I’m creating a “Music Academy”, a kind of touring festival, a chance for students and professionals to participate for two or three days in all kinds of masterclasses and performances. There will be a choir and possibly a wind ensemble. But what else should... continued
Anybody near Boston next week owes it to themselves to see Hila perform with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. You cannot imagine how hard she is rocking Ades’s “The Tempest”, easily the most difficult piece of vocal music I’ve ever heard.
Hey gang: April 7th will be the official launch of Virtual Choir 2.0; I’ll be giving a live talk and press launch in NYC at the Paley Center for Media. Tickets are extremely limited, so if you would like to attend (and I... continued
(That’s me in Abbey Road’s Studio One last week, recording the choral parts for Pirates of the Caribbean IV).
Abbey Road Studios, arguably the world’s most famous recording facility,... continued
It is difficult for me to describe, but I think my TED talk on Tuesday may have been one of the most profound experiences I’ve ever had. The audience – nearly 2,000 thinkers, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs and leaders – create... continued
AAAAAAAAHH!!! I just watched a bit of Virtual Choir 2.0, the 2 minute clip that I will present to the audience Tuesday at the TED conference. CONGRATULATIONS, everyone! It is a powerful, beautiful, TRUE thing you have all created. WOO HOO!
Many thanks to Linda Sharp Hurst for moving this over to YouTube. I so desperately want to make an entire album of 80’s songs arranged like this, maybe with choir and strings and Hila. 1st track would be Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode; 2nd track would be “Only You” by Yaz, etc.
I’ve asked superstar Daniel Tatar – who plays Fervio in Paradise Lost – to post a video talking about his involvement in the show. He’s been through many iterations of the script, and in this video he talks about originating the role and... continued
Last fall, as I was preparing for my Christmas Concert with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, I went looking for a good recording of Poulenc’s exquisite choral cycle Un Soir de Neige. They were the only French pieces I had programmed, and I... continued
Pretty cool – a little dubstep groove that uses samples of my music. Can anyone identify the choral work from which they are taken?
