Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Is it simply a dance that would have been performed by a princess in an earlier time? Or is it music in tribute upon the death of a princess? I think it works both ways.

Here is the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

It's about seven minutes long.

Maurice Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess.

Thank you.

¶¶ ¶. . . . ¶¶ . . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . . . . ¦ ¦ ¶¶ That was the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing Maurice Ravel's Pavan for a Dead Princess.

All right, staying in France, here is an early work by Gabriel Fauret from 1877, Après un rêve, After a Dream.

It was originally written as a song for baritone and piano, but later it was arranged by the cellist Pablo Casals.

it's emotion.

And the way you express... your emotion through your music whether it's playing an instrument or whether it's vocals or you know whatever it may whatever form it may be i think is is beautiful and people who are able to do that like yourself are truly blessed because you're able to express and share the love of your music and I think that that is quite quite a story so I wanted to ask you I mean before we we move away from your life as a musician and how you know, I have, I've read that you were playing free with Orpheus.

Right.

Then, you know, recording internationally.

And we got a call to replace them.

I think it was a week's time.

Now I should also say that being a member of Orpheus, even in 1977, Did I say the group started in 73? Anyway, we were still playing for free.

We would get together and talk about what kind of orchestra we would like, how big should it be.

conductor.

So I know the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra does stuff like that.

And I know like, I mean, Aurora has a conductor, but they've done stuff without music.

And I think the way they work can be quite collaborative.

I'm finishing a first draft.

I've been writing a saxophone concerto for one of my favorite saxophone players, Branford Marcellus and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

I was at a concert as I was working on this in Carnegie Hall and There was some music playing.

I can't remember what it was, and it was good music, but somewhere through the net effect of the concert, I was missing any silence.