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PLAY! A Video Game Symphony
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07.22.08
PLAY! A Video Game Symphony
Baltimore Sun

My 14-year-old sister Emily came to the city Friday night to see the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's rendition of Play! A Video Game Symphony.

In the show, the orchestra performs music from popular video games. Here is her review ... 

When you think of video game music, you're reminded of simple melodies and catchy tunes, right? Well, The BSO's Friday night performance of Play!: A Video Game Symphony totally redefined that.

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Search for new maestro narrowed to Three; each will perform a tryout concert in the fall

07.17.08
Tito Muñoz
The Register-Guard

Three finalists have been selected in the search for a successor to Giancarlo Guerrero as music director and conductor of the Eugene Symphony when he moves on to head the Nashville Symphony next year.

Their names were unveiled Wednesday night at a private briefing by symphony officials, including Roger Saydack, who is head of the search committee looking for a new conductor.

The three candidates will all be brought to Eugene, on different dates in September, to conduct the orchestra in a program that includes two set pieces - the first movement of Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and a movement from Sergei Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto - as well as a short work of each conductor's choosing.

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At Fringe Festival, a Finely Tuned Fury

07.14.08
Mike Daisey
The Washington Post

The art of the one-person show is in disguising a self-centered act as something generous: The performer must convince us utterly that he's in it more for our pleasure than his own. The beguiling monologuist Mike Daisey achieves this in grand style with his new solo piece about the withering of American idealism in the Age of Terror, "If You See Something, Say Something." ... »