tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25381281161055642862024-02-21T10:24:26.980-08:00View from the Podium, Conductor Eímear NooneEímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-3485424389770671792014-10-15T15:04:00.000-07:002014-11-02T15:18:39.124-08:00The Whys and Hows of I DIG Music Fest, (The Dublin International Game Music Festival).<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Why Dublin and Why
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Representing the music I recorded for Blizzard Entertainment
as guest conductor for "Video Games Live," and as the original conductor for "The Legend of Zelda:
Symphony of the Goddesses," I got to tour the world and perform to hundreds of
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Almost every time I did a post-concert "meet and greet," I would come across some Irish fans. </div>
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Inevitably the question would be asked: “<b><i>Can you please bring the show to Ireland</i></b>?!”</div>
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Even when I was performing as
far away as the Sydney Opera House - the number of Irish gamers living in
Australia that came to the concert was sincerely moving. </div>
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Naturally, I tried, but the timing was never right to bring the music home.</div>
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On 27<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>March 2014, I took it to Twitter and
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“<b><i>If we were to create a game music festival for Dublin, would you
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Within a couple of minutes a
game journalist from Dublin named Chris Rooke, who had interviewed me in London, got in touch and said
“how can I help?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Numerous messages followed. I had hit a nerve somewhere.</span></div>
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I was suitably impressed by Chris's talent and quick Irish wit when he had interviewed me, so we immediately asked him to join the team as "associate producer."</div>
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With Chris and the other fan's overwhelming enthusiasm and support, Craig Stuart Garfinkle and I decided to take matters into
our own hands - create something truly special for the Irish game music fans! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is home we’re talking about, so
let’s up the ante. Why not
create an entire festival celebrating our musical colleagues and give Irish
gamers a great time?!</div>
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<b>Back Stage at Video Games Live</b></div>
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The seed was planted, but it was backstage at the Video Games Live concert last June at the Nokia Theater that it really began to grow. During the concert I was once again sharing the
stage with some of my favorite friends and fellow composers. I started twisting some very
pliable arms and asked:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>“Hey Guys,
why don’t we do this in Dublin?!”</i></b></div>
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That question was met with a few “hell-yeahs” a couple of
“count-me-ins” and an auto-tune-busting cacophony of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ make-it-happens.”</div>
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<b><i>The game was on! </i></b></div>
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Oh
and that pithy journalist, Chris
Rooke - did you know what you were getting into?</div>
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<b>Where we are now</b></div>
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The tickets went on sale October 15th. It's happening! Three days of celebrating game music as only real Irish gamers can, is just six months away!</div>
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This is a project led by a passion for passion and propelled
by the good will of our colleagues, the gaming community and our best Twitter
friends (you know who you are!).</div>
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From now until April 2nd, Craig, Chris, and I, as well as our ever growing army of volunteers, will do everything in our power to build the best game music festival we can imagine!</div>
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Eímear, October 15<sup>th</sup>, 2014</div>
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Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-63395907743589530982014-06-20T12:00:00.002-07:002014-06-20T12:17:15.640-07:00Video Games Live, Monterrey Mexico, 2014Back in April, I had the pleasure of conducing scores for both "Kingdom Hearts" and "Skyrim" as part of the "Video Games Live" show in Monterrey Mexico!<br />
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In addition to myself and my husband Craig Stuart Garfinkle, the concert featured wonderful artists such as Malukah, Russell Brower, Austin Wintory, and of course, Tommy Tallarico. <br />
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I am just now getting the chance to post some of the photos of this magical night - taken by Craig.<br />
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You can help support Tommy and Video Games Live by purchasing a copy of the new CD through the link below:<br />
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Having a great time in Monterrey, Mexico where I'll be conducting the score from Skyrim tonight. I'm here with Video Games Live, Tommy Tallarico, Russell Brower, Austin Wintory, Grerard Marino, Emmanuel Frattiana, Feri Gonzales, and Craig Stuart Garfinkle!</div>
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Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-7529197738488761502013-11-07T09:11:00.002-08:002014-09-08T17:05:23.654-07:00Help Eimear Noone Create More Great Orchestral Concerts! Vote Today!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">This blog posting has a very specific message: <b>We need
your vote now!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">To continue bringing great orchestral music to the concert hall, we are competing
for a $250K "Small Business Grant" from Chase Bank. We have a
little over a week to secure 250 votes for our company, Twelve O'clock Arts, in
order to progress to the next round of the competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">If you already know and love Eimear's work for Blizzard, Zelda,
her classical, film and video game concerts, go directly to this link and vote
now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>Our Goal:
Exposing New Audiences to the Symphony Through Multimedia, Video Game and
Film Music.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">You may know
Eimear Noone from her video game music concerts, but these are only the latest
adventures in a long musical journey. Eimear Noone (and her partners at
Twelve o'clock Arts) have spent a lifetime dedicated to performing and
promoting orchestral music of all kinds!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">A conductor
since the age of 15, by age of 21, Eimear had co-founded her own ensemble,
"The Dublin City Concert Orchestra." With nothing except a
sheer force of will, she sold out a series of concerts at Dublin's National
Concert Hall that were dedicated to performing film scores as well as classic
repertoire that was used in this films. Although much more common now, an
orchestral concert dedicated to "film music" was unheard of within
the classical establishment at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Flash
forward to the past few years where now hundreds of thousands of fans have seen
Eimear onstage conducting video game music at venue such as The Sydney Opera House,
Madison Square Garden, and The Greek Theater (To name but a few).
