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Update #9: Rolling Along!
We now have a date for the North Carolina premiere so everyone start your engines! Saturday September 15th 2012 will be the first orchestral performance of The Ghost Train, at the Carolina Chamber Music Festival in New Bern, North Carolina.
Since all the cast will be New York based, we have decided on an extra performance (with piano accompaniment) for donors, friends and family in New York some time in the week before the New Bern premiere. Details to follow.
Casting will begin in the New Year.
Thanks for all your support so far!
Paul
Update #8: Oakland 16th Street Station Open House
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Update #7: The Ghost Train has Rolled Into the Station
Thanks everyone! The Ghost Train campaign closed at 2pm this afternoon with a total of $16,371 which is well beyond the $15,000 we had hoped to raise. What a triumph!
I am heading off to New York on Friday to talk over the score with the Director, the Conductor, and the Directors of the Carolina Chamber Music Festival, and to lay out the definitive plans for the first performance, so there will be more East Coast news in about a week.
I'll probably centralize news at a Ghost Train section on my own website www.paulcrabtree.net where we'll set up the Sponsor Train, so get ready to send me your photos!
Thanks for all your support. The excitement is just beginning.
Paul
Update #6: We Have Rocketed into the Station!
What a thrilling and exhilarating night! We have raced past the target with four days still to go. I gotta say, I shed more than a little tear as we passed the finish line - thanks a MILLION for supporting this project.
Update #5: California Detour
Coming into the final week of the campaign, we have some very exciting news for those of you who are hoping that The Ghost Train might make an appearance on the West Coast.
The Oakland 16th Street Station was the western end of the transcontinental railroad; it was in use by Amtrak up until the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. Since then it has been out of service, tucked away almost under the freeway at the eastern end of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Apart from occasional use as a movie set (you can check it out in Funny Girl, Rent, and in an upcoming movie with Nicole Kidman) there is a lot of debate about how to revitalize the building. See for yourself how handsome it is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Station,_Oakland,_California It's also the first of the abandoned stations in the project video.
The Ghost Train and the Oakland 16th Street Station would make perfect partners, and we are slowly negotiating with the owners about a performance or two.
Might this be the start of a California tour?
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Leslie Russo on October 17, 2011
Count me in too!! Great building... good find...
It looks perfect (from the outside)
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Paul Crabtree writes for underused places so that new audiences will engage with the city in new ways. His most widely performed work is based on texts from The Simpsons, and he is currently at work on a piece about William and Caroline Herschel for performance in observatories.
