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Post by sylvester88 on Sept 10, 2013 22:43:39 GMT
From MuzArt World Foundation posted since earlier June or later...http://muzartworld.org/     www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=26676415&cat=82&s_cid=S0001 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=466591076755527&set=a.173823906032247.44423.112361185511853&type=1 Chuck Yates fan made poster  Chuck Yates fan made poster  MuzartWorldPublished on Sep 10, 2013
The MuzArt World Foundation will present an inspirational concert event to launch its global initiative to reinvest music and arts education into the public school systems at the LDS Conference Center on November 9, 2013. Highlighting the event will be multi-platinum child prodigy Jackie Evancho and a global Virtual String Orchestra conducted by, and starring Mark Wood, founder of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Other featured artists include multi-platinum recording artists Michael Martin Murphey, Champaign, singer songwriter Sheila Raye Charles, legendary Artist Ray Charles daughter, 6-year-old Australian artistic prodigy Aelita Andre, South America's Landfill Harmonic Orchestra, local artists Nathan Osmond, Lexi Walker (performed at USANA convention 2013) , the award winning American Heritage Lyceum Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Masa Fukuda and the One Voice Children's Choir. The MuzArt World Foundation is coalition of concerned parents, educators, public servants, and leaders in business and the arts who all share a common concern over the erosion of arts education from our public schools. All have committed to taking positive action to reverse this alarming trend and give our next generation of schoolchildren the Right to Succeed, "because it's the right thing to do." |
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Post by sylvester88 on Sept 20, 2013 17:00:31 GMT
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Post by sylvester88 on Oct 2, 2013 17:58:31 GMT
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 17:26:39 GMT
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 17:36:38 GMT
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 18:10:32 GMT
joelw posted this on JEFC Concert review: beckwith-bunch.blogspot.com/2013/11/music-and-tender-mercy.html"Tonight we went to the LDS conference center for a Muzart World Foundation benefit concert to hear our school orchestra perform along with Jackie Evancho and other artists. Jackie Evancho was amazing (sample). There was another performer Mark Wood who was not so amazing. Actually, he was quite talented technically but he had this electric violin and a band of young adults who had weird hair and outfits who played a few rock songs in typically flailing, flashy, fierce fashion. Now, there isn't really anything wrong with the songs they played, it was mostly hearing those songs in the conference center where we usually listen to a prophet of God speak that made it seem wrong. And the fact that President Monson was there tonight made it even stranger. Then, right after the second rock song our orchestra played "Ode to Joy" along with a huge choir. It was inspiring, heart-warming, and spiritually refreshing. The orchestra and choir got a VERY enthusiastic standing ovation! I think everyone in the audience, and there where several thousand there, could feel the difference in the spirit of the two songs. I was grateful for an opportunity for our children to feel and sense the contrast." --- 17 second video snippet of Jackie singing part of "Pie Jesu" at Muzart - posted to Facebook by Ted Fujimoto. www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151966820417020&set=vb.826047019&type=2&theater-- sylvester: twitter.com/jackieevancho/status/399698017218875392   -- www.facebook.com/don.ziegler.5/posts/10151663819311266 --- Red carpet   --- Kadee Jones@kadeeq352 I feel so blessed to be in such an amazing orchestra. Tonight was incredible! Loved playing with Jackie evancho and many others. Kadee Jones @kadeeq352 @moriahtrek @carolyn_L Lord's prayer, pure imagination, pie Jesu, when you wish upon a star, mio babbino carro |
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 18:12:03 GMT
billh on JEFC:
Salt Lake City, 9 Nov 2013, Muzart performance.
Jackie's performance was flawless and beautiful as usual. I wished after the finale Jackie would have had more time on stage, though she sang five songs, there was room for more, if Jack Wood and the promoters had spent less time over-emphasizing the importance of art in education they would have had a better response.
Before the music began the audience was subjected to a 15 minute (+|- a few) by several promoters and MC's about supporting the arts in schools So by the time performers and music began the message was clear and well stated, if not over stated.
