What an excellent way to kick off season 2! Thanks, Roger, for continuing this podcast.
Joseph, I really enjoyed hearing your story. It’s great to have a professional musician learning guitar alongside us. I hope to someday have the opportunity to see you play the horn in-person.
Joseph, it was fascinating to hear your story, and to learn that even after a life-time’s career in performance, nerves and apprehension are still something you have to contend with before a concert. It puts our own performance fears, as hobbyist amateurs, into some perspective, and I thank you for that.
Realising that I can’t simply listen for an hour doing nothing, time being generally too short, I picked up my silent guitar and worked on certain measures in the Bourrée while listening to the podcast. So now my understanding of your life as an orchestral professional is indelibly linked with measures 20-24 of, as someone recently put it, that ‘contrapuntal beast’!
I’d just got to the end of the podcast, and was removing my earphones when I heard Dave’s voice chime in. So *that’s* why the three of them ended up on a Black Diamond hike!
Roger–It’s good to have you back, and what a great start to the new season!
Joseph–What an interesting story you have to share! It was fun to hear some of your experiences as a professional musician and how that has influenced your guitar journey and vice versa!
Simon and Dave–It was good to hear about your adventures on retreat in Virginia!
Hi Scott, Helen, and Judy, So nice to hear you enjoyed the Podcast. I was honored when Roger contacted me. Roger does such a wonderful service to the community here…….I admit I still have lots of catching up to do on previous Podcasts but I am really enjoying them. 9 months ago I joined CGCA and it really has profoundly changed my life. I remember how impressed I was by Scott curating COTM Tarrega, the lively interaction and the enthusiasm I encountered…..and it keeps unfolding so nicely. Helen, I love the image of you doing Bouree 20-24 as you listened! Those measure are so rewarding when you finally get them, then you want to play them 10times in a row just because you can.
I did think of one neat story that I could have shared when my mind went blank. My first position was with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 83-85. I began my current position in Berlin in September 87. My very first service was playing Mahler Symphony 8 and it was a special concert because the Berlin Orchestra was augmented by the string section of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, so I had a concert with old and new colleagues! Rather freaky, seems like a special blessing on my career somehow. Take care!
Joseph
Thanks Joseph for sharing your story. So interesting to have a professional musician in our midst from another musical background. I hope you continue to find your classical guitar journey rewarding.
I am wondering whether your musical background is a big help when single line sight reading with the classical guitar. You may have a natural affinity with guitar ensemble playing which often involves single lines? Anyhow I am just speculating.
Joseph I LOVED you pod cast thank you Roger for featuring Joseph this was a wonderful interview! I hung on your every word my son left home at 13 in 2009 to study with American ballet Theatre in New York City long story short at 18 he secured A position with the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden Germany He is now 25 and second soloist.
Great podcast Roger! It seemed you were reading my mind every time you asked Joseph the next question. You interviewer skills are amazing!
Joseph, thank you so much for sharing your story with us. Your perspectives as a professional musician on performance, practice, the importance of working with a good teacher, and the guitar in general are invaluable and serve to reinforce all that Simon has worked so hard to share with us at the Academy. I wish you well throughout your remaining years on the concert stage and look forward to meeting you at Summer School one day! Warmest regards, Mark
@gittarenstueblegmail-com,@markc, @classic99,@shannonann. Hi Immanuel, ShannonAnn, Mark, and Linda!
Always a big round of applause for what Roger does, it was an honor to sit on Skype with him. Immanuel, my guitar journey is not only rewarding, it is surprisingly consuming and passion inducing and has really woken something in me that I sometimes was afraid may have been lost. My ability to sightread single lines on the guitar is cobbled by a still sketchy fretboard knowledge, but absolutely, my dream is to make music in ensembles and be freed up to play a single line or a simpler part and be part of an amazing sound. ShannonAnn, your RogCast is on my to do list…..I really enjoyed the video of where you live. It is a joy to be in the forums, so stimulating and rewarding to be with all the kind folks here. Mark, thanks and that would be a great dream come true, to someday be at Summer School and to meet and hear you all. Linda, perhaps in the future you can come to hear us in the Philharmonie!
Take care and have a great weekend!
Joseph
Hi Roger, this was the first ‘Member’s Podcast’ episode that I listened to since I had joined the CGCA a few weeks ago and I really enjoyed your navigation and your chats with Simon, Dave and Joseph. Very much looking forward to listening to all the other past episodes along with the up-coming ones. Thank you!
March 126th. Lol! Simon, that’s a sentiment I can so easily gel with.
