8 Days in June hits Max M. Fisher Music Center

Subversive is not a word normally associated with symphonic music festivals -- or any music festival, for that matter. But 8 Days in June is stretching the boundaries about what a music festival can speak and about how it can sound. From June 21 through 28, the Max M. Fisher Music Center is going to sound different.

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In addition to traditional symphonic, chamber, jazz and solo fare, 8 Days will present drama, film, lectures and visual art, as well as rock transcriptions, African drumming and a poetry slam. The festival is centered on a theme called Creating and Conflict; many of its featured works stem from personal suffering and political unrest

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