Having said all that, this was for PBS and the program will be laced with fund raising drives, 800 numbers to call when this is released. So I understand the drive and constant infomercial style presentation. Though less in some cases is more.
The concept theme of the concert of art education and art resides in all kinds of mediums, illustrated with Humming vibration bowls, (new age melodic jars), electric violins, and CW performers, along with blues and rock. Of course it was a wonderful concert.
I like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and I still enjoy their music. However with all the MC's in the US, couldn't they have passed on Wood as the MC for some one who knows how to MC? I admire his talent and ability to create some great music; it's unusual and great. But he's not a MC!
Lindsey Stirling playing Crystallize could have been a great addition to music art theme and more relevant than Jack Wood of the TSO.
My overall review, aside from having a bad MC, is **** of 5 stars.
Top performers IMHO was Jackie and Lexi. The other performers filled in the slack time, but these two young women would have carried the show by their talent alone. Lexi reminds me of Brenda Lee when she recorded Rockin around the Christmas tree, I believe she was 12 or 13 when it was released. Lexi has a great voice.
Don't compare them; they have a different voice and sound.
Jackie's voice is maturing and steady. Throat and muscle plus voice has made a difference in her singing. We enjoyed Jackie' s classic sound above all the other performers.
Jackie brought elegance and class to what I'd suggest would have been a mediocre concert otherwise. CW music can be indistinguishable at times; rock and blues can become, in the words of Roger Miller, "sameness." He remarked on Johnny Carson that CW sounded the same to him after two or three songs. The point I'm making is that Jackie made this concert more interesting and classic; that touch of elegance was sorely needed to make it interesting.
As I looked around the auditorium before intermission I noticed people were leaving after Jackie's second piece. At intermission there were a significant number of empty seats for the second half. A couple passing by me were disappointed Jackie wasn't singing more and some may have been put off by Jack Wood and his unique sound. Or maybe a new age humming bowl might have sent some scurrying home; yes it was an odd mix of sound and unique. However I think many people who left 1/2 way through the first quarter of the show wasn't hearing what they expected to hear. Some one mentioned getting sucker punched because Jackie didn't get much stage time.
Make no mistake though, Jackie and Lexi made the show click and if they had had more stage time I'm certain the audience wouldn't have thinned so quickly. We were in level 11, toward the back, and people were leaving back to front. After Jack Wood performed his alternate sound a few people left during or right after. I believe there was some disappointment in frequency of Jackie's performance. A person and her family said if it wasn't for Jackie's name on the playbill half or less than half the audience would not have purchased tickets.
My wife and I enjoyed the concert but we didn't enjoy the lingering and persistent talkfest. It's for a great cause, I agree, and I support the arts. But a MC who isn't and using Jackie in such a limited capacity, they short changed their cause. They could have created a better themed drive with less MC and more Jackie.
We stayed to the finale and enjoyed varying talent and skills. We had a nice evening out and we didn't waste our time, but we also believe Jackie could have been the key note performer and better utilized.
I'm sure there were some legal constraints involved why Jackie didn't sing more, there always are in mixed performances like these, and might have limited her performances. Nonetheless more of Jackie would have made it much nicer and a better fund raising theme.
I appreciate art, all kinds of music, and I recognize talent and skill it takes to stand out from mediocre artists and this concert showed off unique skills and talent. Obviously some people don't recognize talent if they don't like the type of music or art. We are different and see art in different perspectives. That's life.
Here is a rule I live by, or try to, if I can't do it, then don't criticize those who can. I can't play a musical instrument and I'm not going to be critical of those who are leaning or doing. I didn't like all the musicians, but I honor them for their talent and skill.
This is my take on Salt Lake MuzArt concert. Wonderful and fun.
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 18:22:38 GMT
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 18:45:37 GMT
Sylvester on JEFC Here's the interview of Miss Stilson of TALKWORTHY byuradio and Jackie didn't make it...Pat Melfi is talking about Jackie as the muse of the concert @ 52:18...  |
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Post by kari on Nov 24, 2013 18:58:48 GMT
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Post by kari on Jul 1, 2014 21:35:13 GMT
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