Lighting and Video Change

Feng and I (Yoshi) talked with Pr. Charles Scott and Susan Brandt today. And we discussed about the project further. And some big changes on our plan were made on the following subjects.

- Lighting & Scenery

• Pr. Charles Scott will design both lighting and scenery aspects of the show. So Marc Beron, the original lighting designer, will assist Pr. Scott as lighting designer assistant. Also Gregory Romano will work as assistant of scenery designer.

- Video

• we decided not to project with screen on stage because of conflicting between video illuminance and lighting.

• We will set a projection screen next to theatre entrance and showing relative information with slide-show so that anyone walking by can know what's going in the theatre.

*Dear all designers, if you think that I missed some important updates, please try to revise or post another entry.

Best,

Yoshi

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Thanks,

Yoshi

Scenery Change

Hi Guys,

Today, at the first production meeting, we made some big updates on some technical fields. Please check the following and take a note for your reference. These are very important.

- Scenery -

• We decided to cut platform and flats out of our original stage design. It is because of budget and production time limit.

• Instead of platform, a carpet will be lain underneath the piano for noise absorption and decoration of the stage.

• Drapery will be hung on both sides of the stage. This is also to reduce extra ambient noise in the theatre so that the acoustic sounds like hermetically-closed.

- Video -

• We will document our production time and Myles will be responsible for this part.

• We will negotiate with professors if we can broadcast artists on the screen again and also propose projecting slide show on the same screen for more interaction.

• Two live video cameras for broadcasting real-time and some cam-corders (3~4) for documenting the concert will be used.

- Merchandise -

• The artist can sell CDs on the suite.

Happy New Year

Happy new year, everybody!

I hope that everyone had a good start in the new year. Well, my start was not good since my computer shut down, so I had to bring it Apple store for repair. I have waited about 2 weeks for the repair and meanwhile I was not able to update our project because the lap-top had all of our production information. Definitely, this time I learned how important the concept of back-up in technology world is.

But finally I received my Macbook Pro back, so I will update many soon.

By the way the performance date is determined. It is April 23rd. The production week will start around April 5th, so we will have about 3 weeks to finish this entire project up.

Best,

Yoshi (Yoshihito Takahashi)

Artist - Evgeny Lebedev

"Billboard award winner and laureate of numerous jazz contests, Evgeny Lebedev quickly established himself as one of the most promising young pianists in today’s jazz scene. For such a small career Evgeny already performed and recorded with luminaries like Jack De Johnette, Marcus Miller, Terri Lyne Carrington, David Sanchez, David Fiuczynski and participated in prestigious festivals, including North Sea Jazz Festival, Lionel Hamplton Jazz Festival, Tanglewood Jazz Festival and more. Evgeny appears on more than 10 CD’s and released two albums under his own name, that were highly marked by critics in Japan, USA and Russia. " - cited from http://www.elebedev.com

It is happy to inform that Mr. Evgeny Lebedev is performing for the production. And also we would like to thank all of those who sent us entry messages.