Weston Sound & Video

02/20/2025

PSA - and you may have already gotten this, as we did for our FB accounts. (Let us know if you need help with any productions we've done with you!)

Download your old Facebook Live videos by June 20.

We are sending you this email because you have previously broadcasted a Facebook Live video.

Facebook is rolling out changes to its storage policy for Facebook Live videos. Starting February 19, Facebook Live videos will be retained for 30 days by default on your page or profile, during which you can replay, delete, or download the video. After 30 days, you will no longer be able to access your live broadcasts and they will automatically be removed from your profile or Page and deleted from our servers.

As part of this transition, we will be deleting all Facebook Live videos older than 30 days, and we want to make sure you have the opportunity to save your past Facebook Live videos. Any existing Live videos published before February 19 will be deleted from your Page or profile, but you can download them until June 20.

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02/17/2025

In case you missed it, you can still catch today's livestream of the Chamber Orchestra's Performance of "The Best of Haydn" from the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center. David Hayes conducts, Tommy Mesa (cello) performs Jessie Montgomery's "Divided" and Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major.

https://youtu.be/3Hs15NgD4x4

The Best of HaydnDavid Hayes conductorTommy Mesa celloSunday, February 16, 2025 2:30 pmHaydn’s Cello Concerto in C major is a genuine masterpiece that vani...

01/20/2025

Once again, working with WRTI and the Philadelphia Orchestra, providing live sound mix and recording for today's concert broadcast from Girard College Chapel, in honor of Martin Luther King Day of service. Cold outside, warm hearts and souls inside!

01/10/2025

We normally post this right around New Year's Day, but it's never too late to make a plan to backup and protect all of your files. Sadly, the news coming out of Los Angeles only makes this all the more important. YOU NEVER KNOW when disaster can happen.

Make (at least) two copies of your data, on separate drives, and store them in two separate locations. Also, upload critical files to a cloud service that can back up an entire drive's contents.

We really like and recommend "BackBlaze" and use it on a daily basis for backing up all of our work. It kicks in every night after midnight, out of the way, safely backing up our important stuff while we sleep.

Backup, backup backup!

12/10/2024

We were honored to work with Nikki Giovanni this past September on Lyric Fest's "Cotton." She was a beautiful soul and a true inspiration. https://lyricfest.org/commissions/cotton/

12/04/2024

Amazing stuff here; worth a look: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1277603513383100

11/25/2024

And over on our Shop on Reverb, there's a few new Black Friday deals as well...

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11/25/2024

We've got our Black Friday sale going on over on our Ebay Store. Vintage mics, CDs and other recording stuff on sale starting now!

Follow westonsound on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!

11/17/2024

Happening today at 2:15 EST, the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival's closing day film is "Ocklawaha - Tales my Father Told". Weston Sound did the stereo and 5.1 audio mix of everything from the orchestra to the sound effects to the narration by Peter Coyote. We also edited all of the orchestra video segments. It's been nominated for a daytime Emmy, and we couldn't be more proud! Bravo, composer John Gottsch.

The film “Ocklawaha: Tales My Father Told” features the symphonic poem by John Gottsch as performed by the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. The “tales,” based on the composer’s childhood memories with his father on the mystical Ocklawaha River, are impressionistically filmed by Emmy winner Mark Emery, and narrated by Ken Burns stalwart, actor Peter Coyote. The film, which premiered on PBS WUFT on March 20th is written and produced by Emmy winner Steve Robitaille.

https://fliff.com/events/ocklawahatalesmyfathertold/

https://youtu.be/tVhonU_S0fQ

The film “Ocklawaha: Tales My Father Told” features the symphonic poem by John Gottsch as performed by the South Florida Symphony Orchestra. The “tales,” based on the composer’s childhood memories with his father on the mystical Ocklawaha River, are impressionistically filmed by Emmy winne...

11/07/2024

This Saturday is Opera Day on WRTI — tune in to hear our recording of the Academy of Vocal Arts performance of Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, the “opera buffa of all opere buffe.” The opera will broadcast in WRTI's usual Saturday opera slot on Nov. 9, at 1 p.m. on 90.1 FM, streaming at wrti.org and on the WRTI app.

We recorded this performance back in April 2024 in the Helen Corning Warden Theater at AVA, and could not be more proud. Bravi Tutti!

More information here:
https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2024-11-06/tune-in-on-saturday-to-hear-ava-serve-up-the-barber-of-seville?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WRTIBarberBroadcastAlert%231&utm_content=version_A

10/10/2024

Just watched this again, after about a year away from it. Even with the compressed audio mix, I'm liking it better now after all the hoopla has died down. It's everything but the kitchen sink musically (thanks, Paul!) and it's a nice romp, looking back at happier times. Not Lennon's best work, but it's a beautiful sentiment and it's a bittersweet final goodbye.

10/08/2024

Yes! We still do LP vinyl transfers and cleanup/restoration as needed for digital (and CD) storage. Here's some shots of the process....

09/24/2024

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09/07/2024

Today was the final dress rehearsal and concert - "Star Wars - The Return of the Jedi" with orchestra at the AMP in Rogers, AR., Shi-Hung Young, conducting. Such a fantastic team; the SoNA staff and orchestra, Scott Parrish on projections, and the entire crew of Vista Productions; Scott, Nick, Chuck and Mike; it was an absolute joy to mix this show on your L'acoustic System; Hands-down the best I've ever had the pleasure to work with bar none.

09/06/2024

Once again, we're back at the AMP in Rogers, AR for a performance of "Star Wars - The Return of the Jedi with Orchestra", Shih-Hung Young conducting the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas.

Fantastic Crew, musicians and staff. The Vista Productions team loaded in, hung and set up the L'acoustics Sound system - 12 subwoofers! - and a new state of the art video screen in just a few hours. Amazing! Here's some pics of Day 1 and 2; more pics of the concert tomorrow (Friday) to come!

08/28/2024

Sometimes you only need the basics; a single camera and a stereo mic. We're offering a new service for just that niche: Auditions, Demos, Grants and no-frills Archival Recordings. Sometimes less IS more.