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		<title>Kickstarter Composer Package Sample – Deconstructing “The Miraverse”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Background As of writing this post I am nearly halfway through a Kickstarter project to fund my debut album as jazz composer/bandleader. One of the reward levels is &#8220;Composer Package&#8221; where &#8220;I&#8217;d love to share with you PDF scores of each of the compositions and arrangements that appear on the album, as well as some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Future of Art in North Carolina: An Alternate Narrative to Moogfest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Setup: Moogfest I lead a dual-life as an artist and technologist. This week, those worlds collided geographically. By day I am a sales engineer at Bronto, an email marketing company with gorgeous offices on the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham. At the end of the workday on Friday, I wandered over to an American [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Durham and why Jazz? Three Reasons.</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2014/08/13/why-durham-and-why-jazz-three-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Art of Cool Project co-founder Cicely Mitchell guest blogged at ArtsNowNC in a piece called &#8220;Why Durham, and why jazz?&#8221; She presents a few reasons for why Durham is poised for innovation and growth in jazz, both artistic output and audience. The argument is fine, but it doesn&#8217;t dig deep enough, since the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">896</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>My Week at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2014/07/16/my-week-at-ravinias-steans-music-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last blog post I announced that I had been invited to the prestigious Ravinia&#8217;s Steans Music Institute for a one-week jazz residency at their Chicago festival campus. It has been almost a month  and only now am I  able to decompress enough to write about my experience there. When is the last time you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">877</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>I Have Been Invited To Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2014/04/24/i-have-been-invited-to-ravinias-steans-music-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently received the most surprising, amazing phone call  &#8211; I have been invited to participate in a one week long jazz workshop with other young, rising jazz talents at the Chicago area&#8217;s famous Ravinia Festival! This is the kind of thing that you can&#8217;t even apply for &#8211; industry folks nominate you and&#8230;well, you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">869</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Eric’s 2014 Art of Cool Festival itinerary</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2014/04/16/erics-2014-art-of-cool-festival-itinerary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s finally here! I&#8217;ve observed, performed for, and occasionally advised the amazing jazz advocacy team over at The Art of Cool Project ever since its inception. I couldn&#8217;t be more excited for and proud of this crew as we are two weeks away from Durham&#8217;s first annual Art of Cool jazz festival! The lineup that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">862</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Inside The Score: Beast + Big Band edition</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2014/02/01/inside-the-score-beast-big-band-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Though I did not blog about it when it happened, one of my favorite artistic achievements of 2013 was the release of The Beast + Big Band&#8217;s debut EP, Gardens. We titled the album Gardens for two reasons: 1) we initially assembled this thirteen-member hip hop ensemble for a Duke Gardens summer concert 2) from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">843</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Orphalese</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2013/10/03/orphalese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today marks the fourth anniversary of the best decision of my life so far &#8211; to embark on the sacred journey of marriage with Lauren Ann Schlenger Hirsh. Early  in our courtship, Lauren gifted me a copy of Kahlil Gibran&#8217;s 1923 classic, The Prophet. Part of her inscription to me reads &#8220;Few books have touched me so deeply [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">829</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>So Many September Shows!</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2013/09/09/so-many-september-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am so excited for this particular month. It is chock full of great performances, and I get to play in no less than five configurations, from solo jazz piano, to singer-songwriter, to orchestral hip hop ensemble. Highlights include The Beast + Big Band opening for the great Nnenna Freelon, and a short tour with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">820</post-id>	<dc:creator>Eric Hirsh</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Transcription: “Face Plant” by Blanko Basnet</title>
		<link>http://www.erichirsh.com/2013/08/09/transcription-face-time-by-blanko-basnet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 02:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we here in the Durham music community continue to grow up as artists and humans, we also move through different projects to accommodate our changing visions. Pierce is putting a lot of time into the Beatmaking Lab in addition to The Beast. Phil Cook has His Feat in addition to Megafaun. Hammer No More [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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