{"id":522,"date":"2019-07-01T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=522"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:52:35","slug":"issue-9-the-french-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Issue 9: The French Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to Issue 9. This is the first time the French repertoire has been explored in <em>Notes from the Podium<\/em>, and the conductors interviewed have selected a wonderful variety of pieces. Michael Stern, Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony, recorded Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 Symphony No. 3 \u2018Organ\u2019 in 2015 with the orchestra and soloist Jan Kraybill. Widely considered his masterpiece, Saint-Sa\u00ebns said of the piece, \u2018I have given all that I have to give \u2013 what I have done I shall never do again\u2019. Read why Michael agrees with the statement and his approach to conducting this unique work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next is Thierry Fischer, Music Director of the Utah Symphony, and from March 2020 he succeeds Marin Alsop as the Music Director of the S\u00e3o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Thierry chose to talk about Berlioz\u2019s <em>Symphonie Fantastique<\/em>, a work he recorded live with his orchestra in January. French music is one of Thierry\u2019s specialisms, and his vivid imagination and passion for this piece are incredibly infectious. The intricacies of Berlioz\u2019s orchestration and (rather unhinged!) narrative make this score a fascinating study and a great read for anyone studying or conducting the work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final interview is with\nScott Wilson, Conducting Teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.\nScott chose to speak about his research into audience engagement, a topic on\nwhich he is currently writing a book. This skillset is one that is rarely\ndiscussed, yet so crucial to the future success of our orchestras. Among other\ntopics, we discussed two case studies from the French repertoire: Debussy\u2019s <em>La Mer <\/em>and Ravel\u2019s Piano Concerto in G\n(both feature in his book).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge thanks to Michael,\nThierry and Scott for their time. It\u2019s been a pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great summer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hannah Baxter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Issue 9. This is the first time the French repertoire has been explored in Notes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","pmpro-has-access","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YX8Q-8q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}