The Lonely Cello Podcast

Rochester, NY based cellist Sandra Halleran joins me to get into the weeds about teaching, learning, the music industry, and the books and podcasts she find interesting and helpful. She's also new faculty at Tamarack Arts! At the end, Benjamin Whitcomb plays a movement of Britten Suite for Cello No. 2 for unaccompanied cello from his new album. This one's for you, nerds!

Links:

Benjamin Whitcomb's new album: 20th Century Music for Cello is out now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Mqxrf0M2yeOaf1vxa2woG and will be available at his website shortly: https://www.benjaminwhitcomb.com/

Cello Sherpa Podcast: https://www.thecellosherpa.com/podcast.html

Scaling the Tenor Clef Dragon: https://www.johnsonstring.com/cgi-bin/music/scripts/violin-viola-cello-music.cgi?itemno=CEVARISCALINGBOP

Popper 15 Easy Studies: https://imslp.org/wiki/15_Leichte_Et%C3%BCden_in_der_ersten_Lage%2C_Op.76a_(Popper%2C_David)

Jun Jensen is a wildly creative person who brings the intensity and focus that made him a prolific cellist to the corporate world. We cover a massively wide range of topics for this episode! You want to hear from a guy who did more on the cello by 18 than most folks do in an entire career? Got it. How about seeing the world of quantifying human capacity through the lens of music? Oh, why yes. Surprising my guest with hyper-specific technique talk? This is a thing that happened. Wading into DAOs and blockchain? Sure did! I enjoyed this conversation so much. Hope you do, too.

Jun Jensen is a wildly creative person who brings the intensity and focus that made him a prolific cellist to the corporate world. We cover a massively wide range of topics for this episode! You want to hear from a guy who did more on the cello by 18 than most folks do in an entire career? Got it. How about seeing the world of quantifying human capacity through the lens of music? Oh, why yes. Surprising my guest with hyper-specific technique talk? This is a thing that happened. Wading into DAOs and blockchain? Sure did! I enjoyed this conversation so much. Hope you do, too.

A delightful romp down memory lane and extensive conversation about the nuts and bolts of learning to improvise on a stringed instrument.

Joyce Pan and David Aks' new album: https://joyceanddavid.bandcamp.com/releases

Joyce and David's FB page: https://m.facebook.com/JoyceAndDavidMusic/

Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle School: http://www.valleyofthemoon.org/

Vasen: https://vasen.se/about/

Mike Block: https://www.mikeblockmusic.com/

Tessa Lark: https://www.tessalark.com/

Natalie Haas: https://www.nataliehaas.com/

Cello Drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MimVnBAuYqA&list=PL-DyGoFkAJ1GRwBhUD4AOTewsr6l-x8qe

Monkey Chant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HY0oD84OM&t=280s

A delightful romp down memory lane and extensive conversation about the nuts and bolts of learning to improvise on a stringed instrument.

Joyce Pan and David Aks' new album: https://joyceanddavid.bandcamp.com/releases

Joyce and David's FB page: https://m.facebook.com/JoyceAndDavidMusic/

Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle School: http://www.valleyofthemoon.org/

Vasen: https://vasen.se/about/

Mike Block: https://www.mikeblockmusic.com/

Tessa Lark: https://www.tessalark.com/

Natalie Haas: https://www.nataliehaas.com/

Cello Drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MimVnBAuYqA&list=PL-DyGoFkAJ1GRwBhUD4AOTewsr6l-x8qe

Monkey Chant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HY0oD84OM&t=280s

What did we learn in music school? This episode is all about the stuff learned at music school that we use every time we sit down to play or teach. Includes: encouragement, advice, weirdness/silliness, and Cari doing magic tricks with her voice!

What did we learn in music school? This episode is all about the stuff learned at music school that we use every time we sit down to play or teach. Includes: encouragement, advice, weirdness/silliness, and Cari doing magic tricks with her voice!

A quick peek into the legendary self-help text that spawned dozens of (lesser, in my opinion) alternative titles. I promise I will use a pop screen next time, apologies to anyone's eardrums that succumb to the repeated assault when I say the letter "p" in the first few minutes!

A quick peek into the legendary self-help text that spawned dozens of (lesser, in my opinion) alternative titles. I promise I will use a pop screen next time, apologies to anyone's eardrums that succumb to the repeated assault when I say the letter "p" in the first few minutes!

A casual conversation between colleagues about the label "professional musician" and whether it's important, and to whom. Part of an ongoing series, not at all definitive.