Roger, the thing that struck me today is how much you’ve grown as a podcaster. You are so relaxed it just feels like I’m listening to a fireside chat. Hats off to you, sir.
Of all the questions I could have anticipated you asking, “How many teapots do you have?”, was not one of them. :-)
Joseph, I’m amazed that you knew what you wanted to do for a living by the time you were 14. I’ve recently hit 60 and I still haven’t decided. I enjoyed listening to your story; it was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it. The next time I watch your videos I’m going to see if your right bicep is bigger.
JohnH
Hey John, You are so right about Roger giving the fireside chat vibe, he helped calm my fluttery nerves for sure. I was also a bit thrown when the teapot question came. In case you are wondering, I do more than practice and make tea. Cooking, and gardening, and enjoying wine, reading, museums, film all seemed too ordinary to mention…but I do those things too! To me, reaching sixty is a good time to decide to retire for a living;). Looking forward to meeting you one day. Perhaps we’ll be able to play at the Proms next summer. Take care!
What a terrific interview, Roger! I enjoyed your conversation with all 3 of your guests!
And Joseph, what an awesome career! Given that my orchestra concerts were cancelled in March, and still haven’t begun again, I completely understand your haitus from the horn. I realize that I need to get back to the oboe soon – you can go TOO long without playing. But I have enjoyed the vacation! Congratulations to you! I hope that we have the opportunity to meet one of these days! Brent
How fortunate we are to have a member of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra among us. Thanks to Joseph and Roger for another entertaining episode of the members’ podcast.
Thank you for the great conversation. Joseph your story is so genuine and interesting. I really have enjoyed learning about your life experience. On the CGC forum you are an ongoing voice of inspiration. Thank you Roger, Simon and Dave—extreme hikers All!
Oh my goodness I have no idea where my comment went I think I may have pressed post anyway as I was saying my son is a ballet dancer in Dresden Germany and I talk to him several times a week to catch up wondering about the weather and the condition of lockdowns because of the pandemic etc. and he talks sometimes of his trips to Berlin where he is working on a recording project (he also sings) our hearts have been torn out not being able to visit Germany because of the pandemic we’ve never gone this long without seeing him but sometimes when we go to see him we take a trip to Berlin so I was thinking finally when this pandemic is lifted when we go to see him we may have to visit Berlin and visit you as well! And hear your orchestra! I would love that! I think it’s quite logical that getting back to your horn after time away was more accessible because of your time with the guitar that just makes perfect sense to me I don’t know why but it does make sense! You remind me so much of my sons stories about taking summer breaks and then getting back in shape again for the season. Have you ever been to Dresden? Have you ever been to the semper opera? So you have 25 tea pots there in 17 in the US that was a pretty intriguing story about the different kinds of teas I could just imagine you doing you’re stretching and yoga and sipping on your Tea very Zen like. I was wondering did anything wild and crazy or different ever happened in the orchestra like a stray dog ran in the door or a conductor threw a fit or some thing smashed backstage why you were playing? What an intriguing life you live I didn’t want your story to end it was a great interview and I am so happy to be one of your “college chums” I don’t think that’s exactly how you referred to us but you know what I mean. I had that same feeling when I went back and took some courses at Millersville University as a senior you can get discounted classes and Millersville University is my alumni I took two semesters of some music theory classes there and it was wonderful being back in that setting of students I took every extra curricular activity I could possibly take and got in music, drumming, dance steel drum ensemble etc Totally stretching my academic dollar! How amazing that that was the first time you stretched your time off more than four weeks I think you will enjoy your retirement just fine because you will never retire you are an amazingly disciplined student you have inspired me to try to figure out a way to get a teacher that will help me further my CGCA Curriculum. Since your teacher already knows the curriculum would he do zoom lessons internationally? Haha!! I guess it never hurts to ask. Jk Hopefully I can find someone in the states. That was so smart of you to send him the curriculums. I can’t wait to tell my son all about you tomorrow when we FaceTime. I will send him your podcast.
Heidi Beth
Joseph The beginning of my message that for some reason got deleted I told you this that my son like you left home when he was young he left at age 13 to study at American ballet Theatre in NYC Fast forward to age 18 when he Was selected to join Semperoper ballet in Dresden Germany he is 25 years old now and second soloist sorry this part of the message got cut out.
What an excellent way to kick off season 2! Thanks, Roger, for continuing this podcast.
Joseph, I really enjoyed hearing your story. It’s great to have a professional musician learning guitar alongside us. I hope to someday have the opportunity to see you play the horn in-person.
