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Jason Weinberger | Composing Creativity

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Listening guide for the 2015 wcfsymphony Youth Concerts [Update: See this project as it unfolded. Insight into the practical aspects of conducting a large symphonic ensemble. Daniel’s piece is firmly in the concerto tradition but has some key differences which are worth exploring with students. The first is the piece’s genesis: it began life as a recording project for electric violin, rock band and DJ called Woodbox Beats and Balladry! A Young Person’s GPS for Our Orchestra. Ives Variations on America.

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Jason Weinberger | Imagining Planets

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Listening guide for the 2013 wcfsymphony Youth Concerts. Insight into the practical aspects of conducting a large symphonic ensemble. The English orchestral tradition. What is a Horoscope? For the subtitles for the movements. Since this topic is unlikely to appear in regular academic curriculum Holst’s interest in it can serve as a means for introducing students to astrology’s basic principles. Gary Kelley’s Planets. Holst’s masterpiece is one of the most familiar orchestral works, both through its...

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Jason Weinberger | Stories in Sound

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Listening guide for the 2014 wcfsymphony Youth Concerts. Music - without text, acting or scenery as elsewhere in opera - can still strongly convey the sense of scenes and their passage. Students should be asked to interpret in writing the scenes they hear in the overture, and to think about how those scenes are connected. Rimsky-Korsakov and Epic Poetry. Using episodes of fantastic storytelling by its namesake as a narrative frame. From the outset of the piece Rimsky-Korsakov personifies Scheherazade...

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Jason Weinberger | Get your groove on to this rhythmic montage of the...

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Get your groove on to this rhythmic montage of the amazing sounds of Star Wars. With some effective deployment of John Williams’ music [ on tap this fall at wcfsymphony. Sit tight until the end for some sound that didn’t make the final cut. More posts about starwars. This post has 5 notes. Reblogged this from jasonweinberger.

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Novel, inclusive approaches to music and the concert experience. The goal of these concerts is giving young people a chance to actively connect with the music rather than to sit quietly for an hour and then go home. It’s another example of making sure our concerts aren’t just passive, that the audience can participate.'. My thoughts on this weekend’s @wcfsymphony. Concert, from a preview in the Courier by Melody Parker. More posts about wcfsymphony. There’s been much fun. More posts about wcfsymphony.

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Jason Weinberger | This is all kinds of amazing, especially George...

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This is all kinds of amazing, especially George Lucas’ concept for the film’s sound design [paraphrased here by the author of The Sounds Of Star Wars]:. Don’t go to your synthesizers first and generate echoing electronic tones for me, go out into the real world with your tape recorder and record motors and animals and bring back familiar sounds, which we can modify into something otherworldly. The whole piece [ mp3. More posts about curiosties. This post is sourced from NPR. And has 7 notes.

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Jason Weinberger | Sorry, Jason, I have a question. In January you...

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Sorry, Jason, I have a question. In January you posted a live version of Coltrane's My Favorite Things on This Is My Jam. I was wondering which version you posted again. In my recollection it started very slow or had a slow piece in the middle and it was very 'chaotic'. I didn't like it much at the time, but I think I could appreciate it better now! Could you perhaps try and let me know which version it was that you posted? Great thanks. Roy de Smet,. Roy, you are in luck! More posts about conversation.

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Jason Weinberger | Hearing Pictures

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Listening guide for the 2012 wcfsymphony Youth Concerts. Nearly a century and a half after his premature death Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. Art and music in Mussorgsky’s Russia. Mussorgksy and his artist friend Viktor Hartmann. Some of the key issues raised by Pictures at Exhibition are implied in its title – what are musical pictures, and how are hearing and seeing connected or distinct? Pictures at an Exhibition. Here are the ‘Pictures’ that students will hear in April, presented alo...This is M...

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Jason Weinberger | Firebird

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Listening guide for the 2016 wcfsymphony Youth Concerts. This year’s program and curricular materials will highlight the musical, narrative and pictorial aspects of Stravinsky’s score, as well as drawing analogies to other art forms (in particular to dance and visual arts). Classroom activities should include review of the orchestral instruments, their respective numbers in a modern orchestra, and their layout onstage. Jason’s school visits will offer students hands-on (and hands-up! Classroom work can c...