Likewise, she's lead countless venerable ensembles such as the Sydney,
Dallas, Baltimore, Colorado, Pacific and Houston Symphonies; The Philadelphia
Orchestra, and The Royal Philharmonic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Those who
have attended these concerts know, the music from these video games are bold,
brash and every bit as dynamic as the traditional repertoire. They are the
classical music of our day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Most
importantly however, at a time when orchestras are struggling to find a
sustainable audience, these concerts of video game music regularly sell out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">And what do
the symphony managers ask Eimear at these video game music concerts, when they
see full houses treating their orchestras like rock stars? They ask,
"How do we get this audience back to the concert hall to hear the
classics?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">This is
where our new adventure begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rehearsing "This is Ireland," her St. Patrick's Day Multimedia
Celebration, featuring Pierce Brosnan. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">One of our past projects - </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Photo by Carlos Gauna </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>Bringing Video Game Music, Stunning Visuals, and Classic
Repertoire Together in One Multimedia Celebration.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">At Twelve
O'clock Arts we love all types of orchestral music, regardless of the origin.
It can be a game score written last week or a symphony from the 1800's -
to us they are all pure magic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Our key
motivation is the desire to share any and all of these in a setting that
resembles the multi-media extravaganzas that our audiences have come to expect
from Eimear: Beautiful moving images, synchronized to every beat and
phrase of the music - as only her expert conducting can allow. If it's
the score from a movie, every moment is synchronized to the composer's intent
for the film. Likewise a game score.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">What if we
could take all of this talent one step further? What if we could bring
all the wonderful multimedia technology available from Broadway, rock concerts,
and the movies to the concert stage? Imagine a 3D enveloping experiences,
dancing dragon holograms and more, all interacting with Eimear and the
orchestra. That's what we have planned!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">To execute
this vision we have teamed up with Tony Award winning producer, David L. Garfinkle, who's Broadway productions of <a href="http://agentlemansguidebroadway.com/?gclid=CM_l8cnq0sACFUiPfgodjqgAXQ" target="_blank">"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder,"</a> <a href="http://www.ghostthemusical.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ghost</span></a>"
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">We've
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companies - <b><i>you will absolutely know them!</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">At the core
of all of this, though, is the same excellence of symphonic performance that
the audience has come to expect whenever Eimear takes the stage. There
will be your favorite video game scores, performed to picture, but also, video
interpretations of some of the great classics that influenced the video game
scores. We are not quite ready to release all the secrets we have
planned, except to say the fans will not be disappointed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://idigmusicfest.com/" target="_blank">Get your tickets to the Dublin International Game Music Festival</a></b><br />
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<b>You can also buy his new CD, "Video Games Live Level 3" through this link:</b><br />
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Tommy Tallarico may as well have asked 'Do you want to be a rockstar for a day?' because that's what it felt like for this classic orchestral geek to be on stage for Video Games Live in Irvine and at Comic Con this past July.</div>
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For those who don't know, Tommy is a multi-hyphanite/multi-hyphanite. In addition to being a game and media composer himself, he's a mad creative genius who loves to have a good time and share great video game music.<br />
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He was told he was completely mad when, in 2002, his excessively fertile brain came up with the never-before-seen concept of an orchestral concert dedicated to video game scores. What followed was inevitable, knowing Tommy as I do now: The genus of his ideas comes from the pure joy of creativity and the possibility of sharing something life-enhancing and spectacular with others. It lights him up from within, and is obvious and sublimely contagious to anyone who has seen him perform.</div>
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And so it was that after a couple of years of trying to get our schedules to align, the perfect moment arose for me to make a couple of guest appearances at VGL, for two very special editions of the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rehearsing with the Pacific Symphony, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater</td></tr>
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The first concert in Irvine was a Blizzard-centric program, and I was to conduct one of the cues from the BAFTA nominated score to Diablo III, for which I had the great pleasure of conducting the original recording (reminder to self: must do a blog entry on that ultimate scoring adventure). <br />
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Most importantly, Tommy, and one of my dearest friends, Blizzard's Audio Director/Principal Composer Russell Brower, had set the stage, so to speak, so that the entire Blizzard music team got to represent World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo at this particular VGL concert. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eímear and Blizzard Audio Chief, and Principle Composer<br />
Russell Brower<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Russell on the podium</td></tr>
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All of my favorite Blizzard-music-family members were there: Russell, Neal Acree, Glen Stafford, Derek Duke and Jason Hayes. It was such an emotional experience to watch and hear some of my favorite beings perform each other's music. During rehearsal, and back stage, we reminisced about the original recordings and anecdotes that go back years together. It's a very rare occasion that we all get to be in the same space at the same time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jason Hayes and Derek Duke</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neal Acre, Rockin Out, while Derek Duke<br />
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It was actually the first time I'd ever heard, performed live, some of the very orchestrations that I had worked on for Jason Hayes' original WOW score. This instantly transported me back in time to - ahem ahem - years ago - when we actually worked on it. It was also very moving for me to see Jason perform it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eímear and Jason Hayes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Jason Hayes on the Podium</td></tr>
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The orchestra for VGL in Irvine was The Pacific Symphony, with whom I'd had the pleasure of recording the original score for Diablo III. The piece I performed was the concert version of Russell Brower's "Leah". I had actually commissioned/nagged Russell to write an extended version of this, one of my favorites of his compositions, to perform on stage at Segerstrom Hall with the PSO last April.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eímear Conducting Russell Brower's "Leah."</td></tr>
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There's nothing like performing the music of a dear friend with an orchestra I have come to know and appreciate so well.<br />
