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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Legendary musician Yo-Yo Ma called my guest today the future of classical music in America. Joshua Roman is a cellist, accomplished composer and curator whose performances embrace musical styles from Bach to Radiohead. At 22, he became the youngest principal cellist in the Seattle Symphony. Now as a soloist, his performances have been viewed by millions.
I was able to catch up with Joshua on this special LIVE performance CreativeLive TV. Wherever you are in the world, hope this episode lifts you up. Please be sure to give Joshua a shout on the socials.
Enjoy!
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0:00.0 | I am so excited for today's episode because I always like doing new things and I think you are going to enjoy it as well. |
0:12.2 | My guest, of course, I have a guest, but there's more than just guest because it's guest plus plus, all right? |
0:17.8 | So my guest has been called the future of classical music in America. |
0:22.9 | And the person who called them that, oh yeah, that's just yo-yo-ma. |
0:26.5 | That's right. |
0:27.3 | Yo-Yo-ma, the legendary musician called my friend and our guest today, Joshua Roman, |
0:33.6 | the future of classical music in America. |
0:36.2 | And the cool thing about Joshua is that when you say classical music, he says, yeah, |
0:39.6 | you know, there's a lot of baggage with classical music. |
0:42.1 | And I'm looking to reinvent his role in it. |
0:46.7 | Now, Joshua is one of the world's top cellists. |
0:50.5 | That's right. |
0:51.1 | He plays the cello. |
0:53.0 | And just a little bit of backstory here. I got to I got to give a shout out to my guy here. The youngest principal player in the Seattle Symphony history. He was the principal cellist at age 22. Now he's like that means he's like the youngest person in that orchestra by like |
1:13.2 | 35 years. But not only is he, um, a prodigy, which I think it's, that's the right word, |
1:20.2 | but he's just one of the most down to earth, sweet, kind, smart humans that you could ever know. |
1:26.7 | And we have him on the show today where he performs. |
1:30.9 | And it's so fun to me to have, it's so fun for me, rather, to have some variety in not just |
1:37.8 | the types of guests, but in the variety and the style of the show. So Josh, when I talk, we've been friends for those super OG Chase Jarvis fans. |
1:48.6 | You may recognize some previous collaborations that he and I've done. |
1:53.4 | He has created music for at least two of my pieces, two previous films. I've done short films. |
2:02.3 | Commercial I did for Nikon, just a handful of things. So for you, OG, folks, you will, |
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