hear that?

1. A drummer can't contain the rock.

2. Beirut performs their songs in live music videos. Here are "Nantes" and "St. Apollonia." [Thanks, Matthew]

3. I heard this on NPR the other day: The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto.

4. Consider me jealous of everyone who can go to this: “Battlestar Galactica Symphony” World Premiere in Spain!

This summer I will conduct the largest and most ambitious “Battlestar Galatica” concert yet. The “Battlestar Galactica Symphony” will premiere in Tenerife, Spain, headlining a concert in Fimucité: The Tenerife International Film Music Festival.

This hour-long work incorporates musical material from the entire series, performed by a full orchestra, choir, taiko ensemble and select members of my own Battlestar Galactica Orchestra.

This unique combination of the symphonic, ethnic, rock and percussive realms will make this concert the most complete and authentic performance of the “Battlestar Galactica” score ever, and it’s all taking place in the idyllic Canary Islands of Spain.