The Viola And The Octopus: Nadia Sirota’s Two Loves
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Nadia Sirota is Juilliard-trained violist who hosts Meet The Composer, a podcast that shifts the conversation around classical music by featuring interviews with modern-day composers. She’s also worked with artists ranging from Kesha to Paul Simon. Plus, she explains how being on tour led to a love of aquariums, and Nerdette connects her with the Senior Curator of Fishes at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.
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| 0:36.6 | And I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:50.8 | Today we're talking with violist Nadia Sorota. She's a chamber musician and also hosts the podcast Meet the Composer. Nadia has worked with all sorts of different musicians, people from Paul Simon to Nico Mule to Arcade Fire and even Kesha. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm excited about this because it turns out that Pandora knows my musical tastes better than I do because I've been using it for over a decade. |
| 0:59.9 | The algorithm. |
| 1:05.0 | And I realize that the station I listen to the most, which I have no idea how it began. |
| 1:06.3 | Is it the Kesha station? |
| 1:12.4 | No, but it is the people playing pop songs on classical instrument station. |
| 1:14.7 | That is what it has become after 10 years. |
| 1:15.4 | Interesting. |
| 1:20.3 | Which is a thing that I maybe should be embarrassed about that being actually my go-to music. |
| 1:22.7 | It's like cellos playing pop songs. |
| 1:25.7 | But maybe Nadia would say that's okay. |
| 1:26.7 | What's an example? And apparently that is in my heart what my favorite music is. I would never admit that. |
| 1:51.4 | Except that I just did. Except that I just did. But Nadia would say maybe that's good because it's making classical music more accessible. |
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