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Look up 🩵

#vermont #inspiration

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As promised a few glimpses of last month’s @wcfsymphony performance, capping off our year-long Evolution of African American Music residency. Pictured with the orchestra are jazz vocalist and historian Bruce Henry – who led the residency – and Waterloo’s own Felicia Smith-Nalls; we also had the opportunity to celebrate the life of one our long-time violinists. Such a moving and meaningful way to wrap up the concert season!

#wcfsymphony #performance #photos

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@wcfsymphony‘s 23/24 season drops today and it’s a banger. By row, from top:

A pair of subtle classical programs that epitomize our attention to detail and eagerness to go in programmatically thoughtful directions

A gift to our community in the form of a decade and half of multimedia wonder

Two local kids who made it big, back in town to headline their hometown symphony!

My first foray into the Star Wars live film universe after many many [many] performances of selections from the films

And speaking of soundtracks, we’ll do two for our community’s holiday weekends

So hyped for this kaleidoscopic mix of creative and locally-oriented offerings!

#wcfsymphony #thebiz #performances

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@wcfsymphony just wrapped up a season-long exploration of the evolution of African-American music with vocalist Bruce Henry. A look at the performances are forthcoming but the best illustration of the spirit of the project are these portraits by students at Central Middle School, who participated in an in-school residency with Bruce earlier this school year.

#art #inspiration #jazz #education

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We 🤍 Chamber Orchestra

[Frames from Saturday’s electric performance at @wcfsymphony]

#photos #performance #wcfsymphony

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Jason and I have similar aesthetic interests and similar goals in where we see orchestra programming going. I know Jason is very much about helping audiences to see connections between different types of music, connections they may not have considered or noticed.

Composer and friend-of-wcfsymphony Timo Andres with some thoughtful words about our shared approach. This weekend the orchestra scales down to present Timo’s Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno alongside jazz-influenced music by Copland and Milhaud. My take on the show is also included in the Courier’s write-up:

It’s a neat program, bringing together music for smaller ensembles inspired by or drawing upon jazz and pop as source material. Copland is known for experimenting with jazz rhythms, and French composer Milhaud was totally taken by jazz when it made its way to France in the 1920s. I’ve always liked working on Timo’s music and exchanging interpretations and thoughts with him.

Saturday in Cedar Falls!

#andres #copland #milhaud #wcfsymphony #feedback #thebiz

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Time to admit the truth: You only follow this blog for the LEGO-music mashups.

#lego #beats #curiosities #art

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🎬🧙🏻‍️🪄

#williams #wcfsymphony #harrypotter #photos #performance

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Next week @wcfsymphony performs Harry Potter and the Sorcerers’ Stone so of course we had to prep with some musical magic around the Cedar Valley! 🎬🧙🏻‍♂️🎹

[Watch all five segments here]

#video #performance #wcfsymphony #williams #harrypotter

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Earlier this fall @wcfsymphony presented a kaleidoscopic program of orchestral music connected to jazz whose centerpiece was Morton Gould’s American Symphonette. Unbelievably, this wonderful entry in the composer’s series of short, vernacular-inspired symphonies is currently out of print!

For more on American Symphonette – and some wonderful insight into its remarkable impact on other American musics – check out this exploration by pianist Lewis Porter.

#gould #coltrane #jazz

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Summer mode engaged 🌞🛶🎣👨‍👦

#dad #life

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🚨 New season day! 🚨

@wcfsymphony‘s 2022-23 line-up dropped this morning – highlights include my first goes at La Mer, a Harry Potter film, Rückert-lieder *and* Biggie 🙏🏻 

Very proud of the array of musical experiences and perspectives we’ll be sharing with the community over the next twelve months!

#wcfsymphony #video

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After years of rumors connecting Madlib with Talib Kweli and yasiin bey on a sophomore Black Star project the long-awaited collaboration finally dropped earlier this month as an exclusive on Luminary. I guess if you’re going to wait twenty four years to follow up a seismic debut might as well bring on the greatest beat maker in the world and make the subject matter relevant af! 

[Dashboard friends: Tumblr audio posts on web appear to have acquired some formatting issues with S3 audio so you can either listen through the link above or click through to the actual post on my site.]

#beats #inspiration

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Hanging out at the skate park and a random kid says, ‘You seem like a cool mom.’ Almost right ...

Happy Mother’s Day to the *coolest* mom! ❤️‍🔥

#life

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Pit lyfe last week for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with @wcfsymphony and a stack of fantastic community partners.

#photos #performance #wcfsymphony

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May we all make music with as much joy and fulfillment as does Minyo Crusaders on a canal in Utrecht! Also, time to watch every single one of La Blogothèque’s Take Away Shows, or for that matter anything by Vincent Moon. Also, that Gershwin shout out 👊🏻

[via @braiker]

#inspiration #beats #gershwin

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Insane lift perspectives on Stratton Mountain, from a frosty post-‘Weather Event’ morning back in January 💎

#ski #life