Video of the Week: Christmas Card

Here's another one of my Christmas creations on YouTube ... from six years ago.  I arranged and performed the piano music.  Enjoy!

Video of the Week: My Son's Christmas Solo

This week, I'll feature my son, who just gave his first solo performance at his high school.  This is the third movement of "Christmas Concerto" by Robert W. Smith.

Enjoy!

Video of the Week: We Three Kings

This upcoming month, I'll be presenting Christmas-themed videos.

This week, I'll show off my first attempt at dubbing my own voice several times.  It turned out okay.  I hope you enjoy this arrangement.

Video of the Week: Precious Little One - Merritt

This week, I'd like to feature a composition by one of my friends, Mark Daniel Merritt, a rising conductor and composer.  We sang this composition, "Precious Little One" three years ago in Mount Airy, NC.

I find this melody to be hauntingly beautiful, and I hope you will enjoy it also.

Video of the Week: Interstellar Main Theme

After an exam-induced break from blogging, I'm back!

I'll start up the videos of the week with some haunting music from the new Nolan movie, Interstellar.  This is the main theme, which reminds me of something out of Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi.

The movie has great music by the composer Hans Zimmer.  I highly recommend seeing the movie to see the sights and listen to the music.  Though, prepare for the music to be louder than the dialogue in several places.

Video of the Week: Elijah Rock

Back in 2011, I joined up with a Mount Airy musical group, Voce.  That was a fun year.

As you may know, Mount Airy was the stomping grounds of Andy Griffith, and is the inspiration for the fictional city of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith show.  So, in this Christmas concert, we had a Barney impersonator, and even the actress, Betty Lynn who played Thelma Lou, was secretly in attendance.

The first song in this video is "Andy's Mayberry Christmas Card List" by Doug Reeves.

Then, I come in around the 5:00 mark.  I sing backup to award-winning Melva Houston in her rendition of "Elijah Rock."  It was a night to remember!

Video of the Week: Banquet Fugue by Rutter

This week (yeah I'm a little late on this one), I relive my high-school days.  I have many fond memories of singing fun songs, crazy songs, silly songs, etc.  One of my favorites was when we performed the entire "Reluctant Dragon" by John Rutter.

In particular was the "Banquet Fugue."

Here's a performance (not mine, but still good) ...