Two freakishly amazing things happened on Friday: 1) The Poteet High School Band (known this weekend across Texas as the TMEA 4A Honors Band) gave a brilliant performance of Shadow Rituals; and 2) NBC actually broadcast the teaser of our Conan musical on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

First, Poteet. Rick Davis conducted the group and good lord were they impressive! I’ve always heard that Texas was known for their bands, but Jesus Christ. They played with excellent balance and intonation (which is hard to do in SR because my orchestration is so dry and my dynamics are so inconsistent). But when the best high school band in Texas is performing your music, how could one summarize the performance to be anything less than freaking awesome?John Mackey also had a piece on the Poteet program. He was kind enough to spend some time with me and introduce me to some of the people he knows. John’s always been really supportive of me and my music and I’m really lucky to be somewhat friends with him.The convention was HUGE, as most things in Texas are. Here’s one of the exhibit halls (above). I made this panoramic; it’s got some perspective errors but it does give you some kind of sense/scope of how huge it was… and that’s only about 75% of the exhibit halls. Click on it to see a bigger pic.

Part Two:
This part really needs no explanation. A year and a half later, NBC actually broadcast the teaser to our Conan musical. The fact that Conan himself made fun of it is just hilarious and awesome. We are forever humbled.