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Aside from this epic display of all things Blizzard, we all got to celebrate with our colleague Austin Wintory, the stunning success of his score for "Journey." This beautiful piece of work was actually nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Of course, it's incalculably important to all of us that VG Music gets recognized in such a prestigious way, so backstage the atmosphere was jubilant and congratulatory.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austin Wintory, Rehearsing His Score from "Journey"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking of backstage:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">There is another facet to VGL that is uniquely impressive in that it's a family business full of heart, inclusiveness and generosity of spirit. These are the attributes that gives every show a backstage atmosphere that's like none other I've experienced - something spun out of a contagious good-naturedness, where each member of the team is passionate about the sho, their role in it and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">completely respectful of the orchestral/choral musicians and performers.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Aside from Tommy's family and friends supportively milling about, his brother Mike Tallarico is an integral and vital part of operations. Then there's the long-standing chosen family of Cesar Solorio (stage), Mike Runice (video) and Matt Yelton (audio). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cesar Solorio with one of Tommy's Custom Guitars</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cesar Solorio with one of Tommy's Custom Guitars<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sitting down to a pre-concert dinner, nay <i>banquet,</i> with the guys was like being welcomed into their family home, taking your shoes off and simply doing your thing. Plus, my dressing room was right next to gorgeous vocalist Jill Aversa whose warm-up exercises coming through the walls set the tone for what I knew was to be a great night.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Singer Jill Adversa and my Stepdaughter, Aspiring singer Madz</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the greatest pleasures of my experiences with VGL was in meeting the show's acclaimed conductor/composer Emmanuel Fratianni and conspiratorially laugh/cringing through two careers worth of live performance war stories together! I think we lost count of battle scars but the anecdotes were hilariously terrifying in their re-living and sharing. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">It was akin to two safety-net-averse tight-rope walkers sitting at a bar, limbs in plater casts, drunkenly comparing breakages... ouch! </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Aside from his obvious talents as both conductor and composer, Emmanuel is simply the classiest of old-fashioned musical gentlemen, instantly setting everyone at ease in rehearsal from soloists to orchestra, choir and guest conductor/composers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">VGL Conductor Emmanuel Fratiani and Tommy,<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, that was Irvine, and now for the afore-mentioned record-breaking/history-making bit:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">A couple of days later we traveled to San Diego for SDCC for a very special VGL - the Comic Con Edition. For this show I conducted another of Russell's pieces from Diablo III - "And the Heavens Shall Tremble" (I always hear that title in Tyrael's booming baritone voice in my head...).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">This performance was going to be special, as we all knew it would be broadcast over Amazon.com/Twitch TV and was projected to be the most watched live video game music concert ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Amazon/Twitch stream was viewed by over 330,000 people live on the night of the show! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since then over a million people have viewed it. You can watch it in it's entirety HERE: <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitch/b/433486043">http://www.twitch.tv/twitch/b/433486043</a> </span><br />
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For me, it has always been orchestral music that could transport me to unreachable otherworlds, and lift my mind to the greatest heights of imagination. Flying is my fanciful recreation of that feeling that has overcome my sensibilities when gripped by the work of others. <br />
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From a technical point of view, it never ceases to amaze me how pillars built of trombone chords can support and strengthen the soaring canopy of a string melody. It's one of those glorious auditory illusions that orchestration can create so well.<br />
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Named for the gem of an Irish Film Board short for which it was written, this piece - especially its instrumentation - was directly inspired by the visual aesthetic and devastating emotional landscape created by Irish filmmaker, JJ Harrington. <br />
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The colors on screen are almost monochrome, cold, bleak and austere, which all serve to heighten the impact of a simple pair of red wollen mittens once belonging to a child long since lost.</div>
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Colder refers not just to the pathetic fallacy that is the blizzard in which this beautiful film is set, but the frigid and worsening relationship of two people, two parents, who have lost the warmth and light from their lives.<br />
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One of my favorite places on the planet is Renvyle, Co. Galway, in the heart of Connemara. It's a wild, untainted and sometimes unpredictable place, where poets and philosophers such as W.B. Yeats and St. John Gogharty went for inspiration and from whence thousands of starving locals wearily set out for the new world. You can feel the history in the landscape as it holds onto the loneliness of those who bade farewell to their loved ones forever. There's an old signpost there that says "next parish, New York" and looking out across the wild and unwelcoming Atlantic Ocean, New York feels like another world.</div>
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Jig Phadraic is a collaboration with composer/arranger Craig Stuart Garfinkle - who produced all four tracks - and legendary pianist Mike Lang, featuring kindred spirit Eric Rigler on uileann pipes. The theme is one I composed for my dad, Padraic Noone at the age of 15 and designed it such that it can be arranged as a fast jig or a slow lament - as in this arrangement. Sadly, we lost my dad in 2010 to that insidious enemy, cancer.<br />
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Mike Lang is one of the most recorded pianists on the planet right now and certainly my favorite no matter what genre he happens to turn his hand to. Mike has played with absolutely EVERYONE. That's him on "Unforgettable" with Natalie Cole; the "Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" Frasier theme; the Simpsons theme. He's the pianist on the score for "Big" starring Tom Hanks and just to keep equilibrium with the two big Hollywood Toms, his playing is all over "Oblivion" starring Tom Cruise.<br />
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I'm going to leave out most of his biggest accolades but suffice it to say, he's the pianist's pianist and the proof of that pudding is in the fact that he's worked with people like that other piano player, Ray Charles and the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, John Lennon and Aretha Franklin..!<br />
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I have learned so much just by <i>listening</i> to Mike, and some of LA's finest jazz musicians, play at Catalina Jazz Club on Sunset. He has singlehandedly changed the way I HEAR the piano! His tone is singular and his turn of phrase is all uniquely Mike which is why I can write just a single line and imagine every single note in turn filling up the sonic space under his fingers. <br />
