“In America there’s so many different types of music ….” (You have to watch through to the end to find out what they are!
I’m looking forward to next year!
… and I got one.
Tom Hooten of the Atlanta Symphony and Mike Martin of the Boston Symphony discuss the techniques they use to prepare themselves for ANY situation
I’m just gonna let you guys answer this one! :-)
Our first cover of a cover! Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know as inspired by Pentatonix’s version. Bassoon adaptation by Kara LaMoure:
So of course I’d better put up Pentatonix too:
(But don’t ask me who “Gotye” is because I have no idea.)
If you’ve never heard this before and you’ve ever played the Mozart Oboe Quartet you really have to give it a listen … really! But even if you haven’t played the Mozart this is well worth the listen!
April 27, 2012
Rock Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Evan Ocheret and Jonathan Snyder, oboe
Michelle Wong, english horn
John Marvin – Music from the Night (2000)
Trio for two oboes and english horn
Movement titles (played continuously without breaks):
-Alarums And Encounters
-Transitions, English Horn
-Night Songs
-Commentaries, Oboe II
-A Little Chamber Music (After Mozart)
-Arioso Coloratura, Oboe I
-Intersections And Intertwinings
… so what better way to start the day than enjoying a Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun? This is absolutely wonderful! Many thanks to Paul Barrett for sharing this on Facebook.
University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra:
“When I came back to America I was trying to get jobs with bigger orchestras, but they were not interested. One orchestra told me they like my conducting and the board thought I had great ideas, but they didn’t know how to market me,” said Johnson.
“When I asked him for clarity, the guy on the search committee basically said, ‘You just don’t look like what our audience would expect a conductor to look like.’ That’s when I founded my own orchestra.”
She’s a woman. She’s African American. So an audience can’t handle those things? Or maybe just the guy on the search committee?
Well, okay … she even says that audiences expect something else. (There are a number of videos you can watch from this same place if you go here.)
So Jeri Lynne Johnson formed her own orchestra, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. Kudos to her!
I read it here.
I’d never seen this before. A friend (David Hoffman) mentioned it so of course I had to look it up!
… and one more … with Miss Piggy
… nope, we don’t have ninjas here either.
Too bad.
I don’t speak the language, but I can tell pretty much what’s going on with this one. (It helps to know the story, of course.) Very cute! It’s fun to hear the laughter, too ….
La Tortuga y Liebre by John Falcone
Quinteto de Viento Madera
Peter Pearse, Flauta
Juan Ferriol, Oboe
Iván Cuervo, Clarinete/Narrador
David Rosado, Trompa
John Falcone, Fagot
(Gee, I didn’t know “trompa” was horn … I would have guessed trumpet. Hmm.)
I’ve never been all that enthusiastic about woodwind quintet. I do apologize to all you WWQ lovers out there. The combination of the instruments just doesn’t do it for me (whatever “it” is), although I confess to having a ton of recordings of the combo. But for kiddie concerts I think it works very well. (You can tell, though, that the kids get restless as it goes along, and I don’t believe you are even hearing the work in its entirety. Gotta keep ‘em a decent length for the kiddos!)
I’m not really much into flash mobs any longer, as the unique aspect is sort of gone, but this one did make me smile! (I do wonder, though, if what we are hearing is how they sounded … it’s all so clean, you know?)
Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt
I didn’t know quite what to expect. So, Dave Camwell and Jillian Camwell … maybe you can do this on your next recital?
