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Farmingdale, NY, United States, 04/29/2009 - For the third consecutive year, Boca Raton, Florida’s Festival of the Arts presented a musical menu of the finest in classical music, jazz and literature this past March 5-15th.
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For the third consecutive year, Boca Raton, Florida’s Festival of the Arts presented a musical menu of the finest in classical music, jazz and literature this past March 5-15th. One of this year’s event highlights was a career celebration of violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman on the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Over the course of four evening concerts, Perlman performed in a variety of settings: as violin soloist with the Russian National Orchestra; with his students from the Perlman Music Program; in a reprise of the best-selling album, tour and popular PBS Show celebrating Klezmer music, "In the Fiddler's House"; and conducting the Russian National Orchestra, Master Chorale of South Florida, and renowned vocal soloists in Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony.
For the technical portion of the festival, several production companies combined their efforts, with ACME Sound Partners and Syntonic Design Group providing the DiGiCo D5 for Front of House input/outputs, and Concert Systems Production Group showcasing its new SD8 for onstage monitors.
“The overall show ran at about 110 inputs,” explained Syntonic’s Donnie Smith, the A2 engineer on the event. “We had a series of flown microphone arrays for the orchestra, and also close-mic’d the string, woodwinds and brass sections. We ran an L/R system with stereo front fills and subs on an aux, and also had several stereo outputs feeding an overhead ambient system to provide a ‘hall’ effect in the tented outdoor venue. All outputs were ultimately driven from the Matrix and processed externally. The D5's routing and soft-patching ability made everything really easy. The orchestra would change configuration from night to night, and bounce around during rehearsals. The need for recalling routing changes via snapshots was critical. Not to mention, it sounded great. Because of the subtle nature of the mix for this type of event, the ability to hear the dynamics of music without coloration and with a high signal to noise ratio is necessary.”
For onstage monitors, Thomas “Randy” Frierson, owner/operator of Concert Systems Production Group, chose to showcase his new SD8 console. “We selected the SD8 for its sonic quality and straightforward approach to mixing monitors. We also thought since the primary audio vendor Syntonic was using a DiGiCo, it would be cool for us to bring in one as well. As the house production company, we supported them by providing the SD8 and monitor racks with Ashly PE3000 processed specifically for our EV XW12A wedges. Everything went great and everybody was happy with both the FOH sound and monitors. It was indeed a successful collaboration.”
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