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AP News Radio
Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he was attacked outside Florida hotel in March
"Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he was blindsided when he was attacked in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in March. With the latest, Rick Allen tells ABC's Good Morning America, he was out for a smoke break outside a hotel on March 13th when suddenly he was assaulted and he hid his head on the ground. Ellen says he put up his hand and said he was not a threat. I don't think he knew who I was. But he must have seen that I wasn't a threat because you know I've only got one arm. Court records show 19 year old max Hartley of Avon Ohio has pleaded not guilty to two counts of battery and four counts of criminal mischief. Police have not determined a motive
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Heat back to the NBA's final four, top Knicks 96-92 for 4-2 series win
"The Miami Heat are headed back to the Eastern Conference Finals after topping the New York Knicks 96 to 92 in game 6 on Friday night. Jimmy Butler scored a team high 24 points for Miami. We got 8 more to get. And like I always say, we always going to be in this thing together. I'm so, so proud of all of my guys. Bam adebayo added 23 max drew scored 14 and Kyle Lowry had 11 and 9 assists for the 8th seeded heat. Jalen Brunson was spectacular for New York in a losing effort, scoring 41 points on 14 for 22 shooting. I'm geffen cool ball.
AP News Radio
Joe Pavelski scores 6th of series, Stars top Kraken 6-3
"The Dallas stars scored four goals in the second period in route to a 6 three win over the Seattle kraken, max domi had two goals and an assist as the stars bounced back from a 7 two loss in game three to even the best of 7 series at two games apiece. I think to a man we all knew that we didn't play our best last game and his team doesn't have two bad games in our own. And we just showed that tonight and that's from top to bottom. We had everyone going. So absolutely massive win. Jaden Schwartz scored both of the kraken goals, the stars Joe pavelski notched his 6th goal of the series. Jim Bernard, Seattle
AP News Radio
Heat take 3-1 lead, hold off Knicks 109-101 for Game 4 win
"The Miami Heat moved to win away from their third trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in the last four years by topping the New York Knicks one O 9 one O one in game four. Jimmy Butler scored 27 points and added ten assists. We always got a shot to win whenever regarding we're just playing hard and playing together. Bam adebayo finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds, max truce scored 16 and Kyle Lowry added 15. Jalen Brunson finished with 32 points and 11 assists while RJ Barrett scored 24 and Julius Randle added 20 for the Knicks. I'm geffen cool bar.
AP News Radio
Butler scores 28, Heat top Knicks 105-86 for 2-1 series lead
"Jimmy Butler returned from his spraying to ankle to score 28 points in the Miami Heat topped the New York Knicks one O 5 to 86 to take a two to one lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. It's never on one individual. All year long, we've been a team that plays team basketball on both sides of the floor. Max truce had 19 points, bam adebayo added 17 and 12 rebounds for Miami. Jalen Brunson scored 20 for New York, Julius Randle, added ten points and 14 rebounds for the Knicks game four is Monday. I'm geffen cool bar.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Transgender Youth Population Doubles, Radical Agenda Exposed
"Referencing a study from the UCLA school of law's Williams institute, which indicated that the transsexual youth population doubled over a 5 year period, gabbert stated. This didn't just happen, this is very intentional and it's the consequence of this radical agenda that is being pushed on our kids. Their rejecting the existence of objective reality by rejecting this most fundamental truth of the differences between a biological male and female, Gabbard reference recent findings from the fruit and Drug Administration, which link puberty blocker hormones to brain swelling and vision loss. Just another indication of the extent to which so called gender affirming care is both careless and destructive. Doctor christiane nusslein, the Nobel Prize winning director emeritus at the Max Planck institute of developmental biology. Recently stressed that taking hormones is inherently dangerous, despite the horrific debilitating and potentially deadly side effects highlighted by esteemed scientists, gabbert suggested that hasn't stopped President Biden from going and telling parents that quote affirming your child's identity is one of the most powerful things you can do to keep them safe.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Should the Movie 'Nefarious' Be Turned Into a Play?
"Question number two, here's the topic, nefarious. It's a movie, right? What if it were a play? A traveling play, Eric, let's combine your idea and mine. Yes, the movie nefarious should be a play. Only I have a different actor in mind for the play. That person would be max McLean. This would be a perfect production for the center for performing arts as a traveling show, max could pull it off as he was screw tape if you remember. I could try to pass this idea on to him, but he'd be more likely to listen to you or taxes. Thank you. Yes. Well, I have mentioned that I thought that the Steve dais film nefarious should be put on as a stage play. I mean, it almost reads like a stage play, even the film. It has that feeling. So I think it should be a stage play. I would not see my friend max McLean in the role of the demonically possessed. Criminal murderer just because screw tape is a very urbane C. S. Lewis kind of demonic compared to the raw horror of the character played in nefarious. So maybe max would want to do that and could do that. But I wouldn't see that. I would see my friend Brad Stein. I actually mentioned this on the air, I think, the other day. Yeah, you did, yeah. Brad Stein or someone who can really, really play a dark, twisted, disturbed character, because that's who Brad really is. I wish I had lunch with him. That's who he is 24/7. Brad Stein, the comedian is a genius who I think could pull that off. Yeah. And I would say they ought to make it a stage play. The film, by the way, if you haven't seen it, you got to go see it, folks.
