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There is something fascinating about the act of musical improvisation—that moment when a musician departs from the score, embarking on a thematically relevant, yet wholly spontaneous composition. We normally think of it as the province of jazz musicians, conjuring the iconic image of a sax player wailing through riffs in a smoky, dim-lit club. John Coltrane and Bill Evans were masters. Miles Davis was never much for rehearsal. He used to gather his band in the studio, rattle off a few suggestions for the broad shape each track should take, and hit record. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/42963-the-improvisational-brainThere is something fascinating about the act of musical improvisation—that... more
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What do you do when youtube is filled with videos of animals? Well Rathergood decided it was about time to mix them together for one giant musical track.What do you do when youtube is filled with videos of animals? Well Rathergood decided... more
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The Queen's Suite is the new documentary by Corine Dhondee. It is about a young jazz musician Peter Edwards, Duke Ellington, the Queen of England, a 15 piece orchestra, a dream driven by passion, and it has a soundtrack that blows life's dust away.
Here's a trumpet solo by Mark Crown, one of the exceptional members of the orchestra.
You can find out more about the documentary here http://kck.st/cbGGo1
The trailer reached number 7 in Current TV's music chart. On the Kickstarter site you can see the trailer and pledge towards the finishing funds. All I can say is thank you America, a great platform and innovative thinking.
400 people at $25 (£16) each will raise the finishing funds.
200 people at $45 (£29) each will raise the finishing funds.
100 people at $90 (£56) each will raise the finishing funds.
So far my friends have pledged and the amount raised is $3000.
In return for $25 (£16) you will receive an online download, a credit, a photo of Duke Ellington and the Queen and a DVD, for a larger amount you will receive more.
The doc will go into schools and will enable young people to see what it means to be a young working musician, who, driven by his own commitment and passion achieves success and creates music that blows the dust of life away.
Couldn't we all do with having some of life's dust blown away?
Enable the doc to be seen and heard world-wide. We have until the end of August 2010. http://kck.st/cbGGo1The Queen's Suite is the new documentary by Corine Dhondee. It is about a young... more
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For those who love beautiful electronic instrumental music. Produced by an Australian musician. It is truly outstanding...For those who love beautiful electronic instrumental music. Produced by an Australian... more
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Peter Edwards is one of Britain's most promising jazz arrangers. His dream is to perform Duke Ellington’s Queen’s Suite (which was written in 1959 for the current British Monarch) to the Queen at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The film follows Peter as he puts together his orchestra, rehearses them and negotiates with Buckingham Palace. Will the Queen attend the final performance? The film provides a unique and intimate insight into the background and career of an exceptional musician. It has an original live soundtrack by The Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra.Peter Edwards is one of Britain's most promising jazz arrangers. His dream is to... more
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Roger Frisch of Plymouth, Minn., lay on the operating table with his hands clutching his violin to his chin. While surgeons operated on Frisch's brain, Frisch began to play the chords he's known for more than 30 years. It seemed like a scene from a science fiction movie. But every note he played told the surgeons whether the electronic pulses they were sending to his brain worked to ease his body's tremors. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/410-plays-violinRoger Frisch of Plymouth, Minn., lay on the operating table with his hands clutching... more
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Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on Tues, Thurs & Sats here at WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK
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In today's show :
Back in the garden.
Piano bar.
Should you hold the doors open ?
I'd have to wear a suit.
Who will I vote for.
Chivalry.
Should I have a big birthday party at 50 ?
Standing up for someone.
Rock A Oke.
Swish through.
Bosch bulbs
What would bring you into a pub ?
Fruit & veg to ward off cancer.
It costs nothing to say thank you.
A karaoke night with full orchestra.
Moving a trolley out of the way.
Petrol driven strimmer.
Something I'd like to do.
Drunk ladies.
Rude cat.
Idea's running through my mind.
