https://vimeo.com/144788502 Congratulations to Dennis Scholl, Marlon Johnson and Tod Machover for taking home an Emmy for Best Cultural Documentary for the film of SYMPHONY IN D at the Michigan Emmy Awards last night! Check out the trailer above. Dennis Scholl and Marlon Johnson picked up the awards in Detroit (photo below). Tod had to stay home to …
For your listening pleasure, here's an excellent version of the "Symphony in D" recording. And here's a new press release just out about the symphony and Tod Machover's "Composer of the Year" award. "Imagination is the strongest tool we have. The reason that we make music is of course to reach our audiences, but also …
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Video from Saturday night's spectacular premiere of FENSADENSE at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL. This segment (shot by me at the back of the hall with my iPhone 6...so not Oliver T. Becker quality:) is substantial (about 9 minutes long) and goes from the middle of our version of Hey Jude (including a saturated freak-out) through the …
LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Orchestra | Conductor Matthias Pintscher Tod Machover (* 1953) A symphony for Lucerne Commissioned by LUCERNE FESTIVAL | premiere
Wonderful new (short) video about the Hyperscore workshops we are doing in Lucerne as part of the EINE SINFONIE FUER LUZERN project that premieres at this summer's LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Amazing young people from around the city are working on original compositions that reflect aspects of Lucerne. These will be transcribed for instruments (some transcriptions by …
A DVD of Dallas Opera’s highly successful 2014 production of Tod Machover’s robotic opera, Death and the Powers, is available beginning April 22 through the MIT Media Lab. Only a limited number of copies are on sale and can be purchased at CD Baby here. Death and the Powers received its world premiere September 24, …
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Here's a fun piece on Detroit's WDIV TV on #symphonyind. Hear a bass trombone sound like a car's accelerator, hear Henry Ford's first engine, and hear the TV announcer speculate on what the sound of a DRIVER might be on landing in one of Detroit's ubiquitous potholes! Watch the video here. How you can collaborate …
Here's the full video of the performance of A SYMPHONY FOR OUR TIMES, the closing event at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24th. It's a kind of compendium of Tod Machover's City Symphony projects - including glimpses of Toronto, Edinburgh, Perth, Lucerne and Detroit - and it sounds and looks great. Hope …
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