AP News Radio
US sprinter, Olympic medalist Tori Bowie dies at 32
"An American sprinter who won three Olympic medals is dead at the age of 32. USA track and field and icon management have announced the death of Tori Bowie, but no cause has been given. Buoy turned in an electric performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, winning silver in the 100 meters and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a four by 100 relay team that won the gold medal. A year later, she won the 100 meters at the 2017 world championships. She also helped the four by 100 team to a gold medal. USA track and field CEO max Siegel says buoys impact on the sport is immeasurable. I'm Mike Hempen
AP News Radio
Stars bounce Wild in 6 with 4-1 win behind Hintz, Oettinger
"The stars closed out their first round series by dominating the second period of a four one win over the wild in game 6. Wyatt Johnston and mason marchment scored while Dallas out shop Minnesota 18 5 in the middle period. Rupa hints got the stars going with his 5th goal of the series and Jake gottinger handled 22 shots. Was perfect until Freddie goudreau beat him with 7 O 7 remaining. Max domi iced it with an empty netter. Wild goaltender Philip Gustafson was pulled after stopping 23 shots over two periods. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Olson, Fried lead Braves to rain-shortened 4-0 win over Mets
"Met Olsen and max fried led the braves to a four zero range short and win over the mets in the opener of a four game set. Atlanta did it scoring in the 5th inning, capped by Olsen's three run blast. Ronald de Cunha junior put the braves ahead with an RBI single before scoring on Olson's home run one pitch later. Freed scattered three hits over 5 innings to help the braves improve to 11 and two on the road this season. The game was called after 5 frames because of rain. David Peterson took the loss for the mets who have dropped 5 of 6. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Report: FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying
"According to a report by the inspector general of the transportation department, some engineers for the federal aviation administration wanted to ground the Boeing 7 37 max soon after a second deadly crash, but top officials in the agencies overruled them. I Norman hall. The first 7 37 max crash occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia, and was followed by the second in March 2019 and Ethiopia, in all 346 people died, the report says that FAA officials wanted to sort out raw data about the two crashes and held off grounding the plane despite growing international pressure. The report says one engineer made a preliminary estimate that the chance of another max crash was more than 13 times greater than FAA risk guidelines allow the FAA says it concurs with the inspector general's recommendations and
AP News Radio
Alvarez, Julks deliver late, Astros top Braves 5-2
"The Houston Astros came from a two zero deficit in the 8th inning to defeat the Atlanta Braves 5 two and sweep their three game series. Corey jock singled in the 9th driving in one run for Houston, but it was Alex Bregman's two run base hit that clinched it for the Astros. To come in here and play our brand of baseball, probably for the complete three, I felt like pretty complete games for the first time this year was cool. Both starters, Christian Javier, for the Astros and max breed for the braves had solid outings, Javier had ten strikeouts in 6 innings. Kevin pillar homered for the braves in the 6th. Gary mckillop's Atlanta.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Biden's New Mortgage Rule Punishes People With Good Credit
"New rule that's going to be instituted on May 1st. Around something called an LLP, a loan level price adjustment. Under the guise of equity pushing towards equity, Fannie and Freddie, which should have been disassembled after the 2008 financial collapse, the federal backed mortgages are now going to make a new rule. Congress didn't vote on this. There wasn't a hearing on this. This would not go through a reconciliation process. This did not go through amendments or adjustments or House representatives or senators. No, no, no, these are unelected bureaucrats making a unilateral decision to punish you if you have good credit. This right here is an all out penalty. A walloping. If you have decided to engage in delayed gratification and those of you maybe in this audience that have made bad decisions, gone on vacations, you can't afford max out your credit cards to go to four seasons, going to steakhouses and you have bad credit because you made bad decisions. Well, here's where the new regime comes in. Now all PAs are price adjustments to a loan reflecting how risky it is. If you have good credit, traditionally you pay less. Obviously, you've proven you can do it. If you have bad credit, well then you're going to pay more because you got to prove to the bank. You got to prove to the lender that you're a good bet. But no, no, no, no, because of equity. The whole game has changed. This new rule says that if you have bad credit, you pay less. And if you have good credit, you pay more. You heard me right. We are changing the game. We are the moral fabric of the country has already basically gone. But now this is just another reflection of the moral fabric being gone. No longer are we a country where we want to say good job. Dutiful citizen for saving money, not going out to eat every night for going to the grocery store for using coupons. For investing, now we are going to punish you if you've made good financial decisions.
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Scherzer suspended 10 games for sticky substance ejection
"Mets pitcher Max Scherzer has received a ten game suspension for having a foreign substance on his hand, a punishment he immediately appealed. The three time Cy Young award winner was tossed during the fourth inning of Wednesday's game in Los Angeles after his hand in glove were inspected three times by umpire Phil kazi. He said my hands sticky and I said, I swear my kids life, I'm not using anything else. This is sweat and rosin. He's the third pitcher to be penalized for such an infraction since MLB began a crackdown on sticky substances in 2021. Scherzer can pitch until the appeals process is completed. I'm Dave ferry.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Scott Perry: Biden Has Maxed Out His Credit Limit
"We have reached our credit card limit and of course president Biden with the normal Obama kind of viewpoint thinks that we should just increase the credit card limit and just keep spending us into oblivion on things that we don't need. You know, I don't know whether you know this or your listeners know this, but during COVID and stimulus, we spent three quarters of a $1 billion for prisoners for prisoners for their stimulus. I mean, that's the kind of crazy stuff that, you know, it shouldn't even be discussed in Washington yet D.C. yet this guy and The White House says he's not going to negotiate. Well, if he wants to default and if he wants to crash the markets, it'll be his business because I think that we have, look, we should not celebrate this time. We should not celebrate the fact that we've got this debt ceiling raise, you know, essentially paying the bill for what has already been spent by the left. But if we can get these systemic foundational changes, especially the mandatory programs, including the spending caps, we'll get a $1 trillion out of the first year and savings. And four and a half $1 trillion over ten. Now, you never count on what happens in the out years. I know we've been burned plenty of times on that before. But with a $1 trillion in the first year and knowing that the appropriations process is right behind the debt ceiling vote, we have the opportunity finally as Republicans to drive the cost curve down and bring this thing back into balance. And
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The latest in sports
"AP sports some Josh Valtteri, a busy night of playoff action Wednesday as we start on the hardwood where Memphis tied it serious with LA one O three 93 in a game two win. The grizz played without star John morant, who has a hand injury, but Xavier Tillman scored 22 in the win. Also out west Denver took a two O series lead topping Minnesota one 22 one 13. Jamal Murray scored 40. In the east, the box tied their series with Miami one 38 one 22 Milwaukee played without Giannis Anton Takuma, who missed with a back injury, but pat Connaughton had 22 points off the bench. On the ice, the Panthers dropped Boston 6 three to even their series at a game apiece. Carolina grabbed the four three win and a two zero series lead thanks to an OT goal by yes perforce. Out west, the stars tied their series at a game of peace, dropping the wild 7 three, the oilers edged LA four two to tie that series. And on the diamond, the mets topped the Dodgers 5 three behind 5 hits from Brandon nimmo. Max Scherzer though tossed from the game after three innings following multiple umpire investigations into a foreign substance on Scherzer's pitching hand. I'm Josh rowntree, AP sports.
