285 - COVID-19 and the Arts Part 2: Performing Arts and the Pandemic with Marin Alsop
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic halted all in-person performing arts in the last year: a "big hole to crawl back out of," says Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Alsop talks with Josh Sharfstein about what's been lost during a period of "emotional stasis," but also how the pandemic, alongside the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, offer the chance for much-needed change for and modernization of the orchestral performing arts.
KEYWORDS: pandemic response; unemployment; community mental health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.8 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.5 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, I speak to the extraordinary Marin Alsop, who is finishing her last season as music director |
| 0:53.5 | of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and is the chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony. |
| 0:59.0 | Our topic is the performing arts and the pandemic. What's been lost, what's been gained, and what's ahead. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:08.0 | Marin Alsop, it is such an honor to have you on our podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.6 | I want to start with a question about the difficult year this has been for the performing arts. |
| 1:19.6 | What has been lost because of the pandemic? |
| 1:22.6 | Well, thank you personally. |
| 1:24.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.6 | Well, it's been, I think it's been a very, very difficult year, obviously, especially for the performing arts, because all live gatherings have been canceled. |
| 1:39.6 | Debut weeks with orchestras have been canceled. So many of my students and my fellowship winners were looking forward to, you know, |
| 1:50.0 | I feel for the young people who are just getting their careers off the ground and everything |
| 1:54.0 | came to such an abrupt halt. |
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