by Jeff Baker | Apr 17, 2020 | Food For Thought
by Stephanie Wilson, Deputy Director, New West Symphony There’s a moment, just before the curtain goes up, when the performers are posed onstage holding their breath and knowing that just on the other side of that curtain, the audience is doing the very same thing. ...
by Jeff Baker | Aug 15, 2018 | Food For Thought, Uncategorized
The musical greats weren’t always so great in an academic setting. We’ll bet you didn’t know these classical musicians were less than star students. George Gershwin, the great American songwriter and pianist, often played hooky as a hyperactive...
by Jeff Baker | Aug 1, 2018 | Food For Thought, For Listening, Neato Burrito
Jacob Collier, 23-year-old vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from London, has taken music by storm in recent years with his radical jazz reharmonizations and other-worldly music theorization. Known for his “Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-Meta-Lydian” scale and...
by Jeff Baker | Jul 18, 2018 | Food For Thought
Classical music still has a fighting change among the younger generation, thanks in large part to Groupmuse! Groupmuse is an innovative project that connects classical musicians with people’s living rooms, to put on chamber music performances! Intimate and...
by Jeff Baker | Jul 13, 2018 | Food For Thought
Some would say video games are saving orchestral music. At the very least, concerts of video game music have become a popular among younger audiences. Listen to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform music from the classic video game, “The Legend of...
by Jeff Baker | Jul 9, 2018 | Food For Thought
Charlie Albright, a gifted young pianist and recipient of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, is known as a youthful voice in classical music. His article published on CNN asks the common question, “why aren’t more young people showing an...
