Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

I'm Joel Dallow, your host.

I joined the cello section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and founded the Riverside Chamber Players based in Roswell, Georgia in 2003.

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Be sure and catch our next episode where trombonists Craig Mulcahy and Chance Gompert join us.

This season they both join the Atlanta Symphony, Craig as our new principal trombonist and Chance as our bass trombonist.

We talk about their very different paths leading to these new positions and take a deep dive into the audition process.

We had actually three different arrangements of the timpani and percussion for this work.

And The three that we have, the first one was from Tom Aikens, who was the former timpanist of the Indianapolis Symphony, Paul Jancic, who was the former timpanist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra, and then Stan Leonard, who was the former timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

And it's really interesting.

I did a little history on each of the three of these, and Aikens created his arrangement for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's tour that they did in 1978. where they went to the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall and did the Requiem.

Things developed with me and my good brother Jeezy.

in conversation i mean we just we were we're true brothers i respect the man he is um i see him you know there's so many there's so much good he does and i see the intent when we first connected it felt like brotherhood just off top when we first worked together for my original commission which was with the atlanta symphony but after that it was like no we we have to keep this energy going how do we do it And we just sat on it for about a year, you know, and it came up to that centennial, not centennial, 20 year anniversary of his album Thug Motivation.

And it just started as a conversation.

Hey, man, how do we harness this energy? Let's do something cool that reflects this brotherhood, that reflects, you know, even this sound and this marriage of, you know, a thing and symphonic with it.

And also similar to Nas, that Illmatic concert I did with the National Symphony, that was celebrating 20 years, so it was like one of those landmark moments.

the way he just trusted, Jeezy was very similar.

I wrote that stuff for Atlanta Symphony and Jeezy and I actually met the day before the performance, you know, and everything had already been written and everything was just a go.

It was like, let's go.

I'm Joel Dallow, your host.

I joined the cello section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and founded the Riverside Chamber Players based in Roswell, Georgia in 2003.

If you're looking for a bit of extra help on learning your orchestra or solo repertoire, perhaps we can help.

Visit www.thecellosherpa.com and drop us a line.

I really, really appreciate it.

It was all the idea of a composer, you know, Michael Kurth, who's basically the Atlanta Symphony.

He sent me a message in like 2018 or something like that.

And I was like, hey, ever thought about like starting a repository of works? And then it sort of grew and evolved from there.

So on a, for, for harp, is it anything like wiggling your fingers if it's a cold hall, or maybe you have them and you're sitting on your fingers before you play to warm them up?

Well, we all have our tricks and, and ways of preparing, but I was very fortunate to play the Berlioz with the Atlanta Symphony earlier this year in April.

Mm-hmm.

And yeah, you have to sit there for a very long time.

Oh, God.

Ocarina of Time, the soundtrack to this is so epic, so beautiful- Mm-hmm ... that they do like, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra did an orchestra of the Ocarina of Time.

It's true.

Okay? Where they just planed, they did a Legend of Zelda evening- Mm-hmm ...