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By John Salerno
THE BATTALION
It was an experience in a New York
airport that strengthened what Robert
Bluestone has always worked to
instill through his classical guitar per
formances — a sense of community.
Faced with the dilemma of having
to temporarily abandon his luggage
and guitar, Bluestone soon saw the
answer to his problem.
“I saw right in front of me there
were two guys wearing Aggie caps,”
Bluestone said. “So I (asked], ‘Can
you watch my stuff please?’ and
they said OK. 1 just walked away
and l knew that my stuff was safe. I
knew nothing would happen to my
$60,000 guitar. That’s the kind of
place that Texas A&M has always
|been | to me and I’m very much
looking forward to spending some
time on the campus.”
It is that sense of intimacy that
Bluestone strives to create in his
concerts.
“Even if it’s some place where
I’m playing for 1,500 or 2,000 peo
ple, I’m going to treat them like
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The Bluestones bring intimacy to art, will perform
tonight as part of OPAS intimate gathering series
they are sitting in their living room,”
Bluestone said. “Because that’s
what it is to me ... a conversation
[with the audience].”
Fortunately, Bluestone’s upcom
ing concert for OPAS’ “Intimate
Gathering” series will provide the
type of atmosphere that he enjoys
playing for — one in which he can
build a relationship with the audi
ence. Creating this kind of surround
ing is a goal Bluestone said he puts
foremost in his performance.
“What classical artists forgot to
do was reinvent their relationship
with their audience,” Bluestone said.
“[I grew] up listening to folk singers
who would tell stories about the
music they were playing, make jokes
with the audience and have the rap
port and relationship with the audi
ence. I always liked that better than
the way classical musicians just kind
of got out there and played the piece,
the audience would applaud, and
they’d play another piece.”
So Bluestone decided to integrate
the two traditions. Though he plays
classical music, he appeals to the folk
tradition to enhance his performance.
“That tradition of folk singers
talking to audiences is thousands of
years old,” Bluestone said. “It’s been
around much longer than the classical
tradition, so I realized that that was
the way. Talk to the audience [and]
get some kind of context and insight
into the music and what it means.”
The “Intimate Gathering” series
provides the perfect setting for this
type of interaction with a question-
and-answer session after the perform
ance, but Bluestone plans to go one
step further in order to foster his rela
tionship with the audience.
“For the concert this Friday, I will
invite folks to come backstage during
the intermission, just to talk with
them. Anyone from the audience who
wants to come backstage will be able
to,” Bluestone said.
This Friday’s concert, though, has
undergone an unexpected change. It
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Even if it's some place
where Vm playing for
1,500 or2,000people,
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like they are sitting in
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to me ...a conversation
[with the audience].
— Robert Bluestone
classical guitarist
was originally scheduled to be a part
of Bluestone’s “Woven Harmony”
program, in which he and his wife
Rebecca, a tapestry artist, would per
form together and discuss their
respective work. But due to an ill
ness, Mrs. Bluestone is unable to per
form. In spite of the program alter
ation, Anne Black, executive director
of OPAS, asked him to perform solo.
“The Friday evening perform
ance would have been the two of
us,” Bluestone said. “Her talking
about her work, showing slides; me
playing and talking about the pieces
that I play.”
The combination of classical guitar
and tapestry work offers a unique expe
rience for the audience, and Bluestone
described how it was that the “Woven
Harmony” program developed.
“We saw that there were similar
ities between what we did aestheti
cally, and as a result of that we real
ized that we could do something
where Rebecca would do an exhibi
tion and I would do a concert. We
both do a residency where we could
do things individually and together
about what our art forms have in
common. When you think about it,
weaving is done on a hand-made,
tightly strung wooden instrument
without nails, and that’s exactly
what a description of a guitar is.”
The husband/wife and per
former/audience interaction allow the
Bluestones to create a different type
of ambience at their concerts.
“We don’t want to do that kind of
standard ‘We’re up here on stage
and we’re the artists and you people
are down there [who] need to pay
attention to us because we’re impor
tant,’” Bluestone said. “Instead, we
want people to see that inside all of
us is this great spark of creativity.
Inside every single one of us, we
have this capacity to be creative,
and whether it comes out in playing
guitar or in an elegant engineering
solution, it’s still coming from the
same place. It’s what I consider a
divine spark. It’s what that essence
of us is. So what we want people to
see is that it manifests itself in each
of us in its own way.
Touching the lives of people in
this way is Bluestone’s main objec
tive during his performances, and
building that all-important sense of
community among these people is his
way of affecting the lives of others.
“Especially now, with evil loose in
the world, we have an opportunity
with the arts to show that this is one
of the most important ways to create
community,” Bluestone said.
Robert Bluestone will be perform
ing at Rudder Theatre Friday, Oct. 19
for MSC OPAS’s “Intimate
Gathering” series.
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