So remember last year when I went to All-States? I said, "The highlight of the entire conference by far was the opportunity to see a good friend (and the chorus accompanist) conduct his own arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner with the chorus at Symphony Hall. The arrangement was absolutely fantastic, the students and the audience loved it, and the cheering squad of several Gordon students backstage was thrilled to be able to witness his accomplishment."
Well guess what?!? He conducted it again this year, and instead of being backstage, I made a point to sit in the audience in the best possible seat I could find and record it so y'all can witness the fantasticness of it as well.
Ladies and gentlemen, I predict that this man is going places. I mean, let's be honest. Not that many people get to conduct their own music in the most prestigious music hall in New England for an audience of...huge. Plus the students in the chorus created a Facebook group in his honor. Then we ran into a student at Uno's later in the day, and, after she acted like she'd just run into George Clooney, she asked him to autograph her program. I don't think you can get much sweeter than that in the field of classical music until you're Michael Tilson Thomas.
(P.S. If you really want to, you can watch it on Youtube too. Just so it's official.)
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