tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post6306495193490054804..comments2024-02-29T09:38:39.945-05:00Comments on deadthinking: Jerry Garcia + symphony orchestraUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-71738694443064415202022-12-22T00:00:52.318-05:002022-12-22T00:00:52.318-05:00The conductor of the Redwood Symphony orchestra Ga...The conductor of the Redwood Symphony orchestra Garcia mentions is Eric Kujovski (sp) he was also a music teacher at James Lick high-school at the time referenced. I was a student in one of his classes at the time. There were definitely rehearsals and I thought there was a performance at the Redwood city orchestra though I may be incorrect. Jerry may have died before it happen. I believe Eric is still the conductor of the RWC orchestra to this day. Maybe someone can reach out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-6733237345709735882015-08-01T01:32:01.114-04:002015-08-01T01:32:01.114-04:00For Garcia, the idea actually went back 20 years e...For Garcia, the idea actually went back 20 years earlier. <br /><br />Bob Weir told Cameron Crowe in the June 1973 issue of Rock magazine: <br />"Garcia and me talked a while back about it being nice if we could get an ensemble together, maybe a string section and a brass section, and rehearse them to do a tour. A big production tour... I think it would be a pretty nice show if we had a huge string ensemble, or maybe not huge, but essentially a 25-piece orchestra. It'd be fun. I personally would like to hear something in the direction of Philharmonic rock 'n' roll." <br /><br />Of course, the Dead HAD actually played with a symphony orchestra in Buffalo in 1970. Unfortunately they never commented on it....but Weir at least got the chance to try again in more recent years, playing Dead tunes with the Marin Symphony Orchestra back in 2011.<br /><br />And the whole idea of touring with a "brass section"? By September '73, that had been winnowed down to two horns....Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-86451567012515099102015-07-31T00:21:24.167-04:002015-07-31T00:21:24.167-04:00I've really got to start checking the books on...I've really got to start checking the books on my shelf. Thanks, LIA!Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628132999021385676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-50280557568812200022015-07-29T05:10:32.963-04:002015-07-29T05:10:32.963-04:00Garcia said in his October '91 Rolling Stone i...Garcia said in his October '91 Rolling Stone interview: <br />"Heather, my oldest daughter from my first marriage, is now a concert violinist. And that's with no input from me. Her mom, Sara Katz, tells me that she never particularly encouraged it, either. I actually got together with Heather for the first time in a long, long time - I hadn't seen her in like eighteen or nineteen years - and I took her to see my friend David Grisman and Stephane Grappelli, and she loved it. So I hope it's the beginning of something."<br /><br />The September '93 Rolling Stone interview also briefly mentions, "For a collaboration with the Redwood Symphony, with which his eldest daughter plays violin, Garcia is commissioning works for orchestra and guitar."<br /><br />Blair Jackson's bio has more on the story of Jerry's reunion with Heather. Sara recalled, "He was so proud that Heather was a musician, and they talked about music together, about how he would take her to the Smithsonian to play those Stradivarius fiddles, and about composers they both loved." <br />Jackson continues: "Later that year, Jerry and the conductor of the Redwood, Eric Kujawsky, hatched a plan for Garcia to commission several short works for guitar and orchestra, which he would perform with the Redwood. With great glee he told Sara, 'I let him think I was doing a favor, but I've always wanted an orchestra!' <br />Heather would be the musical liason between the composers and the orchestra, and would help her father learn the music. Although Jerry did contact some composers and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco was tentatively booked for the performance, this was one of the great plans that Garcia never managed to complete." (Jackson p.402-403)<br /><br />Heather did play in the string section on 'Shenandoah Lullaby.'Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189740927119210874.post-32612080279547420722015-07-28T02:43:26.410-04:002015-07-28T02:43:26.410-04:00I hadn't really caught that, but I figure it i...I hadn't really caught that, but I figure it is related to his daughter's thing in Redwood City. Not sure, at all.Fate Musichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com