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Season 4, episode 40: Recital Nightmares from 2020-06-08T05:31:18
With cancelled gigs and the disappearance of live performances due of Covid-19, why are we still having performance anxiety dreams? Franny and Jeannette discuss the underlying anxieties for these r...
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Season 4, episode 39: Intermezzo: you gotta listen to this edition from 2020-01-05T13:37
The first of our listening series, in which we report with recordings we’ve been recently enjoying in hopes that you’ll share in the fun Max Richter: Vivaldi Recomposed: Daniel HopeKonz...
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Season 4, episode 38: Holiday Quiz Time! from 2019-12-22T06:05:14
In this edition of our holiday episode, Jeannette quizzes Francis on weird Holiday facts, like the real meaning of We Wish You a Merry Christmas, how much it would cost to put on the 12 Days of Chr...
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S4, episode 37: Prison with Cellos? from 2019-12-08T21:24:37
Fresh from his time at Juilliard, Francis and Jeannette take the opportunity to talk about both their experiences of having studied there.
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S4, episode 36: We’re Baaaaack from 2019-11-24T16:54:25
So so sorry for the ridiculously long break! But we’re back, and we’ve got various news items to report as we catchup over the last year.
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S3, episode 35: Stijn De Cock, part 1 from 2019-02-25T00:51
Jeannette sits down with pianist and pedagogue Stijn De Cock for a conversation on teaching, work/life balance, and much more. Stijn teaches at Florida State University, and is the founding directo...
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S3, episode 34: Rhetoric! from 2019-02-03T15:47:55
Jeannette interviews Francis on Rhetoric in Music for a look into the origins and philosophies of it in historical performance, and how musicians today can apply it to their own performances.
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S3, episode 33: Holiday weird facts edition from 2018-12-25T05:01:36
Happy Holidays everyone! We hope you all had a relatively stress-free gigging season and your travels went without snafu. For this special holiday episode, we find out about a whole bunch of weird ...
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S3, episode 32: Money money money from 2018-12-07T09:03:31
Who likes to talk about money? No one. Especially musicians. Ew. Gross. So low. Don’t sully yourself with this dirty money talk. Leave that to Franny and Jeannette in this episode. Except, th...
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S3–episode 31–Bad Teacher (part 2) from 2018-11-04T09:33:51
We continue our conversation on teaching piano, getting into topics of favoritism, drawing boundaries, and their latest obsessions. For the cardboard creations that are mentioned, go to Jeannette&#...
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Season 3, ep.30: Bad Teacher (Part 1) from 2018-10-22T00:32:48
Whats makes a good piano teacher? Franny talks with Jeannette about growing up as the daughter of NJ’s piano nazi, their teaching philosophies, influential teachers of their lives, and bushel...
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Season 3, ep 29: Fang and Yun, catch up edition from 2018-10-01T08:12:28
In which we talk about our summers at various music festivals, being at Garth Newel, and give belated thanks and replies to our listeners. Special thanks to Shi-An Costello, who left us our very fi...
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S3, Episode 28: Aisslinn the Rockstar, part 2 from 2018-09-16T17:07:47
We continue our conversation with the fascinating Aisslinn Nosky with part 2 of our interview, romping through tuningland, conductor-less orchestras, how to talk to your keyboardist, and of course,...
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Season 3–episode 27: Aisslinn the Rockstar, part 1 from 2018-09-06T21:08:36
Franny and I interview the brilliant Aisslinn Nosky, the baroque violinist extraordinaire whose electrifying performances get everyone buzzing. She has coming to Garth Newel Music Center for the pa...
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S2, episode 26: Richard Egarr from 2018-05-27T12:51:18
Francis sits down to talk with harpsichordist/conductor Richard Egarr! They talk about the harpsichord sound, creating dynamics on the instrument, and thoughts on continuo playing. And he only says...
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S2, ep. 25: Being Asian in music from 2018-05-14T22:15:48
Ok, so we’ve been REALLY wanting to do an episode about BEING ASIAN in music. But every time we recorded something about this topic, we hated how tiresome and preachy we got. This is actually...
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S2, episode 24: Harry Doss from 2018-04-15T14:59:04
Our piano tech series continues with Harry Doss, piano technician at Virginia Tech, and also the guy who also makes the 2 hour trek to Garth Newel Music Center before every concert weekend to make ...
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S2, episode 23: Garrett Schumann from 2018-03-26T05:19:33
Jeannette sits down with composer, teacher, and music observer Garrett Schumann. Garrett is someone who’s constantly thinking about music and its place in society and culture, and conversatio...
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S2, episode 22: Shi An, part 2 from 2018-03-11T16:49:47
Here’s the second part of the interview Francis did with musician, writer, actor, and activist Shi An! They talk about the intricacies of the composer/performer relationship. Remember to check out ...
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S2, episode 21: Shi An, part 1 from 2018-02-26T01:24:46
Francis interviews fabulous pianist, composer, writer, and activist Shi An! We talk about the importance of names, how we feel about the canon, and performance. You’ll find out much more about Shi ...
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S2, episode 20: piano technician“Boomer”Harold from 2018-02-11T19:48:37
This episode is the first part of a series of episodes we’ll be doing on the unsung heroes of the piano world: piano technicians. William “Boomer” Harold is the piano technician at Yale...