AP News Radio
Scherzer tossed, Mets still rally to beat Dodgers 5-3
"Brandon nimble went 5 for 5, including a two run Homer in the match 5 to three win over the Dodgers. Really cool day I was glad I was able to help out. You know, help the team win. After posting three scoreless innings met starter Max Scherzer was ejected in the fourth after umpires determined that he had a sticky substance on his hand in glove, Scherzer could face suspension. Jimmy Jacob bonus got the women relief, LA's Noah syndergaard allowed two runs over 6 innings, but drops to zero in three. Mark Myers, Los Angeles
The Charlie Kirk Show
Experts Call for 6-Month Pause on A.I. Systems
"Joe, let's continue. Is this quote correct from Yuval harari who I can't stand? Who seems to be a transhumanist fan? Is it true that he's saying he calls her AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months? What is this all about? So to lay this story out and this all unfolded about two weeks ago, you had the future of life institute, which is ultimately composed of mostly transhumanist leaning individuals, released an open letter calling for a 6 month moratorium on any AI system above the level of GPT four. Now, the signatories include max tegmark, author of live three and one of the cofounders, Stuart Russell, computer scientist, and then of course Elon Musk and Yuval Noah harari, along with, I think, now up to 2000 other AI experts. And the dangers that they point out are the media and the Internet environment being flooded with disinformation, which I think is a very real danger. They point out the loss of jobs mass loss of jobs, including fulfilling jobs, which I think is a very significant danger. Goldman Sachs just put out a report where they estimate 300 million jobs will be lost worldwide due to AI, for instance. And then finally, they worry that human beings will lose control of civilization. And I think that even if artificial intelligence doesn't even go any further than it is now, what you will end up with where we're already going is that most of us are losing control of our civilization. And that power, the power of the direction of our civilization, lies in the hands of technocrats, tech corporations, government and military institutions that have little to no regard for our wants, our will and our needs.
Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"max" Discussed on Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"Then i started orchestra. I grew up in charleston south carolina. And i did not have I didn't have a good youth orchestra. That i was in I when i was in high school. I started sobbing with charleston symphony. So that was kind of my first experience of you know of playing with a good orchestra. So when i came to peabody i was so excited about playing in a symphony regularly. You know a school symphony. And i realized as time went on that i loved the collaboration of playing in an orchestra. I really loved being concert. Master i loved that pivotal role on stage end. So i allowed my ideas of what i wanted as a musician to change and to evolve. And i think it's important not to put yourself in that cookie cutter of no. This was my plan. This is what i came here to do. So i'm gonna make myself do that. And you have to decide and sometimes it takes years like you know might. My aspirations are changing all the time. So you gotta give yourself the space to do that. You mentioned that the the The process for the winning position at el paso is not said. Not that hired. But i'm still be curious to hear you talk a little bit about what the process was like. Like just to kinda talk through that. Because i know that something that a lot of a lot of people are interested in like how how do even getting these Orchestra positions work. Yeah there's no. This is a good time to talk about auditions and talk about that. Whole frustrating world So my situation with al paso was fairly unique Because to be completely honest. I did not take a conventional audition for the position of being concert master I knew it. One of my former teachers is a is a friend of the conductors there and the music director and after i left You body no actually. It was still. It was when i was doing my. Gp at peabody They needed a guest concert master for a week. And it was last minute And they were really trying to find someone and so my name came up and they ended up getting in touch with me and asking if i would be able to come out as gus. Cancer master which was very exciting. Because it sometimes just that if this goes back to networking like it kind of comes full circle you want your name to be in people's minds to be like. Oh wait i. I know so and so who might be good for this so it was really exciting for me. of that word of mouth happened so i went guests concert master and ended up connecting. Really well with orchestra. I love the people in the orchestra. Gone along with music director and then it so happened that their concert master didn't end up working out and She had gotten another job and moved on. And so again. My name came up and they called me and i was like hey like you know the orchestra really connected well with you feel like you would be a good fit can we. Can you sign a one year contract to play with us so it was very exciting. How it turned out but also very unconventional. Because you know typically you did go through that multi-step on dishing process I auditioned for. I've taken you know quite a few or construct additions I got into the finals in baltimore symphony last year. Right before the lockdown Which was exciting for me. Because it was the closest that i had gotten a major symphony audition Let me talk a little bit about the subject of auditions and the mindset. That i try to have because it is a very very difficult saying to take auditions and to be turned down time and time and time again which is usually the case. You know some people take an audition and they win their first one and that's amazing but more often than not that happen. I know they're you know like that's that's the hard field But with auditions. I found that the more you can work on having a balance of confidence and bringing your brand to the audition to that no blind audition on stage having the mentality of not. Oh i really hope. They like my playing or i really hope the jury likes you know how i sound but standing up there instead and being like this is how i play. I have worked hard for this. This is what i can bring to your organization or to your orchestra and it's a balance of not being not being proud. You know in a seated way but being confident that you've worked for this and you deserve this as much as anybody else on that stage if you bring that attitude well also knowing that their berry could be someone else auditioning who more of what the orchestra's looking for or what the jury is looking for. Then if you get turned down you're not thinking. Oh no like what could i am done better. You know this hurt so much. I was expecting this job. Or you think okay. you know. this just wasn't the right time or this wasn't what the jury was looking for. And i'm going to go and i'm going to go to the next audition and i'm going to figure out you know a few things that went wrong on your tackled. And i'm going to bring my brandon byproduct to the next job offer. It's very much sort of like nick. An interview for anything else. Right the people wanting to hire you. They wanna the confidence they wanna see what you know you can bring to them so it really isn't any different with With playing on mission. What are the other things that you do. And how do you manage the rest of your life. That's not not the paso job. Well i'm mark everything in my calendar. Because when i don't i will. I am sure to double book something. And that's awful. I've done it a few times and you never wanna do again with that out of love number. One of managing.
Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"max" Discussed on Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"We discuss how she built her. Current portfolio career. The unique challenges of orchestral work and how to think strategically as an aspiring orchestral performer. Shannon welcome. I was wondering if you could start by just telling us a little bit about what your life looks like right now. Sure thank you so much for. Having me on the podcast. I'm excited to be here Over zoom so. I graduated from peabody in two thousand eighteen or two thousand nineteen. So i did my undergrad at peabody. And then i did one year of graduate performance diploma and after that i got a job as paso concert master of el paso symphony But i- everybody's confused. Because of that about where i live so i actually still live in baltimore but i fly out. They fly me out once a month. for the week of their like subscription masterworks concerts. So i've been doing that now for this'll be my third year although last year was non existent of course So i've basically been there one year and then I'll be doing again. This year and i saw with baltimore symphony. I freelance a lot around the baltimore area. I'm also a principal. Second violinist of symphony in c. Which is kind of a young professionals orchestra based out of new jersey. So i'm a little bit all over the place in that exciting. A freelance musician. Lifestyle right now yet. No just jumped right on that like that. Seems like it involves a lot of traveling. I've just kind of curious about like how has going into all that. Travelling felt worked. Are there any things that have made. It made it harder or easier. Well i find with the way i work. I work much better. And i'm much more motivated when i'm kind of just going and going and going And i find a lot of motivation with violin. is external for me so i figured out after college that i really needed to create a lot of opportunities for myself so that i remained motivated and excited about violin. So traveling is kind of part of that With going to all paso it is you know i. It's tiring to go out there every month. But i find when i come back after that week. I'm just needed. And i and i want to get into the next thing in baltimore and then gear up for troubling again And especially after not traveling so much lately. I am very excited to get a little busier with that. And just see new places and meet new people. It's all it all makes it exciting. I love that you talked about external motivation. Because i feel like a lot of people i talked to almost feel like. They can't be externally motivated particularly as artists. Turner motivation and so i definitely like have have some similar feelings about the external motivation is powerful. I'm not gonna say it's all one or the other. And i don't think that that's what you said either. But it's just refreshing to hear about that. I'm curious about how you can came to that realization that that was an important motivational factor. And like how if you built. You talked a little bit about building all these things that you do other ways you kind of utilize that well you know. I felt this was mainly through undergrad. Where you figure a lot of things out about what kind of musician you are. Or what motivates you or. What drives you what your goals are. And i felt as far as external motivation goes. I felt guilty for a very long time. That i didn't have more of this internal Passion and drive completely on its own for violin. I mean of course. I love violent and i love what i do but i he. I found that i would beat myself up a lot over. You know if. I didn't have something. I was preparing for For maybe not being as motivated to practice or not being as motivated to You know work on certain music. That i didn't see where it was going to pay off. Or you know what performance it was going to be in and stop and then i realize that you know when you know when you figure out something about yourself. It's much better to turn it into. Okay how can. I use this to help me. How can i understand this part of myself and use it to help me and drive me so once i realized that external motivation was what what motivated me. It became a lot more of me kind of working with myself to be like okay. So where do i find that. And how can i get that. And that kind of goes into certain things with networking certain things about learning how to look for those opportunities for yourself knowing that. That's the best way to kind of get yourself going. Do you wanna talk a little bit about your like. I'm curious to hear how this external motivation obviously drives your need to find opportunities but How that kind of impacts your your strategies about networking. So i find that networking as musicians is getting to a better spot. Like these days where sin- employee being musician being on stage playing music and walking offstage isn't enough. You know the audience wants to know that you're a human just like them. Who has this life. Who has you know things that they're excited about outside of music and things that they're excited in music And so i'll use something. As an example i play as part of this candlelight series in dc which is cortez concert series We have candles all over and usually it's outdoors. People can bring you know wine and food and say unless than and what we really trying to do is make the audience feel like we are very down to earth. People were personable and we want to interact so as important as it is for us playing the music and playing it. Well we also like to talk during the concerts and maybe tell a few jokes or you know encourage the audience to participate and then you stay and you talk with the people with the audience afterwards. And i have met so many amazing people just by doing that. That not only is good to make those connections but you never know where that is. Gonna go in undergrad. Especially i found that it's easy for us. I'll say us for when i was in school. It's easy to think that nobody's watching you and that nobody's noticing how you act on stage or how you act in that rehearsal that you don't really care about or you don't want to be there for you know and my advice to students in school is always be thinking about how your actions in a rehearsal your professionalism your excitement for what you're doing.
Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"max" Discussed on Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"Which was a year and a half while i guess it was actually three years after i graduated and two years after Awesome of the other members. So yes so you know. There is a moment when i was at peabody. It's at ira moment that i'm sure every student has were a teacher will say look around. Look to the last the right. Everyone you see here is going to be a part of your professional network forever. And you're like it's true like there are people that were my classes who are now making hiring decisions. Artistic decisions at some of the biggest arts institutions in the united states. Some of them are of course on the stage but many of them are also behind the scenes because we do need artists in those positions so people are on the Working in hr people are recruiting. People are hiring people are in charge of the processes. People are of course. Playing people are leading arts institutions arts education programs. So it's like you really do look around. You're like oh yeah my grad my the class. That teacher was like these people do become. And that doesn't mean you made friends with them while you were there and sometimes i only remember your first name but all in time when people reach out to you and say oh. I'm a peabody student. I i will say okay. How can i help right so the network does continue and peabody is a big part of that. And i don't have to have known you when i was there to feel like. Yeah like let's figure out a way. Do you need some help Professionally people reach out to me and asked me to help with connecting them with someone else or Or advice. I'm happy to give all of that. Just because of of the commonality of the institution so that does carry a lot of weight going forward. The q podcast is just one of the many ways that launch pad provides support for peabody artists as they build their own connections and communities. If you'd like more.
Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"max" Discussed on Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
"A lot of people knew this this person in the community and knew that he had this interest in music. You know he studied in. I think he was a choral director at one point and but visit germany and vienna all the time to go see concert so he was really passionate about the music. I mean he was actually a page turner for some of our concerts for a pianist so awesome so he got it. That was what's important. You need to find somebody who gets it and at least one person the research behind that and like knowing like what are. What is that person's goals so that you can connect with them when you meet with them and you know thinking back to the initial summer that i was doing this you know when i might founded it. I was actually staying. You know so. I was on summer vacation so to speak from from mcgill. I was living in houston with my parents spending the summer with them and i would spend besides practicing. You know three or four hours a day on the cello. I would spend a good two three hours on the phone calling. Family members calling anybody that i knew in in the with great lakes community where i wanted to do this festival asking them kind of topics all over the place but basically saying i have this idea. I want to start this festival. What do you recommend. Who do you recommend. I talk to and then they would tell me your name and then i would call that and it was anything from finding a pianist because i had to find somebody relatively local. I found ended up finding somebody really wonderful in in minneapolis. Which is you know driveable for our drive. Just in the midwest is drivable and so yeah It yeah it took a lot of a lot of. That's that's when you went entrepreneur. Basically you starting a thing. You want to start a music festival. You want to start an orchestra. You just need to talk to lots of people and it's it's networking one.
