Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes to Classical Music Podcast. My name is Joshua Weilerstein. I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne Switzerland. This podcast is for anyone

who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just

getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

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Today I'm thrilled to have with me the former concert master of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dichtoro.

Glenn is one of the greatest American violinists of our time and he's currently teaching at the University

of Southern California in LA, where we talked about his life as a concert master working with

conductors like Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Mosell, Zuben Mehta, and others and a lot

about modern American orchestral life and the positives and negatives of that. This was such a fascinating

conversation and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. Oh, The Great, all right, so a big thank you to Glenn Dick Duro for joining me today all the way from California.

We're eight hours apart, I think.

Well, soon to be nine hours because we're changing our clocks.

Oh, that's true.

Yeah, that's actually why I was late to our interview today.

Because...

It's hard to know even which direction that would put me. We're falling back an hour so.

Yeah. So we'd be back to nine hours ahead which is when we scheduled the time so

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