Here we are, three quarters of the way through January, and of my January projects, none are finished, and I am mid-way on some of them. We want to get this website cleaned up and integrated with social media for one, and also format it in a fun way to read blog posts and news.…
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About TvdB
I love the performing arts and am dedicated to developing a team and the tools to create media that showcases our community and helps strengthen and grow organizations, helping put your message into the digital world.
Live-Stream Upgrade
I can’t really help myself, so take advantage of my obsession with sound. Please. I am always going to be improving and upgrading all of the equipment and workflows.
Hovhannes
Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1922. Hovhaness wrote over 67 symphonies. In 1940 his credo read: “I propose to create a heroic, monumental style of composition simple enough to inspire all people, completely free from fads, artificial mannerisms and false sophistications, direct, forceful, sincere, always original but never unnatural.”
Ives
Ives is surely the quintessential American composer. His music bursts at every seam with the idiom of our culture. Like America itself, Ives brimmed with all our contradictions and complexity, an amalgam of traditional roots and far-reaching vision. He was born and raised in Connecticut. The New England Transcendentalists’ belief in nature and self-reliance imbued…