Conductors' Brew

To celebrate Flag Day, we take an extended nerd moment on flags, of course. Plus, we discuss patriotic concerts and wind band music.

The crew is back to talk film scores and our favorite movie music composers.

The crew is back together to talk Brahms on the 125 anniversary of his death. Gab a bowl of Raisin Brahms and join us. 

The College Orchestra Directors Association conference returned last month for the first time since the start of Covid. In this episode we discus the conference and how the organization stayed relevant during the pandemic with out-going CODA President Kimcherie Lloyd. Also, Larry interviews the students of the Washington and Lee University’s Instrumental Conducting Mentorship Program, an innovative initiative for undergraduate conductors directed by Dr. Chris Dobbins. 

This episode we crank up the Conductors Brew time machine and whisk ourselves to the past to visit some of our favorite composers. Along the way we also get sucked into the Internet wormhole of technical difficulties. The time machine needs work.

This month we talk about keeping work, school, and the challenges of life as a musician in perspective. 

We’re back for season 2 of the show! We discuss our new format and look ahead to another season with COVID-19. 

We conclude our first season with a nerdy voyage through the music of Star Trek. Plus the crew discusses our favorite symphonies and looks back on our first year. 

To deepen our understanding of music we go straight to the source and read the writings of prominent critics and composers. Plus Brandon brings the jokes.

User Experience (UX) professional Jess Vice joins the crew to continue our discussion on the concert experience. 

This week we welcome crew members Kate Campbell, Brandon Horrocks, Audrey Lund, Em Lund, and Ashkan Tabatabaie to discuss how orchestras can better connect with audiences.

Matt returns for a conversation about conducting concertos, one of the trickier tasks a conductor undertakes.

The Salt Lake Symphony, one of Utah’s finest community orchestras, returns this month for a series of concerts featuring for the first time since the pandemic the full brass section. Join us for a sample of the concert and an interview with music director Dr. Robert Baldwin and assistant conductor Brandon Horrocks.

We’re back with the second part of our Mahler journey. This week Matt takes us through Symphony No. 9 and gives his opinion on what it’s all about.

Join the crew for the first of two episodes on one of music‘s greatest conductors and composers, Gustav Mahler. Plus, we engage in coffee siphon combat!

Join the crew as we meander through modern music.

This week Ben Ward takes us inside the instrument, and explains the process and history of making orchestral strings. 

Every conductor has pieces they dream about doing, or can’t wait to do again. This week the crew discusses which pieces are on our bucket list and which pieces we just can’t conduct enough.

Our thoughts on performing program music are truly fantastique.

Dr. Robert Baldwin joins us and crew mate Matthew Makeever to discus Saint-Saëns’s magnum opus, his Symphony No. 3 “Organ.” Plus, Dr. Baldwin gives us a review of his COVID school year.