by Dave Brumbaugh | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Captain Fantastic: Walking Thru Again This weekend we broke from the usual system of rehearsal, deciding to attack our two scheduled work sessions as walk thru’s again. The usual system would have found us doing full rehearsals, performing the entire show each...
by Dave Brumbaugh | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Captain Fantastic: Walk Thru #2 What a difference a day can make. The Saturday walk through of the Billy Joel set was a continuation of the mostly great rehearsals SPG1 had for the Aerosmith show. Sunday however was a struggle. The difference was like night and day....
by Dave Brumbaugh | Nov 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Walk This Way: Just Another Saturday Just another Saturday at the Uptown Music Collective…. This time of year there’s always a lot going on at the Uptown Music Collective as Special Performance Group 1 activities collide with lessons, classes, and...
by Dave Brumbaugh | May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Special Performance Group 2 is a select student group that functions as the training and proving ground for students who have worked hard enough and demonstrated enough skill to be considered ready to take part in the schools top group, Special Performance Group 1....
by Dave Brumbaugh | May 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Nothing improves your playing faster than “playing out” (the musicians term for performing) regularly. That’s what the Development Level of the Uptown Music Collective Performance Program is all about. Over the past 15 years we have received an increasing number of...