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Mike's signature sound is such that I can't count the number of times I've heard a movie score and said, 'hey, that's Mike!' The opening of Jig Phadraic takes the risk of being so simple and yet, knowing the artist that would play it, I knew to trust and let a genius do his thing. <br />
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There is another reason that the only choice for Jig Phadraic was Mike Lang: He knew my dad and they shared a full-bodied, unsuppressable <i>joie de vivre</i> that was an utter joy - albeit slightly dangerous (!) - to watch. Mike gave the piece its poignant premier at "This is Ireland", a show Craig and I produced on St. Patrick's Day 2011 at Royce Hall, LA in honor of my father, Padraic (or in English, Patrick).<br />
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The haunting uileann pipes are artfully played by Eric Rigler, an artist you'll have heard on both the scores to Braveheart and Titanic. Eric also has a tie to my dad. Mere weeks before our wedding in 2008 we discovered that my father's cancer was terminal. His excitement over the wedding and having 80 of our beloved Irish family and friends over to Malibu from Ireland had been electric and indefatigable. In my utter grief I composed our wedding march entitled "Athar agus a hIníon" - a father an his daughter. <br />
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The piece began with a long regal solo on the uileann pipes - crafted by Eric - later accompanied by soprano solo and chamber orchestra, played by members of our LA music family and conducted by my dear friend Mark Watters. Only the most musical of souls would do. I waited until we had begun our ascent up the isle to tell him I had written it for him. <br />
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Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-60092721287035493352013-08-27T21:39:00.002-07:002013-08-27T21:42:43.550-07:00Gladys Knight, Best Seats in the House!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">This past April I had the pleasure of opening for, and then accompanying "The Empress of Soul" herself, Ms. Gladys Knight, for three shows with The Pacific Symphony. I was so captured by Ms. Knight's performance, it was hard to remember I had a job to do as well! She is truly amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I opened the shows with my "Orchestral Mix Tape," an eclectic collection of some of my favorites including Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Bernstein's "Overture to Candide," Debusy's "Clair De Lune," and even my husband Craig's orchestral tone poem based on AC/DC's "Back in Black" (I told you it was eclectic!).</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">And what a pleasure it was to work with Gladys's band under the direction of the amazing De'Miyon Hall.</span></div>
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Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-9497428572211786312013-08-10T12:54:00.001-07:002013-08-10T12:57:01.610-07:00The Philadelphia OrchestraIt is completely true: The Philadelphia Orchestra sounds like none other. <br />
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Philadelphia is famous for many things: The birthplace of America, the Liberty Bell, Philly cheese steaks, but as I shared with the audience at The Mann Center on July 25th last, to me as a kid, Philadelphia was famous for one reason only: it's where the Philadelphia Orchestra lives! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Derek Brad</td></tr>
</tbody></table>As excited as I was by the prospect of another performance at Philadelphia's incomparable Mann Center, and as exhilarating as I found last year's performances with The Pittsburgh Symphony (one of my favorite American orchestras at the moment), the chance to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra and experience that legendary sound from the inside - one I had been listening to from childhood - was something I had been looking forward to for months.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conducting with the Wind Waker, and a little Hyrulian<br />
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</tbody></table>The riches of musical life are such that two great orchestras can sound so different and bring equal measures of pleasure: the finest of restaurants with different flavors.<br />
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Every moment on stage was exhilarating, every turn an adventure. It was difficult not to get distracted when that Philadelphia string sound, coupled with Koji Kondo's famous melodies, came toward me like a wave. The violin solos were exquisite under the fingers of our concertmaster for the night, Juliette Kang, a true audience favorite. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Derek Brad</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The atmosphere at The Mann was electric with cheers of pride from the home audience when I explained how "epic" the contribution of their very own Philadelphia Orchestra was to music history. <br />
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Before the concert I took part in a video installation project featuring some of The Mann's performers, created by photographic/video artist Derek Brad, official photographer for The Mann. The concept of the project was intriguing to me but I daren't spoil the surprise before Derek's launch. <br />
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Thanks to Juliette Kang and the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra (especially those who came to my dressing room afterwards and gave me a thumbs-up, it meant the world to me!); Travis Wells and the orchestra's administrative staff; Derek Brad and a big hug to my friends at the Mann: Catherine Cahill, Nancy Newman, Ed Kasses, Debbie Lobel and Tony, the worlds best driver/tour-guide/all-around-great-Philly-guy.<br />
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Here's a quote from a review of the performance by Vir Animus of The Knights of Hyrule (probably the most poetic review I've ever had...):<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"Eimear Noone’s own performance was mesmerizing. Despite her delicate physical condition, Mrs. Noone commanded the prodigious orchestra with a dance of great technical skill. She ambulated every jointed point of her body, leaning forward and back to urge the musicians on and carry their instrumental voices into the heavens. At several points, she was moving with such ferocity and passion that she almost appeared to be battling the enemies on screen at her pedestal. Her love of the material was maternal and evident by the smile on her face that grew as she first stepped out on stage and did not dissipate until long after she stepped out of the spotlight."</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-84171088133689297402013-05-20T12:48:00.001-07:002013-08-10T11:26:11.832-07:00Sydney Opera House: Armed Adventures in Oz<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's definitely time for me to get blogging again, before memory rot sets in.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the most incredible experiences of my career to date was performing at the Sydney Opera House with the fantastic Sydney Symphony Orchestra in February.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That iconic bastion of music and architectural brilliance simply takes your breath away. It absolutely reminds you of the famous Goethe quote: "Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music".</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The orchestra was electrifying, the opera house magnificent and the staff of the house treated us like family.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Click on the Video below for video of the Overture to Symphony of the Goddesses at The Sydney Opera House:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Evidently the Aussies have a great sense of humor... (So does The Almighty judging by some of the lizard-life I saw there) All joking aside, I've seen some serious weaponry come through the doors of many a concert hall at this point so the Opera House staff didn't know how actually appropriate their "joke" was to us.</span><br />
