the Phoenix Chorale joins the Arizona Bach Festival Orchestra

For our third evening with the Arizona Bach Festival, Dan was on-location at the "still being remodeled" Central United Methodest Church in Phoenix.

This evenings performance featured the Festival Orchestra along with The Phoenix Chorale performing J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium Christmas Oratorio.

While the performance was amazing and well attended, out focus was on the newly....well still in construction sanctuary. Not only is this a major facelift but the rooms acoustics have also been completly reworked resulting in a beautiful sounding hall.

Three performances down and one left as they close the festival with an Organ Recital back at All Saints.

Arizona Bach continues with Dr. Stephen Redfield

The Arizona Bach festival's week long celebration continued this evening with a performance by Dr. Stephen Redfield in the Lobby of the VIAD building in Central Phoenix.

Dr. Redfield was assisted by Sue Westendorf, Marian Buswell, Carol Proudfoot and Jan Simiz as they performed a variety of works by....well J.S. Bach :)

This recording proved to be a delight, given that it was in a lobby, the entire venue was made of stone and glass and provided a wonderful natural reverb.

This afternoon Dan was on-location at All Saint's Episcopal Church capturing the first performance of the newly formed Arizona Bach Festival.

Formaly known as the American Back Festival, the Ariona Bach was origionaly developed as part of the All Saints music programs, has grown well over the past 7 years and has now become its own self sustaining organization.

The first performance featured an Organ Recital by ASU's Dr. Kimberly Marshall playing to a suprisingly well attended audience.

While we have done many recordings at All Saint's in the past, this afternoon proved to make up for the ease of those provious sessions. The usual setup involving the House Microphones would not work due to air blowing directly on them from the air handlers so we went with a pair of our Royer R-122's is a spaced bi-directional config and it yielded one of the best sounds we have ever captured from the All Saints Organ.

....the next performance of the festival will be on January 5th at the Viad Building.

Dobson High School and the Fall Preview

This evening Dan was on location at Dobson High School capturing sounds from their Percussion Ensemble, Jazz and concert bands. It is always great to hear the first sounds of the season, it's a good indication of how much progress the program will make over the next 8 months and so far it sounds like things are off to a great start!!!!

Dobson Orchestras

This evening Dan and Michael Fisher are on-location at Dobson High School capturing the wonderful sounds of the Dobson High School Orchestras under the direction of Rob Nichols, Rob Lubbers and Jon Haggard.

Welcome Linda Spevacek

This afternoon Dan was on-location in Tempe recording a "Talent Day" performance by students of vocal coach Linda Spevacek.

This was the first test run of our new recording rig featuring our Millennia Media HV3D-8 Microphone Pre-Amplifiers, Mytek Digital 8x192 ADDA converters, Nuendo 3.2 and our new Tascam DV-RA1000HD. The new setup sounds amazing and will allow us to make even better recordings for our clientele.

Recording and WebCast with American Bach

Today Dan and the team were on-location at All Saints Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona for American Bach's annual Good Friday performance. This year’s performance featured The Passion According to St. Matthew under the direction of Scott Youngs.

This year we took on the added roll of webcasting the entire performance. While this was mostly an experiment to see if anyone would watch, it was received with great success as we had a consistent audience of about 50 viewers, some from as far as England!!!!!! With any luck next year we will be able to expand the service and provide multiple cameras and a higer quality audio feed to the viewing audience.

www.americanback.com

The Sustainable Symphony at the Phoenix Zoo

This afternoon Dan was on-location at the Phoenix Zoo recording the primere performance of The Sustainable Symphony under the direction of Brian Viliunas.

The performances started off in the early afternoon with various musicians performing for Zoo patrons and animals all around the park. Then with a trailing audience the 40 musicians performed Beethovens Symohony N0. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 and Brahms Symohony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68.