gale force today have a very special guest that they welcome thank you great to be here thanks and nathaniel is putting together something that i think is really cool called the belmont summer music festival and it's going to have the poster for second don't you give us a little background about about tell me about the concert what it's going to involve and then how you got started well creating the concert is very interesting event it's bringing together a bunch of people  some of whom haven't seen each other in a very long time these are members of the boston youth symphony and we play together but not that long ago but two or three years ago in boston and also if you look from all over yeah these are people who are from all over the belmont community and also outside there i think about fourteen people coming from belmont but we also have a lot of people from surrounding towns in a greater boston but this is sort of an idea there's not a lot of that going on during these these months in august and in the summer it's it's hot and the senior center is a great place to go and relax in the cool want to be nice to have an orchestra playing for you and it's a very almost overly grand notion that we'd be able to get a full orchestra there but we're doing the best we can and i think we'll have a nice little chamber orchestra there playing many people do you think probably about forty or forty five  and they're all incredible musicians and incredible people and they're really excited to play have you been able to have you rehearse to give all played these songs now this is a this is the the ad daring this is the act daring we have three rehearsals and perhaps a dress rehearsal on the on saturday for the first concert but this is really it's a festival so the time we spent together in rehearsal to us is equally important or even more important than the presentation yes no will will love to play for people and to share what we've done with them but it's not we're not valuing the performance over the rehearsal and this is something that was a strong belief of mine and something that i was taught at the boston symphony  seventh grade and then i moved up to the senior orchestra which is now called the boston youth symphony this was back when it was called the greater boston youth symphony orchestras now it's called the boston youth symphony orchestra's and it's fantastic program and i i think you know i give it you know so much credit for for what we're doing you know this week and for what i'm doing in my life and are they getting people to students who are studying with them now to come to the concert do you think well they have a great example right but you know they have a you great organization but this is sort of this is a little bit independent of that because once the kids go off to college there isn't a lot for them to do and so this is sort of like her e's what these kids are doing afterwards let's bring them back in and fit facilitate some of that great music making that we only wish we could you know be a part of everyone after they leave so says oh i just wish i could keep playing it's just s amazing experience and your trumpet player i'm a trauma player so you've played that in the whole time in the b yeah that was what i was playing and i'm still playing at the el symphony we've got a great program coming up this year you know for which i have to practice quite a bit actually but i'm actually making the transition away from trumpet playing towards conducting because this is my new love it's unbelievable when you when you find something that you want to do for the rest of your life i thought it was trumpet but you know i the same reasons why i love conducting are the reasons why i love trumpet but i can you know be so much more productive with those causes in conducting world because the reason i love the trumpet it's an instrument of leadership of power but you know respectful power you can't go overboard with it and it's one of opportunity and you're able to do so much so much dynamically so much inspirationally and these are all things these are all qualities that i loved making music on the trumpet you know you would play a fanfare out in symphony hall and hear it resonate and you were you're moving people and then i was that and then the real change came last summer when i was at tanglewood studying six weeks long it's your whole summer yeah so i went there and i i sat in the shed with one of my good friends from florida was a composer and we were listening to rock on the second symphony and he had never heard this piece before and this summer was the first summer he was hearing you know one of the big five professional orchestras are playing playing live and he was blown away so i looked over at him during this particularly but and i look around the shed to try to see other evidence of this incredible emotion and i see people you know ages fifteen ages and seventy five all responding in a similar fashion of some on the edge of their incredibly elegant but but also in a romantic in regretting way he wasn't holding back is what i'm saying and at that point i said to myself i have to do this because if i don't i will always you know be thinking what could i have done to move people to move society emotionally and otherwise socially it's it's incredibly powerful position you know the conductor has to cease  to just become a just service a music director they are now an artistic director they were responsible for all sorts of things outreach and i just love the idea of doing that i've doing outreach through music yeah and so when you are finished at y which you have three more years is your goal to study conducting yes i it's my dream to go on to graduate school yele has a great program to maybe stay years to study conducting and