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<tr><td><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Australian media were there to greet us and we got to do a fun featurette from the creative geniuses at ABC's Spawn Point. It's an exciting piece that shows off the orchestra beautifully to a new young audience.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
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<tr><td><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Sydney Morning Herald came to interview us, curious as to what we were getting up to... invading Sydney with our swords and shields perhaps?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">With some very cool Zelda fans</span></td></tr>
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</div>Eímear Noone, Conductor and Composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01526038985171798907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538128116105564286.post-11083797483462134112012-12-06T12:49:00.001-08:002013-08-10T11:26:20.444-07:00The Goddesses at Madison Square GardenPerforming at Madison Square Garden is something of which every performer dreams and although we were in The Garden's smaller 5,500 seat theater I nonetheless relished the opportunity to open the show with "Good Evening Madison Square Garden!" and told the audience how much I'd always wanted to say that.<div>What a dork!<p></p><p>Our orchestra for the night was The Orchestra of St. Luke's under expert concertmaster Krista Bennion Feeney (I much prefer the European non-gender-specific term "leader"). Krista was an absolute professional and consummate artist in light of some unforseen technical difficulties at the beginning of the show - the gods (and goddesses) of the theater were being mischievious as is their wont from time to time; I assured the audience that such were the joys of real live performance. Without skipping a beat Krista gracefully lead her section and her heart-stopping solos soared through the sparkly seventies-disco-esque rafters of the MSG Theater. </p><p>After an inauspicious start the performance with OLS was became one of the most joyful and exuberant of the tour. The musicians rose to the occasion and captivated the audience with their boundless energy and brilliance. The audience responded in turn and I found myself in the enviable position of being in the middle of this feedback loop of pure passion. Heartfelt thanks to Valerie Broderick, Jenny Kampmeier and the artists of the Orchestra and Chorus of St. Luke's.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;" caption="An empty theater full of potential - those would be the sparkly rafters!"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVR1sgja4bPdazQJScTUV9ejo8ztIi95HNNm8zB4zEb0dBXO41fGhfZHzd4KXfPVpLytiDXTVXSgj4qTDbuUqUe1AA0OtF0QAwU2f9AGgIoop6pmpQKiM_UOazxeRdHEZ4YqahdGMLj8S6/s2048/Photo%252520Nov%25252028%25252C%2525202012%25252010%25253A35%252520AM.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVR1sgja4bPdazQJScTUV9ejo8ztIi95HNNm8zB4zEb0dBXO41fGhfZHzd4KXfPVpLytiDXTVXSgj4qTDbuUqUe1AA0OtF0QAwU2f9AGgIoop6pmpQKiM_UOazxeRdHEZ4YqahdGMLj8S6/s500/Photo%252520Nov%25252028%25252C%2525202012%25252010%25253A35%252520AM.jpg" id="blogsy-1354826937500.015" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="374"></a></div>The Zelda audience was as exuberent as ever and showed their love for the orchestra in no uncertain terms.<br />
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When I took out the Wind Waker baton above the roar of the crowd I could hear one guy yell "OH MY GAAAAAAWWD!!!".<br />
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I also spotted a stunning replica of Majora's Mask from the stage - it was unmissably enormous actually.<br />
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Performing for this audience never gets old...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we are on stage at MSG - a bit blurry. Thanks to Z.fan Laura Kimpel Moncada for the photo</td></tr>
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<p>It blew my mind to see hundreds of Z.fans sitting on their hunkers in anticipation of hearing a string quintet flute and harp play chamber versions of their favorite themes. It was absolutely magical.</p><p>This is actual "chamber music" guys (perhaps I shouldn't tell them...).</p><p>Our friends from IMGMR flew down from Montreal to be with us and the photos used in this entry are theirs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXQXwGVO0Xpo9_-WQoER8xRZPe2_J4U_q-It9scw6CD9ZluGvylPnMZ7LTERVYEOUkgzp4XcjNqqM0kOrJ6p0zd4o-2YfDctDa4bLFAl-gapkvYypaR7xf21UuceDZ4w3l5Ld4tVi1hgK/s1024/Photo%252520Nov%2525205%25252C%2525202012%25252012%25253A48%252520AM.jpg" target="_blank" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXQXwGVO0Xpo9_-WQoER8xRZPe2_J4U_q-It9scw6CD9ZluGvylPnMZ7LTERVYEOUkgzp4XcjNqqM0kOrJ6p0zd4o-2YfDctDa4bLFAl-gapkvYypaR7xf21UuceDZ4w3l5Ld4tVi1hgK/s500/Photo%252520Nov%2525205%25252C%2525202012%25252012%25253A48%252520AM.jpg" id="blogsy-1354071751320.9465" class="aligncenter" alt="" width="500" height="332"></a></div>However, big eye-opener for me: The night before the performance we were still on West Coast time so we decided to drop by 30 Rock and see what was going on. It was about 1am NYC time when we got there and we experienced firsthand the passion and tenacity of dyed-in-the-wool Zelda fans: there were about 20-30 people sleeping outside the store to make sure they got in to see the performance!!!<br />
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Our favorite Zelda Symphony veteran, Triforce was there in all his Hyrulian glory. Yes, Triforce is his real middle name - he had it legally changed... of course...<br />
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I'm intensely excited to deliver the full power of the symphony to these guys tomorrow night; they deserve the very best we've got. <br />
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Thanks to Mark Robertson in LA and Ralph Farris in NYC for putting together an excellent septet for us.Thanks to all at IMGMR for being a constant support and taking some great shots. <br />
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Thanks to Triforce for being... well... Triforce!<br />
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THE LEANING BASSOON OF PITTSBURGH<br />
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(All of the photography in this entry is by brilliant photographic artist, Derek Brad; You can check out his work here: http://www.<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">derekbrad.com)</font><br />
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Working with Pittsburgh Symphony was a magnificent experience that I would love to repeat as often as possible over this lifetime and the next few. We gave two performances of The Symphony of the Goddesses together - at The Mann Centre in Philadelphia and the orchestra's home of Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. <br />
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Performing at The Mann and meeting the team there was unforgettable and ended in a bucket of champagne and a beautiful card in my dressing room after the performance - never a bad thing! Thanks to all at The Mann for making us feel so welcome and comfortable - you guys really are a class act. <br />
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Thank you so much in particular to Catherine Cahill, Nancy Newman and Ed Kasses. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On stage at The Mann Center with the Pittsburgh Symphony</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Most Memorable Moment (besides the brilliance of the brass - for God's sakes don't tell them...):</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of the Mann Center by Photographer extraordinaire, Derek Brad</td></tr>
