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TACO Celebrates End of Season

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…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 53 years7 months ago
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Life is Better with Live Music!

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…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 53 years1 year ago
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TACO is BACK!

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…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 53 years1 year ago
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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, 53 years5 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, 53 years5 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, 53 years6 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, 53 years6 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, 53 years6 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, 53 years9 years ago
Recent posts
  • TACO Celebrates End of Season
  • Life is Better with Live Music!
  • TACO is BACK!
  • 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
Articles In The Press
  • Los Altos Town Crier 03/29/2012
  • San Jose Mercury News 06/22/2012
  • Verde Magazine 4/11/2016
  • Palo Alto Weekly 3/24/2017
  • Violinist.com 12/23/2020
  • MidPeninsula Post 7/22/2021
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