Classic Jabber

This episode takes an unusual turn for Classic Jabber, in that it is a solo performance. Consider yourself as the friend I'm jabbering with today, although that's a bit odd especially considering the topics we cover!

Perhaps the best option is to keep the conversation going - let me know how you feel about these points, and how they influence your participation with classical music, particularly...

Topics include:

* What's causing people to unfriend us

* Techniques for improving relationships

* How to stay friends whether you agree or disagree with them

* Being careful with your sources

* How our online lives impact our relationships

and so much more.

George Marriner Maull, Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra and three-time Emmy© nominated public television personality, has helped people nationwide to heighten their classical music listening pleasure through his Discovery Concerts© for American Public Television (APT), now available on Amazon.com (https://amzn.to/30b9D3O). His course Fall in Love with Music, also recorded for APT, may be viewed on the orchestra’s website: www.discoveryorchestra.org (http://www.discoveryorchestra.org/). Inside Music, his public radio show, can be heard on 2nd and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 PM (ET) on WWFM, 89.1, in the Princeton/Philadelphia area and worldwide at wwfm.org (http://bit.ly/2QtbUCD) The Classical Network. Beginning his 17th season as host of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Classical Overtures, he presents pre-concert chats before such ensembles as The Philadelphia Orchestra and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and artists Yuja Wang and Itzhak Perlman. His conducting career has included leading performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Among the posts he has held: Music Director of the Louisville Ballet, New Jersey Youth Symphony, and Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey. Recordings include CD’s conducting the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Naxos.

Conductor Composer Stephen P Brown jabbers with Paul Hostetter, the Ethel Foley Distinguished Chair in Orchestral Activities for the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. He has conducted the New York City Opera, the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orlando Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Naples Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra among many others. His 53 commercially released recordings have received honors including a Grammy Award, a Downbeat Critics Award, five stars for performance in the BBC Music Magazine, and two NY Times Top Five annual listings.

Flutist Lindsey Goodman is a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and educator. Lindsey has performed, taught, and presented across three continents, including at Carnegie Hall, Eastman, Edinburgh Fringe, Oberlin, Google headquarters, National and Canadian Flute Association conventions, and across China.

An advocate for composers, Lindsey has given over 140 world premieres. Her solo albums are reach through the sky (New Dynamic Records), returning to heights unseen, and Etereo (PARMA Recordings) with additional performances on New World, Albany, New Focus, and Navona. Lindsey has given recitals in NYC, performed concertos across the US and Canada, and been broadcast on radio stations nationwide.

Lindsey is principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, faculty at West Virginia State University and Marietta College, and founded the chamber groups Leviathan Trio, PANdemonium4, and Chrysalis Duo. Lindsey received degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Northwestern and Duquesne Universities and resides in Ohio. www.LindseyGoodman.com (http://www.lindseygoodman.com/)

Colleen Schmitt currently serves as Contemporary Music Director at the two campuses of Hyde Park Methodist church in Tampa, Florida. She also teaches piano privately and at The Leopold School, and plays jazz piano at The Gin Joint. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she has performed in and music directed many theater productions with The Milwaukee Repertory Theater and most other companies there. She has also been music director for a musical improv group and studied Music Composition and Technology at UW-Milwaukee. She loves the collaborative aspect of music and looks forward to more ofthat in person soon!

With a diverse portfolio of talents (clarinetist, operatic tenor, saxophonist, guitarist, flutist,

musicologist, conductor), David Ciucevich enjoys a varied, fulfilling life and career as a

musician. In January 2018, David made his Carnegie Hall debut singing Tenor I with The

Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus in Haydn’s The Seasons. He has taught clarinet and played

with many orchestras in Ohio, Massachusetts, New York City, Colorado, and Wyoming and with

Broadway touring productions including South Pacific, West Side Story, and The Phantom of the

Opera. David is also a Certified Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists specializing

in issues for musicians.

A native of Savannah, GA, David holds a MM in Clarinet Performance and Music History from

the University of Northern Colorado. His teachers include legendary Cleveland Orchestra

clarinetists Robert Marcellus and Theodore Johnson and their students Mark Nuccio and Bil

Jackson. David’s first cousin is the beloved American lyricist, singer, and composer Johnny

Mercer. For more information, contact davidciucevich.com

Rose loves dance and music.  At a young age, she was a cellist in a youth orchestral program at the University of Michigan Ann Arbors’ School of Music, Theatre and Dance.  Professional highlights include:  Radio City Rockette, Off-Broadway and international tours of De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta, Lady Gaga and 2nd Species, a NYC stunt crew which she co-founded.  Favorite musical moment was being named the first electric cellist to play inside the Vatican under the musical direction of Tom Kurt of St. Jerome’s Music Ministry.  Follow #MallareMusic on Instagram and Facebook.  Onwards & Upwards!

Greg Howard is an alto sax, soprano sax, flute, and clarinet performer in the Tampa Bay area. You can hear him mostly in Pinellas County playing with the Dunedin Concert Band, the Rhythm Kings Jazz Orchestra, and the Florida Jazz Express. Greg also performs as a side man with several other big bands and jazz combos.

Greg started on alto saxophone in junior high school and continued through college and then into adult community bands. Though his career was in business he continued to study and practice with the intent to become a working musician. Recently Greg stepped away from the business world to concentrate on his performing career and has enjoyed playing alongside many of the very fine musicians who live and perform in the Tampa Bay area.

Becca McCoy has been a frequent guest on Classical Jabber. She recently closed a run of Gypsy as Rose in Naples, Florida, and just before that, Beauty and the Beast in Chicago as Madame de la Grande Bouche at Paramount Theatre. She is a youngARTS alumnae and National Society of Arts and Letters national winner in musical theatre, and holds a certificate of classical acting from the British American Drama Academy at Oxford. In addition to performing, she is an avid traveler, photographer, and champion for the arts. Beccamccoy.com / @actorbeccamccoy.

Melissa and I have been married for almost 17 years, but she happens to be a singer who loves chamber music and musical theatre, and recently began playing cello as well - a lifelong passion. She is an authority on Spanish literature and enjoys diving into the psychological development of characters. More recently she became the Ambassador for Career Encouragement at the Concert University, and is a regular on Classic Jabber!