Peabody Institute

Oh, yeah.

In a beautiful city, by the way, if you've ever been to Baltimore, we were visiting the Peabody Institute for Noah, which is a music school and his girlfriend at Johns Hopkins.

And, you know, it was just really like you're driving through what looks like 80 years of like the progression of industrialization gone like sideways.

Yeah.

Then I went to college at Johns Hopkins University.

I was also accepted to Peabody Conservatory for my music, for my voice.

When I was at Johns Hopkins, I sang with a band.

When I graduated, I won the Presidential Commendation Award from the president of the university for my musical contribution.

Yeah.

When I was in university, my grandmother bought me my first guitar, a 12-string Yamaha.

And actually, when I would go to Peabody Conservatory to go to my classes, I would go into the music section.

store and i would play the 12 string i was just like so enamored with the way it sounded and so i've always been playing the 12 string and i have that same guitar that my grandmother bought me at 18 years old i've had it for years

And I think that when I talk to my students, you know, and I'll say, you know what, if you're still...

I teach at Peabody Conservatory of Music.

I teach at MICA.

If you're still making the same work you are now, 20 years from now, I'm so sorry for you.

I've been a singer for a long time.

I studied at Peabody Conservatory of Music.

I used to be a coloratura soprano.

I'm not anymore.

And then, so that's Jordi.

Then Sarah, who just graduated this spring, she graduated, she was at Peabody Institute.

Again, she was on a full ride at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

Peabody Institute is Johns Hopkins University's music conservatory.

And her story, let me just tell you about her story.

She did not, she took her first job.

. . . Hello, this is Andrew Ferrova, and welcome back to Horn Sessions.

Today, my guest is Bob Riordan, who has been the horn professor at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, for the last nine years.

There will be 13 horn players in the studio this fall, consisting of eight undergraduates, four graduates, and one doctoral student.

Bob notes that eight students will be graduating in spring of 2027, so definitely plan on applying this fall if you're interested.

Um, and so that was my focus for my, my performing career.

Um, I did my bachelor's degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, um, and then I went to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London for a year.

I did a post-graduate certificate there, and then I did a master of music in cello at the University of Miami in Florida.

Wow.

She's on the faculty at Oberlin.

And his other guest is Randall Scarlatta, who is I think this will be Randy's third time on the series, who's on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory and is a Nomburg winner.

So the second half of the program will be Brahms' A Journey.

And Ben will be my pre-concert conversation at 2.30. I'm always conscious that we're at a university, so I like to have some kind of pedagogical aspect to the programs.

The poor boy had not forgotten the home of his childhood.

Four years later, when Peabody Institute was dedicated, the giver, who had been absent from America 20 years, was present.

New York and other cities offered public receptions, but he declined all save Danvers.

A great procession was formed, the houses along the streets being decorated, all eager to do honor to their noble townsmen.

The portrait in a massive gold frame is fourteen inches long and ten inches wide, representing the Queen in robes of state, the largest miniature ever attempted in England, and for the making of which a furnace was especially built.

The cost is believed to have been over fifty thousand dollars in gold.

It is now preserved with her letter in the Peabody Institute near Danvers.

October 25, 1866, the beautiful white marble institute in Baltimore was to be dedicated.