Mark O'Connor: Living On The Cracks

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	Mark O'Connor: Living On The Cracks

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a916f144-6da8-4b2c-b55a-dfa8574e5298/E6DA04A4-4D4F-4854-BEE0-0C88BE4E1A9B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks" href="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks" style="font-size: 11px;">www.jambase.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks"><H1>Mark O'Connor:  Living On The Cracks</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.jambase.com/img/6E846EAF-1918-4792-9CED-0F91F854F48B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks">Not everyone can communicate without words.  Getting meaning, feeling and narrative across using nuance and texture instead of defined syllables is beyond the grasp of many musicians.  Yet, <B><A href="http://www.jambase.com/Artists/Artist.aspx?artistID=64985">Mark O'Connor</A></B> has always told vivid tales with his violin and compositions.  From his early pithiness as a Nashville session hot shot through innumerable award winning projects in the jazz, bluegrass and classical fields, O'Connor has shown himself a remarkable storyteller, eliciting laughs, scares and sighs with ease, a wordless screenwriter who's thrilling and calming by turns and never wants for emotional oomph.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks">On March 10, 2009, the man who once garnered "Musician of the Year" honors six years running </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jambase.com/Articles/17801/Mark-O%27Connor-Living-On-The-Cracks">released his first symphony, <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Mark-OConnor-Americana-Symphony/dp/B001R4KQKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1241129006&sr=1-1/jambase" target="blank"><B><I>Americana Symphony: Variations On Appalachia Waltz</I></B></A> (OMAC Records).  Conducted by <B>Marin Alsop</B> and performed by the <B>Baltimore Symphony Orchestra</B> it is a moving, evocative, tremendously ambitious addition to the modern classical canon</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6DA04A4-4D4F-4854-BEE0-0C88BE4E1A9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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