Brian Stokes Mitchell Talks Musicality with Rhiannon Giddens
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Stage actor Brian Stokes Mitchell and musician Rhiannon Giddens discuss musical artistry.
Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens and Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell discuss how musical genres may be universally adapted and “played with” by artists.
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Brian Stokes Mitchell Talks Musicality with Rhiannon Giddens
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Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens and Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell discuss how musical genres may be universally adapted and “played with” by artists.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship-So, musical theater, I was raised in... ♪ There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow ♪ ♪ There's a bright, gol-- One and three, and you're singing on the beat.
-Right.
-And you're singing, you know, there.
-Mm-hmm.
-So I decided, later on, to start loosening that up, kind of, with the jazz, 'cause it felt better.
It felt more natural, it felt more organic.
-Yeah.
-And there's, like -- I like to say, you know, it's the spaces.
That's where artists play.
Artists play in the spaces.
-Always in the spaces.
-Yeah, exactly.
-The edges, the spaces.
-Right!
-In between the dots.
-Right!
-Mm-hmm.
-Anybody -- Anybody can -- Anybody can play a note.
-Mm-hmm.
-It takes an artist to play the space.
-Look, this -- Why do you think I play a fretless banjo?
-I see that.
I know that.
I saw that.
And I appreciate that.
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