A new Symphony of Science music video is up today. As with all of them, it takes a couple watches for it to grow on you. I hope this guy puts out a full album someday.
Archive of posts filed under the Music category.
Chess – Dress Rehearsal
“Remember, it’s only a game! Muahahaha” Dress rehearsal tonight went very very well, minus a very fixable glitch or two. The pit and singers are working really well with each other now. It should be a great show. I’ll be running through my book to fix a thing or two, but aside from that I [...]
Chess – One Night in Bangkok
Okay, this is the final ‘Chess’ related video I’ll post. I saved the best for last! The song most people know from the musical: One Night in Bangkok.
We Go On Pretending…
New song of the day from Chess. I think this fits my feelings perfectly, lyrically. “You and I, we’ve seen it all, chasing our hearts’ desire. But we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Unfortunately I cannot embed this one, but it’s a beautiful piece of music, and a tragic way to [...]
Chess Rehearsal, Day 2
Today was the first day our pit worked with the cast and crew of the show. Despite having only read through the first third of the book, we sightread the rest and made it all the way through! There were the typical miscues between the singers and the orchestra, as we were trying to adjust [...]
Chess Rehearsal, Day 1
I got back from La Crosse not too long ago after the pit-only rehearsal of “Chess” at Viterbo University. Unfortunately the contract was wrong, so we got through less than half of the book before we had to call it. We were contracted until 8, however we were SUPPOSED to rehearse until 10. I would [...]
Greg Ellis Trombone & Piano Recital
Congratulations to Brother Greg Ellis for a great trombone/piano recital today! Loved the mix of classical trombone with jazz piano in the program. The latter was a lot of fun, especially the arrangement of “Just Friends”. Just be sure to work out the bowing procedure when you have a quartet up on stage next time!
Quartet for the End of Time
If you were around the Eau Claire area and missed the free UW-Eau Claire faculty performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, you missed out on an awesome 50 minutes of music. I had tried to organize a student group to perform it, since Richard Fletcher had never been able to get [...]
From YouTube to Carl Sagan
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” – Carl Sagan There have been days I have come home from work or school, only to find myself reading – constantly. I feel I have had an enormous curiosity about the world – as most people inherently do, [...]
Community Bands
So ends the season of community band performances. The final performance was last Thursday with the West Allis Community Band. They begin their next semester under their third primary director in three years. I wish the new director Kelly Schultz, as well as the rest of the organization, the very best. It’s very difficult in [...]