</tbody></table>One of the movements of the symphony has "drunken solo" written in the bassoon part for a particularly showy solo and the consensus - between bassoonist David Soggs and I - after the first performance was that although slurred and stumbling, the level of bassoonic innebriation hadn't quite reached the depths I had observed on a wet St. Paddy's Day in Dublin.<br />
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When that over-21s moment came in our second performance - this time at the PSO's home in the opulent Heinz Hall - Mr. Soggs dug into the depths of something like musical method acting and brought the druken solo to a whole new level of intoxication. <br />
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I hardly think it proper concert etiquette for the conductor to get a "fit of giggles" on the podium (very manly and maestro-like you know), but the bold Mr. Soggs set me up you see...<br />
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</tbody></table>What is it about bassoonists? It must be all of those brain-chemistry-altering ostinatos...<br />
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Ok, perhaps I am a little partial - the bassoon being one of my favorite instruments; "Le Sacre" being no.1 on my desert island discs (I know there are lots of great recordings but Markevich's are my favorites).<br />
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Thanks to David Soggs for bringing his brilliance to our performance and not being afraid to "go there", foregoing convention for the theatre in the performance and - making me laugh!<br />
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Thanks to that kind and enthusiastic usher at Heinz Hall who took care of me when I was exhausted and wanted me to come back and perform again - very sweet...<br />
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Thanks to the musicians and staff of the PSO and chorus for a memorable and ahem... intoxicating experience.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the PSO</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of the PSO Chorus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making shadow puppets on the screen... ok maybe not...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our loyal and beloved Z.fans on the lawn at The Mann</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Hall of Nations at Kennedy Center reminded me that Washington DC was designed by the Forefathers with the express intention of intimidating foreign dignitaries. As I looked at the flags of the world's nations above me in this cavernous hall I naturally had to find my own green, white and gold.<br />
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You can read a review of the Wolf Trap show by Erica Laxson <a href="http://www.dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2012/07/27/the-legend-of-zelda-symphony-of-the-goddesses-at-wolf-trap-by-erica-laxson/" target="_self" title="">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px !important; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="BodyCopy">Eimear Noone grew up in the tiny village of Kilconnell, Galway, loving every musical genre. When she was not practicing classical passages on her flute, she was listening to pop, rock or the symphonic concert music of popular video games. It's no wonder the accomplished Irish conductor-composer has captured hearts of Nintendo fans as she conducts symphony orchestras performing "The Legend of Zelda" while graphics from the videos play on giant screens.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="BodyCopy">"It's a fun show," she promised. "Being an Irish immigrant, I'm very excited to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra that I've known about and admired for years. Like everyone in my generation, I've loved the music in this program since my childhood and am crazy about the arrangements. My background is in classical music, so I knew from the start that this is a symphonic score."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="BodyCopy">The music for "The Legend of Zelda" was created by Japanese composer Koji Kondo, who has contributed many Nintendo soundtracks. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the video that has sold nearly 70 million copies. Its primary character, Link, is a courageous lad, whose many adventures include saving Princess Zelda, named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife. He carries a baton called a Wind Waker to invoke powers of nature. To help him achieve his goals, the players must solve games and musical puzzles. The various instruments featured are important components that the players never forget.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="BodyCopy">"Video games became the soundtrack of young people's lives, but wherever I conduct this music, it's still amazing to me that some in the audience burst into tears," Noone said. "When the concertmaster comes out, he gets a huge round of applause, and this phenomenon happens each time a principal player takes a bow. It's like a rock concert filled with respect for the players. We made a special Wind Waker like the one Link uses, and every time we hold it up, there's a great roar from the audience."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="BodyCopy">Noone's passion for conducting and composing film scores led to an invitation to meet with the makers of World of Warcraft and record the score of "Starcraft" at Skywalker Ranch with members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Ballet. She now makes her home in Los Angeles, where she has scored or orchestrated a variety of films, including "The Hole," "The Donner Party," "The New Daughter" and "Mirrors."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After our first rehearsal together, I bumped into principal contrabassoonist - or should I say, principal contraforte bassoonist - Lewis Lipnick and got to talk to him about this astonishing instrument his brass playing colleagues call "the rocket launcher" (it would be the brass, wouldn't it...). The sound of the contra-forte is much more refined that the regular old contrabassoon with an extended range and high notes that sound somthing like a soprano sax. Lewis is the only musician in a professional US orchestra playing the contraforte and he also commissioned an exhilarating concerto for the instrument by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.</div></div></td></tr>
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For over twenty years now, Irish choir Anúna has been pushing the envelope of choral music and not for that reason but purely as a side-effect of the unique sound their visionary director Michael McGlynn has endeavored to bring forth from the recesses of his own musical mind. Quite simply, they sound unlike any other singing group on the planet and we are the richer for it.<br />
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I have been a fan of Anúna and Michael's for many years and when Blizzard Entertainment's audio director and composer Russell Brower told me that he was looking for a unique and "different" sound for Diablo III, Anúna instantly sprung to mind. Two years after that conversation we found ourselves at Windmill Lane in Dublin with not one but two legendary recording engineers, John Kurlander and Brian Masterson recording the group Russell had chosen to represent the seductive voices of hell (!) for this immense project. <br />
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More about that later - I have a whole essay to write about the unbelievable experience we had on Diablo III.<br />
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Last night at Dublin's National Concert Hall I got to experience the choir as an audience member - with the added treat of John McGlynn's singing/song-writing - as they performed Michael's stunning arrangements and two of Russell's pieces from D3. I was more than mildly entertained to see the Classical organ at the NCH adorned with flames in wonderfully lit theatrics characteristic of an Anúna show (The profanity! Love it!).<br />
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The live sound that Brian Masterson got for the choir - which he has specially designed for them over years of working with Michael - was nothing short of exquisite.<br />
