Toca Loca put together a promo video for Halo Ballet, based on some entertaining rehearsal footage. If you’re still not sure what a ballet set in the Halo video game environment would look like, this video will enlighten you. Toca Loca is using the promo to pitch the concept to festivals and the like.

Greg Oh and friends premièred Halo Ballet in Toronto on the X AVANT festival in Oct 2010, but the video recording of the piece mysteriously disappeared. Now it’s been found, posted below.

This is a reprint of the first edition of my e-mail newsletter.

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Contents

• Upcoming Concert: Halo Ballet Première – 24 Oct 2010 – Toronto
• Upcoming Concert: Hockey Story – 20 Jan 2011 – San Diego
• Oksana G. Opera Development Workshop
• Results of Experiment: Can I Avoid Choosing the Music I Listen to?
• Help Me Help You: Collaborative Audience Building

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I’m quite happy to announce that I won another SOCAN Award this year, my fifth so far (press release). I was awarded first prize in the vocal cat­e­gory for Sen­sa­tional Rev­o­lu­tion in Med­i­cine, a piece for soprano and speak­ing pianist, premièred by Xin Wang and Gre­gory Oh at the SHIFT Fes­ti­val in Toronto this year. For those not famil­iar, the SOCAN Awards is the major Cana­dian com­pe­ti­tion for com­posers under 30, and I’ve been for­tu­nate to have received sev­eral awards, begin­ning in 2004. Radio-Canada’s Michel Char­ron also inter­viewed me about the prize this year.