My retirement from the Dayton Philharmonic is two weeks away (last day is 6/30). My final Piano Bench Chat (#106) can be viewed at youtu.be/-V9JwcD5REc and future ones will post on my YouTube channel: YouTube.com/@nealgittleman2025 under the Neal’s Piano Bench Chats playlist.
17.06.2025 22:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Backstage minutes before Harry Potter 2 with the Dayton Phil. Now the magic starts!
10.05.2025 18:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my intermittent effort to prove just how boring it can be to watch a conductor study or practice, I've got a 90-second video of me practicing for the Dayton Phil's May 9 & 10 performances of "Harry Potter 2" in Concert. But the file's too big, so please check it out at youtu.be/T9JXTCIES-A
16.04.2025 01:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you love classical music), a great source for great listening is Dayton’s fabulous 24-7-365 classical radio station, DiscoverClassical.You can listen from anywhere DiscoverClassical.org And at 3pm EDT on Thurs March 19 I’ll be on the air helping them on their spring fund drive. Give a listen!
19.03.2025 09:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next shot was a gimme, I bet!
17.03.2025 00:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last night after the Dayton Phil concert of Joel Thompson’s amazing, beautiful, tragic, heartbreaking “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed” we had a post-concert panel with about 150 folks who stayed. The subject of music’s power came up, and Sam Dorf (to my left) said music can’t pass legislation…
17.03.2025 00:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
…Sierra Leone (to Sam’s left) replied that's exactly what music did in the Civil Rights Era. And I immediately thought, “What if, during the Orange One’s address to Congress, the Dems didn’t shout or hold up signs, but started to sing? We Shall Overcome, The Battle Hymn of the Republic?” If only!
17.03.2025 00:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great Beatles show by the DPO tonight. Got to watch it from the front row! Is there a howtospendyournightofff hashtag?!?
09.03.2025 04:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03 minutes to “Cinderella” dress rehearsal #1!
13.02.2025 00:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Foretold (after a fashion) in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”
12.02.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prepping to DJ today’s Dayton Ballet “Cinderella” tech rehearsal. Try zooming in on the framed portrait on the mantel…
12.02.2025 18:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Cinderella” is loading in!
10.02.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still learning. Created a cool <1 minute video of Dayton Ballet Artistic Director Brandon Ragland finishing the choreography on his new version of “Cinderella”. But it ALSO has to be <50MB. So read about it here, and see it HERE: youtu.be/BS2IAHPBfj8
06.02.2025 21:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still learning the ins and outs of Bluesky vs.[you-know-what]. Was just about to post my latest Piano Bench Chat, about prepping to conduct Prokofiev's "Cinderella" Ballet with Dayton Ballet and the Dayton Philharmonic. But it's > 1 minute, so please check it out at youtu.be/YOI-GM77MMY !
27.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
First bluesky post. I’ll be ditching FB tomorrow morning and giving this a try… Stay tuned…
19.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
