Video duration: 491 seconds
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NYSMF Violin faculty member, Sean Neukom, composed this piece to demonstrate the power of music to change words. Performed in two parts, he uses the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy and accompanies it with two very different musical tapestries, changing the reading and feel of the words completely.
Video duration: 164 seconds
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Performing at Basta's in Weymouth, MA
Black Betty- vox
Joe Poppen- guitar
Joshua "Bootz" Kenning- guitar
Cupcake McGee- bass
Rob Cross- drums
Keigo Hoashi- keys
Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part one: Includes songs "Music Ninjas Theme" (by Bill Prokopow and Louis Morgan) and "My Ninja Days" (by Cassie Gafford and Louis Morgan)
Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part five: Includes songs "Music Ninjas Theme" (by Bill Prokopow and Louis Morgan)
Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part one: Includes songs "No More Music", "We Really Need A Sign" by Cassie Davino (RIP), and "My Ninja Days" by Cassie Gafford & Louis Morgan
Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part three: Includes songs "I Love Sports" and "Music Ninjas Fall" (by Bill Prokopow and Louis Morgan)
Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part one: Includes songs "Training Hard" and "Music Ninjas Theme" (by Bill Prokopow and Louis Morgan)
Video duration: 355 seconds
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Creative Director Keisuke Hoashi heads the Hicksmuffy Players in their first (and only!) original one-act musical comedy show, August 2005, Oneonta, NY. (Part one: Includes songs "Hartwick Festival" and "Training Hard" (by Bill Prokopow and Louis Morgan)
Keisuke Hoashi plays a furious, chollo-looking samurai in this commerical for Caja Madrid. The was shot in Segovia, Spain, and the production company (Cuatro Cabezas) then refused to pay any of the actors for their work. They also refused to pay their casting director, who then rightfully had Cuatro Cabezas blacklisted in Hollywood.
Video duration: 172 seconds
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Composed and performed by Cassie Davino for the original musical comedy show, "NInjacal", for the 2005 session at Hartwick's Festival (now the New York Summer Music Festival NYSMF). Cassie Davino, solo voice; Bill Prokopow, piano; Louis Morgan, percussion; Keisuke Hoashi, Creative Director
Video duration: 342 seconds
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Double bass player Bret Simner and narrator Keisuke Hoashi perform Simner's composition "The Poem of Flight" by Philip Levine. From a recital at NYSMF, the New York Summer Music Festival, July 2007.
Video duration: 187 seconds
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To save his sister, who is suffering an acute case of COOTIES, a frantic brother desperately seeks the cure from a bespectactacled troll. Created by students in the New York Summer Music Festival's filmmaking class (run by Keisuke Hoashi)
![Cassie Davino: \"We Really Need a Sign\" from \"Ninjacal\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/9PpQ4aYd3NI/2.jpg "Cassie Davino: \\"We Really Need a Sign\\" from \\"Ninjacal\\"")
![NYSMF Faculty Recital: \"The Poem of Flight\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/41gNBS4rYrg/2.jpg "NYSMF Faculty Recital: \\"The Poem of Flight\\"")
![NYSMF Filmmaking 2007: \"The Quest for the Cure\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/zznIxIlNXt8/2.jpg "NYSMF Filmmaking 2007: \\"The Quest for the Cure\\"")
