[Music]
there’s many ways to make great music
but there’s also many ways to make music
great
I chose classical music as a profession
way back in high school I grew up in a
musical family in Highland Park and we
loved to play music
I was turned out to be pretty good at it
early on and I just love how symphonies
say so much they speak volumes about the
human condition just like a great movie
so I eventually joined the DSO and we’ve
toured and we’ve recorded quite a bit
and we played deeply meaningful concerts
for our loyal audiences every year and
loved it so much that I wanted to share
it but because I understood recognized
and cared that the vast majority of
Americans were turned off by classical
music I resolved to bridge the gap of
understanding as an extension of my
artform soon I began arranging famous
symphonic music for a mixed octet called
cut time players in the DSO and a cut
time is a symbol in our music meeting
two beats per bar for a fast and lively
or swinging beat and I wanted to make
our programs lively and swinging for
popular culture to try so without lyrics
singer or or even a strong beat
classical music needs an introduction
that prepares listeners to notice the
waves of dramatic tension and release
that build to a glorious climax and who
and when eventually I began composing
using the standards set by Mozart and
Schumann I blended some of today’s dance
crews just like they did back then to
start another mini orchestra of strings
called cut time Symphonica and we added
drummer and games and improvisation as I
brought freelance players into
restaurants bars and clubs to
Americanize classical music and
eventually I quit the DSO to complete a
new business model hiring musicians
across the country you see everyone
deserves classical music but it became
apparent to me that we musicians need to
be direct and tell people what they need
to know such as that we shape the music
just like an actor might shape their
lines or how to sing Brahms
famous Hungarian dance number 5 check it
out
the words are loud I knew I was gonna do
that hold on that’s even worse alright
[Music]
so this is the way this is the way the
cut time way of Americanizing classical
music of wearing the fun and joy on our
sleeves so that the curious can know the
why and the how classical music can
still matter the church like experience
in the concert hall is perfect for
internal listening in the spirit of
meditation but what’s been missing is a
fun Club like experience that focuses on
you the curious audience and what you’d
like to know and do to truly access
classical music you see classical music
is more than just mindless notes on a
page it’s a gym and we every day we we
lift these heavy notes as heavy music
building our muscles for making music
meaningful living inside the music and
bringing out our best inner game is the
goal a consequence of those mindless
notes and that’s how I realize we’re not
in the music business we’re in the
inspiration business through music and
that means we better make sure we
connect with our audiences cut time is
infotainment so we want you to join us
more and we need some volunteers mike is
gonna pass out a couple of egg shakers
here and you’ll just watch him and play
the rhythm he plays but don’t drag we’re
gonna play one of my compositions called
pork and beans and it’s not the soup can
variety at all it’s it’s a few bytes we
take a few bites of a spicy barbecue
pork and then a few bites of our second
theme which is spicy Latin beans and the
heat builds up to a huge climax which we
don’t cool down at all here we go
what so
[Music]
where those shakers
[Music] thank you very much
there’s many ways to make great music
but there’s also many ways to make music
great
I chose classical music as a profession
way back in high school I grew up in a
musical family in Highland Park and we
loved to play music
I was turned out to be pretty good at it
early on and I just love how symphonies
say so much they speak volumes about the
human condition just like a great movie
so I eventually joined the DSO and we’ve
toured and we’ve recorded quite a bit
and we played deeply meaningful concerts
for our loyal audiences every year and
loved it so much that I wanted to share
it but because I understood recognized
and cared that the vast majority of
Americans were turned off by classical
music I resolved to bridge the gap of
understanding as an extension of my
artform soon I began arranging famous
symphonic music for a mixed octet called
cut time players in the DSO and a cut
time is a symbol in our music meeting
two beats per bar for a fast and lively
or swinging beat and I wanted to make
our programs lively and swinging for
popular culture to try so without lyrics
singer or or even a strong beat
classical music needs an introduction
that prepares listeners to notice the
waves of dramatic tension and release
that build to a glorious climax and who
and when eventually I began composing
using the standards set by Mozart and
Schumann I blended some of today’s dance
crews just like they did back then to
start another mini orchestra of strings
called cut time Symphonica and we added
drummer and games and improvisation as I
brought freelance players into
restaurants bars and clubs to
Americanize classical music and
eventually I quit the DSO to complete a
new business model hiring musicians
across the country you see everyone
deserves classical music but it became
apparent to me that we musicians need to
be direct and tell people what they need
to know such as that we shape the music
just like an actor might shape their
lines or how to sing Brahms
famous Hungarian dance number 5 check it
out
the words are loud I knew I was gonna do
that hold on that’s even worse alright
[Music]
so this is the way this is the way the
cut time way of Americanizing classical
music of wearing the fun and joy on our
sleeves so that the curious can know the
why and the how classical music can
still matter the church like experience
in the concert hall is perfect for
internal listening in the spirit of
meditation but what’s been missing is a
fun Club like experience that focuses on
you the curious audience and what you’d
like to know and do to truly access
classical music you see classical music
is more than just mindless notes on a
page it’s a gym and we every day we we
lift these heavy notes as heavy music
building our muscles for making music
meaningful living inside the music and
bringing out our best inner game is the
goal a consequence of those mindless
notes and that’s how I realize we’re not
in the music business we’re in the
inspiration business through music and
that means we better make sure we
connect with our audiences cut time is
infotainment so we want you to join us
more and we need some volunteers mike is
gonna pass out a couple of egg shakers
here and you’ll just watch him and play
the rhythm he plays but don’t drag we’re
gonna play one of my compositions called
pork and beans and it’s not the soup can
variety at all it’s it’s a few bytes we
take a few bites of a spicy barbecue
pork and then a few bites of our second
theme which is spicy Latin beans and the
heat builds up to a huge climax which we
don’t cool down at all here we go
what so
[Music]
where those shakers
[Music] thank you very much
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