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This project successfully raised its funding goal on March 21, 2010.
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One mp3 download of your choice from my current fifteen albums.
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One signed CD of your choice from my current fifteen albums.
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One signed CD of your choice from my current fifteen albums, and one signed copy of the Bach 'Cello Suites, volume I CD when released- Spring 2010.
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$50 level reward plus a signed, limited edition DVD of Peter Blanchette's score to the Buster Keaton 1928 silent film masterpiece Steamboat Bill, Jr.! -Note: anyone who gives or has given $75.00 or more, will receive this DVD.
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$50 level reward plus 2 tickets to April 3, 2010 CD release concert at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
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USB Flash drive with mp3 files of all of my current 15 albums, one signed copy of the Bach 'Cello Suites, volume I CD when released, 2 tickets to April 3, 2010 CD release concert at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Listing as Major Supporter in CD release concert program notes.
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$250 level reward plus listing as Executive Producer in CD liner notes.
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$500 level reward plus a private house concert for supporter or his/her designee in the New York/New England area.
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Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar (www.archguitar.com). His repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the Virtual Consort. A recipient of the MCC Artist Grant in Music Composition, Blanchette is a veteran performer of such high profile venues as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His CDs receive heavy airplay on "Sunday Baroque," "The Thistle and Shamrock," and regionally on WAMC, WNYC, and WFCR. In 2009, he was a WFCR Foundation nominee as one of the region's most valuable artists. As a composer, he has contributed to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City," and PBS' "Inside the Tuscan Hills." Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on Turturro’s film Illuminata. In the late 1990's, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies “The General” and “The Navigator” which resulted in sell-out performances in the greater New England area. In 2009 Blanchette received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts "Meet the Composer," and the Northampton Arts Council to complete the trio of Keaton's masterpieces by composing a multi-instrumental score to the 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which he premiered, along with master classes in film scoring, to resounding success at the Dingle Film Festival in Ireland in September 2009, and the Amherst Cinema Arts Center in October 2009. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the critically-acclaimed Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra (www.hvgo.org), and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.
