3-26-05 Honors Concert

3-26-05 Honors Concert

Equipment List

  1. Neumann M150
  2. Neumann U87
  3. Neumann KM84
  4. DPA 4006
  5. Schoeps
  6. Millennia HV-3d / Digi 002
  7. Avalon 747
  1. 3-26-05 Honors Concert
  2. 3-26-05 Honors Concert
  3. 3-26-05 Honors Concert
Posted:
3 years, 8 months ago | Mar 26, 2005
Edited:
Sun, September 14, 2008

Orchestra

An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble of about 100 players with string, brass, woodwind sections, and usually percussion. Smaller groups are in the "Ensemble" category.

M.S.U. Symphony

I was the engineer for this top-level college orchestra for three years (about 19 concerts). For each concert I try different techniques utilizing most of the equipment and microphones. Recordings ranged from 2-3 microphones to a full 20-track recording.

Video

Just a few projects that have included video.

thoughts

The program:
Mozart - Concerto in C major for Oboe and Orchestra
Rusalka’s aria, “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka, by Dvorák
Sibelius - Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra
Joseph Shwantner - Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra.

This concert was a blast, and a highlight of my three years at State.  Being a percussionist, I completely nerded-out on this concert and had fun with Gifford (the percussionist).  Though I did not have advanced warning of the last percussion concerto piece, I did managed to fill the 8-tracks of the Digi 002.  I keep talking about the percussion portion, but the first half of concertos were also just as impressive.  The spaced M150’s provided an amazingly warm, close almost studio/film-score sound, which was good for the percussion concerto since it allowed the strings to be heard at all… 4 other highlites were placed around the percussion section.  The marimba had to be downmixed from a board on-stage because of the live sound support the musicians wanted on-stage.  Being a percussionist, this still remains one of the coolest concerts I’ve ever recorded.

More on this piece and a feature I provided video clips for at Vic Furth.com as well as the entire concert on Vic Firth’s podcast page here.


—Blair—

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I am a mid-20's audio engineer, and former Apple professional passionate about technology and music. A recording engineer raised in mid-Michigan, skipping through Colorado and now managing recording for a Texas university. I also dabble in web design.

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