Working: Arranger Alex Lacamoire Breaks Down His Process for Hamilton

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🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Isaac Butler talks shop with Alex Lacamoire, who was the arranger, music director, conductor, and orchestrator for Hamilton. In the interview, Alex explains what an arranger does and details some of the specific creative decisions that went into songs like “You’ll Be Back,” “Ten Duel Commandments,” “That Would Be Enough,” and “Burn.” After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas answer a listener question about how to set aside time and energy for creative work when you have a full-time job. In Slate Plus, Alex talks about a song from Hamilton that was particularly hard to get right. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-WORK. That's (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and
0:03.4	Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live
0:07.8	with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.
0:12.3	Howdy.
0:13.0	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.
0:16.4	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.0	We love having fun.
0:19.0	Excuse me?
0:20.0	Vicks said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh
0:29.0	Please subscribe
0:31.0	No subscribe now. I do remember one time just having this big realization that these are just
0:39.0	having this big realization that these are just preferences. You know the fact that I say hey I think
0:45.8	this should cut off on beat three right that's just me saying what I would like it to be
0:51.5	someone else could say you know it it's a cut off on. It doesn't mean that my choice is right or wrong. It's just
0:56.4	like one person is choosing chocolate, the other person is choosing vanilla.
0:59.1	Welcome back to Working. I'm your host June Thomas and I'm your other host Isaac Butler.
1:08.0	Isaac. Isaac. The voice we just heard belongs to Alex Lackamore.
1:13.0	Who is he?
1:14.1	Alex is so many different things.
1:16.1	He's a musician.
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