Mahler on iTunes and YouTube

Added some +Gustav Mahler footage to YouTube and to my podcast:



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Jordan Smith Conducts Mahler 2

Now, with 100% more Mahler.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Rehearsal for Mahler 2 have begun. I shared a few thoughts the night before last:

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I wrote that:

I have only two items on my musical Bucket List. This is out of practicality: there is far more great music than I can get to in 5 lifetimes. Also out of balance: my 2 works will take a lot of effort to get crossed off my list, so I have to prioritize to get there. 

One of them is the Bach Mass in B Minor. The other is Mahler 8. Tomorrow marks the next important step towards that second item. While it will be my second time to conduct some music by Mahler, and my second time performing Mahler 2 in some capacity, and although I've played several of his symphonies, it will be my first time to conduct Mahler with full orchestration. While it does not put me close to managing such a large structure as Symphony No. 8, it is a very important step along that path.

Rehearsal went extremely well the following day:

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Here is a brief sample from rehearsal:

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Lastly, Mahler 2 in 6 seconds or less:

 A mustachioed young Mahler without his glasses

Fresh Sounds

I've added some new content and some old content is now blog-able.

Some of the best recorded music I've been a part of is now embed-able at MySpace:

                   Madonna from Jordan Randall smith on Myspace.

They have also added a new portfolio feature, which I have elected to capitalize upon. Here's a peak:

In other news, I posted a quick clip to sound cloud, the first recorded evidence of the work I've been doing to get back in shape as a Marimba player:

Hard to believe it's been 9 years since the last time I gave a public performance of this!

And these two are just for fun:

A little Stravinsky:

And a little Brahms:

Updates

Updates to my CV.

This particular version collates and highlights opera/choral/vocal conducting/performance/pedagogy. Enjoy:

Jordan Smith - CV

More bio and CV materials are also available from my website, http://www.jordanrsmith.com/bio.

Opera Roundup

This week has been filled with opera related matters, including a fun little project comparing multiple performances of the same recitative passage. I covered "Tutto è disposto" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. 

My results:

Recitative Comparison

You can compare the three examples yourself with this playlist that I created. Help me out: what differences did I leave out? Check the score using this link.

I took some good notes in class, some of which will be unintelligible, and some which will be perfectly clear.

And of course, my scores came in:

And I've since been hard at work compiling this into a usable chart....

Mahleriana

 A mini-roundup of some recent Gustav Mahler posts:

The young Gustav Mahler

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Ressurection, with Jordan Smith and Nikita Borisevich