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Michael has set so many beautiful ancient texts, folk songs, chants and literary gems for the choir but I have to admit, having loved everything on the program and being an avid fan of early and renaissance music it was Michael's arrangement of The Derry Air (Danny Boy) that brought a tear to my eye. The arrangement has a beauty of understanding that could only come from the heart of a true Irish man.<br />
Danny Boy is a tough one to tackle as most Irish people can't decide whether they love it or hate it. Mostly we're sick to death of it! Suffice it to say, it has taken Michael 25 years - he says himself - to tackle that particular monster and let's just say he charmed it into submission.<br />
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When Russell, John, Joey Ray Hall and I arrived in Dublin to being working with the group they chose this arrangement as a warm up and had all of us in tears - soft eejits that we are! It was such a joy to share the arrangement with Blizzard's resident über genius, Chris Metzen, who despite the last name is actually one of "my people" and was thus affected in the appropriate manner for a true Paddy.<br />
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After experiencing the weird vibe in Dublin over the last few days and noticing how many of our young people are simply missing after hundreds of thousands having emigrated; after reading more about how our elder statesmen's unpatriotic greed has indebted us for generations; it was this world-class group of Irish artists that reminded me of my pride as an Irish woman. As usual, it is our artists that represent our true nature and replenish our flagging souls.<br />
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I received an email today from choral group SACRA/PROFANA's director Krishan Oberoi, including a link to the video below.<br />
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I got the opportunity to work with this fabulous group at our SOTG Comic Con performance with the San Diego Symphony. Their energy and enthusiasm was infectious and they sang their hearts out for us.<br />
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Krishan has a great vision for the choir and when we worked together they had just shot the video for his arrangement of Marroon 5's Payphone.<br />
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Although very different musically, like Anúna, this is a group out there in the world pushing the envelope and bringing their own brand of joy to thousands. I also love the fact that they don't limit themselves to any particular genre and are at home - and fabulously happy - in whichever genre they choose to inhabit. <br />
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Of course I get a great kick out of hearing "proper" choral singers singing "THE F WORD" (as we call it in the US; In Ireland we just say it) in a terribly proper way. <br />
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Adam Levine would be so proud!<br />
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Now does sing-swearing fall into the category of sacred or profane then Krishan?<br />
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It's like Schönberg's sprech-gesang only... so much more wholesome.<br />
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You can learn more about Sacra/Profana <a href="http://sacraprofana.org/" target="_self" title="">here</a>.<br />
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"The Mann" was the utmost in outdoor summer concert chic (it's own fashion genre don't you know) and the staff there treated us like rock stars. Toasting with champagne in the dressing room post-concert - courtesy of Catherine Cahill CEO and the Mann team - was one of those memorable pinch-worthy moments. <br />
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Most importantly however was my excitement over the orchestra whose brass section need to be heard to be believed but more about that in later posts...<br />
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During our brief time in Philadelphia, the guys on the team all had to experience a "Philly Cheese Steak" which is a type of sick poisonous torture to a celiac like me, but of course I had to tag along to vicariously experience this cultural phenomenon. Suffice it to say that I developed an instant new-found interest in vegetarianism and have never seen such an enormous vat of fluorescent cheeze whiz in my life. I stand vicariously culturally educated - without the indigestion.<br />
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I did however find an interesting name beneath my feet on Philly's music walk of fame:<br />
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Lepold Stokowski, best known for inspiring a generation of young musicians with Disney's Fantasia and wielding a big stick with a very suspect dodgy Eastern European accent.<br />
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However, you know you've made it when you get parodied by Bugs Bunny (I find this utterly hilarious which is tragically uncool):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We played to just shy of 7,000 mad cheering souls at The Mann Center but this is what it looked like earlier in the day - Another Jeron photo classic</td></tr>
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The only cloud on our horizon was the bad weather that hit us in Houston on our short stop-over and there was now a distinct possibility of our being late for rehearsal with The Orlando Philharmonic: not a nice feeling at all.<br />
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When we landed, Mark Fisher, principal french horn and personnel manager for the orchestra helped graciously guide our way and we arrived to a friendly and welcoming atmosphere at the rehearsal space. The SOTG team had everything up and running in record time. At this point we have our rehearsal strategy and tech down to a fine art. <br />
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The energy in a group is always very obvious to me in the first few minutes of meeting them and I could feel a good rapport amongst these musicians for each other, which they generously extended to us. This is the kind of thing that makes an enormous difference to the conductor, especially when we only have two rehearsals to get to know each other.<br />
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The next day we got to meet our chorus - Florida Opera Theater Chorus - under the proud direction of Robin Stamper; and yes, he did have a lot to be proud of, they sounded fantastic with a perfect blend, tight ensemble and great performance discipline.<br />
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The audience reception in Orlando was electric - we're now spoiled and have come to expect such an atmosphere from Zelda fans - and the Floridians did not disappoint, in fact I think they're neck and neck with Montreál for the best audience of the tour award. Then again, the Canadians actually sang to us from the auditorium...<br />
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At dress rehearsal and after the show I got to meet one of my favorite SOTG fans, Ajay Kundlas. <br />
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Ajay takes the time to wish Jeron and I well before every performance no matter what city we're performing in and is the epitome of the passionate but gentle soul that tends to populate our audiences. These are the people that make the schlepp across the continent unquestionably worthwhile. Ajay is also one of an elite group I like to call our "repeat attenders" and has seen the show a few times now. It is for fans like this that we work so hard and for whom I sweat all of my make-up off on stage - anything less would be a comfortably dry-skinned - and therefore passionless - travesty.<br />
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Thanks to principal percussionist Carl Rendek and sublime concertmaster Annabelle Gardiner (can I please say "leader" like we do in NW Europe? Concertmistress sounds so loaded and spell check underlines it in red (not underlining "concertmaster" however - hmm... methinks that may need to be remedied for its implied spelling sexism)). <br />
