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On the 14th we had a Valentine's Day concert — romantic music from 100 years of Hollywood.

We started work yesterday on a Valentine concert of classic movie love themes. Most of the great romantic classics of course were long before these kids were even born. Thought you might enjoy these snippets

This is what I wrote in the program book … SIX MILLION AND ONE Helena Citrónová is an opera. That is to say, it is a performance in which we accept the crazy notion that people walk around on a stage singing

Two weeks after I directed "Jesus Christ Superstar" I had a completely different event - I conducted the kids in Mahler's 4th Symphony. Hope you enjoy this!

A rough cut of a performance of the production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" I directed a couple of weeks ago.

Another week in the life.

So proud of the way our kids just played the bejesus out of this — the most intense and searing of all the Mahler symphonies.…

Last night our kids played the fiendishly difficult 6th Symphony by Mahler ... here's a bit of it Somtow

This is my brilliant student Trisdee's first time conducting Brahms - quite an exciting reading!

This is the rough cut from last week's "Madama Butterfly" which I was in the extraordinary position of having to conduct, direct, and design at the same time.

To fill out our "Harry Potter" evening we reached back to another student of magic, Mickey Mouse, and added Dukas' brilliant tone poem to the mix.

Following the success of our Star Wars concert earlier this year, we decided to try a "Harry Potter" concert — which completely sold out the theater! I'll be posting a few snippets here and there....

Okay guys - this is our entire 2-hour marathon performance of music from all nine Star Wars movies.

This was the opening of our three hour marathon Star Wars concert last week!

Another snippet from last night's STAR WARS concert

Lots of cool video to post from our 2.5-hour orgy of music from all the nine STAR WARS movies.

Last night, we did a concert of music from ALL NINE of the released Star Wars films so far... A wild night (and a LONG one too). I will be posting some excerpts....

On March 15 I'm putting on a concert consisting of music from all nine Star Wars movies released so far. Today was the first real rehearsal. Here are a few snippets.

I've created a 17 minute video that tells the history of Siam Sinfonietta, the youth orchestra I founded in 2010. Now in our eighth season and getting ready for a wild ride...

Siam Sinfonietta is planning an epic concert in a couple of months of music from all nine of the movies released so far in the STAR WARS universe. This is the kids sight-reading their way through some