I have now made available (primarily for my own use!) a searchable, browseable database with all concerts in which I have performed going back almost 50 years (since March 1977).

This covers 40 years (at this writing, 1986-2026) with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, 32 years (at this writing, 1994-2026) with the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, 29 years (at this writing 1997-2026) with the Arioso Chorale and Orchestra of the Friday Morning Music Club, and 9 years (1977-1986 (middle school to college graduation) with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, plus numerous other groups.

This can show information by group, by season, by composer and more. I find the Repertoire page particularly useful as it gives an overview of how many times (and when) I have performed particular works.

David's Concerts Database

Plus:

Databases for every concert of some groups (whether I performed or not)

While I have performed the vast major of concerts for each group, there are ones I have missed (health reasons for me or family members, mostly). The links below show all of the concerts for a given group, whether I played in them or not.

If you get a "something went wrong" message, it just is something odd about the "pythonanywhere.com" site. Simply reload the page and it should then load properly.

However, if you want to see the concerts I performed with these groups (and in context), click the first bolded link, above.

Background

The background to this is that I had maintained a Filemaker Pro database on a Mac going back to the early 1990s. At some point however (around 2018), Filemaker got expensive for the little use I was making of it ($375 to upgrade for compatability with a new operating system or new computer hardware made little sense for tracking my concerts, my music (CD) collection, and a handful of other tasks). I had exported my database into a comma-separated-value (CSV) file and then imported into Microsoft Excel while I still had a functioning Filemaker application (December 2018). But then the data sat and got stale. Thus, the idea of doing something with this has been rattling around for about a decade.

In mid-April 2026 (less than a month ago), I fed ideas and that CSV file into the Claude AI app, and in less than an hour, I had a functioning web app, recognizably similar to what you see above. In the intervening weeks, I have been busy with end of season rehearsals and concerts for two groups (HSO and Arioso), and had a lot of data entry and data cleanup to do. But I also fed ideas to Claude to get more and more functionality.

Of course, it is also worth mentioning that the fact that I even had this amount of data about my concerts at my fingertips over the years is a credit to my mother, Jessica, a musician, who encouraged me to keep my concert programs. Thus, I had a paper scrapbook and, later on, folders full of programs going back to the All Suburban Orchestra in St. Louis County, MO when I was in 7th grade (my first introduction to the Vaughan Williams "English Folk Song Suite").

David Friedlander
13 May 2026
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