Vijay Gupta, Part 1 – “Saying Yes” – TWP056

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When a virtuoso violinist realizes he has yet to develop his own artistic voice, nor any idea of how to accomplish that task, he is face with a choice: continue a lonely descent into angst, or learn to say "yes". Here's the story of how he chose the latter and developed a powerful friendship in the process.

You can find Vijay's album "When the Violin" here.

You can find out more about "Street Symphony" here.

You can find Steve Lopez's book "The Soloist" here.

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0:00.0	The How do we really live truly authentic lives on our own terms that give us a sense of fulfillment and meaning, right?
0:36.9	And I think at the end of the day, one of the things that we do as artists is engage
0:41.5	at the systematic ritualistic killing of our own ego. Welcome to The Well, I'm Anson Mount.
1:02.4	And I am Brandon Edgians.
1:04.6	And Brandon, it's probably fair to say that you and I are both fans of classical European music.
1:11.5	Yes, Okay.
1:13.5	What? It was so funny about that.
1:15.6	I don't know. I've never heard it put it. I don't know. I don't know.
1:19.4	You've never heard it put classical European music.
1:24.2	I guess so, yes. I haven't seen that section at the record store, but I'm sure it exists.
1:28.8	Exactly. And that's part of what we're going to get into in this story. But I thought we could
1:34.0	play a little game to kick things off. All right? So I thought maybe I'd play a piece of music
1:39.4	and you try to tell me who the composer is. Oh, Lord.
1:44.6	All right.
1:45.0	You ready?
1:46.2	Yeah.
2:08.6	Okay, here we go. Any guesses?
2:14.6	No. I mean, I'm better at periods than I am composers.
2:19.3	What's weird is that I... it sounds like a drunk Vivaldi. That's a good description and I would agree with you.
2:22.3	I mean, it sounds very, in a weird way, it sounds contemporary, but it also sounds like it's a bridge between, uh, Baroque and Romanticism.
2:44.0	But I don't know who, I don't know who that composer would be. All right, but the game is you gotta guess. You gotta take a guess.
2:50.0	I'm gonna come up with somebody who's neither. Um, game is you got to guess. You gotta take a guess.
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