TACO launches summer with a musical gathering on Sunday, June 26 at the new Los Altos Community Center in the Grand Oak Room. The session is free and open to the public. Listeners are welcome to sit on the open air patio to hear the orchestra rehearse. Registered musicians will Read more…
VIRTUAL PROJECTS During the pandemic, we created several virtual projects which helped us feel connected to each other and contributed to the community. Our holiday concert of 10 songs was played on local cable programming directed to isolated seniors during the holidays. We collaborated with the digital student artists at Freestyle Read more…
MUSIC IS BACK! After a year and a half of suspended activities, it was amazing to get together on July 4th for a large, celebratory afternoon of music making. It was awesome to play great music together again and to see friends, in person, connecting around this fun day after being apart for so Read more…
We have launched a fundraiser to support the orchestra! We envision a cookbook full of delicious recipes and look forward to your contributions. Send in your family favorites and recipes that you associate with holidays, music and life events. Invite your family and friends to contribute to our (more…)
The Los Altos Community Foundation celebrated their Honorary Founder John W. Gardner’s legacy at the 2016 Gardner Awards Dinner on April 7th. TACO was recognized (more…)
Prima Vista is Italian for ‘first view’ and in music it is also called ‘sight-reading’. In TACO, we sight-read as an orchestra every time we get together, playing through a piece of music for the first time as a group. How do we do it and why is it important
To understand the importance of the existence of TACO it is necessary to understand the meaning of its absence. Without TACO possibly hundreds of people will have wasted thousands of hours of music practice, rehearsals and recitals, and countless dollars on lessons. Hundreds of musical instruments would be collecting dust Read more…
TACO meets next on January 26, 2014. The Sunday before Thanksgiving, musicians of the Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra gathered for a sunny, fall day of music making, marking the final session of 2013. Completing our third year of gatherings as TACO, the day was a fulfilling success. Set-up started in Read more…