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welcome to satphone music Monday I'm
your host guitar Harada this episode is
made possible by Charles see Taylor and
Samir Nicole Javitch Charitable
Foundation
hi I am Marcia Krantz and I am a violist
and a violinist with the Savannah
Philharmonic
I came to Savannah about two and a half
years ago from Indianapolis Indiana
where I was a freelancer for 25 years
and I decided I wanted to come somewhere
warm and I fell in love with Savannah on
a vacation and decided to me make it my
home I am the orchestra librarian which
means that I prepare all the music for
every concert which entails well I get
quotes for all the music at the
beginning of the season and then I order
all the music so that we have a quite a
bit ahead of each concert and then I
make sure that it gets out to the
concert master first and then he bows
the parts and then it goes out to each
of the principal players and then they
get their parts back to me and I bow all
of the string parts and then make copies
and get copies of those parts out for
practice purposes to the musicians and
and also to all of the wind players so
that everybody has music to prepare for
the concerts and then I make sure that
all the music is on the stands at the
concerts and everybody has everything
they need and then afterwards I collect
music I send it back to rental companies
or file it in our music library and make
sure make sure it's entered into the
database and that's part of what I do
that's the main part of it well like I'm
guessing that many of our viewers may
not actually understand what Boeing
means if it's a musical term that we all
know what it is but it's such an
important process where many of you may
not realize that when you go to an
orchestra concert the string players has
a motion that goes down and up and
Marsha
actually synchronizes every single
motion of that you know it takes an
incredible amount of time to do that
yeah if you would look at a like for
example a violin part you would have a
little mark that looks like up down and
we're a little mark that looks like a
carat and that tells a violin player to
move their bow down or to push their
boat up so when you look at an orchestra
most of the time all of the violin
players in the first violin section will
be going their bows will be moving all
of the same direction or and the second
violins all of their section will be
moving in the same direction and that's
because they're looking at those
boeing's that I put it in other parts
copying off of the principals parts so
that they all know whether to push their
bo pull it down or push it up so that
they all look good and then it's one of
those process that first the idea comes
from the conductor it gets translated to
the principal players and then there's a
discussion there and whenever we are in
rehearsal you always hear the pencil and
the eraser on the music stand a lot
because in the midst of the rehearsal I
was saying all can you change that
bowing to up up for example which sounds
completely different than down down you
know yeah it makes a world of a
difference
yeah it's it's it's fantastic whoa and
then I would have to say that we have an
amazing library in you and with our
organization because with our with our
parts you just never know when there is
a mistake and you go through it so
thoroughly and so that we don't waste
rehearsal time fixing fixing mistakes
when we have such limited time together
before a concert so thank you so much
how are you spending your time during
this quarantine days
huh well I'm actually already preparing
for next season I've got music in piles
here ready for that's I've already
pulled for the music library and I'm
getting ready to send out to force
Anisha
our concert master to look at to see if
he approves those boeing's that are
already in the music or if you'd like to
make changes so though we're gonna get
started on next season right away so
Ivar I'm already starting work looking
into that music for next season and
that's what I'm doing some of my time as
and I'm also well one of the things I'm
doing is practicing a lot because often
times during the season we all have
several things we do but we don't have a
lot of time to practice and then I'm
also taking time the fun thing I'm doing
is brushing up on my piano skills I used
to be pretty good pianist so you know
it's fun to pull out those things you
haven't done for a while and brush up on
those skills so I'm enjoying that any
particular concert you're looking
forward to next season yes I I'm most
excited there's many things I'm excited
about for next season but I'm most
excited about the opening concert
because I mean having our concert master
sania Sarah claim the Sibelius is going
to be so exciting that's such a
wonderful work for violin so difficult
and yet so beautiful musically and I'm
really looking forward to hearing him
perform that and performing it with him
making that music with him and then the
Shostakovich five I mean I mean whenever
you say Shostakovich five to so many
musicians and conductors I'm sure it's
just like oh wow
that's one of the pieces that I think
most musicians look forward to playing
and we've we've all played it several
times but every time you play it with a
different group of musicians and a
different conductor it becomes a
different
thing and and I cannot wait to to play
that with Savannah musicians and with
with with UK because it's going to be
something completely different and
people people if you know the background
and there'll be program notes on I'm
know on the concert you know it it was
written by Shostakovich when Stalin was
in power and the the Allegro of the
second movement has a mad carnival sound
to it I feel like and that's my favorite
movement and then the last movement you
know it was kind of a Stalin property
probably interpreted as a tribute to
himself when just Kovich probably meant
it as a triumph to the human spirit and
it's just such a fabulous piece I can't
wait for that first concert why do you
love playing with that Phil the
musicians are a big part of it and the
audience and the people behind it or the
other part you get to see all you're on
staff you're part of the orchestra and
yeah you get to see the big picture
don't you the entire picture from the
beginning to the end that's that's one
reason why I always I was in a librarian
in Indianapolis also and um you do get
to see all sides of it but the one thing
that drew me to Savannah when I first
played in the Philharmonic the the
musicians were so friendly to a newcomer
coming in and that made me feel very
welcomed and embraced in a way that is
not I did not normally feel that way and
it was such a great feeling and then
when when you're sitting in the
orchestra you feel the musicians pulling
together wanting to make that music
together wanting to make the very best
that they can make it be
and you don't feel that in every
orchestra that you play in and that's
very special in Savannah and I
absolutely love that feeling so that's a
big thing that I love about Savannah
we're all pulling together to make the
best music we can and the audience I
feel like the audience feels it too and
the audience in Savannah I feel like
they're very supportive the patrons the
audience the board everybody it feels
like they're all holding together and
they all want to hear that music and so
it's a joy to play for that audience in
Savannah that you don't always feel
everywhere either and that makes it very
special every conductor I play for
especially after you play the first
concept with them and you get to know
them a little bit one of the things I
always wonder about them is well what is
your most memorable performance
performance and what made it so special
for you for me the most recent one I
have a lot of memorable comfort of
Mormon TSA's but for me the most recent
one is the April concert that I did with
Savannah Philharmonic and there's a lot
of factors that go into it but for me to
be onstage with Marcus Roberts was a
complete dream come true I have always
always loved his musicianship
and what he does for the music community
and when the opportunity came where I
found out that I will be I was invited
to Savannah and solos was Marcus and his
six that I thought you know oh my gosh
this is amazing that I cannot wait for
him so there was already a lot of
built-in emotion and excitement coming
into that concert and and of course then
coming to Savannah meeting the musicians
of the Philharmonic and immediately from
the rehearsal feeling something that was
a chemistry that I it's impossible to
describe it in words but just knowing
that there is something special that the
Philharmonic and I can do which led to
now makes it a memorable concert for me
that's great yeah we were we could feel
that - there was something special there
and that that made it very exciting and
it Marcus Roberts was fantastic it was
very excited indeed thank you for
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Mussorgsky 'z pictures at an Exhibition
performed by Igor Savannah Philharmonic
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