Next Workshop:
February 10th, 11th and 12th - 7pm. Oldcastle Theatre, Bennington, Vermont.
MAESTRO EXPERIENCE: A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE
A three day seminar, two hours each session, which actually delivers the audience to new ways of hearing and experiencing music through the works of Beethoven, Mahler and Richard Strauss. This course is tailored to start you on a path to hear and listen at the "Maestro's" level; an introduction to connecting with symphonic music. Through the guidance of Thomas Lawrence Toscano, conductor/composer, participants will find themselves drawn into higher levels of listening, as barriers to the expressive energies inherent in this art form are revealed and subsequently dissolved. This unique process opens powerful connections transforming all into a new personal relationship with music.
The conductor is one of the most powerful and mysterious symbols of our society. How does it all work? Is it magic or is it simply waving one's arms? Why is the orchestra model continuously important to industrial organizational theories and techniques? These and many other questions will be answered in this course. It is a great seminar for students, casual and cultivated listeners, or anyone interested in changing their ability to listen to any style of music. As children we've all had magical moments listening to Fantasia, or listening to Beethoven's Fifth, or the music of Liszt and Brahms, while Bugs Bunny bounced through his Saturday morning adventures! Through this workshop you will reclaim your delight and enthusiasm for "classical"music (for lack of a better term). This three day event supports your development of techniques to foster an ever expanding relationship, both factual and aural with this great art form.
HISTORY: MAESTRO EXPERIENCE was created while I was living in Brazil in 1990. It grew out of an experience with a dear friend, Cristina Heydt, who informed me after a casual listening session that she had "never heard and experienced music that way before". After some time I formulated and idea and was eventually invited to present the opening presentation at the Gessy-Lever Lecture Series at a newly opened theater - São Paulo's - Teatro São Luis. There on Bose's top of the line sound system donated to this theater to introduce their product to South America, I started this workshop presenting it to an audience of 300+, packed with a very varied audience. The lectures were a great success and I have offered this workshop on 3 continents, N and S America and Europe, in 3 different languages.
PARTICIPANT COMMENTS: MAESTRO EXPERIENCE (formerly known as Jornadas Musicais). Below find more information about the course, as well as comments from 2 very special offerings: One in Hood River Oregon with a group of adults as part of that city's continuing education initiative and from the students at the wonderfully successful "Colegio San Giuseppe" in Catania, Sicily, the students were between the ages of 14-18. You will notice that I have given you the actual hand written comments. There is one reason, I want all interested parties to read the actual comments for themselves. Do be patient with the Sicilian teenagers - English is not their native tongue - their language skills although fragile at times, are quite direct and expressive, it's worth hearing what they have to say.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Monday, April 16, 2012
Maestro Experience in Liberty
There's a rumor that we will be offering a new round of the Maestro Experience- this summer in LIBERTY, NEW YORK!!!...more to follow!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Check back - summer posts to greater contact when listening!!!
For those of you interested, I will be posting this summer different ideas around listening and hearing. Of course, some of it will be ideas that could be heard during a Jornadas session, however, some of it will not. So there's something for everyone. Ci sentiamo :-). (Italian for - we'll be hearing each other - we'll be feeling each other) OF course, all you JM'ers know that it's an essential part of becoming one with the sound! Keep expanding your limits...Thomas
The Maestro Experience will be offered again this fall
Hi to you all, November's session was just fantastic - most of the people were from our audience from the Polish community and it was wonderful how we were all able to communicate in spite of some language barriers. I've been very busy with OperaOGGINY and other events in my life, but, I truly look forward to our fall production. Please write to info@operaogginy.com for information and to reserve your spot. Have a great summer. Keep listening! Thomas
Sunday, February 6, 2005
...I "saw" music for the first time and I really heard.
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| Thank you Thomas for bringing to life the music of Beethoven. With your gestures I "saw" music for the first time and I really heard. Ferdinando, 18 |
...and in this way music was inside of me.
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| A great atmosphere! The movements of your body and of your hands made me imagine the notes on the pentagram and in this way music was inside of me. |
...in that moment I felt only music in me.
Thomas was an unusual person, now we can’t easily find another one like him. He is similar to an old famous musician, for his charismatic face. His arms and his hands were perfect for music and in that moment I felt only music in me.
Agata, 16
...Now we can understand the symphonic music...
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| T.Toscano you are a man with a soul of a musician, a body of an actor, and the aspect of a genius. The intention of this meeting was really fantastic...Now we can understand the symphonic music but really now we can understand modern music, the music of the "radio" just because of this fantastic experience. Flavio , 16 |
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