BCCM WEEKLY KUDOS The Orchestra got a great send-off article in Mondays Daily 49er about their trip to Korea: daily49er/news/2013/11/25/csulb-orchestra-travels-to-south-korea/ Robert D. Thomas, music critic of the Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News wrote a magnificent review of the Britten War Requiem performance. The choral forces delivered a beautiful tone and were amazingly precise throughout the 84 minutes, but particularly in the extended fugal writing in the “Dies Irae” sections. and The capacity audience sat spellbound, silent for 20 seconds, before erupting in wave after wave of standing ovations for the performers. A film scored by Daniel Ellis won two awards at the CSU Media Arts Festival. Steven Spielberg and the Return to Film School won the narrative category, and the Audience Choice Award. The films director Joshua Hoh said, And to top it all off, we had the pleasure of recording the final three-minute piece of the film with the CSULB Symphony Orchestra, made up of 80 of CSULBs finest musicians. As a music minor myself, it was truly a dream come true to bring the film and music departments together for this project. There were 154 entries from 16 CSU campuses. lbpost/life/arts-culture/2000003090-csulb-film-on-spielberg-earns-top-awards-at-media-arts You can watch the film here: youtube/watch?v=NkLt-Cd0SdU Jeff deSeriere was asked to conduct TUBACHRISTMAS on the Battleship Iowa, San Pedro, Dec. 7th. Grace Byeon has been hired as a music teacher at St. Edward the Confessor Parish School in Dana Point. Althea Waites collaborated with organist/ music director Peter Bates, at Covenant Presbyterian Church in downtown Long Beach. The program consisted of works for piano and organ by Cesar Franck, along with a performance of the Symphonic Variations with Mr.Bates transcribing the orchestral part on the organ. The concert was sponsored by the Long Beach chapter of the AGO, and was enthusiastically received by the audience. David Garrett adjudicated the concerto contest for students of The Colburn School. Journalist Birgitta Tollan interviewed Althea Waites for Swedish Radio and Television. Ms. Tollan is working on a documentary focusing on women in the performing arts; Waites was one of 12 women selected for an in-depth interview on her life and work. Excerpts from the documentary will be broadcast on Swedish Public Radio in January and will also be available via podcast and online. Nick Mancini was invited to join the Hi-Fi Quintet in a TV pilot called The Jazz Lounge. The pilot is on youtube here: https://youtube/watch?v=RCWcnt-PkZA#t=806. Nick is featured at 12:37 playing Smack Dab and he is interviewed at 16:52. There is also a documentary about the making of the pilot: youtube/watch?v=AevhPbJJqik#t=363 Benjamin Brittens opera, Owen Wingrave, performed at CCM (College Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati) was touted as breathtaking in the review on cincinnati. The article as stated that, In the pit, the CCM Concert Orchestra, expertly led by CCM alumnus Johannes Müller-Stosch, traveled through the unsettled score, setting atmospheres both bright and ethereal. The lead photo featured BCCM alumni Tyler Alessi and Simon Barrad. Jessie Shulman was also in that cast. Alumni Anthony Moreno and Alyssa Wills performed main roles in USCs production of LIncoronazione di Poppea Nov 20-24. Alumnus Ryan Darke has been appointed Principal Trumpet in the San Diego Symphony. Alumnus Andrew Balogh was honored with a Hollywood Music in Media Award for Special Recognition For Original Score - TV Promo for Throw it Back (Reality Series TV Show). Alumnus VJ Rosales is one of the featured performers on this seasons The Sing Off on NBC. The show premieres Monday, December 9th at 9:00p. The Sing-Off is a reality show competition for a cappella singing groups . VJ will be singing with The Filharmonics, a group of male Filipino singers. Their knack for ’90s R&B, mixed with their Filipino culture, is sure to bring a new twist to the music of the past. Only 10 groups are on the show. The songs featured on the show will be available on iTunes the day after each telecast. To see The Filharomincs in action, watch youtube/watch?v=qkzGQ9V0CUI A run-down on all the of the groups competing may be found here: acafanbase.wordpress/2013/11/18/connect-with-the-sing-off-competitors-for-season-4/ Alumnus Justin Padilla, Band Director at Oak Middle School organized an evening of music featuring Eric Marienthal at Spaghettini as a fundraiser for the Los Alamitos Education Foundation (LAEF). Eric Marienthal is a multiple-grammy-winning saxophonist/ He has several highly-regarded albums and performs with the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band. Alumnus Axel Clarke will take on the role on Ringo in a Beatles vs Stones Tribute Band shoot out on Sunday, December 8 at 7 pm at the Gaslamp Restaurant and Bar. According to Axel, We got our Sgt. Pepper jackets made a little long so the Stones would have no problem riding our coattails. belmontshore.patch/groups/belmont-shore-naples-music-and-theatre-scene/p/beatles-vs-stones-tribute-show-settles-an-old-score. Alumnus Ken Neff and his band, Ancient Heat, opened for The Village People at Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon.
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