About this project
Do you like DINOSAURS? Me too! That's why I wrote a whole bunch of music about dinosaurs, and formed this amazing group called "The Cretaceous Quintet"! We have been entertaining nursery school and museum audiences for the past four years, singing songs about the paleontologically passionate and the alphabetically enthusiastic, from confused Carnotaurs and dancing Deinonychi to soccer-playing Stegosauri.
We want to record our songs in a real live album, just like rock stars do, only with dinosaur music!
We have some great guest artists who have already committed to the project, including the Yale Concert Band, who will make "The Alphabet of Dinosaurs" into something really spectacular.
And guess who else might guest appear on "Roar"? YOU! If you give $40 or more, you can yell "Roar!" into a microphone, and I will include your roar in the album, and list you as a "roarer" in the album credits. Imagine being listed in the credits of a children's album!
EVERYONE who contributes to this project will be invited to the CD release party, get a mention on the album's liner notes, and be thanked publicly on our facebook fanpage (which is right here: www.facebook.com/cretaceousquintet. Become a fan!)
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on August 25, 2010.
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Download of one of the Cretaceous Quintets insane tracks about dinosaurs! You can put "It's Not Easy to Dance with Deinonychus" on your iPod, and play it while driving to the DINOSAUR MUSEUM.
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A digital download of "Roar!" The whole album! You know what that means, right? DINOSAUR DANCE PARTY!
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Get the digital download of "Roar!", plus a physical copy of the CD! That way you can see all the fun liner notes, lyrics and pictures of cats! (No, Brian, that's the Feline Foursome - this is the Cretaceous Quintet! There will be pictures of DINOSAURS!)
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Wow! You can get the digital copy of "Roar!", and I'll get my big silver Sharpie marker out and SIGN A COPY of our CD for you!
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Record yourself roaring, send me the MP3, and I will put it on the album. Read that again. YOU CAN "ROAR" INTO A MICROPHONE, and I will put it on a record that will be sold around the world. If you need a microphone, come over to my house and you can roar into mine. Everything I've already listed for smaller contributions goes for you, too!
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A signed CD and a digital copy of "Roar!" Plus, I will give you a personalized signed copy of the sheet music for any of our fantastic songs about dinosaurs! Check out all the musical notes I wrote in dedication to my passionate love for the prehistoric!
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I need five kids to shout out a name of a dinosaur for "Old MacDonald had a Dinosaur Farm". You could do it, and appear on the album track!
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The Cretaceous Quintet will perform a full set of dinosaur songs wherever you choose. You pick the place, arrange for the venue if necessary, and provide transportation if we can't drive, and we will play our hearts out to anyone you want, be it a children's birthday party, a museum special-event, or as part of an educational series for your orchestra. Heck, we'd play just about anywhere, so long as there are DINOSAUR FANS around.
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Brian Robinson is a classical composer and baritone whose output has spanned an eclectic range of genres. Trained at the Mannes College of Music, Brian has written serious works for string quartet, orchestra, wind quintet and solo instruments as well as a collection of art songs. Outside of the strictly classical sphere, Brian is the writer, arranger and lead singer of the string quartet rock band, the Tet Offensive, and the founder of New Haven’s premiere dinosaur-themed children’s wind quintet, the Cretaceous Quintet. He is currently working on a series of choral works for Church of the Redeemer, for whom he is the Baritone soloist.
Brian accepts commission requests for new works and arrangements, and is also an accomplished music copyist/engraver. For more information, please contact him at brian.s.robinson@yale.edu
