From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Was in Philadelphia for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, to experience various Philadelphia Orchestra events (New Year's Eve concert and New Year's Day Open House) and the be present for all the Mummers famous New Year's Day events, including the Parade (in totally freezing weather - I thought …
Pictures from a premiere
“A Symphony for Lucerne” a triumphant premiere
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "What a remarkable premiere yesterday of A SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL. We gave a pre-intermission "Making Of..." presentation and then played the new work. Matthias Pintscher and theLUCERNE FESTIVAL Academy Orchestra played brilliantly, beautifully. All of the Lucerne performers who we invited to participate - Der Chor …
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Beginning Again
From Tod Machover's Facebook post today: Haven't done THIS for a long while! One the projects I am preparing for this summer's LUCERNE FESTIVALis a full-evening performance of my HYPERSTRING TRILOGY. I am making revisions to the solo and electronic parts, so had to prepare a new version of BEGIN AGAIN AGAIN... this week for …
Detroit Notes
The Opera of the Future crew spent the Memorial Day weekend in Detroit, doing activities for the SYMPHONY IN D project. The 3 days were packed and each activity was an adventure: from driving in (and recording audio from) a Grand Prix race car, to visiting the Movement techno music festival with young DJ students, …
Fensadense workshop
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Finished a great rehearsal period for FENSADENSE in Lucerne today with a fun and imaginative video shoot by Oliver T. Becker for a video trailer for the project. These 10 fabulous players from the Alumni Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL Academy were a great pleasure to work with, and I …
Light in Lucerne (photos)
Tod Machover is in Lucerne this week, working with musicians on a new work to premiere this summer at the Lucerne Festival. He seems very taken by the quality of light in the city. From Tod's Facebook: Surprising and intense light everywhere in Lucerne, where we are in a fun work week in preparation for …
Plunging into “Fensadense”
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Straight off the plane yesterday from Dubai into an intensive rehearsal at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL for our new FENSADENSE project. What a pleasure to explore the relationships of improvisation-to-composition and acoustics-to-electronics with 10 amazing young musicians from around the world. Bach is already being transmuted into something new and surprising, …
Tod Machover’s Fasnacht adventures
Postings by Tod Machover from Lucerne, Switzerland February 16, 2015. Here's my full Fasnacht costume - provided by friends at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL, as well as the (very loud) scene right outside my hotel window - at 12:30 pm. People told me that this medieval, super-quiet and discrete hotel would become one of the epicenters of Fasnacht...and …
February notes: Back from Detroit
Tod Machover posted: Just back from a couple of days in Detroit for the next installment of workshops, meetings, presentations, and generally-intense-and-beautiful-experiences that are all part of the crazy mix that will become SYMPHONY IN D with the Detroit Symphony in November (2015). What a powerful city, full of vivid and passionate people, architectural richness …
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