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Caitlin Plays Rock Zone for the RCM Video Countdown

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 by Chris Foley | Videos

Here's another of my students with an RCM Video Countdown video - Caitlin plays Dennis Alexander's Rock Zone for the Level 7 Competition:

 

 

 

 

Hélène Grimaud Plays the Second Movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

Sunday, January 4, 2015 by Chris Foley | Videos

Now this is the kind of videography that makes classical music visually engaging, without cheapening the artists or the music in any way. Hélène Grimaud is joined by the Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Radoslaw Szulc on a Deutsche Grammaphon release.

 

 

(via @anselmonadir

Pop Up Chorus: From Start to Performance in Less than an Hour

Friday, January 2, 2015 by Chris Foley | Videos

Show up, learn a song, hang out with cool people, and perform at the end of the night. Seamus Kenney, the director of Durham, North Carolina-based Pop Up Chorus, has a unique process for getting more people involved in singing: get a song up on its feet from start to performance level in less than an hour. Here's how they do it:

 

With the busy schedules of adults these days, this type of casual chorus might just be what gets people involved in singing without the serious commitment and rigid scheduling of traditional choirs.