Concert tonight!

Now that everyone has digested their Thanksgiving dinner, the musicians and guests of the NCO are focused on making tonight's Thanksgiving Celebration concert a grand feast of music. Rehearsals have been interesting to watch. The Steve Wonder songs, while not easy, blossomed quickly once the chorus, orchstra and soloists got together. The rehearsal performances felt confined in even the large practice room, so songs like As and Sir Duke should explode in the expansiveness of the Laura Turner Concert Hall. It's also been interesting watching the Overture for Strings by electric violinist and fellow ArtistShare artist Tracy Silverman come together. The first run throughs were, by everyone's admission, pretty rough. The piece is built on a structure of complex rhythms that are passed around among the strings. But now it's locked in, and it's an awesome piece. We've videotaped all the rehearsals so far. We'll be posting highlights of each to Uncovered so you can see how Paul and Tracy and the musicians struggled to master this beautiful, difficult work. Please join us tonight or tomorrow for what will be an inspiring and boundary-less nights of music.