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November 22, 2019 by Nathan Cole Leave a Comment

035: Playing by numbers, or Advanced Orchestra Stats

035: Playing by numbers, or Advanced Orchestral Stats

How many times have you been jealous of the box scores for baseball and basketball, or the advanced statistics for football? Don’t you wish that you too could be measured by notes attempted, notes played in tune, entrances successfully counted? If we got our wish, orchestra concerts would have their own advanced metrics! Here are […]

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November 3, 2019 by Nathan Cole Leave a Comment

034: The spirit is willing, but the Flesch is weak

Flesch and his scales

This week, we’re talking scales and etudes. Are they the foundational blocks on which your entire technique is built? Or more like raw vegetables that you have to choke down if you want to stay healthy? Akiko actually had a scale class as a kid, while I got a crash course in scales from my […]

Filed Under: episodes Tagged With: beethoven, brahms, curtis, dan mason, etudes, flesch, galamian, gavinies, godfather, jack benny, joachim, juilliard, mazas, mozart, orwell, paganini, prokofiev, ruggiero ricci, saint paul chamber orchestra, scales, schradieck, sevcik, simon fischer, suzuki, virtuoso master course, william preucil, wohlfahrt, yost

October 27, 2019 by Nathan Cole Leave a Comment

033: The audience experience, with superfan Roderick Branch

Crowd seated for episode 33

Chicago Symphony cellist Brant Taylor may have been our very first special guest here at the Stand Partners, but so far we’ve been missing the perspective of his partner Roderick Branch. Roderick is a musician, though his day job (and sometimes into the night job) is as a partner at a giant law firm. Roderick […]

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October 19, 2019 by Nathan Cole 3 Comments

032: What about Bob? Robert deMaine, our principal cello

Robert deMaine, cello

Today we’re joined by our good friend and LA Phil principal cello, Robert deMaine. Bob tells us about his childhood, his musical family and an early teacher who gave him a complete musical education, including piano and composition. He also unpacks how he fell out of love with the cello during his teen years and […]

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October 11, 2019 by Nathan Cole Leave a Comment

031: That’s life in the hot seat, Mr. Concertmaster!

031: That's life in the hot seat, Mr. Concertmaster!

Today we’re talking concertmaster, and what it means to sit in the hot seat. What are the duties and expectations, and what makes “first chair violin” attractive or unattractive to different players? Is playing concertmaster more like being the point guard in basketball, or the quarterback in football? Remember: besides playing all those juicy solos, […]

Filed Under: episodes Tagged With: amazon, bowings, concertmaster, conductor, david kim, holly mulcahy, jeff bezos, quarterback, saint-saens, seinfeld, solos, suzuki, violin

October 3, 2019 by Nathan Cole 4 Comments

030: All about Amadeus

Nathan and Akiko are Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart

Nathan says: “My top three movies of all time would be The Godfather, Rocky, and Amadeus in some order.” Akiko’s not into those “top whatever” lists. But both of us love Amadeus so much that we would drop whatever we’re doing and watch it again right now. Here’s why…

Filed Under: episodes Tagged With: amadeus, cynthia nixon, f. murray abraham, gran partita, movie, mozart, requiem, tom hulce

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  • 035: Playing by numbers, or Advanced Orchestra Stats
  • 034: The spirit is willing, but the Flesch is weak
  • 033: The audience experience, with superfan Roderick Branch
  • 032: What about Bob? Robert deMaine, our principal cello
  • 031: That’s life in the hot seat, Mr. Concertmaster!

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