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Most memorable moment of our time in Orlando:<br />
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Well... there might be more than one actually...<br />
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Chad and I decided to see how close cultural clichés are to the truth in an examination of my hard-core Irish-ness as pertaining to flammable liquids. Thank you for that Chad. The answer is 100%...<br />
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Secondly there was that moment at the end of rehearsal when a member of the percussion section asked: Do you want us back in for the section we just taceted or do you want us tacet permanently? I went out on a limb with some dark Irish humor and pointed out that "Tacet Permanently" sounded like something you'd read on a musician's gravestone. Thinking that Floridians have too much sunshine for such gallows humor, I was proven gloriously wrong by the peals of laughter that came from the orchestra. Thank God: musicians are musicians no matter what their exposure to vitamin D and sunny wholesomeness.<br />
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But most memorably: I got the greatest compliment of my career - in my obtuse opinion - from one of the men of the Florida Opera Theater Chorus, who wryly announced:<br />
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'A conductor who wears an AC/DC t-shirt to rehearsal and drops Spinal Tap references... I'm not used to that!'<br />
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YEAH!<br />
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Thank you Orlando.<br />
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All of the photos below were taken by Ajay Kundlas: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friend Ajay with some members of the Zelda team: Exec producer, Jason Michael Paul; creative producer, Jeron Moore and Composer/arranger Chad Seiter</td></tr>
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Rehearsals with San Diego Symphony went well - aside from a weather advisory that threatened to rain on our parade - so I felt good about the show before we started. I also got to meet and work with a very special choral group called Sacra/Profana under the superb direction of Krishan Oberoi. As well as working on standard repertoire, they had just shot a video for an arrangement of some Maroon 5's stuff. You can find out more about them <a href="http://sacraprofana.org/" target="_self" title="">here</a>.<br />
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HEADS UP!: Mini javelin-like projectile coming your way: The occupational hazards of working in an orchestra with Eímear. <br />
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The concert begins and the overture is off to a rousing start. My music-stand isn't big enough for the tall Zelda score so stand lights had been mounted to a second music-stand in front of me. Not accustomed to said wall of music-stands, in the middle of the overture my baton hit the underside of one of the stand lights and well... it "caught some air" (SJB's a surfer so I'm generally bombarded with such "lofty" terminology) catapulting itself into the first violins, narrowly missing the associate concert-master - poor sod. The overture ends and there's the usual enthusiastic response from our beloved Zelda fans. <br />
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Before I turn to the audience an impishly smirking associate concert-master hands me back the baton with a grandiose flourish hidden from the audience by his desk-partner. Of course, not being one to keep any drama from our friends in the audience, I took the microphone and proclaimed it to be a great portent from the fates, or simply a sign of good luck, that the conductor throws the baton at the orchestra during the overture. Naturellement?!<br />
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Gotta love live performance...<br />
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Ooops, was that your head madam?!<br />
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Here are some images from rehearsals and performance by my precocious 12 1/2 year old assistant (the 1/2 is terribly important you know) and step-daughter Miss Madz:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The prettiest artists' entrance anywhere...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backstage wasn't too bad either</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting our act together</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Discussions with The Zelda Team pre-rehearsal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The guts of the operation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally found my way on stage after Spinal Tap-esque tour of the warren back stage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from the stage was pretty decent, oh and the waterfront looked nice too...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On stage with Jeron</td></tr>
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Firstly I had a fantastic time with the Houston Symphony and Chorus under the fearless leadership of Eric Halen who, aside from flawlessly bringing life to the violin solos in the Symphony of the Goddesses, also told me that way back in his family it's likely that he's related to Eddie and Alex Van Halen...<br />
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Also, I had some great conversations with principal bassoonist, Eric Arbiter about LofZ and his passion for Irish literature. He made me feel instantly at home talking about two of my favorite subjects. It turns out he's a bit of a Joycean scholar who has gone to Dublin to take part in the Blooms Day festivities. <br />
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Orchestras tend to be a treasure chest of such gems. <br />
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Incidentally: I LOVE the fact that Leopold Bloom of Joyce's Ulysses, one of the most famous characters in modern literature, is both Irish and Jewish - a fabulous combination close to my heart.<br />
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By night Eric is actually a bassoon-playing Link-tastic superhero as illustrated by his Zelda fanboy son, Daniel Arbiter. Fighting crime, one ostinato at a time:<br />
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Here's the trailer, although Miss Madz is not yet old enough to view it; it's rated 18!<br />
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This is a belief I carry with me on stage every time I walk out there. <br />
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You never know who really needs you in those moments. Which member of your audience is grieving or lonely or despondant; which have traveled from violence-torn cities (some Mexican friends I met in Austin who came from the heart/den of the drug cartels); who has returned from war and needs their belief in humanity restored so as to live a normal life (a vet I met in Austin who told me he was sorry to have missed the show in Dallas - beacause he was in IRAQ!). <br />
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It is our job to serve our audience... humbly.<br />
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Pops, Reginald and I agreed that we were meant to meet today. I needed my faith in humanity restored and in his reaching out with his soul through his instrument, I found real human beauty again.<br />
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Also: I loved that he played with a <u>lit</u> <u>cigarette</u> and told me that he'd been playing the horn through fifty years and lost his four front teeth to it! And... Reginald told me I was "One Foxy Lady", which made my day especially since this Irish cailín's only experience of such wildlife would be either in the woods across from our house in Kilconnell or a Jimi Hendrix song.<br />
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Thank God for character. Here's presenting "Pops" and his orchestra of one:<br />
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