NEWS & REVIEWS
Lumedia Musicworks debuts ‘Welcome to the West’ online Nov. 20 - Dec. 14
Multimedia concert film “Welcome to the West” premieres online. Music includes sonatas, concertos, traditional fiddling, folk tunes and 1940s western swing, and the performance features contemporary and historic film footage and photographs from the Library of Congress.
Lumedia Applauds HBO for Using Live Classical Music in Activation
Having the force of sound from 30 live musicians wash over you, feeling the energy of the performers, absorbing the magic of the atmosphere that the music and scenery created, all would have been impossible to replicate digitally. I think the performance served to remind people that there really is no substitute for the live experience. David Jacobsen, the Associate Director and Head of Production (NYC) at Giant Spoon, the creative agency behind the project, said “We [the ensemble] were not only prepared, we were groundbreaking. Folks were speechless to see this level of composition and performance. As I often say, the bar is set at post-production trickery and auto-tune.”
Making the Video: "As with rosy steps" - G.F. Handel
Have you ever felt alone while searching for your passion and purpose - waiting to find the strength, some realization, or others to lean on? For many, the catalyst comes, but not without formidable challenges. Found in Handel’s oratorio Theodora, the aria “As with rosy steps the morn advancing,” presents the listener with that very sense of striving hopefulness out of night and darkness.
Arts and Culture Texas Magazine names Stephanie Raby a "Texas String Diva".
“Lumedia is the closest thing to what I have really wanted to do for a very long time.” Envisioning a marriage of 21st century technology to 18th century styles, Raby hopes to put early music in context for people. This spring, look for Lumedia’s collaboration with the North Texas Traditional Dance Society (we’re talking a Contra and English Country Dance party here), as well as its second video release and a captivating new concert (“Seeing Double”) to follow its wildly successful inaugural concert (“Wonder Woman”) last fall.
Women of Wonder: Lumedia Musicworks debuts with a concert of early works by women composers.
Lumedia Musicworks’ inaugural concert was immediately intriguing and mystifying at the same time. Lumedia’s next concert should be just as fascinating, and unusual, as this first one.