Brooklyn Philharmonic, Outside-In

Scoring tickets for Brooklyn Phil concerts is easy … so long as you get them before they sell out! UPCOMING EVENTS: Chamber Concert OUTSIDE-IN ANNUAL CONCERT Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8 pm Galapagos Art Space 16 Main Street $15 The Outside-In Composer Fellowship Program pairs non-orchestral composers from diverse musical backgrounds including hip hop, electronica, world music, jazz and indie rock with their Resident Composer-Mentor, Randy Woolf, and their Artistic Director, Alan Pierson. Randy guides the composer fellows through the process of writing original string quartet and chamber orchestra music building on the musical styles and ideas of each fellow. This year, They are proud to present fellows Charlie Looker, Tim Fite and Natalie Elizabeth Weiss.

Roger and The Gypsies - -Pass The Hatchet

Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

Sound of Noise, written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.

here we are now, entertain us

Threshold Studios favorite piano madman Eric Lewis' unique interpretation of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'

Kathleen Supové CD Release, August 17th @ Le Poisson Rouge

Kathleen Supove announces the release of her new CD THE EXPLODING PIANO on the MAJOR WHO MEDIA label. The CD release concert will be held on Tuesday, August 17, at Le Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street in New York City.
The concert starts at 7:30, with doors opening at 6:30.
In addition to performing music from the CD, there will be :
-Video by Joshue Ott to go with Anna Clyne’s piece ON TRACK.
-New video created live by Jennifer Stock for ISABELLE EBERHARDT DREAMS OF PIANOS by Missy Mazzoli.
-In addition, there will be a special guest, media/video artist Peter Schmideg “performing” a work he created and revised for this event, based on the performance artist Marge Cameron, and inspired by SUTRA SUTRA by Randall Woolf.
-REVOLUTION by Dan Becker will have a video specially designed for it by Safy Etiel (V.J. name: Sniper), an Israeli artist living in Berlin.
-Rounding out the show will be A SHAKING OF THE PUMPKIN by Michael Gatonska, which features his custom-designed accessories and is a video in itself.

Also: a fake fashion show, auction, contests, and…a discount on the new CD.

Engineer Craig Alvin on How to Dial in Your Sound in Any Studio

"they saw him standing there"... so they cheered him on...

So many great things happened at Road Recovery's benefit at Arlene's Grocery, but one of my favorites was Jeremy Sklarsky's heavy metal karaoke version of the Beatles " I Saw Her Standing There". The audio is horrific, but the first minute or so of crowd encouragement is priceless:)
More to come...

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque'

Here is a fascinating and innovative video that pushes the envelope of what can be done with creative inspiration and technological collaboration;

PRODUCED AND MANAGED BY: Scott Haines COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY: Eric Whitacre



Representing 12 Countries:
Austria
Argentina
Canada
Germany
Ireland
New Zealand
The Philippines
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States of America

Master Class Series: Road Recovery and Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden!

It was a magical night at Madison Square Garden on Feb 20th, 2010 when Eric Clapton invited the Road Recovery participants to a backstage Master Class prior to his sold out show with Jeff Beck. Mr. Clapton spoke from the heart and revealed that life as a celebrity has all the same twists and turns (tho perhaps somewhat more trappings) and access to ways and means of coping as everyone. His thoughts and insights will remain with each of us forever.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck ripping it up on stage. Jeff Beck did a piece called 'Corpus Christi Carol' made famous by our long missed brother Jeff Buckley that was supurb!

Eric Clapton and Road Recovery

Eric Clapton, quite literally, reaching out to everyone in the room

Another Todd Alsup and MajorWho NACA Showcase!

Another MajorWho and Todd Alsup NACA success! Todd was selected for a showcase at the Mid-Atlantic Festival, a smaller NACA conference for schools in the region that didn't attend the main conference in the fall.

This is another great opportunity for Todd to perform for hundreds of student talent buyers and bookers from college campuses across the region. Todd already has a full calendar of college dates in the spring and we'll be looking to build on that success at the MAT Festival and continue to book more college dates throughout the Spring and Fall of 2010.

Here's a great shot of Todd hanging with Matt Pinfield backstage at the John Varvatos Road Recovery event from last week. Photo by Tracy Ketcher.

On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno

There's a great interview with Brian Eno this week by Paul Morley for The Observer. Here is one of my favorite excerpts concerning his work with U2 and Coldplay. Follow the link to read the whole interview.

On working with U2 and Coldplay at the same time:

"It was fine. A few jokes. I felt like a philanderer who was with another woman and might make a slip and call her by the wrong name in bed. I had one computer that had all of the Coldplay stuff and all the U2 stuff. I had to very carefully label each folder because I was paranoid that I might end up with the same basic track for each group and I wouldn't notice until it was too late. There was a chance the same track might have appeared on both albums."

Read the whole interview here.

Here's a great shot from the Road Recovery John Varvatos Benefit

I still have a hard time believing that these three guys closed the evening singing "I'm An A$$hole" on stage...