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Summer 2009 Hello visitors, I’m so bad about updating—it’s been months—but here’s the latest! In May I began a six-month stint as associate conductor at In The Heights on Broadway. It’s such a pleasure and an honor to be involved with this wonderful musical. The score and the orchestration are unequivocally brilliant—and challenging!—and everyone involved in the production is so welcoming and supportive. Ongoing is work on the new Nilo Cruz-Frank Wildhorn-Jack Murphy musical, Havana, directed by Sergio Trujillo. We did a reading in April, and there’s another coming up in July. A great creative team, a smokin’ band, and the cherry on top is the opportunity to collaborate on the arrangements with the great Oscar Hernandez (http://www.oscarhernandezmusic.com). I’m also writing some arrangements for a new show that just opened at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia called “The Rock Tenor.” (http://therocktenor.com) My wonderfully talented partner, Susan Aquila, will be jammin’ in the show on her violin and Viper. Keep an eye out for the project as it evolves… and see the Philadelphia Inquirer review at http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/50959617.html More news of my family—my daughter Susie is spending July at UC Berkeley at a pre-college program there, and my sister Amanda is launching her new line of board shorts based on designs from her paintings—check them out at her Mandy Pants page on Facebook. Hoping everyone has a wonderful summer—it goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Look for some music updates on the site coming soon! Cheers, Joe |
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