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"We just couldn't really figure out a time where i would actually be needed because jonathan as the program director would be the first substitute for anybody who needed to be covered. And then the other the other substitute would be caught harrison. Who is the weekend announcer and also the operations director so she would be available for substituting as well. Now those two are married and they like to go on vacation. Which was part of the reason that i was able to step in charleston conductor. Thomas foreigner discusses the route. He took to building his own festival. Putting yourself forward and the importance of finding a partner who's values align with yours. What i basically the way. I started this festival beyond having the idea. It was like okay. I'm gonna do recital cello piano recital. I'm going to be the cellist. I need higher pianist. And i'm looking for a venue to do this recital so in the in the great lakes region. There's an art center there and they have a performing arts and it's quite a nice. They have appropriate performing arts component to the programming as well as visual arts and i went to them and i said hey I'd really like to to put this concert on you know. How can we make this work. There's probably some sort of fee for the use of the piano. Or whatever and they they basically convinced me not to do it. They're saying well we're more interested in. We're only interested in bringing in acts from nashville you know having cover bands etc etc but you should go down and talk to the church. The father. Tom is really interested in classical music and have a really beautiful space. So that that was kind of like the first nail in the coffin. Actually that ended up kind of killing off the festival. Was you know that the local performing arts center passed up an opportunity for really high class music to be performed in their space. And that just sort of kind of gives you an example of sometimes people have different different agendas. So so then. I went down and i met with father. Brought my cello just walked in kind of coal meetings at up. And said hey. I'd like to to do a recital. And can you help me raise some money. I'm going to need whatever. It was five hundred dollars from pianist and he said what about for you right question. How much money do you need. And i'm like. Oh wow i was going to do it for free but now that you mention it. That's that's when i knew. I had the right the right partner in this venture and he was able to make some calls and through their arts committee which is part by the way. Churches are also nonprofits. Not five one c three. It's something else i think. Yeah so he was able to call a couple of corporate sponsors and bobbing bought a boom. We had we had the money we needed to do. And then also very handily because we were under their umbrella arts committee the volunteers of the arts committee of this church. They were able to help with publicity so they were going around hanging posters. They scheduled me with radio station interviews and that was a huge jump. Start to this venture which lasted about four or five years. And i think we we started with a budget of thousand dollars and i think we got up to about seven to ten over about three concerts worth of music by the biggest year so it sounded like having a part. The right organizational partner was a huge help in getting it so this not all the responsibility was on you. Did you do anything differently. Did you did the conversation..
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"Performing as well That being being a good colleague being prepared showing up on time all that but also being a good person around the people that you work with trying your best to you and this can all be done. Without having to be accommodating networking can just be human interaction. And i think letting the network letting the networking thing fall by the wayside and allow it to be replaced by interaction. As a good person can do that kind of networking work for you and then when you approach someone when you approach somebody knew about something. Let that also be very human approach. I very human conversation. John also shared the relationship building process. That led his radio job in baltimore as well. The time and persistence. It required that tangent branching off of doing college radio. And what i did after. That was as soon as i got to baltimore like okay. Oh there's a classical radio station here. I should see if they need any help. I had actually been emailing my boss. Jonathan pelewski since. I moved to baltimore about any opportunity to get involved at the radio station because at the time they hadn't hired anybody new in like twenty years and i thought well you know maybe the timing could be right for some fresh blood or maybe you just need some help with something. I could do adleman work. Whatever you need. And and another thing is luck because the six months after grad school was just a stressful nebula of gigs and minimum waging. That eventually allowed me to eventually allowed me to ride it out until i got a call from jonathan about needing somebody to step in because there are substitution options. Had run out. So that's basically how i was able to get my start. There at a lot of it is luck but part of it was sort of that cultivation beforehand. Yeah so. I mean just to talk about that a little bit. How long was that period of cultivation of that before you got that call to to substitute. It was really for the for the two years that i had been living in baltimore during grad school. So i had moved there. I had sent an email to jonathan. I can't remember which email it was that. I got my first response for unto. It might have been. It might have been the first one. And then i would send an email like every few months or so ever just to be present but not be annoying and then i also sang with at politics group concert or so baltimore while that was still a thing and jonathan would do pre concert lectures there every now and then and that's where i got to meet him for the first time just so. He could put a face with the pestering emails and then eventually i sent him i. Actually it was. It was the first time that i had sent him recordings of myself that he'd said that he definitely be interested. He doesn't have anything for me to do right now. But you know he'll keep me in mind and then eventually we were able to get me in contact. He was able to get in contact with the general manager at the time joe hutchins and he was able. We were able to work out like what the terms would be for being a substitute there..
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"This week on max q we're pulling highlights from past episodes that address making connections also sometimes called networking. We hear from a lot of students that networking or how to talk to people. Build relationships and find partners is one of their biggest challenges at the same time on. Max q almost every person we talk with mentions how important networking is. So we've put together a super cut of our past guests talking about their networking experience. What tools they use how they think about building relationships and some anecdotes about how nurturing relationships has helped them. If you haven't heard the original episodes they're all listed in order of appearance in the episode notes with links so you can go back and check out the whole conversation first. up is cellist. And arts administrator. Olivia rain off talking about how she reframed the ideas of networking. She heard early on the way that networking was presented to me. I've always had a problem with and it was throughout classes throughout lectures talks with guest speakers in class Talks with teachers on one. It's always been presented to me in a way that i feel like everyone knows. We're all trying to use each other but it's mask with this veil of feigned interest in what everyone else is doing and it's just it seems very fake to me and i hate metro ch of right transactional and maybe and other in other fields. That makes more sense. And that's more applicable but in my experience in the arts. It's not it's very much not transactional. There's so much more depth to it than that. And so it's always bothered me that like i've been trained and in being taught about networking being taught how to talk how to schmooze how to make someone think that you're really interested in what they're doing and i always wondered like why not. Just be interested in what they're doing does something that i've learned along the way throughout the many conversations i've had a Mostly about career paths and career choices. Is that everyone has had a similar experience. Not necessarily the same experience but we all have at least within the arts. We all have experienced that we can connect on and that we can learn from and so i like to go into interactions with people expecting that i will be able to learn something from them. This next clip is from radio host and vocalist john search speaking his conception of the term networking and what is and isn't included. In that idea. I think one of the things that helps is to perhaps try to inject as much humanity into the term networking as possible because then it will seem more like social. Interaction will be social interaction. And then it just happens to be also networking because people will remember you as a good person to be around as a good colleague and this applies to.
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"They're just like contributing contributing to it. It's really nice when everybody is like that. The advocate for that project. I think scaling back a little bit to look at the bigger picture when you're moving from place to place. How far in advance are you planning your locations. Your projects. one month. Two years ten years. What are you looking at ten years would be nice now. That might be no wall. it's changed. it's changed a lot. Because of the pandemic. I have to say because it's really not possible to plan the same way i actually right now. We find ourselves Spending twice as much time planning and having half the results we would before you know we need kind of like. We need multiple plans in place and like one of them is not going to work out. Maybe of them are not going to work out and Yeah i mean we were ending up being pretty busy this summer but like it. All kind of came into place Very late and it's not what we expected to be doing. We had different. We had different plans in place. Which is yeah. That's just how how it is these days but in general were planning probably two years in advance for the general travels and the concert sizing but every everything runs on a different schedule. Concert series have their own schedules festivals. Have their own schedules. Residencies have their own schedules Yeah and every everything needs to be planned at a different time like when you're gonna pick up flights. This thing is a different time than when you're going to schedule it. And everything like that but That's like the logistical planning time line. That artistic planning time line. I think is is sort of different and that can be a little bit more It can be changing a bit more often. You know and we can we can. We can find ourselves in a situation where we're afforded time to just dive into an artistic project and just go one hundred percent into.
