Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. My name is Joshua Weilerstein. I'm a conductor, and I'm the music director of the Orchestra National Lille, and the chief conductor of the Allborg Symphony.

This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting

ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music.

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give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. It is greatly appreciated. This week, I am in Lille with the Orchestra

National de Lille, doing a really fun program of French and American music. We're doing

Revelles La Vals, Revelle de Tombeau de Cuperin, and Gershwin's Concerto and F, along with Ives's

three places in New England, the piece we talked about last week. For this week's episode, I've got an

old episode, and it's from the pandemic era when I was doing two episodes a week. And usually

one of those episodes was an interview. And in this case, I interviewed the great American

composer, Caroline Shaw. We talked about composing through the pandemic, lots of things about being away and being not able to see people. So some of that is a little bit outdated. I'm sitting here with my daughter right now recording this. She almost made it through this whole thing. And it was a really, really fun conversation also about her compositional process. so I decided to bring it back in this American series.

Thanks so much and really hope you enjoy this interview with Caroline Shaw.

So Caroline Shaw, welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for being here.

Thanks, Josh. How are you doing? And where are you right now?

I am. I'm doing okay. And I'm in Amherst, Massachusetts right now.

Have you been there the whole whole time?

I've been here most of the time, but I spending a little time in my apartment in New York,

which is in Hill's Kitchen, which is sort of surrounded by everything.

Normally, it's full of tourists and theater goers, and now it's just people in the neighborhood.

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