Backstage with the New World Symphony

Each week Lynne Warfel introduces you to the best and brightest young instrumentalists at NWS. These young musicians who live in South Florida concentrate exclusively on working, practicing, studying and performing as full time orchestral musicians. The New World Symphony invites the world's best guest artists, coaches and conductors to work with the organization in a full season of concerts and community outreach programs. Join Lynne Warfel every Wednesday at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. as she interviews one of the current Fellows and brings you musical highlights of upcoming concerts at NWS during their September 2009 through April 2010 season.

 

November 18, 2009

Todd Cope is a third year clarinet fellow from Dallas Texas. He has recollections of two really unconventional musical heroes for a classical guy, and an idea or two on what makes a great performance even better.

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November 11, 2009

Danish born Christine Christensen came the long way to America by way of the Royal Danish Academy; then into a master class in London that finally brought her to New York City where she worked nights tending bar to be able to play cello during the day. NWS now makes it possible for her to study, practice and performed the way she dreamed about all along, with no night job needed!

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November 4, 2009

This week we meet Miami native son, Sergio Carreno, percussion fellow with NWS. Sergio recalls how his mother's furniture got him into music, and how jamming with Michael Tilson-Thomas on the most unlikely of instruments was so inspiring.

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October 28, 2009

Clarinetist Timothy Dodge talks about his early introduction to music growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He shares some of his memories auditioning for the New World Symphony proving that persistence pays off, and recalls some of his early experiences with the NWS.

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October 21, 2009

Catherine Miller joins us again to talk about how she chose to pursue a career as a violinist. It all happened in Lennox Massachussets while listening to a performance of Beethoevn's 7th. Miller has gone on to study Beethoven extensively, becoming an expert on Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

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October 14, 2009

Joy Payton-Stevens Stevens began playing cello when she was 4 years old trying to keep up with her big sister who'd taken up the violin at age 3. She discusses her love of John Adams and his minimalist compositions which she describes as being both rhymically compelling and richly colorful.

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October 7, 2009

Violinist Catherine Miller talks about some of her favorite peices and describes a moment with New World Symphony founder Michael Tilson Thomas that opened her eyes to Tschakovsky's 5th, revealing to her new life and energy in the symphony that she'd never noticed before.

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