March 26, 2025
Several months ago I decided to start using the scheduling app Calendly to try to make it easier for my guests. It seemed that the back and forth banter of trying to schedule an interview with email was awkward and a huge imposition on my guests. However I’ve recently had people agree to come on the show and then when I send a link to the app they ghost me. If it was only one person I’d shrug it off, but so far the body count just this year is 5 and that includes two organizations that contacted me and asked to be on the show. Most of you have used the app. Would you have preferred to do it “old school”? Drop a comment and let me know please.
In case you missed it…
Last weeks guest was the Emmy and Peabody award winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard. We talked about her latest book “Bring Judgement Day” about the folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly).
Coming up…
My guest this week is Danish violinist Christine Pryn. She created the Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter music festival near Copenhagen and is also the founder of the Rudersdal Chamber Players who will be performing at composer Victoria Bond’s “Cutting Edge New Music Festival” in New York on April 16. Please join us as we discuss her devotion to new music and her unique philosophy behind the Rudersdal Chamber Players.
In other news…
I just received a couple of books from author Wednesday Lee Friday (yep, that’s her real name). One of the coolest and quirkiest people I know. Book III in the series is coming. Watch this space.
On April 25 Mark and Maggie O’Connor will be appearing with the Vega Quartet at Carnegie Hall in a program called “Bluegrass and Beethoven”. Sounds like fun.
On April 29 the Sylvan Winds and harpist Kristi Shade will appear in NYC performing music of Ravel and his contemporaries.
The Jerusalem Quartet will be performing all 15 string quartets by Dimitri Shostakovich at the Cleveland Museum of Art on April 21-30. This is a presentation of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society as part of their 75th anniversary.
