Tomorrow night Rev. M is doing a show in Cleveland with this Youth
Orchestra. Unfortunately Princess Wei is singing somewhere else the
same night (tomorrow night). All of the below is a forwarded email
from somebody else to Rev. Steve Scynic.
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Looks interesting. This is a great group (made up all of really
talented high school kids), as witnessed from their performance on a
recent PBS special mixing classical and rock. Mark Mothersbaugh, who
will guest conduct some of his film music, is a Kent State alum.
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Contem****ary Youth Orchestra
Concert Two: A Night at the Movies
Saturday, March 8, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Waetjen Auditorium
Music and Communications Building
Cleveland State University
East 21st St. and Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
Tickets: $10 / $15 (available at the door)
http://www.cyorchestra.org/concerts/
http://www.mutato.com/redesignmp/html/news/youthorchestra.html
The Contem****ary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio takes the
listener
on a journey through the music of the movies. Features include King
Kong, Psycho, Spiderman, and Star Wars, as well as the Gershwin Piano
Concerto in F.
Our guest composer for this series is Mark Mothersbaugh (Mutato
Muzika). CYO will be performing several of his works, which
Mothersbaugh will conduct.
After the infamous Kent State shootings closed the school for the
spring and summer of 1970, Mothersbaugh, Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis
formed the idea of the "devolution" of the human race and started to
play music as DEVO, a New Wave rock group.
Since DEVO, Mothersbaugh developed a successful career writing
musical
scores for film and television. In film, Mothersbaugh has worked
frequently with filmmaker Wes Anderson, and scored most of his
feature
films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life
Aquatic.
His music has been a staple of the children's television shows
Rugrats
and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He also wrote the theme song for Pee-
Wee's Playhouse.
Mothersbaugh is also known for his music in video games including
Sony's Crash Bandicoot series, the Jak and Daxter series, and Maxis
Software's The Sims 2. This work is often performed with Mutato
Muzika, the music production company he formed with several other
former members of DEVO including his brother, Bob Mothersbaugh.
Mothersbaugh composed the distinctive music heard in the award-
winning
"Get A Mac" commercials (seen on TV and online) for Apple Computer
2006/2007.
He currently hosts a drawing segment on the children's television
series Yo Gabba Gabba!.
This series is in collaboration with Daniel Goldmark, Assistant
Professor of music at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes
in works on American popular music, film and cartoon music, and the
history of the music industry.
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