Episode 11: Claude Lapalme and Adolphe Sax

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I speak with Red Deer Symphony Conductor Claude Lapalme about his career and what does a conductor do when he can’t conduct for a year? Also the strange life of Adolphe Sax, and the German composer who got himself on the cover of TIME magazine. LINKS TIME Magazine’s 1938 article featuring Richard Strauss: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19380725,00.html “Ben Folds Composes a Song LIVE for Orchestra In Only 10 Minutes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytUY_AwTUs Adolphe Sax’s 201st birthday doodle: https://www.google.com/doodles/adolphe-saxs-201st-birthday The Metropolitan Museum has a collection of instruments associated with Sax: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/celebrating-sax Public Radio International’s report on Adolphe Sax https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-03/meet-dangerous-belgian-who-invented-sax Claude Lapalme is the music director of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra: https://www.rdso.ca/musicians “Behind the Red the Red Door” for String quartet composed by Arthur Bachmann and presented by the RDSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-TUNSS9dM Claude is artistic director of the baroque ensemble Rosa Barocca: http://www.rosabarocca.ca/home.html Claude Lapalme’s recommendations— Mahler Symphony No.5: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mahler-symphony-no-5/1566087845?app=music https://open.spotify.com/album/4HfSZiDvcUOcoaLdLpZWIP Mahler Symphony No.4: https://open.spotify.com/album/35QVkJzvDOxwQWRISo0Ndc https://music.apple.com/us/album/mahler-symphony-no-4/1466028476 Corigliano Clarinet Concerto: https://music.apple.com/us/album/barber-third-essay-corigliano-clarinet-concerto/393436361 https://open.spotify.com/album/4CBEI9htRG14HfzM1aOGuq Liberson King Gesar: https://open.spotify.com/album/4CBEI9htRG14HfzM1aOGuq Vincent Ho Arctic Symphony: https://open.spotify.com/album/2x8qSrgsS711NH93Tj4xM3 https://music.apple.com/us/album/vincent-ho-the-shaman-arctic-symphony-live/1293250081 John Estacio: Orchestral Works: https://music.apple.com/us/album/frenergy-the-music-of-john-esacio/320290175 Jan Zelenka: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/zelenka-pisendel-concerti/361263786 Early Italian Masterpieces: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/perla-barocca-early-italian-masterpieces/913838720 Support the podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster excerpt from Richard Strauss: Don Juan performed courtesy of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony excerpt from Jakob Dont: Caprice arranged for tenor saxophone, courtesy of David Hernando Vitores excerpt from Bach, performed by Jeremy Brown https://www.culturemonster.ca First published June 2021