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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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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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Music Education

If you are reading this, there’s a chance you are a musician. And whether you are an accomplished professional or an amateur, you are able to read and play music. Think about how you learned to do it and who taught you. (more…)

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 53 years7 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 musicians join the RTO at the Fringe Festival 2014

TACO musicians gather on May 25th and June 29th for regular sessions to play marches, waltzes, symphonic favorites, jazzy tunes and orchestral arrangements of popular songs. Some of the planned rehearsal music will also be performed at a summer concert with the original Really Terrible Orchestra at the Fringe Festival Read more…

By Cathy Humphers Smith, 53 years6 years ago
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TACO enjoys a holiday break

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…

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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