Joseph, it was fascinating to hear your story, and to learn that even after a life-time’s career in performance, nerves and apprehension are still something you have to contend with before a concert. It puts our own performance fears, as hobbyist amateurs, into some perspective, and I thank you for that.
Realising that I can’t simply listen for an hour doing nothing, time being generally too short, I picked up my silent guitar and worked on certain measures in the Bourrée while listening to the podcast. So now my understanding of your life as an orchestral professional is indelibly linked with measures 20-24 of, as someone recently put it, that ‘contrapuntal beast’!
I’d just got to the end of the podcast, and was removing my earphones when I heard Dave’s voice chime in. So *that’s* why the three of them ended up on a Black Diamond hike!
Excellent start to the new season, Roger!
Roger–It’s good to have you back, and what a great start to the new season!
Joseph–What an interesting story you have to share! It was fun to hear some of your experiences as a professional musician and how that has influenced your guitar journey and vice versa!
Simon and Dave–It was good to hear about your adventures on retreat in Virginia!
Judy
Hi Scott, Helen, and Judy, So nice to hear you enjoyed the Podcast. I was honored when Roger contacted me. Roger does such a wonderful service to the community here…….I admit I still have lots of catching up to do on previous Podcasts but I am really enjoying them. 9 months ago I joined CGCA and it really has profoundly changed my life. I remember how impressed I was by Scott curating COTM Tarrega, the lively interaction and the enthusiasm I encountered…..and it keeps unfolding so nicely. Helen, I love the image of you doing Bouree 20-24 as you listened! Those measure are so rewarding when you finally get them, then you want to play them 10times in a row just because you can.
I did think of one neat story that I could have shared when my mind went blank. My first position was with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 83-85. I began my current position in Berlin in September 87. My very first service was playing Mahler Symphony 8 and it was a special concert because the Berlin Orchestra was augmented by the string section of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, so I had a concert with old and new colleagues! Rather freaky, seems like a special blessing on my career somehow. Take care!
Joseph
Great discussion! Great interview with Joseph!
Thanks Joseph for sharing your story. So interesting to have a professional musician in our midst from another musical background. I hope you continue to find your classical guitar journey rewarding.
I am wondering whether your musical background is a big help when single line sight reading with the classical guitar. You may have a natural affinity with guitar ensemble playing which often involves single lines? Anyhow I am just speculating.
I really enjoyed your story.
So wonderful that you are doing season 2 on your podcast Roger, you are a natural!
Joseph, your story is fascinating! You are so sweet and generous with your interactions with our community. It has been a pleasure listening.
Thanks to Simon, Dave and Niki for all the hard work you put into CGC, it sounds like we will have some exciting times ahead!
~ShannonAnn
Joseph I LOVED you pod cast thank you Roger for featuring Joseph this was a wonderful interview! I hung on your every word my son left home at 13 in 2009 to study with American ballet Theatre in New York City long story short at 18 he secured A position with the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden Germany He is now 25 and second soloist.
Great podcast Roger! It seemed you were reading my mind every time you asked Joseph the next question. You interviewer skills are amazing!
Joseph, thank you so much for sharing your story with us. Your perspectives as a professional musician on performance, practice, the importance of working with a good teacher, and the guitar in general are invaluable and serve to reinforce all that Simon has worked so hard to share with us at the Academy. I wish you well throughout your remaining years on the concert stage and look forward to meeting you at Summer School one day! Warmest regards, Mark
Hi Roger –
What a great start to your new podcast season! I enjoyed listening to your talks with Simon and Dave and about their hiking adventure with Niki, too.
Your interview with Joseph was very interesting. He has an amazing background.
Thank you!
@gittarenstueblegmail-com,@markc,
@classic99,@shannonann. Hi Immanuel, ShannonAnn, Mark, and Linda!
Always a big round of applause for what Roger does, it was an honor to sit on Skype with him. Immanuel, my guitar journey is not only rewarding, it is surprisingly consuming and passion inducing and has really woken something in me that I sometimes was afraid may have been lost. My ability to sightread single lines on the guitar is cobbled by a still sketchy fretboard knowledge, but absolutely, my dream is to make music in ensembles and be freed up to play a single line or a simpler part and be part of an amazing sound. ShannonAnn, your RogCast is on my to do list…..I really enjoyed the video of where you live. It is a joy to be in the forums, so stimulating and rewarding to be with all the kind folks here. Mark, thanks and that would be a great dream come true, to someday be at Summer School and to meet and hear you all. Linda, perhaps in the future you can come to hear us in the Philharmonie!
Take care and have a great weekend!
