A friend of mine has been a fan of yours since he first heard the music of “Battlestar Galactica” and I’m thinking about giving away a ticket for your concert as an early birthday gift.

I would also like to ask if you have any plans for future performances in Europe? Just in case it wouldn’t work out during spring.

I love Taiko drum performances. Judging from the previous comments, it’s going to be loud! If anyone gets the chance to see a Taiko drum group called “Yamato”, please don’t miss them. Very entertaining stuff.

@calaador if you read this. What time does the show end and do you think there are still trains from Hagen back to Hamburg?

But music wise, I was a bit disappointed by the score of “The Hub”. Especially the parts where the sequence played with a new, louder instrument just overlapping the still playing one.

I hope Bear will solve this a bit more creatively for season 4 soundtrack :)

Thank you again for a great great evening in Hagen!
Did I disgruntle you, when i asked about your first name? I was just to nervous to express myself properly! (sorry for that)

I study direction near Hagen and therefore I enjoy a good score!
Thats why i came to “Three Faces” firstly…
and secondly because of Battlestar :)
I’ve listenend to your composing for Battlestar since i heard “Passacaglia” in “Kobols last gleaming” and after that I became a true true fan of your music.

The whole show on Saturday was naturally fantastic, as everyone said before…
BUT somehow I missed the choir for “Diaspora Oratorio” :)

Will there be another concert like this in Europe in the future?

I hope you and Raya enjoy your visit in Germany (besides the rainy weather *g*)
Good luck for the future and maybe I can win you someday for scoring my movies. :)

Byebye!

Agree! I still have this stupid dreamy grin on my face ;)
The performance was fantastic, even if ballet isn’t my thing at all. Raya and Bear were so nice and I talked to them a lot. Raya’s explanation of how they recorded her songs in many different languages was quite interesting only to name one enthralling topic we were talking about!
Their appearance at the café prior to the performance left me nonplussed. I didn’t know they arranged a meeting with the German BSG fanclub and when they entered the café I first thought that my brain does tricks on me.
Now I am looking forward to an European Battlestar concert and to the 4th season BSG soundtrack (and the special edition box Bear was talking aobout) ;)!

First of all it needs to be said that while for a BSG fan’s ears the third “face”, which featured Bear’s music, at least music-wise probably was the most beautiful one, choreography-wise and dancing-wise all of the three “faces” were superb.

Probably most of the readers here didn’t really know what to expect from a “BSG ballet”. It was not the nutcracker or swan lake type of ballet with dancers on their tiptoes all the time. It was much more Modern Dance than classical ballet and featured many acrobatic dance routines performed by incredibly gifted dancers. Prelude To War especially featured some nice special effects such as laser beams and video backdrops and a choreography including flashlights. Another stunning fight inspired choreography included the dancers as parts of the percussion section with the dancers batting their sword-like wooden sticks intercut with the Taiko drums. A definite highlight was Roslin’s and Adama’s theme staged by a male and female dancer in a water tank. Bear’s music came across extremely well and sounded great performed by the highly talented orchestra and drummers ensemble. Judging by the intensive applause and loud cheers not only BSG fans but everyone in the audience was obviously profoundly wowed by this wonderful show. If there is anything negative to say about it then only that it was too short. I enjoyed every second of it and after it had ended I would have loved to experience it all over again.

While most of the “regular” audience left right after the show, the aftershow party was mainly crowded with BSG fans. And Bear made every single one of us happy. He didn’t mind at all signing hundreds of CD booklets, DVDs or whatever fans asked him to sign. Moreover he took the time to turn every autograph into a personal dedication and was even willing to pose for photos individually with each of the fans so that everyone left with a great personal souvenir. Sporting no star attitude whatsoever Bear took the time to even chat with each of the fans and to get involved in interesting conversations. The same can be said about the lovely Raya who also happily chatted with all the fans and signed CDs. Both Bear and Raya were very busy with enthusiastic fans all the time, during the show’s breaks and throughout the whole aftershow party. I hope they got to enjoy this experience…

Some of us fans (from German fansite caprica-city.de) were so lucky to meet Bear and Raya before the show in a nearby cafe where we all sat together and chatted. How cool is that?! For over an hour we discussed various BSG stuff and Bear provided interesting insights into the production of our favorite show. As you already know by this blog, unlike other stars who cannot do much more than superficially smile into cameras, Bear indeed has interesting things to say.

BEAR, RAYA, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL EVENING. YOU REALLY WERE THERE FOR YOUR FANS AND DEVOTED YOUR TIME TO US WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED AND WAS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR FUTURE CAREERS.

@ calaador: I think the taiko drums were great, even a little too loud sometimes, they drowned out the orchestra, wich was a little pity. But I didn’t think, that the drummers had to keep it down, but the orchestra should have played louder ;-).

Oh, and “The Hub” has definitely to go on the album…

im back in Hamburg now (400km from Hagen), and the show was GREAT.

All people do a great job there.
Very nice arrangements from your Music.
After the show i have all the night “The Hup”, “Lauras Running” and the scence from the dead earth in my mind.

The idea to integrate the dancers in to the music with thier staves was very nice!

But i only missed little bit the power from taiko-drums.
What is the difference between the soundtracks and Hagen?
The place where the drums are standing in Hagen, or how many the used there?

After all: The music and dance-performance was very good and funy.
Hope to see more like this.

Is ther any chance to get the music or the complet show as movie?

And at last: THANKS for subscribing my CD-Booklet!

Best regards,
calaador