I wish you could be a fly on the wall and see what I see one night each summer during the Colorado Children’s Chorale Tour Choir Residency Week in Vail, Colorado at the annual dinner and dance party night. (To see pictures from the dinner and dance, please visit the Chorale’s blog by clicking here.)… [Read more…]
May 27, 2011
(To read part 1 of my Reflections from South Africa, click here.) I shot this video of a high school choir during the second concert of our Colorado Children’s Chorale South Africa Tour in the township of Kwa Thema, Gauteng (Zulu for “gold”) Province. And each night after I did my room checks and put… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
I submit for your consideration: Kegasus. Yes, that was an advertisement for the Preakness, the second leg of thoroughbred racing’s prestigious and historic Triple Crown races. And in an effort to encourage the 21-40 year old demographic to buy a ticket and come to the infield on the day of the race, this is what… [Read more…]
May 13, 2011
On Sunday night, I got back to Denver after a one and a half week performance tour of South Africa with the Colorado Children’s Chorale National Tour Choir. In case you don’t know, I’m an assistant conductor for the Chorale, which means that going to South Africa actually involved working, but intertwined with the work were… [Read more…]
April 22, 2011
Ah, yes. Being popular. Since I figure that most of you reading this are adults, you’re (hopefully) not really captivated with the idea of being popular like you might have been in your younger days. But recently I’ve been thinking about how unpopular popular stuff is, and how misleading numbers can be if we don’t… [Read more…]
April 12, 2011
Dear Denver, Thank you for clicking on the link that brought you here, and thanks for loving music the way you do and expressing that love in the ways you do. Since you’re here, I want to invite you to a CCC concert this Saturday in downtown Denver, but I also want to invite you… [Read more…]
April 8, 2011
This is part two of a two-part thing. Here’s part 1 in case you missed it. Part 2 This year, among lots of challenging, “legit” choral literature, our Colorado Children’s Chorale Tour Choir has Owl City’s 2009 smash hit “Fireflies” in their repertoire. When the Tour Choir performs at schools in and around Denver and… [Read more…]
April 7, 2011
Perhaps you remember this from around the time of our last Presidential election. The Ron Clark Academy is famous for taking hit hip-hop/R&B/rock songs and using them to help the kids understand and retain important concepts and content from the classroom. They use music to not only enrich the student’s comprehension of the subject matter,… [Read more…]
April 4, 2011
Dear Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra, Hi there. You don’t know me, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are getting the shaft. BIG time. I don’t know the details of your situation or the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s situation. All I know is what I read here and here. And if what those articles… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
I hope you all enjoy my first-ever video production for An Authentic Cadence. If you have a story you’d like to share about a time that you found out a piece of music you knew from outside the classical music realm was actually a piece of classical music, I’d love for you to share it… [Read more…]
June 8, 2011
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