Franfurt Radia Symphony

Manfred Honeck, Conductor

Piano Accompaniment provided by @playwithapro

Emmanual Pahud recommends using circular breathing for this excerpt, which is EXCELLENT advice if you already have that skill in your arsenal. For us mere mortals, our best bet is to try not to let the (necessary) breaths interrupt the musical line.

For orchestral excerpts, I often like to find the instrument in the orchestra for which each excerpt wouldn’t be SUCH a big deal/for which the figure is better suited physically [ex: our “Classical Symphony” excerpt would be SO MUCH EASIER to play on the violin, right?)

I actually think this excerpt IS best suited for the flute, which makes me feel even worse for being (sounding?) so winded…

Trying not to let perfection be the enemy of progress, or whatever it was Churchill said…

Felicia Curry is one of my favorite performers, my opportunities to collaborate with her have been among the absolute highlights of my career.

We’ve created several cabarets together, and this selection has been featured in most.

Summer: the Donna Summer Musical at Red Mountain Theatre

We can send out conductor cam videos to substitute musicians, with the appropriate instrument featured in the mix! This was prepared for an upcoming guitar sub, and the greatness you’re hearing is superstar Bill Monk. The team who manages the preparation of this videos is led by Patrick MacDonald, AV Supervisor and Legitimate Superstar.

Notes from the editor (me):

The Shure WH20XLR headset mic, which I recommend to anyone looking for a talkback mic, is pushing my glasses basically off of my face. That’s not a problem with the mic, but it MAY be a problem with my face.

I blurred the face of the brilliant Keyboard 3 player in this clip not out of shame, but just to see how it works in Final Cut. (Effects - Censor). Works pretty well (it’s the brilliant Jonathan Parks).

Noli Me Tangere by Felipe Padilla de León

This was a tremendouly cool project. I was hired to reduce the original orchestration of 40+ to 12, and to conduct a performance at The Strand Theatre in Boston, MA. TONS of work, but there is some glorious writing…