get a masters degree and then hopefully after that trying to get one of these assistant sort of apprenticeships yeah to a great conductor and learn from  and study my scores yeah because that's the most joyous part of the process you know looking at one of them and looking at this text in almost a biblical xa jesus you know it's sort of you know looking at this and trying to  are you from musical family yes well i'm a from a family of of amateur musicians yes and in the finest sense of the word and this is something i'll steal from my mentor badge of xander he says he loves the word amateur because it is from the latin root of moammar a which means to love and this is you know it's gotten a bad connotation now that's in recent years you know they're only amateurs you know they're always you know you recreationally not true you know an amateur is somebody who loves art who loves music and this is what my family really is i was brought up with music always playing in the house we used to clean up the the house to buglers holiday am glad you cleared that up for me i can say it yes sir just the piano is a good starting point for a lot of musicians and it's the reason why my family has a sort of unwritten rule where we have to start a piano and this is  have three other siblings my sister rebecca is going to be a senior in college my younger brother is going to be a senior in high school and my younger sister is going to be a freshman at about one high and we've all started on piano and my sister i think he studied feel longest but now we're we're we're very we're very into music and we're always thinking about it we all played the boston youth symphony that's great actually last year with the opportunity to play to have the whole family have a space in the back that we just renovated a couple years ago for you know for music and that was a big help because we weren't always practicing in the living room anymore so and how do you well speak a little bit about i want to get back to the  to not take it for granted we really need to understand how incredible it is you know the middle school program but how but especially how early they started in elementary school that is so key for a stablish in not only a proficiency in music but also in loving music and people like mr mcclelland and the stress of dorian in the band programs you know do such an incredible job at it and at facilitating this  and you know i gave my bad directors a sort of a hard time but that was a different time for me and i and i've got to that i tried to apologize because you are publicly a plot apology that's good but you know it's the been of programs especially  and the string programs and the chorus it's it's a great it's a great thing to be around a community that really values are like like this one yes it's it definitely does so tell me a little bit about why you decided well i mean i know that you were saying it's kind of a not a very active time for yeah music right now it here because of the summer but you know you just got this idea one day and yeah i was i gather i was at school actually a little that i'm working on at school i had it going last year it was a small string group very small and now we're growing it into a chamber orchestra is coming here so i sort of knew that i loved creating things i love to make things and to be responsible for for all the moving parts and to coalescing them into something real something artistic something i can be proud of and something that i can you know through which i can share my love of music or with other people and so the ensemble the one at school is a great way to do this but also you know gave me the inspiration to you know walk away from school do something similar and so i think around may right before the else if he went on to off to turkey for the tour i was just thinking and this came to me you know would it be cool if we did something for belmont this summer and would it be cool if it happened again you know the next summer but yeah let's keep focused on this this year so the idea came to me and i started to try to calculate in my mind what that would mean what do i have to do to make this happen and to make these concerts happen for belmont and we talked about a little before but it's really remarkable the summer is a great time but culturally sometimes things to tend to the flat now i guess it's sort of a placid placid time  for for art so i think that for belmont seniors it's very important that we always be providing something for them and if they can't get out to tanglewood which is you know the place to be you can be here in belmont hearing a live  orchestra of kids playing so i was trying to calculate talking about that and and i contacted nava at the beach street center and she was incredibly helpful you know she never said this is impossible she never said you know we won't be able to handle this she said let's do it and also kristen at the at the center has been so helpful and each email that i said off to her saying you know you know can we do this can we do this we leave these instruments here and and facilitate it that way she's so helpful with that and you know the center's relatively new still so this is i think it's very exciting for them to have this coming their right because what it says is that you know we're  thursday at i think nine am we're starting and then friday at one pm again and i'm sure that anybody is welcome to step in and to listen either from the hall or you know this is wonderful you know that they can they can they can come and hear things yeah and then the actual concert is saturday and sunday saturday sunday you know and it's free totally free that's why should music have to be paid for i agree with that i mean if there wasn't  yeah i think that's good and our people how far