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"Is like after graduation every episode. We sit down with a recent peabody alum to get their take on what life is like for working artists. In today's world multifaceted careers time management finances timing balanced between your and your work explore that and more on the podcast..
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"Because not like the best like fanciest programs are going to like really competitive but there are plenty of other programs that will maybe pay less dare minimum. You should not be paying because there are so many you don't have to pay. You can teach your ta you'll have fellowships or whatever. But i'm just saying that like what would it get like. Why would you. Why would you pay for adopted. Tom what do you think is gonna do for you that. That's kind of my question it. There's so many opportunities to not pay. You should not to so many programs that are kind of just talked about this a little bit. So it's it's a continuation. Perhaps but like what were you know briefly kind of goals. You had coming out of your masters program now that you're coming out of this. Dna program what are the goals that you have and that could be career. Goals are kind of more broadly. I'm just of curious to see how things have have shifted with the shifting kind of state of where you are where your practices at so for my masters it was like into program. I apply to these. I played to know if these schools are only applied to schools that. I really wanted to go to. Because i can i. Can i ask for a mulligan and say like what were your goals. Then coming into your masters okay In seems like an eternity but let me let me think about it. Reckoned work on the orchestration better for australia. Just because i came from singing in the vocal in coral world and as many no in the field. They're not a lot of people doing tom who are singers if they are most of them writing specifically vocal or choral operatic. That's not my interest meeting. I have a wide interests. Like i really liked. I love rule music and opera music and operatic stuff. But i love orchestra music. I love chamber music. Multimedia things like i have a wide interest so it was like work on orchestration. That's why steady with puts. That's good at that skill skillset. I wanted to work on that. So that was my main thing. Was workstation need like minded individuals who could help me Who i could work within the future And work on like improving my portfolio of works but also like of folks that i met in like recognition a awards whatever..
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"Like after graduation. Every episode we sit down with a recent peabody along to get their take on what life is like for working artists. In today's world multifaceted careers time management finances finding balance between your life. And your work. We explore that and more on the podcast this week. I'm joined by composer and vocalist daniel sub skull by a two thousand seventeen puberty graduate. Daniel immediately went on to pursue his doctorate after peabody. All the time. Growing his list of commissions and premieres. I wanted to speak with them about how he cultivated the connections that enable his many collaborations as well as how he created a space for himself as a composer. Daniel thank you so much for taking the time to join me on. Max q a. It's great to speak with you again. I'm a looking for learning a little bit about what your life looks like right. Now if you could tell us what you're working on and what your current projects. Yes so usually. I'm based in new york where finishing the fourth year my doctorate have about one more year left but I am currently in rockland. Maine where finishing my second month of a two month. Residency with the ellis beauregard foundation. Which is an arts organization based in rockland. Me and Here just working on two big projects one. I just finished another one. That i'm trying to get done. Both are late as usual for me. But the first one. I did a duo for wet income. Somboon forcing cellis and singing violinist auld Post which means back to back in farsi and it's a reflection on various parts of hfs which is album and it's with him in mode fee really famous other musician in this work. They play back to back this. And it's about the relationship up On loki those two and then the relationship of performers so it's like four people to relationships and the way they manifest in that way the performers were josh. Montigny and mayo roberts. And i did a little interview with them and learn about their relationship in that manifested in the work that i created for them and it's a reflection on various parts of bishop ended has some different types of singing techniques in.
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"Been in a situation where we're like. Why in heaven's name would they have scheduled me for a rehearsal at the time. What in immigrated. What's that person thinking when they sent me that email like why would you put me on your solicitation lists when i was one of your performance. All these things where you're thinking like these people that are managing this organization. Have no idea what it's like to be me. And there was just took felt like in so many ways like disconnect really between the needs of the artists and musicians and like the organizational structure. And so for me Having had that experience for everything. I do it informs. However i communicate with musicians informs how we Approach programming it informs How i worked to recruit members for my board and put together the leadership of the organization. It's been huge for me. I can't imagine doing this work. Having not have experienced and in fact one of the things. That really motivates me. All the time is making an organization where the musicians have less reasons to ask those questions. I was asking when i was an artist right. Like what are they thinking. Why would they do that so i want them to have less reasons for that. I want them to feel like they always have a professional environment. In which work. How did you discover that you this desire to do this kind of work. Like what was there. A series of events was just like you woke up one morning I need to run an orchestra or how did that. How did the journey begin for you. Yeah no i. I would be soup like life. The so rarely like that. Right but I developed a disorder a neurological disorder that affected my singing voice. And so as i was i was very fortunate to be in a wonderful supportive place like peabody when i was When that was happening to me and i had a network of fantastic mentors and supporters. Who were able to help me access. You know training that could expand by options. So knowing that i wasn't going to be a singer anymore Which was a terrible Including to come to but it was also in some ways. I hesitate to say this but liberating because i think that we all will i shouldn but students at conservatories tend to come up with this come up through the ranks with the sense that they don't they have to make a choice about who they're going to be in what they're going to be in that they can't be all the things they have to pick something and wall and so. I had been so focused on this idea of being a singer that i I didn't see all of the other experiences i had as being as important to my future and I regret that a little bit. Because little did i know all of those things were coming together to prepare me for what was next and prepare me for this big transition. I was going to be forced to make but It was wonderful. Because i had the opportunity to go be an orchestra manager at the avenue castle. And was there that it was very jeremy. This is exactly what i need to be doing. This is my next step. This is where i. This is where i belong. I love being with these musicians It felt like i was helping in a way that was really meaningful and that this was the perfect place for me to use my skills as an artist and my minister And that was amazing. Also working on the the bernstein mass project. Peabody really really shifted my thinking to that really pushed me in the direction of understanding that administrating and producing something was could be as exhilarating as performing it. Can you talk a little bit more about that. I think because. I understand having been behind the scenes on a lot of things but like what was it about that that bernstein mass or the the aspirin piece that that running helping that orchestra that really a can you. Can you give a couple of examples again. I think it goes back to that whole thing of like seeing the artist. What they're actually doing knowing what it feels like to be them and doing whatever i could anticipate their needs and to create an environment in which they could do their best work and that was true for mass and that was true for aspen. But i think what. I learned nass. That really changed me and really prepared me for this job was how important inviting and welcoming people was the success of that show like that. It really changed my thinking about what excellences and what that means and that. It doesn't always mean conservatory. Training doesn't it means a lot of different things and that the collective experience is so enriched by having everybody there that it's not just those who have proven something all of us about how how skilled they are talented. They are or anything else that there is a place in this work for everybody and That helped me so much going into this work as an executive director of an orchestra and a very different community than i had been that we owe it to community to to offer something to them. That means something to then. Not just what i think they should have. And that's what. I learned from mass. Just i want to thank you for sharing all this with us today in our audience to ask you..
