I’ve mentioned before how I’ve worked with DonorsChoose.org years ago to raise money for music schools and children in need. Ultimately, we raised enough money to change the lives of 900 children in music school, which to me is the coolest thing in the world. But the other day I came across another cool thing… → Read More
What do you get when you cross horns, guitar, technology, percussion, strings, 2 DJ’s, and turntables? You get Dakah. You may not have heard them yet, because the Los-Angeles based orchestra has trouble traveling to with their 70-piece orchestra, but they have managed to play in outside venues like San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, → Read More
A Lincoln Symphony posted on Meetup.com has us all very excited. Programing and 3D visualizations are going to be the future of the orchestra. Maybe you’re familiar with Video Games Live, where orchestras perform videogame theme songs while lights and video play in the background to accent the pieces performed. But this is different… The → Read More
Shaquille towers over the musicians here. He’s 7’1″ and for an upbeat swinging orchestra version of Sleigh Ride, with a full choir. Towards the end they really bring out the 2-beat feel. Lately Shac has been doing a lot of social media through his high profile twitter page, and other cool outreach activities outside of → Read More
I love the iPad. I love technology. And I’m all about living in the cloud to create more audience and orchestra interaction in new ways – and it’s getting pretty exciting. Check this out: Imagine conducting an orchestra like this. And having a tablet in the way I described – but now with this new → Read More
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to “Do 52 different things every week for a year“. So one week I went hiking, then fishing, then water-skiing, then salsa dancing, etc. My thinking is this: that your work is an expression of the life you live. So if you live a boring life, it’ll show → Read More
