This week we talk with Erin Freeman about what to avoid when writing a pre-concert lecture, what it means to be a servant, and why you must make form charts.
This week we discuss:
- Why you should conduct winds as if they’re pizzicato
- What she learned from taking six conducting classes in her undergrad
- What it means to be a servant
- What to avoid when writing a pre-concert lecture
- The first joke I’ve heard that combines conductors and violas
- Why you should focus on the basics
- Your job as a student
- Erin walks Luke through considerations of Mozart’s Requiem
- Conducting works with chorus for Orchestral Directors
- How Erin’s study helped her prepare for a concert with only 12 hours’ notice
- Why you need to make form charts
- What instruments we would like to play
- The Defiant Requiem Project
- Why preparing requiems is fun
- Louise Ferranc
- Hidden Gems
- William Schuman’s Carols of Death
- Barber’s Reincarnations
- Debussy’s Trois Chansons
- Ravel’s Trois Chansons
- Why you should remember Pablo Casals
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