How many classical musicians on here? 🎶

former orchestral clarinetist back in my late teens and early 20s, performed with a few canadian orchestras (winnipeg, nova scotia, montreal) and conductors (kent nagano among others).

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amazing! we probably have a lot in common given our backgrounds. are you still an active performer these days?

@matthewb i also worked with kent nagano 😃

I like those picky types. It makes the compliments all the more special. What a great experience! You still play?

really interesting. he conducts like a choral director, so no baton typically and just his hands which takes some getting used to. otherwise soft spoken yet intense, quite picky.

I don’t remember the whole program but I was playing principal on Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and there’s a passage where the clarinet peaks out of the texture with a high E. I played it perfectly in rehearsal and he acknowledged me which was quite rewarding at the time. I would have been 18-19 y/o or so at the time.

How cool! Clarinetists are good people. What was it like playing for Nagano?