Keeping Score

[Dave Monroe]

Keeping Score [Macromedia Flash Player] 
http://www.keepingscore.org/ 

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has embarked on a
number of intriguing and worthy projects during his
career, including a series of ambitious recordings
with the San Francisco Symphony and a number of
well-received concerts with the late Sarah Vaughan in
the 1980s. Most recently, he has teamed up with PBS
(and his colleagues in the San Francisco Symphony) to
create the "Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music"
television series. Visitors to this site can explore
the very fine multimedia presentations that are meant
to accompany and enhance the entire educational and
aesthetic experience of the television programs.
Currently, there are multimedia profiles of
Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", Beethoven's "Eroica"
Symphony and the development of Copland's approach to
creating an "American" sound. Each site features a
brief introduction by Thomas, and then visitors are
invited into the score to follow along as the piece
progresses. In the top left-hand corner of the score,
visitors can watch Thomas as he conducts. Overall, the
experience of this website is stimulating and
edifying, without being visually (or aurally)
overwhelming.

E.g., ...

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
November 9, 2006 at 10pm on PBS

http://www.keepingscore.org/preview3.html

The Scout Report

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2006/scout-060818.html

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/


 
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