Thom Dowd -performing Live for the Slang Life audience
On saturday 26.01.2008 we had a fantastic live concert of Thom Dowd, playing a repertoire of renaissance dance music. Our Library got crowded long before Thom started to play and while he was playing, new avatars kept coming. It was a great experience both from the musical and educational point of view. I was quite surprized that so many avatars are actively interested in classical music. We plan to organize this kind of concerts in the Library more often, In fact every saturday from now on, one would be able to join us in the Library Classics Live Music Meetings.
Thom Dowd (alias Thomas Coard) was born in Michigan U.S.A. and has been living Switzerland since 1978. He teaches recorder at the Conservatory of Fribourg. Thom studied early music and recorder at Oakland University in Michigan with Lyle Nordstrom before going on to the Musik Akadamie in Basel Switzerland where he studied with Michael Piguet.
After 27 years of teaching Thom started recording renaissance multi-voice music with a computer. This opened the door to new inspiration and the possibility to perform the music that he really loves to a world wide audience. Second Life and the virtual world have created a new way to conceive and to present the music of the renaissance and baroque. The great composers of that age of light shall be reborn in the virtual world where the need for their purity of sound and spirit are greater than at anytime since 1400.
aHead CEO and SlangLife Island Supervisor- Cezary Fish
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