I stumbled across a great treasure trove of interviews with classical and jazz musicians yesterday. It's well worth a look and a listen, and possibly even a bookmark. The show is called Preview! Um, clever name (I know, I'm one to talk). The station is WCPE 89.7 FM in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 24-hour a day classical music juggernaut, that calls itself The Classical Station. WCPE is independent and listener supported, but not a National Public Radio station (!).
You'll find an extensive archive of interviews at the Preview! page, but I have boiled the list down to it's Celebrity Series essence. The following interview links are for artists appearing on the Celebrity Series of Boston this season. I have added convenient links to our site for each, of course:
All clips are in Real Audio format.
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, May 13, 2007 (CS January 26)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields cellist Stephen Orton, October 8, 2006 (CS, April 2)
Violinist Gil Shaham, February 1, 2004 (CS March 30)
Takács Quartet violinist Edward Dusinberre, March 14, 2004 (CS December 9)
An interview with Camerata Ireland pianist and conductor Barry Douglas was scheduled for yesterday, but has not yet appeared in the archive.
And these artists have all appeared on the Celebrity Series at some point in the past:
Violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson of the Pacifica String Quartet, April 22, 2007
Soprano Dawn Upshaw, October 8, 2006
Four interviews with violinist Joshua Bell:
September 3, 2006
October 16, 2006
February 15, 2004
June 13, 2001
Pianist André Watts, July 2, 2006
Tokyo String Quartet violist Kazuhide Isomura, April 23, 2006
Pianist, teacher, and conductor Leon Fleisher, November 13, 2005
Guitarist Sharon Isbin, September 11, 2005
Two interviews with pianist Stephen Hough:
April 17, 2005
July 27, 2003
Conductor Leonard Slatkin, March 6, 2005
Emerson String Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton, October 3, 2004
Cellist Matt Haimovitz, January 11, 2004
Saxophonist and bandleader Branford Marsalis, June 15, 2003
Guitarist Christopher Parkening, October 7, 2001
Choreographer Lynn Taylor-Corbett, April 15, 2001
Tuba player Chuck Daellenbach of The Canadian Brass, January 21, 2000
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