Thursday, January 27, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables!

If you attend a concert featuring faculty and/or students from the music department of Central Washington University prepare to be surprised! C.W.U.'s music department consistently presents fun, interesting, innovative and well-performed concerts.

You can catch the CWU Chamber Choir this Sunday afternoon at 4:00 at The Seasons in downtown Yakima. Here is a video of Gary Weidenaar leading the choir in John Muehleisen's Eat Your Vegetables! Watch out for the carrot! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The next Leonard Bernstein?

An NWPR listener in Tacoma turned me on to this video of three year old Jonathan conducting the finale to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, arguably one of the most well-known pieces of music in the world.

Honestly, this is exactly what I feel like doing when I hear this piece. Well, everything but the judicious nose picking.



Just to prove that Jonathan is not a one trick pony here he is playing the violin. I can't wait to follow his career!