Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 11 segments
Episode 3 of the podcast welcomes composer, arranger, conductor, bassist, and music director Derrick Hodge. Derrick has made history multiple times with an orchestra. He wrote the arrangements for…
Derrick HodgeGuest
Harry LevinHost
It's making a comeback, I think in large part because it exists in different platforms now.
There's been initiative made to actually give it to the people different ways and just see where we land, whether they like it or not.
The idea of it started before we realized there was like a wave or a need or an excitement about it.
it and the people responding and showing up and buying tickets, to these events, I think that's just made it like, oh, everything this was meant to be, this season was kind of meant to be, it just was, there was just a need for it to be presented, I don't want to say in relevant ways, but presented in ways that spoke to very modern ways that people have access to music and presented in ways over styles of music that people kind of listen to in their everyday life, through their everyday.
So it was kind of like, I think we kind of created that environment for it you know just to see how people have reacted to it it's become a thing where there's just become more and more and more of it where now every year i'm hearing of new artists just interested in that idea
yeah i mean that's interesting because something i've been thinking a lot about recently is uh this idea of accessibility with music because like Do you know what Suno is? Yeah.
And, you know, I get this press release, you know, this AI company is valued at, like, $2.5 billion.
And, like, you know, their whole, like, their main point is, like, we're making music creation more accessible.
It will make it easier for people to generally make music, but it's in a lot of ways on the backs of people who made music without it.
If you go all the way back to even before there was equipment like we're using now, you had to find a producer in a studio of musicians and make it all happen.
Everybody looks fondly on the pass as the best music ever, that's another whole debate.
It's making a comeback, I think in large part because it exists in different platforms now.
There's been initiative made to actually give it to the people different ways and just see where we land, whether they like it or not.
The idea of it started before we realized there was like a wave or a need or an excitement about it.
it and the people responding and showing up and buying tickets, to these events, I think that's just made it like, oh, everything this was meant to be, this season was kind of meant to be, it just was, there was just a need for it to be presented, I don't want to say in relevant ways, but presented in ways that spoke to very modern ways that people have access to music and presented in ways over styles of music that people kind of listen to in their everyday life, through their everyday.
So it was kind of like, I think we kind of created that environment for it you know just to see how people have reacted to it it's become a thing where there's just become more and more and more of it where now every year i'm hearing of new artists just interested in that idea
yeah i mean that's interesting because something i've been thinking a lot about recently is uh this idea of accessibility with music because like Do you know what Suno is? Yeah.
And, you know, I get this press release, you know, this AI company is valued at, like, $2.5 billion.
And, like, you know, their whole, like, their main point is, like, we're making music creation more accessible.
It will make it easier for people to generally make music, but it's in a lot of ways on the backs of people who made music without it.
If you go all the way back to even before there was equipment like we're using now, you had to find a producer in a studio of musicians and make it all happen.
Everybody looks fondly on the pass as the best music ever, that's another whole debate.
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