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CMA

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No, not the Country Music Awards.  (Last I checked, they don’t have a category for flute & marimba.)

Chamber Music America is the industry organization for small ensembles, and the big news is that Lawler & Fadoul have been selected to do a showcase performance at their annual conference in January!

The Conference takes place in New York City, and is 4 days of showcases, concerts, panel discussions, exhibits and networking.

This will be our first showcase at CMA.  We will be playing some of our old favorites (Ravel’s Habanera, Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea, and a tango by Piazzolla) as well as two of our new transcriptions (Bach’s G Major Prelude & Fugue from WTC 1 and Shostakovich’ A Major Prelude & Fugue).  You can hear a preview of the action on our audio page.

Keep an eye out here and on our schedule page for practice showcase performances—we’d love to play our pieces for you.  (In fact, if you’d be interested in hosting an informal house concert, let us know!)

Welcome to our new site!

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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the new internet home of Lawler & Fadoul.  Please check out our audio and video clips, the programs we offer, our outreach page, and our schedule of upcoming events by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page.

This is also the new home of our old blog, Kissyboots Rising.  All of our old entries are below, and we will adding new ones all the time.

Stay tuned for more about our Yellow Barn Residency, our NSO In-School shows that begin in mid-November, and more, more, more.

Yellow Barn Residency, Day 3: Can Phones

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Day 3 of our Yellow Barn residency:

We’ve been experimenting with can phones as a way of expediting communication between pods, and as a diversion from the 10 hours a day of rehearsal. Check out the video, which includes a cameo by our coach and colleague, the awesome Christina Dahl, and features our recording of Ravel’s Habanera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kO8XjOeKk?fs=1

And, if you’re in the area, come to our concert! Christina is playing too.
Monday, October 11
7pm
United Church of Putney
15 Kimball Road
Putney, VT
$12

This Flamarimba Duo brought to you by Megabus

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Here’s a picture of me, writing this entry on the Megabus (I LOVE Megabus), on my way to DC tonight.


PJ and I are meeting with the awesome Gary Race tomorrow, to start working on a program that will eventually become an in-school performance workshop for elementary schools, under the auspices of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO).

We know Gary through Tales & Scales (how we know each other, btw). Gary directed several Tales & Scales shows, including The Arabian Nights, The Odyssey, The Little Dragon, and for those of you old enough to remember it, The Enchanted Horn. He also is a consultant for the NSO, and helps prepare all of their outreach performances. Oh, and he’s also an opera director and vocal coach. He’s amazing at what he does, so we’re very excited to get to work with him again in this new context.

We know the NSO, or rather, they know us, because PJ was one of the stars of the DC youth orchestra scene, and won, in both 1996 and 1998, their Young Artist Concerto Competition (high school and college divisions, baby).

Our program is going to focus on dance in music, including a tango, a waltz, two menuets, and Soulja Boy Tell’em’s Crank That. The idea being that, in their times and places, the menuet, waltz and tango were as popular as Soulja Boy.

Of course, by the time our shows happen (fall semester of 09-10), Soulja Boy will be so 2007 that we might have to come up with another idea.
I thought maybe that first photo was too serious.

Flute & Marimba Camp Part 3: Demo Session

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Well, the day seemed like it was starting under a cloud of mishaps, when, armed with two GPS devices, a map and downloaded directions, we still got lost on the way to American University.

We finally ended up at AU’s Katzen Arts Center (“you can’t miss it—it’s got all these pink and purple and green sculptures out front”), where we were recording our demo as part of Mike Harvey’s Advanced Studio Techniques Class.

First shout out goes to Mike for inviting us to work with his class, and thereby giving us the opportunity to record in the very very nice AU Katzen Recital Hall. (woot woot!)

Second shout out goes to the boyz in the class (there weren’t any grrlz), Drew, Rob, Matt, and the others that were really helpful but we’re divas and forgot their names. They bent over backwards making the experience victorious. We won! They were so thoughtful about every detail from the mic placement to the note-taking. We can’t wait to hear the finished product.

What we recorded, all in two hours actual recording time:
Ravel: Piece en form de Habanera
Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango (Bordel 1900)
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea (The Night)

Now all we need is a name for our duo. Oh, yeah, and some gigs. Please help us and send suggestions! (And/or hire us for some gigs).