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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.

Today I'm so happy to have with me Emmanuel Axe, one of the greatest pianists of our time.

Axe has played with every major orchestra all over the world as a soloist, and as a chamber musician he has played and recorded with artists such as Ioyo Ma, It'sak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Edgar Meyer, and so many others.

He's also a crossword puzzle aficionardo which is where we began

our conversation at his Upper West Side apartment. I hope you enjoy it and

thanks for listening. So thanks so much for being on the show. My pleasure very nice for me to do this. Yeah, so you just said you were you were just finished a crossword from the New York Times?

Well, I they they did a sort of special for the 75th anniversary of the crossword and they had a few, you know, people who like to solve from different professions and somehow I just by happenstance I I was one

from the music profession so wow so you made one of your own well I, that's an exaggeration. There was a there's a maker named Bradley Wilbur who's done 50 puzzles and

Will Shorts, the big boss, put me together with him.

And by email, he composed a puzzle,

which was, I guess the big clue was note it was all around note and I got to do four

corners you know the four corners I got to do the and about half the clues Okay so so that was that was very exciting. So have you always been like a crossword

of fishing now? For a long time now. Yeah our whole family actually. My son and his his wife solve together. My daughter solved, she's the best I think.

And I keep trying.

Yeah, there was a summer when I was at Music Academy of the West where, do you know Jeff Thayer, the violinist? was the we were some stamp partners and we got totally engrossed in it and then I kind of lost touch

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