though the weather, last Thursday was a night of music fun and glamour at the (Baltimore) symphony: the 5-year contract extension (Marin and the orchestra commit to share their love&#8211;at least through 2015!), the backstage antics (yes, they have those&#8211;now musicians, please take your awesome selves to the lobby after the last curtain call. Your fans want to swoon over you.), and Jennifer Higdon&#8217;s shy reports of star spotting (as in: she was, in traffic&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/06\/higdelina.html\">Amanda has the details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And then the sun finally came out (and just in time) for the Metro Gallery&#8217;s outdoor Rufustival 2009. The line-up was truely impressive, and the vibe on par with a P.S. 1 show imported for an intimate Baltimore crowd. We stopped by in time to catch Chairlift (you know them from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8HRCacAQ-4\">iPod Nano commercial soundtracking<\/a>) and Wye Oak (sounds like all the indie rock I&#8217;ve ever loved, compressed. I&#8217;ll now be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AbOLPRBFjEE\">listening<\/a> to them obsessively for the next few days). Wye Oak&#8217;s Jenn Wasner signed off the stage with a nod to what she termed the &#8220;best band in the world,&#8221; and the festival show-stealer was indeed the up-close-and-personal appearance we got from Dirty Projectors. Loved them before, love them even more now. Their new album, <i>Bitte Orca<\/i>, drops tomorrow, but you can stream the tracks on NPR (of all places) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104578357\">right now here<\/a>. (Go now!!) <\/p>\n<p>If you do nothing else today, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll regret giving it a listen. When you get to &#8220;Remade Horizon,&#8221; note the vocal magic that begins at 2:37. How the lovely ladies of Dirty Projectors pulled off that kind of hocketting live in a parking lot still sets my mind spinning. Now I have all kinds of nerdy compositional questions for Dave Longstreth and his crew. <\/p>\n<p>*Dirty Projectors, Photo by Sarah Cass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreary though the weather, last Thursday was a night of music fun and glamour at the (Baltimore) symphony: the 5-year contract extension (Marin and the orchestra commit to share their love&#8211;at least through 2015!), the backstage antics (yes, they have those&#8211;now musicians, please take your awesome selves to the lobby after the last curtain call. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}