The Baseball Music Project

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Robert (Bobby) Thompson (Music Director, Founder & Producer) grew up in Hawthorne, New York, the resting place of Babe Ruth. Bob’s claim to fame is that he played trumpet at George Steinbrenner’s daughter’s wedding, for which George gave him two crisp one-hundred-dollar bills which Bob in turn blew on Yankees’ tickets. A south-paw, he still sleeps with his left-handed catcher’s mitt under his pillow. For ten years (until he was hit by a nerf baseball) Bob was the President and Director of Universal Edition, one of the world’s largest classical music publishing companies, based in Vienna, London and New York. He is currently the Associate Dean in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, State University of New York and Director of its Arts Management program. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, Bob is a former Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky and Hope College where he taught Trumpet and Jazz Studies. He holds a Doctorate in Music from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Bob has produced two Grammy nominated recordings, and served as Music Consultant to the Johnny Depp-Cate Blanchett Film, “The Man Who Cried”. He recently hosted the XM Radio Show, “Voices of the Game” with singer/songwriter Randy Newman as Bob’s guest. The co-author of the best selling book, “Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’”, Bob considers himself to be the world’s foremost Baseball Musicologist (even though the American Musicological Society has yet to recognize baseball musicology as a legitimate field of study worthy of post-doctoral research). Fred Sturm (Artistic Director) received grants from the NEA and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund to compose "A Place Where It Would Always Be Spring," a nine "inning" baseball symphony with former Yankee great Tony Kubek as narrator. A renowned composer, arranger, author, and educator, Fred is a professor at Lawrence University, previously served as chair of the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media department at the Eastman School of Music, and received the prestigious 2003 ASCAP/IAJE Commission in Honor of Quincy Jones. Fred lives and dies with the fortunes of his beloved Chicago Cubs. Michael Mushalla (Producer) is currently President of Double M Arts & Events, one of the leading contemporary artist management companies. Michael, who grew up in Brooklyn close to Ebbets Field, currently handles such artists as the acclaimed Mark Morris Dance Group. Both Michael and Bob have jointly produced concerts and tours at Ravinia, Tanglewood, and throughout the USA. Michael was formerly a Vice-President at Columbia Artists Music International. Rob Hudson (Research Director) is the assistant archivist at Carnegie Hall and a freelance trombonist, composer and arranger. When hes not busy cataloging the history of Carnegie Hall, Rob has spent countless hours linking the worlds most beloved concert hall to the worlds most beloved sport. For instance, he discovered that Jimmy Yancey, the great boogie-woogie pianist (who also played in the Negro leagues), performed at Carnegie Hall while holding a day job as a groundskeeper at Comiskey Park.

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