Young Zeid, violin/Viola Music Island, Sea Turtle Island March 28, 2010 12: 30 pm SLT (Pacific Daylight Time) Program: Bee F. Schubert ( 1808-1878) From a set of bagatelles, published in 1856 by the German composer and violinist Franz Anton Schubert. (not to be confused with the earlier and…
On Thursday we had a full house when Linden Labs deleted the stage side of Music Island. Previously the start time had been delayed 10 minutes when the audience half of the venue was re-started and everyone who had arrived at the top of the concert ran over the sim line and onto the…
Thom Coard of the Fribourg Conservatory in Switzerland manages to show off the skills of his recorder students to an international audience on a regular basis and all for the price of a good web cam and some broadcasting software. I know that the students and student families appreciate the extraordinary opportunity he is…
The Duo began playing one concerto from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", at the peak of each season during 2009, starting with "Winter" on New Years Day 2009. Now as the year draws to a close, suspense has grown throughout all of SL... we will finally be able to hear the full work. What a…
Multimedia Experience "Storm in a Teacup" with Christine Montgomery and R0bin Helsinki bids adieu to the Music Island audience with one last opportunity to experience the work with the composer and photographer as guides. First launched in June, several hundred avatars cycled through the journey and many more have viewed the video online. …
Someone asked me what concert I was most looking forward to this fall recently. It was a hard question as each concert brings something that is uniquely special to it: a new performer, a much-loved selection, a novel use of SL, educational value, etc. However, from a personal point of view, I…
This week a relatively new SL'er asked me what time a concert was in her time zone crediting with me with mental telepathy as I had no idea where she was in RL and also more math ability than I have to be able to convert from Second Life time to any time zone on…
THURSDAY NOV. 19 @ 4:30 PM Original jazz compositions Electric violin & flute @ Virtually Speaking Astronimus began his career as a musician when he was a child, singing in choir and playing the violin. Soon after this, he picked up the guitar and began songwriting and composing. He began playing…
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Innovation%20Infoisland/190/129/23 DEDICATION: "In Memory of Italian Soldiers fallen for Peace in international missions - and to the families that mourn them"PROGRAM: selections from: Scarlatti * Rossini* Clementi Brief bio: (Alessandro Marangoni) A graduate of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and the Università di Pavia, Benito has also done advanced studies at the famous Almo…
Music Island audiences have been hearing one of the Four Seasons throughout 2009, beginning with Winter on New Year's Day played by Izabela Jaworower, the other half of Duo Appassionato. Young and Iza have delighted us each season with another one of the four concertos that make up the famous Four Seasons suite by…
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 4: 30 PM SLT at Virtually Speaking (with special guest interview to follow) THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 6:00 PM SLT at Amadora Concert Hall SATURDAY OCTOBER 24, 12:00 PM SLT at Music Island Three fabulous and different opportunities to hear the great Schumann Duo this week. Veteran performers, the Schumann…
Saturday Oct. 17 @ 1 pm on Music Island, Sea Turtle Island Music Island Artist-in-Residence, AldoManutio Abruzzo takes the stage this Saturday with some Fall Reflections in different shades and hues of natural splendor. Describing himself as a "recovering lutenist", Aldo has travelled centuries of music in his lifetime, incorporating the sounds of…
