Warning: Mixing Percussion and Real Estate Can Be Dangerous

Rhythm is everywhere.  Even in the bathroom.  If you don’t believe it, just check out this piece. Composed by Ola Simonsson, it has a pretty self-explanatory title: Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers.        While there are hundreds of thousands of great performances captured on tape, the music videos featured on TSM blog...

Bohemian Brass

Mnozil Brass is a brass septet from Vienna, Austria.  But they are so much more.  The group sings, moves, plays secondary instruments, and does it all from memory.  And they’re crazy (in the best sense of the term!) If you haven’t seen them before, you’re in for a treat! The video below their version of Bohemian Rhapsody....

Freak Cello Concerto

This wonderfully clever  video features a young teenager, Shermann Frikeando, “bow-syncing” the final movement of the Gulda Cello Concerto…No idea how they filmed this, but its hilarious.     While there are hundreds of thousands of great performances captured on tape, the music videos featured on TSM blog feature musical...

Not Your Grandmother’s Mozart!

While there are few violinists as gifted as Gilles Apap, even fewer (perhaps zero) would have the imagination to transform Mozart as he does in the video below.  His cadenza incorporates Indian ragas, Eastern European dances, folk music, Irish fiddling, Prokofiev, the blues, whistling, singing, and more. Gilles Apap is a featured artist in The...

It Takes Two to Libertango

GREG ANDERSON and ELIZABETH JOY ROE have been described as “Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the keyboard” (The Southampton Press). Together they bring a fresh and visionary approach to the concert stage, dazzling audiences with their adrenalized performances, inventive programming, original...