Sunday, March 2, 2008
FLASHPOINT ACADEMY HOSTS WORLD-FAMOUS VIDEO GAME MUSIC COMPOSER NOBUO UEMATSU AND ARNIE ROTH FOR WORKSHOP AND TOUR
It's actually hard to believe and maybe impossible to think that world-famous composer and concert rock star Nobuo Uematsu, his musical director and native Chicagoan Arnie Roth and representatives from Dog Ear Records and a major Japanese game company all took time off from an international tour of the new Distant Worlds concert (playing the orchestrated music of 20 years of Final Fantasy video games)and from concert rehearsals for the U.S. premiere of the new concert here in Chicago to spend several hours touring Flashpoint Academy and then sitting with students for a great Q and A workshop and autograph session. And then they insisted that we join them and invite a bunch of FP students as well at the sold-out Saturday night concert at the Rosemont Theatre.
ABC-TV Anchor Kathy Brock at Flashpoint Academy for Recording Session
Kathy Brock co-anchors the ABC 7 News at 6 and 10 p.m., the top rated newscasts in Chicago. Brock's contributions at 10 p.m. play a significant role in the newscast's enormous success; it is the most watched newscast in the market. Brock joined ABC 7 in September 1990 as the co-anchor of ABC 7 News This Morning and as a general assignment reporter for the daily newscasts. She was promoted to co-anchor of the 6 p.m. news in 1993 and the 10 p.m. newscast in 2003. Over the years, she has covered everything from politics to the Chicago loop flood to the Cook County Administration Building fire.
Brock's work has been recognized with two Chicago Emmy Awards. She has also been honored with two prestigious national awards for a documentary on a people to people aid project in Mali, West Africa; the Edward R. Murrow Award, given by the Radio-Television News Directors Association and the IRIS Award, from the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE).
Prior to joining ABC 7, Brock spent six years as an anchor/reporter at KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also spent two years as an anchor/reporter at KBCI-TV in Boise, Idaho; at KEPR-TV, in Pasco, Washington; and at KWSU-TV in Pullman, Washington.
Brock is involved in a number of Chicago philanthropic endeavors, including Deborah's Place a transition facility for abused women getting back on their feet. She also serves on the board of directors for Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development.
Brock holds a journalism degree from Washington State University. She resides in the northern suburbs and is the mother of two sons.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
CHEVY CHASE VISITS FLASHPOINT
Art Norman from NBC Accompanied HAT and FP Interior Designer and Project Manager Barbara Pollack on his Flashpoint Tour
HAT and Dean Paula Froehle took Chevy, his wife and the camera crews from 4 networks on a tour of Flashpoint Academy
HAT Introduced Chevy after the Tour for his Talk and Q&A Session with the Flashpoint Students
Representatives from Illinois and Chicago Film Offices Joined Us for the Chevy Talk
Rock Band Competition
TV Coverage
LINK TO CHANNEL 5 VIDEO : http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=194347
ABC TV COVERAGE
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