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Play with your Food ~ A fundraiser for TACO

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…)

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years3 years ago
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HOLIDAY SING-ALONG with TACO!

We host our annual Holiday Sing-Along following our rehearsal on Sunday, Nov. 26th. The community is invited to join us for this festive launch to the holiday season, from 4 to 5 pm, followed with cider and cookies. We’ll play medleys of Christmas carols, Hannukah tunes, including secular and popular Read more…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years3 years ago
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TACO, a sight-reading orchestra, enters 6th year of fun sessions! 2016

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

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By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years5 years ago
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TACO…the Gathering by Ola Marra Cook 2015

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…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years5 years ago
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TACO plays with MEWE at SJSU on April 24, 2014

TACO is performing with students from the Music Educators Workshop Ensemble (MEWE) at San Jose State University on Thursday evening, April 24th.  But you wonder, “TACO is a social sight-reading orchestra and does not perform!” As a matter of fact, TACO musicians have enjoyed occasional public performances when the audience Read more…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years5 years ago
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Fanfare for the Common Man

This month TACO musicians will have the experience of playing two concerti, with two brave musicians from TACO playing the solo parts for each concerto. Our strings will play a piece composed by Antonio Vivaldi in the early 1700’s, Violin Concerto in G minor.  One of over 300 pieces that Read more…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 51 years7 years ago
Recent posts
  • TACO Cancels events until further notice
  • TACO 10th Anniversary Year
  • Intro to Orchestra
  • Taquitos Signup Form
  • TACO in the New York Times (more relevant is to read the article by Tim Wu!)
  • Meditation as played by TACO
  • TACO on the GREEN – Music on the Streets
  • Play with your Food ~ A fundraiser for TACO
  • 2018 ~ A NEW YEAR WITH TACO
  • HOLIDAY SING-ALONG with TACO!
Articles In The Press
Ovation Press 07/10/2012
San Jose Mercury News 06/22/2012
Los Altos Town Crier 03/29/2012
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