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“We bill these as not just a concert but as a community event. It’s a family affair,” explained Dr. Michael Albaugh, the Orchestra’s director of education and community initiatives. “We want to make these events accessible and enjoyable, and strengthen the Orchestra’s ties to the city it calls home.”
— Philadelphia Orchestra
"That was our biggest fear," said Mike Albaugh, the Philadelphia Orchestra's director of collaborative learning. "When I first suggested this idea, we wondered, 'Well, what's it going to sound like?' So we took a walk through and David, our sound guy, was like, 'I think we can make it work.' Basically, I haven't slept since that day, but it sure sounds great.”
— Philadelphia Eagles
“It is a tremendous honor for The Philadelphia Orchestra to provide the soundtrack that closes out an incredible day of community service that so perfectly embodies the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” said Philadelphia Orchestra Director of Collaborative Learning Dr. Michael Albaugh.
— Philadelphia Sunday
Sometimes a dream begins with a teach who believes and someone who pushes you to the next plateau.
For students at Jazz at Lincoln Center Summer Jazz Academy, Wynton Marsalis is the greatest act of optimism.
— FOX 5 News
"We are extremely excited to bring Jazz at Lincoln Center’s award-winning WeBop program to the Harlem School of the Arts,” said Dr. Michael Albaugh, Director of Education Operations at Jazz at Lincoln Center. “Harlem School of the Arts is a tremendous organization with a shared cultural belief of the importance of arts and education for the community.”
— Jazz at Lincoln Center
"We’re incredibly excited to celebrate our 3rd Annual Summer Jazz Academy at Bard College,” said Dr. Michael Albaugh, Summer Jazz Academy Program Director and Director of Operations, Education, at Jazz at Lincoln Center. “This year, we welcome 44 amazingly talented high school students who will spend two weeks in this jazz-centric environment working with the most dedicated and committed faculty anywhere. Through improvisation we will teach personal confidence, through swing we will teach good manners and team work, through the blues we will encourage emotional depth and determined optimism."
— Jazz at Lincoln Center
“Guitar Hero doesn’t let you control musical elements like tempo or pitch, making it a fundamentally different, reactive process that is a long way from the creative expression involved when playing in front of a real audience,” Mr. Albaugh said. He should know: he plays Guitar Hero with his niece and is also a real rock guitarist.”
— NY Times
One of the few people who have assessed both products is Mike Albaugh, director of music at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. ''Freehand has purchased the rights to a lot of works within the general archives of music, and with us, it's about the standard works,'' Mr. Albaugh said.
— NY Times
Hudson Lanier plays the guitar. Laura McIntyre’s instrument is the bassoon. Together, as Duo Brucoco, they are expanding the repertoire of two instruments that are seldom paired but make what has been described as “a perfect sonic marriage.”