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www.chrisreardon.co.ukThursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show... more
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Rico Sisney performing and conducting "Open Your Eyes" live with a Hip-Hop orchestra. Rico Sisney composed and arranged this piece for his recital entitled "Hip Hop: Art Music of the Future." Rico Sisney is the MC for the live Hip-Hop group Sidewalk Chalk.
sidewalk-chalk.com
Credits:
Composed by
Rico Sisney
Emcee
Rico Sisney
Backup Vocals
Maggie Vagle
Sally Blandon
Strings
Viola - Johnathan DeSouza
Cello - Hillary Bauer
First Violin - Alexander Stabrawa
Second Violin - Christine Knodle
Sax
Chris Beckstrom
Keys/Piano/Vibes
Charlie Coffeen
Drums
Rob Dicke
Bass
Garrett McGinn
Percusssion
Chris Paquette
Produced by
The Belmont Sessions
Executive Producers
Rico Sisney
Aunnoy Badruzzaman
Edited by
Alan Dennison
Aunnoy Badruzzaman
Videographers
Alex Tabaczka
Alan Dennison
Zach Perry
Logan Neilsen
Aunnoy Badruzzaman
Sound
Ben Gordon
Elliot Little
Dana Minetti
Brandon Vogel
Tom VanDerBeek
Mixed by
Elliott Little
© Copyright 2010 The Belmont Sessions, LLCRico Sisney performing and conducting "Open Your Eyes" live with a Hip-Hop... more
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In this episode of Beyond The Pedway, Tim Jahn is chatting with the folks of Fifth House Ensemble, a unique ensemble of musicians based in Chicago that strives to tell stories with music and bring chamber music to nontraditional avenues.
Fifth House Ensemble is currently producing a show in Chicago called "Black Violet", which is an "unprecendented experience in music, art and narrative", featuring a graphic novel set to classical music.In this episode of Beyond The Pedway, Tim Jahn is chatting with the folks of Fifth... more
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Accompanied by the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra for a "Posthumous Zone" version of "Run This Town".Accompanied by the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra for a "Posthumous Zone"... more
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If you can't attend Gustavo Dudamel's upcoming inaugural and gala concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall, there are plenty of ways to experience the events remotely.
This week, KUSC-FM (91.5) announced that it will broadcast portions of Saturday's Bowl concert -- including Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
KUSC said Saturday's live broadcast will begin at 7 p.m. with the YOLA Expo Centre Youth Orchestra performing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, followed by the Ninth Symphony with the L.A. Philharmonic. The radio station will also provide an audio-only webcast of the concert at its site, www.kusc.org.
In addition, the station said it is providing a live broadcast of the L.A. Philharmonic's Oct. 8 gala both over the airwaves and online.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic previously announced that it will provide a free webcast of Saturday's Bowl concert. The Music Center said last week that it is offering a free outdoor simulcast of the Oct. 8 Disney Hall gala event.If you can't attend Gustavo Dudamel's upcoming inaugural and gala concerts... more
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Over in Los Angeles, the whole city is gearing up for the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic next week.
Not even Berlin's welcome for Simon Rattle when he took over the Philharmoniker in 2002 comes close to the red carpet that LA has rolled out for Dudamel, already the most hyped appointment in recent classical music history.
LA's buses, billboards, and concert halls shimmer with neon-lit messages of welcome for the world's most famous Venezuelan (he's now one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world), and the LA Phil's website hums with Dudamel previews and videos.Over in Los Angeles, the whole city is gearing up for the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel... more
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A-mazing little idea from Darren Solomon where lots of different YouTube videos can be played in harmony and mixed by adjusting the volume sliders. The first ever digital orchestra?
I am loving In B Flat, an experimental, collaborative video orchestra from Darren Solomon. Each video produces one element of the composition (in B flat), which you can mix together by adjusting the volume sliders. Not to be missed! Give it a try, it will put a smile on your face.
Its been around for awhile, my apologies if you've experienced it before.A-mazing little idea from Darren Solomon where lots of different YouTube videos can be... more
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On Saturday night, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, joined by the Handel Choir of Baltimore, will explore this exotic territory in a program called "Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy." That music will be accompanied by high-def video and stills from the game, which was created in Japan by Hironobu Sakaguchi and introduced to the U.S. nearly two decades ago. Several series of the game have been released over the years.
Arnie Roth, who is conducting the national tour of "Distant Worlds," will vouch for that. He was invited by the owner of the Japanese publisher of the game to lead the Final Fantasy-themed program in this country in 2005.
