What's a Cadenza?!

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Watch the young violinist Nicola Benedretti spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet and soulful tendrils of sound at the Tiny Desk. 

Yeah that’s not her last name. 

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Tonight I had the coolest job: Principal Trumpet Robert Sullivan had to play an off-stage trumpet call and needed someone to open the door for him (first half-way, while he faced away to make it sound distant; then fully, to sound as though “the cavalry is coming”). 

Love this job. 

Always something different around Music Hall.

…that slot machines at a casino are tuned to the key of C? This is apparently the happiest key, and all together can sound “like a choir of angels.” 

The things one learns in the hallways around here… 

When a bass player stops by your office and says you should pop by the Shostakovich rehearsal— well, you GO.

And you sit on the bass side of the hall.

It’s Subscriber Appreciation Time! Each subscriber gets a card on their seat with a note from one of our musicians. 

And these cards don’t just magically appear on the seats, of course! The marketing team (and other staff members) have placed over 4,000 cards by hand this season. (That little blob of pink at the far left is Katie!)

Because we appreciate our subscribers. Duh. 

…that female cellists used to play “side-saddle” because they weren’t allowed to put the cello between their legs?