In 2019 we made a new service available – Cinematic Moments. What is Cinematic Moments? It is professional photography and videography of moments from your concert; something for the archives, images for marketing and promotion, short, slow motion snippets of moments during the performance, done with a cinematic aesthetic. Here is a teaser from some…
Well, designing and bringing a website to life has been a very difficult task for me. Back in the aughts, when apps were software, Apple’s iWeb allowed non-professionals to design and bring websites to life. I think it was the first Tonehaus website that was done on iWeb – or at least one of the…
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.…
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.
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 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…
