The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra is doing its first out-of-town performance, playing their new score to Battleship Potemkin (1925), at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. No pressure! The 10-piece orchestra and five composer/conductors are joined by their professor and fellow Potemkin composer, Sheldon Mirowitz, a crack film projection team from the American [...]
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The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra plays new score to Battleship Potemkin (1925)
March 9, 2012 – 11:53 am
BGJIQ at The Toronto Jazz Fest – Day 2.
July 12, 2011 – 8:00 am
Joe Manzoli and I were up early this morning for a radio interview on the premier jazz station in Toronto, Jazz.FM91. Joe went on the air with a tenor saxophonist he studied with while in Canada, Kirk MacDonald. They talked about the youth jazz program here in Toronto, its collaboration with Berklee the previous day, [...]
BGJIQ at The Toronto Jazz Fest
July 11, 2011 – 10:24 am
Toronto, Canada. Home to seven major league sports, the CN tower, a zoo, film festivals, and the Toronto Jazz Festival. My name is Michael Borgida, and I am here road managing the Berklee Globe Jazz Institute Quartet (BGJIQ) featuring Joe Manzoli on guitar, Caili O’Doherty on piano, Shin Sakaino on bass and Isaac Haselkorn on [...]
Way Out West – The Hailey Niswanger Quartet on Tour (#5)
July 2, 2011 – 10:00 am
And now … Hawaii Berklee is a truly entrepreneurial place. A school that started in 1945, in Lawrence Berk’s teaching studio, with a big idea and a lot of heart, has somehow hung onto the notion that if you can extend yourself to bring music to the people, and do some good in the process, [...]
Way Out West – The Hailey Niswanger Quartet on Tour (#4)
June 24, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Having successfully re-entered the land of the Red, White and Blue – there was a bad moment at U.S. Customs with an officer who seemed to be making things hard for our pianist Takeshi, who is Japanese – we smoothly rolled for five hours through Washington’s gorgeous Olympic Peninsula, enroute to Hailey’s hometown, Portland, Oregon.