Classical Music During the Pandemic
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today I was thrilled to have with me Matthew Szymanski of the Phoenix Orchestra and Aram Demirjian of the Knoxville Symphony on the show to talk about what classical music as a whole is going to need to do to respond to the current situation with COVID-19. This is a weedsy conversation that digs into streaming, the future, and the sobering realities of audience-free concerts. If you want to hear 3 musicians grappling in real time with this crisis and how we will come out of it, this is the show for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm a |
| 0:02.0 | a musical music podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My name is Joshua Weilerstein, I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic |
| 0:14.0 | director of the Lozane Chamber Orchestra in Lozon Switzerland. This |
| 0:17.3 | podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just |
| 0:21.5 | getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:24.4 | Before we get started I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors manga, Robert, David, Leo, Richard, |
| 0:30.8 | and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making season six possible. |
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| 0:49.6 | So today's show is going to be a little bit different. |
| 0:51.6 | It's a conversation with two people who have appeared in the show before, |
| 0:54.3 | Matt Schmansky and Aram Demersion, who are two great friends of mine, wonderful conductors, |
| 0:58.8 | musicians. We talked basically just about what the future of classical music is going to look like with the pandemic and then afterwards |
| 1:07.8 | We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, but not that much has changed except of course more cancellations and more talk about what |
| 1:15.7 | concerts will look like at least for the next year or so until we get a vaccine as we've talked about |
| 1:21.6 | this conversation gets into the weeds a lot about |
| 1:23.5 | streaming. I'd actually be really curious to hear from you, the listener, about streaming. |
| 1:28.6 | Whether you would go to concerts, I guess, go to concerts on your computer on TV |
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