Just wrapped From the Top Show #317 in Louisville, KY with the participation of the Louisville Symphony (with their music director and From the Top bassethorn alum, Teddy Abrams performing on the 1st, non-broadcast half, selections from Stravinsky’s Firebird and one movement of Christopher Theofanidis’ Dreamtime Ancestors), Louisville Youth Orchestra (performing another movement from the …
A large part of the mission and magic of TippetRise, the 11,500 acre home to large-scale sculpture and musical performance in Montana outside of Fishtail, MT, is the confluence of art and music. As work is being installed and performance spaces are being constructed prefatory to the first season of concerts in Summer 2016, we …
Even though we’re still nearly a year til the first season of concerts takes place in the Summer of ’16 at TIppetRise, the Arts Centre on 11.500 acres just outside Fishtail, MT, large-scale sculptures are being installed on the grounds, and I’ve been commemorating those installations with private events for installation and local construction crew …
Loving my return to Rochester with the Philharmonic this week with Maestro Christopher Seaman for Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb Major, K. 482. What an incredible collaborator he is, and what a revelation is his Brahms: Symphony #4; what an astonishing instrument the Phil, and such a great hall the Kodak. Also had …
Just wrapped Show #312 of From the Top at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana. It was on my 40-mile commute from TippetRise to the gym in RedLodge when my iPod shuffled up Third & Seneca by Sun Kil Moon when I discovered a body of work I hadn’t been so …
Just wrapped Show #311 of From the Top at our favorite Atlanta venue, the Schwartz Center of the Performing Arts at Emory University. Premiered my arrangement of Joni Mitchell’s song, A Case of You Just before our love got lost you said “I am as constant as a northern star” And I said “Constantly in …