Jason Weinberger

Celebrating 80 years

Announcing the 2009/10 Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony season, a celebration of 80 continuous years of...

Opera Ball

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Three of my favorite things – Spain, the LA Lakers, and opera –...

Growing up in Washington DC, I rode a school bus every day past the intersection of Canal Road and Arizona Avenue, where a railroad bridge crosses overhead. For much of the nineteen-seventies, one of the bridge's pillars was emblazoned with...

Go local

I believe that orchestras should be the ultimate local organizations, striving to develop connection...

Maestro maturity

I just stumbled across an interesting commentary on changes to expectations about conductors' ages b...

Minimalist mash-up

YouTube + In C = In Bb 2.0

The art of teaching the art

This evening I will be giving the keynote speech at the 2009 Gold Star Awards for Outstanding Teachi...

Sample examples

Since its founding over a decade ago, Los Angeles-based Stones Throw Records has authored the book o...

Tooooo much maestro

Even though I am a big proponent of providing unique views of orchestral performance, this is just t...

Previewing Oz

Wonder what it's like to perform the entire soundtrack to a classic film live? Read two local prev...

What's it worth?

A key issue facing musicians in the digital age is an ongoing shift in the relative values of record...

Not so new realities

Peter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer zeroes in on key fiscal challenges facing orchestras toda...

But where's the orchestra?

Catching up on Twitter a few days ago my interest was piqued by a link to the Free Music Archive, a...

Pastoral with pulse

'Underneath the fast surface movement lies a very slow harmonic movement ... a natural progression ...

Experience one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz, as never before. A technical marvel for the MGM studio in the late 1930’s, MGM has stunningly re-master...

John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine [1986] John Adams – Common Tones in Simple Time [1979] Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 4 [Audience choice] Hear a favorite piece of your ...