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"Forget we have to do. It's interesting what what. I what i really latched onto. There was that you were asking about what they needed versus kind of going. I want to do this like this was it was really it. Sounds like what you were doing a sense. It was like a listening to her. About what what this community valued needed and then tell me. What was the impact of that for you as you kind of. Learn more about the community. How did that shape what you thought of. As as the kind of strategic vision for you well. It was really humbling right. Because i thought i knew what they needed. I cut came in with this idea about like. You know i'm a musician. I've been trained at gun to these training programs. I've worked with these orchestras. I know what it means to perform art at the highest level and serve serve through that hard. And i know what you need. i know And i quickly found that. I was wrong about that and It was so great to hear however in the responses. I got from people that they that whether or not we'd been listening before they were glad we were listening now and they were willing to tell us right like they hadn't cut off communication. They were saying like look while. It's so great to hear you say that. Here's what i think like. They had had all these ideas all along. They were waiting for an opportunity to share. And here's someone giving them an opportunity to voice those and it was so fun for me to hear from them about that You know. I heard a lot of things like things that may be. We needed to look a little bit differently. Some things that needed to be fixed. But mostly i heard a lot of people who were really proud to have an orchestra in their community. Who felt so so excited about the possibility of seeing it become even more integral to the culture you know like i went to lunch with a leader in the community who decided that it would be awesome for the orchestra to come down and be part of the ethnic festival. They have rear which is typically where there's polka bands and lots of different things. But he thought having the orchestra beef straight there and guess what i think having the orchestra there would be great. You know like. I got all of these fantastic ideas from people that probably will at some point. Find their way into the programming of the johnstown symphony and That was like. I said it was very humbling to know that i actually don't have all the answers and a lot of us that think that we know. Probably don't and i all. I can say i really learned a lot and i really value that. It's exciting to see. Also i imagine from your perspective. I'm just guessing that it's going to take you in places you didn't expect that's very fair. Yes it is I mean. I was very fortunate because when i arrived here there was a music director The had already been doing laying the groundwork for a lot of this. Like he's a very creative person we'd already started a really cool series called the mill Concerts in the mill so essentially we were performing in orchestra concert in an abandoned industrial space. Cheer which on the first one happened in two thousand seventeen and what that really serves to do and again. I'm getting all secondhand drake. That was embarrassed. I was still in baltimore when this happened. But what that really did was change the perception of the orchestra for for the community and changed the perception of the community for orchestra. So the orchestra musicians saw the community in a new way and the community salvi orchestra musicians in any way because it was like shifting this music and this programming to this new space opened it up for people to feel like they owned it in a different way and it connected with this rich industrial heritage on this slick laborary labor worker laborer Kind of culture. That was a so much a part of everyone's memories about this community That really really meaningful. And that's when really start start starting to see ticket sales shift And our audience growing in a different way so yeah. We're doing a lot of new things things we never thought with you. We actually had a concert at christmas because we couldn't inside We had a tailgate concert. So we thought okay. People go to see the pittsburgh steelers when it's very grease outside right so and i have to pretend like another reason fan here. Just want to put that out there. That is that is that will one really big shift at the. Be very careful who i talk about the baltimore ravens so me to say that being here in steeler country so so the way that we marketed context we had our percussionist outside of a couple of different neighborhood locations playing and everybody was like no. It's gonna come to this concert flick. It's thirty degrees outside. That's ridiculous that's not how you do classical music look while they come when it's football like a new. Let's let's just give people a chance. Let's see what happens. I mean atomic people come out. They brought their. They brought their tailgate. Shares had their snacks. They were bundled up in their blankets. Just like they would have been for a game and all we had the change. Was the way we talked about it. We didn't have to change our programming. We didn't have to change the level of artistry that we're saying we just had to change what we were talking about in. How can we can we of play around with that a little bit. Then 'cause you that's a that's a change of narrative which is tapping like skill. So would you be willing to share some of the new skills you've developed along or how you talk about what you're doing. Oh my goodness the new skills i've developed. Well i mean. I i guess during the pandemic so i don't know how much we want to get into that sane. Please help help me guy. This conversation away that you think will be most effective. But what i can share. Is that we as an orchestra made the decision To cut expenses significantly when the pandemic expert right because we knew that that the economy was going to shift and We needed to ensure that we had enough money got through so that changed a lot of our stacking in the office. And i took on all of the marketing for the organization also took on I had been doing. You know the fundraising of course. That was a big part of what what i was working on two so i guess the new skills that i've learned. Wow i've learned about marketing and promotions. A totally new way of liked graphic design. I've learned At learned how to do how to work on print ads and contracts with radio and tv stations how to do digital marketing..
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"Is so weird so you need sometimes some foiling and so i was like i went home thyroid that for days i was like we do have a mass to great. Oh my gosh. I could write music. Composer m i composer so anyway so The that in tandem with looking at the maryland state fine arts standards which i am obsessed with as well. That's a whole meeting. But i am obsessed with the standards and creativity has to be part of the music classroom in your orchestra program if you're not creating opportunities for students to create new works in response to the repertoire. That they're that they're performing. And i don't mean just improvising. Sometimes i mean revising and elevating a piece all the way to the end. If you're not criminals opportunities than you are not in alignment with the mail and say fine arts standards. Your you know your program is not. It's not an alignment just generally i think it's a this is a yet again. Another whole nother meeting like the threads of music education at all levels that are disempowering. So i mean. I love yes. This threat of creating empowering music happening at the collegiate level to it should be happening everywhere from p to twenty one. We should see student creating responding connecting and performing so so that to say so. We started that goal and so of course we took so much time with at six years so that the first two years teachers could really elevate their skills in composition And so we really invested in that and This year so this year two things happened in twenty twenty number one. I i Published my first piece. Say her name Through how leonard In two thousand and twenty one elevation of that is. I'm starting my own series. Sue how leonard. is very exciting. And it's called exigency for young voices and it will be a coral series for elementary middle school and early high school. I'm singers that uplift black and latinx next composers for that for those for those young voices really exciting opportunity. We're also of course going to be sharing student composition so this year In a couple years ago. I guess now it's been two years ago. We we wrote in any a grand partnership with intercultural journeys And the project was for twenty twenty twenty twenty one right the right in the middle and i was like we still do it. But we commissioned a twenty minute song cycle from the students and the music is beyond anything. I could ever imagine music with sound like that. Came from young people for their first. This is their first full composition. We scaffold it. We'd had scaffold approach. They worked with todd. Mac over from mit to to share his full of thirty minute New composition of voices philadelphia. A lot of their musical ideas were shared in that piece of again. They weren't then finishing the whole thing off. Then we premiered that work at carnegie hall with the new york with the philadelphia orchestra really great opportunity. We've worked with local singer songwriters to sing their pieces and talk through their process and do some small activities. We've been scaffolding it up and this year it was great. You got to feel twenty minutes And they've done it. And that concert will be april thirtieth of this year and And it's four original works. That are jest.
