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Meridian Music commences its Fall 2010 series with "Call And Response" featuring poet Dottie Grossman and improvising trombonist Michael Vlatkovich. Grossman reads her poems aloud while Vlatkovich improvises a response on trombone. Neither knows in advance what the other will choose to do. The format creates an appealing artistic tension in a unique way – it reaches both literary and musical audiences, while transcending the usual “jazz and poetry” formula. It skirts the obvious and the literal, finding a common emotional point from which to spontaneously “compose” and combine the precision of poetry with the improvisational essence of jazz. The music enhances the words without overpowering them, and vice-versa.
