Houston Symphony

You seem to do well whenever Uri is here.

He goes down well in Pittsburgh, the music director of the Houston Symphony.

He does go down well here.

He rehearses really well and he has a really great spirit and I love working for him and Elisa Wellerstein was on fire.

I, I was always very lucky.

I, as a youngster, I was around the Houston Symphony Orchestra a lot.

I'm from Houston, Texas originally.

Started my career-

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in New York later on.

But, um, and Christoph Eschenbach, this great Amer- uh, this great German pianist and, and conductor, was chief conductor of the Houston Symphony, and so I was this, I was a s-

Did you say Eschenbach?

Computer science, his own consulting business, four children, and his wife.

The girl he was writing letters to, the defector that made him a traitor, plays violin in the Houston Symphony.

A government looked at that young man writing letters to a girl he loved and decided he was a danger.

Here's Ovidiu Frusina.

A big emphasis on the choir aspect of the album and the female voice as an instrument.

Let's see, we also have Arlie Durow from the Houston Symphony.

First chair flute is featured on Dead Man's Lullaby and also on Matt's piece, Seagirt, which is another really great kind of pared down piece with just so much melodic stuff going on and so much great flute on there.

And then her husband, who's the first chair oboe English horn from the Houston Symphony, Colin Gatwood.

So between three different oboe players, I think, on this mat, right? We had our wind choir.

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in my parents' office, I'm sitting here looking at a wall of pictures of the Houston Symphony and of incredible musicians like Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, who played with the Houston Symphony over the course of my parents' 45 and 50 years tenure.

Their instruments are like a limb.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

And the impact that that will have on our kiddos is really sad to think about.

And you know, long ago I did an interview with the, um, musician spokesperson for the Houston Symphony, David Kirk, weirdly also a tuba player.

I don't know what it is about tuba players.

You want to, you know, shepherd them along in a very gentle way.

I had, interestingly enough, I had breakfast a couple days ago with a violinist from the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

And he began, I said, when did you start playing the violin? He said, three and a half.

I go, three and a half? He goes, my mother, my father...