National Symphony Orchestra (NSO)
American symphony orchestra based in Washington, DCwww.nationalsymphony.org
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Oct 28, 2026
John KeltonicGUEST
Please do, yeah.
John KeltonicGUEST
The National Symphony played one of my pieces for their Labor Day concert in front of the Capitol.
John KeltonicGUEST
40,000, 50,000 people.
John KeltonicGUEST
My piece was the next to the last piece, okay? And it went really well.
Steven FoxGUEST
In fact...
Steven FoxGUEST
In May, we'll be performing Beethoven's Mass in C with the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington National Cathedral, and we're very excited for that collaboration.
Steven FoxGUEST
The Mass in C is another beautiful example where Beethoven, and that piece is all by Beethoven, but he also decides in the end of the Agnus Dei to actually take some of the material from the Kyrie, and it works so beautifully.
Steven FoxGUEST
It's a very peaceful ending to that Mass, very eloquent and graceful.
David HamiltonGUEST
I now love to collect film scores.
David HamiltonGUEST
I went to see the National Symphony recently played the score for How to Train Your Dragon, which
Andy ChrismanHOST
is
David HamiltonGUEST
going around the country.
John BirgeHOST
I'm John Burge.
John BirgeHOST
On today's date in 2002, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Leonard Slatkin conducted the National Symphony in the premiere of a new symphony by the American composer Cindy McTea.
John BirgeHOST
McTea subtitled her symphony number one, Ballet for Orchestra, commenting...
John BirgeHOST
Music is said to have come from dance, and the impulse to compose often begins as a rhythmical stirring and leads to a physical response, tensing muscles, gesturing with hands and arms, or quite literally dancing.
Gerry PaganoGUEST
But I had an opportunity to play a year with the opera as well.
Gerry PaganoGUEST
Matt Guilford, he was in the opera at the time I was there, and he won National Symphony, and they didn't have time to have an audition.
Gerry PaganoGUEST
So in the next season when it came around, they just brought me in to play bass trombone for that year, which was a great experience.
Gerry PaganoGUEST
I also got to play the Ring Cycle when I was out in San Francisco.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
The Kennedy Center, beyond being, you know, a gorgeous building and a sanctuary for the creative arts, was also a centralized place for arts leadership intelligence.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
Um, you know, this is the, our national cultural center, more than a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue annually, two thousand shows a year, you know, that were put on, the, the h- of the Washington National Opera, the home of the National Symphony Orchestra, and all the labor that it took to keep that thing humming, you know, on a daily basis was fractured, balkanized, and dispersed.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
And that does something, you know, on par with the, the underfunding and dismantling of the Department of Education, the, you know, the infiltration of partisan beliefs in the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
The fracturing and, um, the kind of the partisan casting in the Kennedy Center mirrors the fracturing and partisan casting and hiring in all these other federal institutions.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
There was, um, free educational programs for young people every weekend.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
Like, this was a building that was a pass-through really for folks to enter their own imagination and activate their imagination.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
So yeah, like when I think about Kendrick Lamar performing with the National Symphony Orchestra or John Legend performing with the, you know, the music of Marvin Gaye with the National Symphony Orchestra, those are highlights for me.
Marc Bamuthi JosephGUEST
When I think about Aretha Franklin coming on stage with her fur coat and, you know, and her purse and, you know, singing that Carole King song, you know, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural W- a Natural Woman, like, when I think of those, when I think of Michelle and Barack Obama, you know, bopping at the Kennedy Center Honors or Earth, Wind & Fire being honored, those things are super impressive.
Gretchen MonsonHOST
So Gretchen, what was the first time you remember seeing or hearing a harp?
Gretchen Chell CoverGUEST
First time I saw harp was Sylvia Myers with the National Symphony.
Gretchen Chell CoverGUEST
My mother took me to a concert.
Gretchen Chell CoverGUEST
Years later, we moved to Florida.
John BaylessGUEST
I met him on my birthday, August 25th.
John BaylessGUEST
We met in Washington, D.C. at Wolf Trap, and the National Symphony was doing a concert of his music and a celebration, and the producer of the show and the director, Roger Englander, who did all of his young people's concerts and directed the most important things on television and classical music at that time, he asked me to be the score reader, which means...
John BaylessGUEST
He has all the camera markings in the score, but I had to follow the score while the orchestra was playing so that he would know when to change the camera angle, when to change the camera, all of those things.
John BaylessGUEST
And so anyway, it was an exciting time, and I met Lenny on that date, the 25th at 12 noon.
Joel DallowHOST
Before we dive into that, let's give listeners a quick sense of who you are, and we'll start with Craig.
Joel DallowHOST
So Craig, you spent 20 years as principal trombone of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Joel DallowHOST
Prior to that, you had seven years as principal of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra.
Joel DallowHOST
And before that, you spent some time in the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Tulsa Philharmonic.
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Craig MulcahyGUEST
The last audition before this was for Principal Trombone on the NSO.
Craig MulcahyGUEST
And just before that, a couple months was Principal in LA.
Craig MulcahyGUEST
And that was kind of an experimental audition because we had... three unsuccessful principal trombone auditions with the National Symphony.
Craig MulcahyGUEST
And I was kind of wondering, because the committee would vote for me, and I was wondering, and then our music director didn't vote for me.
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