OSA Backstage

Dani & Serena talk to Henry Jenkins (Second Associate Concertmaster) about looking forward to being in the moment, reading music (or not!) and why bassoons are (still) the best.

You can catch Henry performing the Piazzolla on Sunday, November 23rd at the Joslyn!

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Dani & Serena talk to Ernest Richardson (Principal Pops & Resident Conductor) & Barron Breland (occasional chorusmaster!) about Choral Collaborative, the Omaha Symphony’s one-of-a-kind choral masterworks program that brings together a veritable horde of enthusiastic high schoolers and the OSA.

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Dani & Serena talk to Nate Olson (principal bass) and Bobby Scharmann (associate principal bass) about why bass is... [gestures vaguely]. This episode comes complete with show and tell, Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar Strawberry & Cream, and an extension demonstration!

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Dani & Serena talk to José Luis Gomez about unexpected paths to conducting, saying “why not” instead of “why,” and the incredible importance of a single up-beat.

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Dani & Serena talk to Gary Thor Wedow, conductor of Opera Omaha’s “The Barber of Seville,” about great teachers, getting Boulanger’ed, and why the Rossini contagion is the best contagion.

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Dani & Serena talk to Brett Hodge (Principal French Horn) about being your own prima-donna hype-man, how the French horn works (Dani still doesn’t know), and dreaded first pages.

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Dani & Serena talk to Tracy Bass & Nick Buonanni (Music Librarians) about being the Hobbits of the Orchestra, being so nosy it becomes a career, and the art of prioritization.

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Dani & Serena talk to pianist George Li about growing up as a pianist, why it helps to stretch your brain, and 13-year-olds playing Rachmaninoff.

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Dani & Serena talk with JoAnn Falletta about building relationships with orchestras, music as service, and what you gain when you lead from the podium.

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Dani & Serena close out Season 1 of OSA Backstage with a record-busting finale!

References:

7’35”: Jean-Marie Leclair

15’: Tonos del sur

16’55” Netherlands Bach Society; Rudolf Lutz; Pygmalion; Ludwig Güttler

18’55” Jan Dismas Zelenka

22’35”: Heifetz, Rubinstein, Wayne Gretzky and Michael Scott all said it.

27’: Indianapolis Baroque, concertmastered by Adrian Post

29’10": Jeannette Sorrell of Apollo’s Fire

39’40”: Santiago Billoni

46’40”: Mary Perkinson

47’40”: Jean-Philippe Rameau

48’05”: Dietrich Buxtehude; “Membra Jesu Nostri”

48’40”: Heinrich Schutz & Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

48’55”: Rolf Lislevand

50’35”: Punch Brothers do Brandenburg 3!

51’: Metal Bach!

52’25”: Ironwood Chamber Ensemble

53’25” Adams Fischer; 2022; Charles McHarris & Scottish Chamber Orchestra

1 hr, 1’45”: Rameau: Les indes galantes

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