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Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

An Interview with Donald Weilerstein and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Join conductor Joshua Weilerstein and his parents(!), the esteemed performers and teachers, Donald and Vivian Weilerstein, as they discuss how they met, their first time playing music together, teaching philosophies, parenting philosophies, and much much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:02.0

Welcome to episode number Family Circus Edition of Sticky Notes,

0:06.8

the Classical Music Podcast.

0:08.6

My name is Joshua Wilerstein.

0:10.0

I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director

0:12.1

of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in

0:13.6

Lozan Switzerland. This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the

0:18.3

field, or is just getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

0:23.8

So today we're going to be doing a kind of interview

0:26.1

podcast, and I figured who better to start this all off

0:30.1

than to have two honored guests, my parents, the esteemed teachers and performers,

0:35.9

Donald and Vivian Wylershine.

0:37.8

Welcome.

0:38.8

Hi Josh.

0:40.2

Hi, I'm already enjoying being here.

0:43.0

That's the fourth try of that little bit, so as you can imagine this is going to take a while to record.

0:48.0

But it will be wonderful for all the people listening.

0:52.0

So how did you both start in music?

0:55.1

What did you, how did you start performing?

0:57.8

How did you start playing?

0:58.6

How did you start learning your instruments?

1:00.7

Well, my parents were classical music lovers. They were born in Vienna. They came to the states in 1938 with huge music tradition behind them.

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