away will people be coming from who are playing well i'm glad you asked that question i have a couple of friends who are staying at hotel meyer is what is  becoming the next few days actually my grandparents live right next door and they have a lot of space that will be you know party over the class them with time but so i have a friend from yale coming in from philadelphia   he's coming and then a couple friends from western mass and it's just going to be really great to have them there it's a reunion yeah and when people know each other and then they go making music having you know developed you know relationships with people you know you know them differently right you know you've experienced different things together it's i can remember being at camp you know having long conversations into the night with my buddies you know and this is a boston youth orchestra camp so it's very different than your standard campus you know very intense rehearsal but you also have opportunities to chat and it's what i'm saying is that you you know people and then when you give the cue in the orchestra as a conductor or at our cue from musician to musician which is equally important like a list you know gently looking over to the the violin section or something like that it means something different than if you have an orchestra of players who really don't know anything about the rest of the people there this is a group of friends coming together and and that's the most beautiful thing yeah it's that's so nice and  it's everybody you know in teens twenty's age group who's playing this yeah around that age we have some younger students who are you know software junior seniors in high school and you know we're also having some people who didn't play the boston youth symphony i'm not trying to say this is not a elitist group or a they were welcoming everybody and who wants to play and these are hard pieces so you know a certain level is not really necessary to be able to come in and do concerts and three performance three rehearsals of these pieces but i you know we're really trying to welcome everybody we've a bunch of people from belmont high coming you know my friends and colleagues from the from the orchestra band there and so yeah the age range is basically that we've had a couple of spots that have opened up at the last minute you know people have had last minute plans so we're also working on getting some people from community older folks to come in and play and i think they're really square the circle in terms of you know you know make it a community thing right if someone who's watching right now wants to possibly fill last minute spot how can they get in touch yeah just e mail me  yale dot edu or you can call the at six one seven four eight nine two zero six zero and it's meyer and the why am i y e r and now let me can you tell me the tell people the three pieces that you'll be performing performing three incredible pieces beethoven's choreo and overture mozart symphony number twenty nine and beethoven's seventh symphony and each of these pieces is so unique but they're also tied together because the mozart and the beethoven symphony they're both in a major so there's a key relationship there just something i always look for in a program i didn't realize at the time putting the program together that was the case but it turns out some of what i did and then beethoven chore first theme de bob and it's a battering ram hits you and i'm hoping that the belmont audience will be ready to to receive the battering ram it's going to be pretty it pretty hefty and then the next theme the second d and that is that is a brilliant contrast to this opening theme and with that you know we're saying we're here to play for you at this festival you know we're going to wake you up with this hammer blow  then we're going to say but there's beautiful music at the cob and it's going to be incredible that way it's the mozart which comes next is one of his early symphonies he of course apparently he just wrote this thing off in a matter of days  just unbelievable what mozart was capable of and i think you heard that in the opening clip of the show a great piece sublime beautiful the style jack the second movie it will bring you to tears and then it you know and with a with a rousing finale very upbeat you know after after the devastating overture in a certain way we're going to give you a moment of repo there and then the beethoven seven tiffany just monumental radiant it opens but like i similarly to the ninth symphony i sort of have those tied in my mind for some reason but the of nowhere it's as if you were walking on a country past and you know you see the first rays of light you know shining through the trees and then there's a bird up there and it starts to sing and that's the flute and the food has this melody that goes and it's sort of bouncing a log incredibly joyous and it ends in a in this incredibly powerful i don't know even how to describe it again incredibly joyous  and i think that the contrasts were setting up with the sort of tragedy of the overture with this catharsis in these final two pieces with the sublime symphony in the middle and the monumental work at the end is going to be a great contrast for people as can be like a journey yeah you know going from devastation jubilation good good is such a lacking word compared you've just used but we have to wrap up in a minute but it's you i think we'll be hearing a lot more from you in the future is well i'm guessing from passion and talented i know you are and  august fourteenth and fifteenth two pm right at the beach street center so i've been talking to nathaniel my ear thank you so much for coming out i just learned a lot real pleasure to be here and talk about being a good or is great thank you and u