Jeremy Mastrangelo: A Joyful Musical Journey and Unexpected Discovery
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
11/04/23
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This week’s guest is violinist Jeremy Mastrangelo, who’s a wonderful colleague of mine in Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. He’s known in our greenroom as a great storyteller, onstage as an excellent musician, and having heard him give brilliant masterclasses I can attest to his excellence as an educator as well. This episode is infused with Jeremy’s wit and wisdom as well as a couple of beautiful violin performances. We talk about violin shopping in Cremona, teenage life at Interlochen Academy, the difficulties and joys of a career as an orchestral musician, family, and the benefits of deepening our understanding of the composers we play. You will find that one of the wonderful stories in this episode reveals an unexpected discovery!
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(02:11) Jeremy’s brother Dave, his childhood starting violin
(10:31) Bach Aria from Goldberg Variations
(13:23) Dave Mastrangelo arrangements
(15:05) orchestra audition process
(19:11) working conditions, collective agreements, Syracuse orchestra experience, Sara Mastrangelo
(27:21) please support the podcast!
(28:00) different roles and chairs in the orchestra
(30:31) Interlochen
(34:13) intro to Piazzolla etude
(35:45) Piazzolla Tango Etude no. 3
(39:34) dealing with uncertainty, pandemic Syracuse then Ottawa with Pinchas Zukerman
(45:37) ideal orchestra experiences, role of conductor and players
(50:15) Cremona with wife Sara, Italian heritage, Vittorio Villa
(55:54) Jeremy’s violin teachers Rafail Sobolevsky, Bill Preucil, Hal Grossman, Paul Kantor
(01:03:26) Rafail Sobolevsky story
(01:10:13) Sally Thomas, James Ehnes
(01:14:12) cooking
(01:16:07) great books about composers and performers
(01:20:37) solo experiences, stress dreams, benefits of knowing more about the composers
(01:28:16) one final orchestra story
Previous Episode
Michael Bridge: Virtuoso Accordion
October 28, 2023
•101m
Conversations with Musicians with Leah Roseman is a weekly podcast with in-depth conversations featuring a fascinating variety of guests worldwide. Michael Bridge is an accordion virtuoso who performs in many styles on both concert accordion and digital accordion. In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael spoke to me about how best to engage with audiences, the subtleties intrinsic to programming digital accordion sounds, and how to forge lasting relationships. Michael was awarded his Doctorate of Musical Arts from University of Toronto, and is a prize-winning soloist and chamber musician who tours worldwide. This is also an episode which features a lot of great music, including many novel sounds you won’t have heard before from an accordion, and also with the groups Bridge and Wolak and the Ladom Ensemble. You can listen to this wherever you get your podcasts, watch the video on my YouTube, read the transcript, and use the timestamps to navigate the episode as needed: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/michael-bridge Can you help this channel and podcast with $3? https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman Thanks!
Michael Bridge website: https://www.michaelbridge.ca/about
Michael's complete performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's Et Expecto is here, and starts at 17:40: https://youtu.be/KnXxjW4ayXo?si=qLRzkHMTajVRxhEo
Timestamps
(00:00)Intro
(02:18) digital accordion
(05:32) Bridge and Wolak “Petite Fleur”
(12:23)digital accordion user programs
(16:37) a selection of Michael’s digital accordion sounds
(19:35) accordion technique
(21:00) please support the podcast
(21:17) Michael’s accordion studies, Joseph Macerollo, history of the accordion
(28:27) growing up as an accordion player, going to the World Cup
(33:17) Bach piece
(34:29) accordiontechniques with Gubaidulina, quintuplet bellows shake
(37:46) excerpt from Gubaidulina’s Et Expecto
(39:20) teaching accordion
(42:34) Ladom Ensemble Brahms’ Hungarian Dance no. 5
(47:26) accordion scene in Europe, premiering new works for accordion
(55:48) history of the accordion
(01:01:49) Ladom Ensemble Bach Keyboard concerto no. 7
(01:05:37) Bridge and Wolak, Charles Cozens
(01:08:24) professional relationship parrallels
(01:11:08) Bridge and Wolak “Digital Stardust”
(01:18:14) Bridge and Wolak, Ladom Ensemble
(01:22:00) performance presentation skills
(01:26:09) musical acoustics, arranging
(01:30:40) digital accordion sounds demo
(01:35:29) benefits and necessity of being analytical
photo: Sam Gaetz
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