St. Lucia’s Day – Losing my sight, gaining great vision     Back around Christmas time of 2003 I lost part of my vision to a rare form of macular degeneration called “Best’s Disease”. Overnight I went from being a normal sighted person to a person who could no longer drive. It needless to say, […]

Chroma choreographed by Wayne McGregor premier by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Truly Amazing!!! A brief preface before my review… (skip if you wish 🙂 -Back in high school I attended a dance concert of Garth Fagan. I loved it. The experience caused me to want to create my own concert with music and dance […]

Colin O’Donohoe Artistic Director for www.pangeanorchestra.com Personal site: www.donohoemusic.com     What is my sound??   For the length of my career as a musician I’ve always had projects and interests in various styles of music. I enjoy classical music and have written for some amazingly talented cellists. I love conducting and leading Pangean Orchestra […]

For all fans of Pangean, I’ve place the interview here. I wasn’t able to find a “notes” section on facebook. BTW – you really should follow Pangean Orchestra on facebook to stay current on all things Pangean:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pangean-Orchestra/178897032533 – – So, here’s the interview with our amazing guest artist. Special guest Jacob Adler will direct […]

Project 196 I’m currently working on Pangean Orchestra’s first CD alongside master producer Kevin Essar. After an amazing recording session last friday I found myself pondering a question…. “How hard would it be to get a recording from every country in the world?” The Pangean Orchestra in addition to performing live aspires to license music […]

I love the new year. It is a great time to reflect on a years worth of work, self evaluate, and plan ahead. I also try to stop a couple of times a year and do this. If you think about businesses they break the year down by quarter and I think this is great […]

Finishing Strong I’m always happy in January to look at the past year and look ahead to the next to plan big things. However, I also feel that you do not want to give up on a year ever. So, I have been looking at the last two weeks like the last leg of a […]

Write what you’re afraid to write – As a composer it is hard to write things that mean too much or are from too deep a place. It is scary because you know the entire time you write it that it will be heard. It will be heard by someone, a friend, teacher, former teacher, […]

Looking for Words…. The Pangean Orchestra put on an incredible concert last night at Doc’s Place in Phoenix. It was a great time and the audience was so wonderful. We performed in a restaurant which would typically be loud with conversations from several people. This night was so different as the guests were all quiet […]

I’m not sure how my wife and I got started in our Thanksgiving tradition but I’m very happy that we did. Ever since I can remember (I’m old and the memory is the 2nd thing to go, I can’t remember what the 1st is) we have invited in friends who were either; recent immigrants and […]