Roth has led the Final Fantasy show with orchestras in Atlanta, Detroit, San Diego and, last Sunday, Dallas, invariably to packed houses. The conductor gives the credit for this success to Nobuo Uematsu, something of a pioneer who was one of the first to introduce orchestral and choral sound into a product that initially relied on synthesized music.On Saturday night, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, joined by the Handel Choir of... more
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The New York Philharmonic has become the first orchestra with its own Apple iPhone application (app). Any iPhone or iPod Touch user now can download the app at the iPhone App Store or through iTunes, and have easy access to information about the Philharmonic — all free of charge. The features of the app, which has been developed by InstantEncore.com, include:
Concert listings
Links to ticket purchase
Program notes
News
Reviews from newspapers and journals
Audio clips of upcoming concerts
New York Philharmonic Podcasts
Blogs about the Philharmonic
Access to the Philharmonic’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Twitter pages
For complete information, visit nyphil.org/iPhone or sign up to become a fan of the New York Philharmonic at InstantEncore.com.
With a classical music-specific search engine, InstantEncore.com is designed to organize everything on the Internet about classical music in a simple, searchable way. InstantEncore.com’s classical music site provides tools for the classical music lover, concert presenter, ensemble, artist, composer, and educator to connect with, enhance, and extend the live concert experience.The New York Philharmonic has become the first orchestra with its own Apple iPhone... more
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In just 5 days, the classical music CD Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou will be released. Teaming up with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the CD will contain classical renditions of some of the most famous songs from the series.
The CD includes a few vocal tracks, to which Aya Hirano and Minori Chihara were more than happy to lend their voices to. This project follows in the footsteps of a few other famous ones that I can think of: Capcom's Gyakuten Meets Orchestra CD, which was some of the most recognizable tunes from the Phoenix Wright series turned orchestral, along with the Smashing...Live! CD that came out with an issue of Nintendo Power, where the New Japan Philharmonic took a classical swing at the Super Smash Bros. catalog. Both were simply amazing, and I can only hope for the best for this project.
I grabbed the tracklist from Amazon.jp and wrote up the 15-song tracklist down after the jump, deliciously devoid of Japanese. So check it out!
1. The Legend of the Love of Mikuru
2. The Usual Scenery ~The Days Are Becoming Fervently Splendorous
3. The Strongest Para Parade
4. Tragic Heroine ~Invitation to the Unexpected ~Beach Vacation
5. Very favorably ~Mikuru's heart ~Even just a little bit of happiness ~Hey hey! ~Comical Hustle
6. Bouken Desho Desho? (Haruhi OP)
7. Symphony #7 in C Major "Raining Land" from the 1st Movement
8. Obedient Feeling ~That Rainy Day ~Haruhi's Thoughts
9. The Truth of the Mysterious Asakura Ryoko ~Winter footsteps
10. Lost My Music
11. Activate the SOS-dan! ~Something's strange here...
12. Snow, Silence, By The Window
13. Tranquil Shopping District ~Yuki's Appearance ~Looks like a pinch! ~Mikuru's Transformation ~The Battle Begins ~Finale
14. Hare Hare Yukai (Haruhi ED)
15. God Knows...In just 5 days, the classical music CD Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou will be released.... more
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As orchestras struggle to make ends meet, could the era of the high-cost supermaestro be coming to an end?
Orchestral classical music is in financial crisis worldwide, and the finger-pointing has begun. So far the blame is landing on conductors, the public face of every orchestra. Last month the Chicago Tribune revealed the stratospheric sums still paid to select maestros: $2.2 million (£1.3 million) to Lorin Maazel at the New York Philharmonic in 2006-07; $1.5 million to James Levine at Boston Symphony; $1.9 million to Daniel Barenboim at Chicago Symphony. At a time when American orchestras, which receive no public subsidy, have seen their private and corporate endowment funds nosedive, these fees look as out of step as Sir Fred Goodwin’s RBS pension.
Not a single American orchestra is touring to the Proms or Edinburgh International Festival this summer. “We had a US orchestra pull out because their endowment funding had been shredded,” says Jonathan Mills, the director of the Edinburgh Festival.
The wallets of British orchestras have been hit, too, even if it is less immediately obvious. At the Philharmonia, David Whelton, its chief executive, says that income from the orchestra’s endowment fund is down 60 per cent. Orchestras are having to dip into reserves to keep ambitious artistic programmes afloat.
Other businesses adapt to crises and classical music should be no different. It is not some ethereal artistic entity without bottom lines and budgets. Those have been ruthlessly exposed in recent months. The challenge now is for self-interest to be laid aside.As orchestras struggle to make ends meet, could the era of the high-cost supermaestro... more
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