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"Need make a give give contrast we had guests artists flown in on super concert sometimes so getting contracts setting up travel and hospitality for folks. In addition to of course all the artistic pieces of making selections creating parameters inside the organization so that we could be coaches and give feedback to each other to elevate the work right so not just practising practising then like. Who's going to coach this music okay. We're how can we utilize the folks that are here so setting all of that up really created. I think a lot of skills for people applying. We had a fiscal sponsorship. So then we were able to apply for grants and so grant writing I i did a lot of writing and so did other folks and we elevated ourselves in that way so people could do what they wanted to do you know if someone was like i really hate fundraising than we were like well. Who does who wants to do it but we also for the artistic piece tried to make sure if you wanted to do If you wanted to shop around the rock look fine. let's fine. Let's figure out what's what are the ideas of the peace that we could then connect other things to versus just like presenting music for music say. Was there a show that you felt like really had an impact and drew drew a crowd. There was what was the success. One of my favorite shows are debuted. Your big crowds. Because people are really interested in seeing a new ensemble. And and also the look of our unstoppable before anyone even hurt us was was very exciting because it was very racially diverse. And and that was during my time so there was a lot of hope for america. A lot of hope around diversity especially racial diversity and so there was a lot of intrigue from that and But one of the conscious that was my favorite Was i had this idea about a big beyond say fan. Anybody that knows me knows. I love beyond say and i love beyond saying jc together and like at that time and this is like oh nine they were like just coming out as like being as dating and they were like the toast of the town and so We put together this concert looking at like other musical dynamic couples through the lens of jay z and beyond say though it was like definitely through that lens and one of the concerts that came out of that was of course a clara and robert schumann concert course and we did some video content..
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"I think that. I one thing that i am. Continually learning is that Professional success as musician is is is constantly this this evolving thing you know There's a ton of things. I can point to that. I think are professional successes for for myself or sandbox and maybe me as a nineteen year old would have been super sight to see those but for my perspective. Now i'm still so far away from from all these goals we have you know and so You know we're like always pushing a little bit further. You know that that this like arbitrary like finish line of like professional successes re really Is always in the distance. A little bit. You know related to that. How have your goals and priorities for. The ensemble changed over the past. Say five or six years. Yeah that's yeah okay. So i think for for me for my perspective. The biggest change to our goals. has been that when our projects become bigger in scope and bigger in size the kind of planning and the lengths for which we have to plan. Those projects really really changes. And so if we wanna do a huge commission that is off of thousands of dollars and involves a lot of people and involves filmmakers and involves tours and all these kinds of moving parts that might take three or four years to plan and so we have to start planning that thing right now if we want to be able to do it in twenty twenty-five which sounds crazy like that's so far away but if we wanna to be really meaningful project that's how long it takes five or six years ago. We wanted to learn a piece. We just had to order the music and then we would learn it and we would program it on the next concert. And i think that artistically what has changed for sandboxes that we you know we we really want to create bigger bigger projects that are hopefully more meaningful to the people who are going to experience them more meaningful than just like an interesting program right and so.
Max Q from Peabody LAUNCHPad
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"And i feel like i think a couple years later after you know some people had had moved on from san max other things. I don't think. I don't think i would have been a even a candidate if we hadn't had those kind of really positive experiences playing together back back when we were nineteen or whatever you know it's funny how those those feels so sort of like pivotal now and at the time. That's totally what i was thinking about it. I was just thinking about trying to play my part as well as i could. You know But hindsight is always you know is is sort of this. You know interesting. Perspective for us Yeah i think that gets to a really A really good point and something for students to think about as they're in school like the colleagues that you're working with in school. Those are the people that will be your contemporaries as you graduate. And as you move on easy to forget because everybody is a student together just trying to make it through the semester but in terms of sandbox. What what would you say Your roles look like within the ensemble. Do you divide and conquer different responsibilities. You all do a little of everything. How does that look for you. Especially being non-profit absolutely we definitely. I guess we all have different jobs. Basically agassi divide and conquer a little bit but we. It was a long process to kind of figure out exactly what certain corners people were going to sort of manage themselves and since becoming a nonprofit that has become i think even more defined more clear l. I think i was like to think of it. Like into categories. Like there's jobs that people kind of just gravitated towards over time because maybe they really good at particularly at one area where they were really interested in one area and then there's the other category which is like things that like you know nothing about but you kind of rise to the occasion like you know what this is something that we really need to get done. I feel like i want. I'm ready to take on that responsibility art. I'm at least ready to learn about how to do that. Specific thing you know. So i guess to give you some Some specifics i i manage although the money in the group on my kind of like the financial coordinator. I guess And that was kind of i. Guess kind of in both categories like it was just sort of like from the first ever dollar that we made it was just like oh like because i i guess i was the one who liked kind of gathered. Everyone it was just kinda like. Oh like i'll i'll just hold onto the dow hold onto that one dollars right now. Let's just say that. And then that one dollar turned into dollars and then eventually like that grew a little bit more and more and more end. So i just kind of always manage the money in Absolutely by by no means. Is it something that unlike By particularly gifted at like. I don't think unlike in a a not like amazing nath. I'm not like. I don't have an accounting background. So i guess it has been something that personally. I've i've kind of decided like. Oh i'm gonna rise it occasion. 'cause this is where they need me. This sandbox needs me. And i think we each the four of us all have an example of that. Like for terry for instance. I know like he. He manages all the grants and for for after becoming a nonprofit. That started out as being like a lot of work. And then then transitioned to a nonprofit. It became a ridiculous amount of work. So that has definitely been something that is like kind of rising to the occasion tack. More grants split. Yes kinda having opera. Not i mean it. Sorta attracts a lot of a lot of facets of the organization..