Doctor Noize to Stefan Shepherd

It started as a commission for a live work. I got a commission from the McConnell Foundation in Northern California — I got a $10,000 commission to write a live, orchestral work for kids.The task was to write a 45-to-60 minute show that got kids jazzed about orchestral music. So we did the shows, we did a tour of Northern California — we went to Chico, Redding, and some other cities on 3 consecutive days, and each time we got more than a thousand people there in big auditoriums, and the crowds went nuts.