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S2, episode 19: The future! Francis interviews two rising talents from 2018-01-29T04:27:49
Last year, I sat down with two talented high school students who I met while working at Friends Music Camp. They’re two of the most musical kids I’ve met and was happy that they were both attending...
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S2, episode 18: Joe Gascho-part 2 from 2018-01-09T01:11:12
My conversation with Joseph Gascho was so interesting that we couldn’t fit it into just one episode. For the 2nd part of our interview that started with episode 7, Joe talks about the instinc...
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S2, episode 17: Holiday Question Time! from 2017-12-25T04:36:20
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! And what better way to deal with the festivities than with a slew of stupid questions. We talk about everything from Christmas traditions, Mr. HankyR...
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S2, episode 16: Joe Gascho-part 1 from 2017-12-17T17:06:10
Harpsichord phenom Joe Gascho may be uncomfortable with me introducing him as an awesome person, but he’s just going have to be ok with it, because if anyone is deserving of the title, itR...
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S2, Episode 15: practice practice practice from 2017-12-03T14:30:50
We talk about practicing anxiety, our fears behind procrastination, how we learned, effective practicing and planning techniques, how we got our theme song, and a bunch of other stuff. listen on iT...
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S2, Ep.14: The stupid questions episode from 2017-11-27T06:45:05
The stupid questions episode. What do Rachmaninoff and pancakes have in common? What does “singing like a pianist” mean? Find out on our first episode devoted purely to stupid questions...
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S2, Ep.13: Brian Hsu, part 2 from 2017-11-20T07:08:07
For part 2 of my interview with pianist Brian Hsu, we get into repertoire pet peeves, talk about his past and future recording projects, about how becoming a professor has made him see how they mig...
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S2, Ep.12: Brian Hsu, part 1 from 2017-11-13T14:16:05
This week we have for you the first part of my interview with Brian Hsu, one of my closest and oldest friends. I have mad respect for this guy, not in small part because you can always count on him...
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S2, Ep.11: Composers David Biedenbender and Matthew Browne from 2017-10-29T13:14:36
Jeannette talks to composers David Biedenbender and Matthew Browne about their experiences with working with performers, their compositional processes, their relationship to writing for the piano, ...
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S2, Ep.10: You’ve got some nerve! from 2017-10-23T04:54:49
We’re back! For episode 1 of season 2, we catch up on our summers, get into the business of performance anxiety, talk about how nerves are actually not the enemy, and also about more importan...
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Season 2 promo from 2017-09-28T03:25:28
A little taste of some of the interesting and incredible guests we have in store for you this coming season. New episodes coming soon!
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Episode 9: Jonathan Tsay-the pianist who doesn’t care how you pronounce pianist (Part 2) from 2017-06-11T11:26:04
For Part 2, Jonathan bares all: how a glitch in paperwork nearly cost him a musical career, how he chose freelancing over tenure track, what he has learned from his musical mentors, and how he is t...
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Episode 8: Jonathan Tsay: the pianist you always want to hang out with (Part 1) from 2017-06-04T14:05
It was so good to catch up with Jonathan that we had to split this interview into 2 episodes. In Part 1, we talk about what he’s learned from being the director of his own chamber music serie...
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Episode 7: Martin Bakari–not your mom’s Prince Tamino from 2017-05-28T09:34:42
In our second Awesome Person Interview series, Franny interviews a fantastic tenor, Martin Bakari. This week Martin and Franny talk about working with singers: the qualities that make a great colla...
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Episode 6: Genevieve Feiwen Lee, pianist-harpsichordist-toy pianist from 2017-05-20T22:30:44
For the inaugural episode of our “Awesome Person Series”, we bring you an interview with Pomona College’s Everett S. Olive Professor Genevieve Feiwen Lee, a pianist whose wisdom, ...
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Episode 5: Playing from memory…do I have to? from 2017-05-07T13:40:39
In which we discuss the often loathed tradition of playing entire recitals by memory.
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Episode 4–Plays well with Others: Composer Collaboration Edition from 2017-04-30T18:21:21
In which Franny and Jeannette talk about why they love to collaborate with composers!
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Episode 3–Plays well with Others: Chamber Music Edition (rebirth!) from 2017-04-15T06:59:21
Franny asks Jeannette many a good question about what it’s like to be the pianist of the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, and how that has worked better than Xanax for mental sanity. There is talk ...
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Episode 2: You Pluck, I Plink (re-birthed) from 2017-04-09T02:00:11
In which Franny discovers that Jeannette knows nothing about the harpsichord despite being his friend for all these years. What do you think of our new theme song? Leave us a comment! ITUNES GOOGL...
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Episode 1 (rebirth edition): What’s the Point? from 2017-04-02T13:44:04
In the interest of rebranding, we decided to re-release episode with our new name. Stay tuned for the blog post in which Franny details the reasons why we made the switch! In this episode: Jeannet...
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Mozart mango from 2017-03-15T22:56:15
Mambo! This ad ended up being the preamble instead of the actual content we had planned. Which is fine, but I still wanted to call it “Mozart Mango” because one should say Mozart Mango...
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Wanna hear a joke? from 2017-02-25T14:27:10
Finger This – a new podcast brought to you by two asians who don’t speak any asian languages. ITUNES
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finger this? from 2017-02-24T05:06:39
A new show by Franny and Fang, 30 some-thing keyboard geeks. Coming March 1!
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