December 2011 Archives

il Troubadore Klingon Music Project will make a special guest appearance at the closing night of "A Klingon Christmas Carol!!"


A Klingon Christmas Carol
By Christopher O. Kidder and Sasha Walloch
Translated by Laura Thurston, Bill Hedrick, and Christopher O. Kidder
Additional Content and Translation by Chris Lipscombe
Lyrics to qu'wI' by Terrence Donnelly
Music composed by Jon Silpayamanant/il Troubadore

Directed by Christopher O. Kidder

Featuring Kevin Alves and Zach Livingston

Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.

"The show honors the true meaning of Christmas" - Conan O'Brien


Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 7:30 PM and 10:30 PM
Greenhouse Theater - Downstairs Mainstage
2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 404-7336
Website: greenhousetheater.org
E-Mail: maureen@greenhousetheater.org

http://greenhousetheater.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=70356&StartDate=12/31/2011&EndDate=12/31/2011

http://www.cbtheatre.org/

On Monday, December 19, I'll be playing the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello with Ana Sarbu for the kids we coach at Floyd Central High School.  This isn't a public event but intended to give the kids a chance to hear their coaches in performance on a work we've just started rehearsing a few weeks ago.

This Sunday I'll be performing with the IUS Orchestra for the holiday gala concert at Stem Concert Hall at IUS, 4201 Grantline Road, New Albany Indiana.  The concert begins at 3PM.

In the evening I will be performing two movements from the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello at Classical Revolution at The Bard's Town with Ana Sarbu in Louisville.  This event is free and begins at 7PM with many other classical musicians presenting works or with those there sight-reading works live.  More info may be found here.

This morning I appeared with my Klingon band on Fox 59 morning news. 

See the video here. 

And tonight (and this weekend) we will be at Starbase Indy. 

Photo of us with Jim O'Brien of Fox 59 to the left.

This Wednesday during an IUS performance class I'll be premiering a work by composer, Rachel Short titled "Wormhole: Caesura" (text by Steve Smith) for baritone, violin, viola, and cello.

The performance class is at 12:20 in the Recital Hall at IUS on Wednesday 7, 2011.

I'll be filling in some percussion duties for this year's Floyd County Youth Symphony Holiday Concert.

The Floyd County Youth Symphony presents a Holiday their annual Holiday concert and fundraiser/silent auction at New Albany High School Auditorium on Sunday, December 4 at 3 pm.

The program will include the mini orchestra, festival orchestra and philharmonic orchestra playing classical holiday tunes and orchestral repertoire.

More info here.

Here's a video I took of Mr. Ma playing Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz with DePauw students at The Hub (the centralized non-dorm food court on the DePauw campus).  This was supposed to something of a flash mob event though before any of the music students, much less Mr. Ma, arrived, there were already several hundred students filling the Hub to the brim!

There is a much better video of Mr. Ma taken from the floor posted by The DePauw Multimedia here.

Also, a couple of videos of a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 with DePauw students and faculty at Asbury Towers Retirement Home here and here.

The Asbury performance happened not more than an hour after the Hub appearance!