Joseph
Hi Roger, this was the first ‘Member’s Podcast’ episode that I listened to since I had joined the CGCA a few weeks ago and I really enjoyed your navigation and your chats with Simon, Dave and Joseph. Very much looking forward to listening to all the other past episodes along with the up-coming ones. Thank you!
March 126th. Lol! Simon, that’s a sentiment I can so easily gel with.
Roger, the thing that struck me today is how much you’ve grown as a podcaster. You are so relaxed it just feels like I’m listening to a fireside chat. Hats off to you, sir.
Of all the questions I could have anticipated you asking, “How many teapots do you have?”, was not one of them. :-)
Joseph, I’m amazed that you knew what you wanted to do for a living by the time you were 14. I’ve recently hit 60 and I still haven’t decided. I enjoyed listening to your story; it was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it. The next time I watch your videos I’m going to see if your right bicep is bigger.
JohnH
Hey John, You are so right about Roger giving the fireside chat vibe, he helped calm my fluttery nerves for sure. I was also a bit thrown when the teapot question came. In case you are wondering, I do more than practice and make tea. Cooking, and gardening, and enjoying wine, reading, museums, film all seemed too ordinary to mention…but I do those things too! To me, reaching sixty is a good time to decide to retire for a living;). Looking forward to meeting you one day. Perhaps we’ll be able to play at the Proms next summer. Take care!
What a terrific interview, Roger! I enjoyed your conversation with all 3 of your guests!
And Joseph, what an awesome career! Given that my orchestra concerts were cancelled in March, and still haven’t begun again, I completely understand your haitus from the horn. I realize that I need to get back to the oboe soon – you can go TOO long without playing. But I have enjoyed the vacation! Congratulations to you! I hope that we have the opportunity to meet one of these days! Brent
How fortunate we are to have a member of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra among us. Thanks to Joseph and Roger for another entertaining episode of the members’ podcast.
Thank you for the great conversation. Joseph your story is so genuine and interesting. I really have enjoyed learning about your life experience. On the CGC forum you are an ongoing voice of inspiration. Thank you Roger, Simon and Dave—extreme hikers All!
Oh my goodness I have no idea where my comment went I think I may have pressed post anyway as I was saying my son is a ballet dancer in Dresden Germany and I talk to him several times a week to catch up wondering about the weather and the condition of lockdowns because of the pandemic etc. and he talks sometimes of his trips to Berlin where he is working on a recording project (he also sings) our hearts have been torn out not being able to visit Germany because of the pandemic we’ve never gone this long without seeing him but sometimes when we go to see him we take a trip to Berlin so I was thinking finally when this pandemic is lifted when we go to see him we may have to visit Berlin and visit you as well! And hear your orchestra! I would love that! I think it’s quite logical that getting back to your horn after time away was more accessible because of your time with the guitar that just makes perfect sense to me I don’t know why but it does make sense! You remind me so much of my sons stories about taking summer breaks and then getting back in shape again for the season. Have you ever been to Dresden? Have you ever been to the semper opera? So you have 25 tea pots there in 17 in the US that was a pretty intriguing story about the different kinds of teas I could just imagine you doing you’re stretching and yoga and sipping on your Tea very Zen like. I was wondering did anything wild and crazy or different ever happened in the orchestra like a stray dog ran in the door or a conductor threw a fit or some thing smashed backstage why you were playing? What an intriguing life you live I didn’t want your story to end it was a great interview and I am so happy to be one of your “college chums” I don’t think that’s exactly how you referred to us but you know what I mean. I had that same feeling when I went back and took some courses at Millersville University as a senior you can get discounted classes and Millersville University is my alumni I took two semesters of some music theory classes there and it was wonderful being back in that setting of students I took every extra curricular activity I could possibly take and got in music, drumming, dance steel drum ensemble etc Totally stretching my academic dollar! How amazing that that was the first time you stretched your time off more than four weeks I think you will enjoy your retirement just fine because you will never retire you are an amazingly disciplined student you have inspired me to try to figure out a way to get a teacher that will help me further my CGCA Curriculum. Since your teacher already knows the curriculum would he do zoom lessons internationally? Haha!! I guess it never hurts to ask. Jk Hopefully I can find someone in the states. That was so smart of you to send him the curriculums. I can’t wait to tell my son all about you tomorrow when we FaceTime. I will send him your podcast.
Heidi Beth
Joseph The beginning of my message that for some reason got deleted I told you this that my son like you left home when he was young he left at age 13 to study at American ballet Theatre in NYC Fast forward to age 18 when he Was selected to join Semperoper ballet in Dresden Germany he is 25 years old now and second soloist sorry this part of the message got cut out.