Creation 2007 Northwest at the Gorge Ampitheatre in George, WA. Here are some pictures from the Creation festival. Visit the Creation concert series website.
I’m told that David Crowder stole the show with a very inspiring performance. Was also told he played the guitar from the video game “Guitar Hero” as well as a toy [...]
I’ve been playing a lot of tennis lately and am a little fuzzy on the rules. My partner and I are not very good so we’ve altered the rules a little bit.
CONRAD’S TENNIS RULES
“Out of Bounds” means it went over the tennis court fence. Person closest to the gate has to walk out and [...]
Some photos in the orchestra pit at McIntyre Hall of our Brigadoon musicians. Click images for full size resolution.
Brigadoon Orchestra
Conductor in a kilt!
Fight Scene Choreography Practice
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Mount Vernon, WA - Auditions for Bye Bye Birdie will be August 27 and 28 at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon, WA. This show is produced by META Performing Arts. This is a large teen and near-teen cast with great adult roles too. (Dick Van Dyke was in the original movie). A [...]
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Well either I’m on my way up or on my way down. Just by chance I saw an auction on Ebay where someone is selling a CD I produced. The CD on the right in this picture is the New Faces Volume Four that I produced for Road Records recording studio in Southern California. [...]
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During a vocal recording session I was producing for an album this evening several things came up that I thought might be good to address. Producing a vocal track can be a bit of a mystery in approach and there are many mistakes a producer can make in the process. Here’s my two cents worth [...]
Men Are Just Happier People– What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can [...]
 I don’t have confirmation on the authenticity of this, but I like the story. It is about “badinage” which is “light trifling raillery or humorous banter.” It’s from the French word ‘badin” which means “joker.”
Another wonderful example (of badinage) showed up at a Manhattan party in the 1930s, attended by George Gershwin, Oscar [...]
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A little cartoon joke for my trumpet and brass player musician friends. I did have the orchestra play Kazoos when we did Seussical the Musical - now THAT was fun!
 25 things I have learned in 50 years (by Dave Barry)
1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of
helicopters in it.
2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling
reason why we observe daylight-saving time.
3. People who feel the need to tell you that they [...]
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Miyamoto demonstrating the Wii Remote during the E³ 2006 press conference.
Born    November 16, 1952
Sonobe (now Nantan), Kyoto
Occupation    Senior marketing director, Nintendo
General manager, Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development.
Spouse    Yasuko Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is the designer that put Nintendo on the map and saved [...]
Here’s the quick read for this post: Humidity changes can severely affect the intonation of orchestral groups. Air conditioning needs to stablize the performance venue temperature before the orchestra shows up. Lower temperature will automatically reduce humidity. If you are still stabilizing the room temperature (which also lowers humidity) when the orchestra shows up [...]
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!FEren from RapDogs.com made me this custom animation - The “admin portrait animation”. I think it’s a cool little .gif and will put it on my website here. !FEren is currently running a stick figure animation shop at RD and making many creative graphics for members.
Thank you !FEre - I think it’s very cool!
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You’ve heard about the food made from cardboard in China. Of COURSE you have - I haven’t met a single person yet who has not heard the story of Chinese street vendors picking cardboard off the street, soaking it in chemicals and selling it as food. Since I’m getting ready to go to China [...]
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 This is the list of the top 40 cities that visit my website here.
1. YOU! - Your Town
2. Seattle
3. Los Angeles
4. London
5. Calgary
6. New York
7. Atlanta
8. Chicago
9. Phoenix
10. Irvine
11. Toronto
12. San Francisco
13. Houston
14. Washington
15. San Diego
16. Sydney
17. Orlando
18. Miami
19. Tampa
20. Melbourne
21. Salt Lake City
22. Portland
23. Boston
24. Dallas
25. Richardson
26. [...]
There are three basic elements to music:
Melody
Harmony
Rhythm
In a song form you also have the element of: Lyrics.
When doing a remix, these are the four elements you are going to play with. If you change all four, then you have a completely different song, not a remix. Most commonly the melody and lyrics stay the same. [...]
If you want to improve as a vocalist it’s important you take private lessons. Voice is not like other instruments. It sounds different in your head than it does to other people. A good voice teacher will help you to visualize and master your own vocal production anatomy, which is a difficult task. You [...]
I am a vocal instructor for the META Performing Arts summer theater camp. I teach two age groups: Teens and 8-12. I couldn’t find much online for live excercises with kids that would teach vocal technique and be entertaining. Here are some things I came up with that you might find helpful.
Kids 8-12 Age Group
Children [...]
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Received this yesterday from a musician in the pit orchestra of my current running show. It means a lot of me because the player is very seasoned and has “been around the block”. If you haven’t worked with me in the pit before - I can tell you it’s very intense. But all with [...]
Just found out the Seattle Times did a blurb on me today in the Local section. Click here to read the article. It was nice to get the mention of current shows running as extra publicity. We are looking forward to our Brigadoon run in Kirkland. Some details are off in the article (CDS [...]
