tafto contribution

This past May Drew McManus has hosted "Take a Friend to the Orchestra Month" on his instightful blog about the in's and out's of orchestra managment. My post is here, and when time allows i'll add some comments to many of the other interesting contributions by the following psuedo-celebrity bloggers:

1. Paul Bailey: Musician & composer
2. Sam Bergman: Violist, Minnesota Orchestra
3. William Eddins: Music director, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
4. Henry Fogel: President, American Symphony Orchestra League
5. Kyle Gann: Composer, musicologist, and music critic; The Village Voice
6. Lisa Hirsch: Critic; San Francisco Classical Voice
7. George Hunka: Playwright and classical music enthusiast
8. Frank Manheim: Knowledgeable nonprofessional classical music activist
9. Marcus Maroney: Award winning composer
10. Doug McLennan: Cultural journalist & editor, ArtsJournal.com
11. Drew McManus: Musician & orchestra industry expert
12. Patricia Mitchell: Principal oboe, Opera San Jose
13. Holly Mulcahy: Violinist, Richmond Symphony Orchestra
14. Charles Noble: Assistant Principal violist, Oregon Symphony
15. Helen Radice: UK based harpist extraordinaire
16. Alex Ross: Author & music critic; The New Yorker
17. Greg Sandow: Music critic; the Wall Street Journal, composer, educator, and blogger.
18. Lynn Sislo: Classical music enthusiast and popular cultural blogger
19. Blair Tindall: Oboist, Journalist, and author

music by micahel welsh and scooter pietsch

its kinda like i found out i have older cousins i have never met.

i was catching up on email and found out two of the more successful reality tv and film composers are putting on a concert at colburn school/zipper hall today. vic called yestereday afternoon and said he was playing and i should check it out. it turns out that michael and scooter studied with lloyd rodgers at csuf about 10 years earlier.

its probably too late for most of you to attend but here is the info:

you can find out more on scooter pietsch's music at his website and blog


CONCERT OF NEW MUSIC FOR MULTIPLE SOLOISTS AND STRING ORCHESTRA
by MICHAEL WELSH and SCOOTER PIETSCH
Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 2:00PM - Zipper Concert Hall

MICHAEL SWEENEY bassoon, DAVID JOHNSON vibraphone and percussion
ANGELI DUO: JULIE GIGANTE and SARA PARKINS violins
MULHOLLAND STRING QUARTET
RALPH MORRISON violin, RICHARD ALTENBACH violin,
SIMON OSWELL viola, ANDREW SHULMAN cello
BRENT McMUNN conductor

Noted Los Angeles television and film composers SCOOTER PIETSCH and
MICHAEL WELSH have teamed up for a concert of their art music. They
are dedicated to getting new music played and heard in Los Angeles.
Michael and Scooter have been friends since their college days at
California State University, Fullerton, where they both studied with
composer LLOYD RODGERS. The following week, the artists go into the
studio to record the pieces for CD release.

Aficionados will immediately recognize the artists as this area's top
players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra, the USC Thornton School of Music, CalArts, and the motion
picture and television studios. MICHAEL SWEENEY is principal
bassoonist of the Toronto Symphony.

Tickets: $20 at the box office. Reception following.

too much time- blogwise google blogging maps

found this tonight when i was catching up on reading blogs. through the magic of google and blogwise, you can now add tags to your blog (or website) and find out where your local bloggers live (yikes!)

follow the links....

blogwise (register here, full instructions in forum)

geourl (create map header)

blogs in my area

more friends

this morning i was happy to find the blog renewable music. besides a great post pointing out the positives for teaching and mentoring, deep inside resides a mention of one of my favorite pieces (and one of theirs also), Orlando, he dead, by Cartesian Reunion Memorial Composer guitarist and composer Doug Hein. I have a pretty rare recording of it that will be posted shortly.

download link: orlando, he dead/doug hein

needless to say may is a pretty busy month for the education side of my life, more posts to come soon.

current projects are:

cd is being edited
pbe in rehearsal for june 18th performance at whittier college
date night is tonight