1 00:00:06,31 --> 00:00:07,65 Welcome back to S.T.L. 2 00:00:07,66 --> 00:00:12,24 Live Sarah Thompson and I guess just Mark Jordan executive and artistic director of 3 00:00:12,25 --> 00:00:16,93 the Chamber Music Society of St Louis and I want to actually pick up something you 4 00:00:16,94 --> 00:00:20,79 said where it was you were talking about the cabaret style and the intimacy of the 5 00:00:20,80 --> 00:00:24,07 concerts and you're able to see and feel the musicians and have this this 6 00:00:24,08 --> 00:00:26,09 experience how should 7 00:00:26,10 --> 00:00:31,14 a audience member should they read into the body language and facial expressions of 8 00:00:31,15 --> 00:00:36,01 a musician as they're performing I mean is that is that rare Yeah of course and 9 00:00:36,02 --> 00:00:41,08 that's part of what's special about the way we do our concerts the end formality 10 00:00:41,09 --> 00:00:47,45 and. Being in close proximity to the musicians as you mentioned you not only hear 11 00:00:47,46 --> 00:00:51,90 it but you can feel the vibrations and you watch the musicians faces and how they 12 00:00:51,91 --> 00:00:53,06 communicate if you have 13 00:00:53,07 --> 00:00:56,85 a string quartet there's no conductor so they have to be in very close 14 00:00:56,86 --> 00:01:01,66 communication with each other and the sometimes it's a wink sometimes it's 15 00:01:01,67 --> 00:01:05,86 a smile because hopefully they're having fun and that's contagious and the audience 16 00:01:05,87 --> 00:01:08,80 gets it I think it's interesting too that you bring that point up because I think 17 00:01:08,81 --> 00:01:13,24 some from mainstream perspective people might be used to that with jazz fans or 18 00:01:13,25 --> 00:01:16,28 jazz ensemble right the whole idea is you're kind of like playing and creating 19 00:01:16,29 --> 00:01:20,22 together and hearing the bars and notes but in classical music I think there might 20 00:01:20,23 --> 00:01:23,90 be the assumption that you're not necessarily doing the same thing because you're 21 00:01:23,91 --> 00:01:27,47 reading music or something like that you're saying and that's not the case you know 22 00:01:27,51 --> 00:01:32,29 definitely the shared by bracing of the music right and one of the things I think 23 00:01:32,30 --> 00:01:36,66 that musicians who play in an orchestra which I did for in the same Symphony for 24 00:01:36,67 --> 00:01:41,02 thirty three years when you please chamber music you have more autonomy and you are 25 00:01:41,20 --> 00:01:41,33 in 26 00:01:41,34 --> 00:01:46,11 a position where you can express yourself and not having to sit come to the wishes 27 00:01:46,12 --> 00:01:50,86 of the conductor were all slaves to the composer's works but there's 28 00:01:50,87 --> 00:01:55,85 a lot of give and take within that So that's what makes chamber music appealing to 29 00:01:55,86 --> 00:02:00,81 the musicians in the audience benefits from watching the process so we're trying. 30 00:02:00,84 --> 00:02:03,89 You know you came things up and you come up with these great titles are you going 31 00:02:03,90 --> 00:02:09,44 coming up at the titles I mean the Russians are coming in now is that. Mostly my 32 00:02:09,45 --> 00:02:14,99 wife Susan who is a co-founder and is a violist she contributes 33 00:02:15,00 --> 00:02:18,66 a lot too so that's going to probably the reason I bring that up to prompt our next 34 00:02:18,67 --> 00:02:23,31 one your next concert after the Russians are coming and this is what the title it 35 00:02:23,32 --> 00:02:29,84 is the Grateful Dead spelled G R E eighty dead composers they it's 36 00:02:30,26 --> 00:02:35,93 so obvious play on the Grateful Dead Rock Band and that cane if you're going to see 37 00:02:35,94 --> 00:02:42,33 a look alike some of you know I do where Jerry Garcia ties this is one. One of our 38 00:02:42,37 --> 00:02:46,57 supporters and subscribers is a Deadhead and I had 39 00:02:46,58 --> 00:02:50,63 a lunch where I was sitting there asking him for money we got on the subject of the 40 00:02:50,64 --> 00:02:52,71 Grateful Dead and I was remembered that he was 41 00:02:52,72 --> 00:02:56,30 a fan and so that's where the title came from kind of like 42 00:02:56,31 --> 00:03:01,42 a nod to him not to and the Grateful Dead grateful that I love it because Which 43 00:03:01,43 --> 00:03:07,32 composers are you going to be so the two big ones will be Schubert and Mozart and 44 00:03:07,33 --> 00:03:12,70 Beethoven three big ones and the Beethoven is a Beethoven septet which is 45 00:03:12,71 --> 00:03:18,45 a wonderful piece that mixes two wind instruments with the strings. And so it's the 46 00:03:18,66 --> 00:03:22,47 main piece on the program do you ever do and I know we've had you here before and 47 00:03:22,48 --> 00:03:26,10 talked about with the season the composition but works that are of you know current 48 00:03:26,41 --> 00:03:31,62 composers that are perhaps composing for chamber music is it or is it always going 49 00:03:31,63 --> 00:03:35,87 to be chamber music no is it correct it's always from that certain era I don't know 50 00:03:36,02 --> 00:03:41,86 there are more contemporary composers that do write it but we're very conservative 51 00:03:41,90 --> 00:03:45,86 and the program OK And there are other organizations in town that specialize in 52 00:03:45,87 --> 00:03:49,62 doing contemporary music we do not but we have done composers 53 00:03:49,66 --> 00:03:54,19 a few that are still alive and then more like American composers Copeland Thompson 54 00:03:54,40 --> 00:03:56,28 thank you for making it since it was not just 55 00:03:56,29 --> 00:04:00,81 a horrible embarrassment or not at all subtle because shame or music came certainly 56 00:04:00,81 --> 00:04:06,03 . Same from that time smaller venues like here we have this amazing hall power Hall 57 00:04:06,04 --> 00:04:08,99 twenty seven hundred seats but that's you can't call that 58 00:04:09,00 --> 00:04:13,66 a chamber as it's so big but the original Mozart symphonies were small groups and 59 00:04:13,67 --> 00:04:16,68 for smaller owners Well that's why I always love talking to you because I learned 60 00:04:16,69 --> 00:04:19,94 so much about this and it's really really quite bad I'm just making this up as I go 61 00:04:19,95 --> 00:04:24,41 along. Don't listen to anything right or got the information there for you I'm 62 00:04:24,42 --> 00:04:30,64 afraid to go check it out the Russians are coming I had the first season opener for 63 00:04:30,65 --> 00:04:33,96 the Chamber Music Society of St Louis it's taking place I took over night through 64 00:04:33,97 --> 00:04:38,04 the tenth seven thirty pm after Selden ballroom in France Center for more 65 00:04:38,05 --> 00:04:42,05 information about tickets and any information about the evening I got to chamber 66 00:04:42,06 --> 00:04:47,69 music S.T.L. Or there's more S.P.L. LIVE right after this they stay with us.