THE PME BLOG

“We are here to play! Just have a good time!”
- Bobby McFerrin, just before the 4/10/10 show at the Masonic Auditorium

And with that, we were off!
The Bobby McFerrin “ride” was amazing, frustrating, rewarding, scary, thrilling, and worth every moment of at-home practice, sectionals, rehearsals and hand-wringing! Talk about a learning experience! I’m still glowing from [...]

Bobby McFerrin?  We’re going to sing with Bobby McFerrin?  It was thrilling to hear this news a few months back and now we are less a week away from the concert which will be Saturday, April 10, 8:00 pm at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, part of the SFJazz series (Bobby McFerrin [...]

It was so worth it! Pacific Mozart Ensemble should feel proud and humble. Yesterday we accomplished a very rewarding and equally challenging concert program. It was the final concert of “The Little Match Girl”. I took today off because I am so exhausted. Granted, I have extenuating circumstances that made my weekend even more tiring, [...]

So here PME goes with another crazy project. This time our partner in crime is our old friend Dave Brubeck. We’ve been working on some of his new works now for a few years. It all started in 2006 as a part of our 25th Anniversary Gala Concert. Dave (he lets us call him [...]

Well, to say that the past two weeks have provided a whirlwind activity for PME is an indeed an understatement! This past weekend, we accompanied the Meredith Monk Ensemble (MME) in moving Songs of Ascension from its world premiere on the stage of Stanford Memorial Theater to Ann Hamilton’s beautiful artwork called The Tower [...]