It's summer break, we're all getting bored, so we decided to spice it up a bit this week with some random topics we're passionate about! Board/video games, cooking/baking, cats, funny stories about my mom, you name it!

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This week on the show we have Brian Mironer! Brian has been working on Guido, a new invention for music educators to teach solfege. We're very excited about this new invention and very excited for what Brian will do with it!

Inspired by recent experiences, we discuss the relationships between composer and performer and conductor! Lots to unpack here!

Stay tuned for an extra special show to be released next week!

Joining us this week is Erick Álvarez! Erick just got back from an outreach trip to Peru, so we talk about that as well as some unspoken rules of being a musician and how to cultivate emotional intelligence, a very important skill for everyone!

Info for the Great Clarinet Summit can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/446478415769917/

This week on the show we have Jarren Heidelberg! Jarren is a pop music major at USC, you can catch him drumming pretty much any given weekend. In this episode, we talk about DAMN. winning the Pulitzer Prize in music, our impressions of the album, and tearing down elitism surrounding classical music.

This week on the show we have John McGovern! We talk about percussion music, how to take auditions, and what's going on with orchestras today. Here's John's recording of Jabberwocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpqp-tvXWU

We also got our blog up and running! Check it out here: https://ympblogcom.wordpress.com/

Joining us on the show this week is Kelly Cruz! She's a drummer at USC in their pop program! We talk about her experience as a female drummer, and dig in to sexism in the industry as a whole.

Kelly is also in MOTHER, and they're releasing an EP later in May! Check out their assorted social medias for more details!

https://www.facebook.com/thebandmother/

https://www.instagram.com/wearemother/

We back! We get to talk about technology, Dom has some strong opinions on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1P-AEaEp8

No Garrett this week, but we dove in to talk about those HOT summer festivals you're waiting to get rejected from.

Newmusicbox link: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/get-out-there-alternative-opportunities-for-composers-and-performers/

NYT article Alaina talked about: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html

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No Alaina this week, so instead we had our friend Kyle Stalsberg on the show and we talked about cats almost as much as we talked about music.

Download Lilith EP here: https://lilithensemble.bandcamp.com/releases

Website here: https://www.lilithensemble.com/

As always, contact us at [email protected]