Portable Orchestra - Transcript
[Narrator]
In a world of computers, CD burners, Internet connections and more technology than you can wave a stick at it seems that every bnad and even your Uncle is cutting a CD. Americans’ fast pace is driving this need for portable audio.
One Omaha group has recently taken the plunge to preserve their music for future generations.
[Maestro Victor Yampolsky]
To produce compact disc is very, very important for the life of symphony orchestra. For us compact disc is a marker. It is a marker in the 75 or 80 years of development of symphony orchestra in town.
[Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and congratulations to all of you on occasion of starting our recording project.]
[Narrator]
Always striving for the best, the Omaha Symphony brought in music producers Philip Traugott and Tom Lazarus from New York to record the CD.
[Tom Lazarus]
The symphony actually has a perfect balance when you hear it. And when you have a good venue... so actually we had just a couple microphones. It usually works that the better the recording venue for the microphones, the worse it is for the players because they can’t hear each other as well as they’d like to. So we adjusted the acoustics a little bit here in the shell... I think that’ll help. And we’re happy with the sound. The sound is great.
[Philip Traugott]
The problem is that in each case of the pieces we’re performing will be one complete take which is a true performance from beginning to end without stopping. But from there on there’s actually going to be inserts done only and what happens is that as the session goes on the musicians begin to feel further and further away from that overall performance.
[Maestro Victor Yampolsky]
Let’s stop here for a second.
When we have to stop and fix something and pick it up we usually lose the momentum.
That’s enough. Now… that’s enough, that’s enough. You’ve got to be bad boys...
To recreate that momentum and pick it up on a high level of adrenaline is very difficult.
You really have to come in quality of a teenager who has chewing gum in the back of his next... next... you know. Get that chewing gum...
I need it to be extremely alert and.. use utmost imagination..
Really jazzy style... nothing angular. Everything is like a bungee... one-two...
It’s like a person who wants to be high after a cup of weak tea. It’s not very easy thing to do.
[Narrator]
These imaginative artists come to the Omaha Symphony from all over the Midwest. With the release of this new CD the music of the Omaha Symphony will take flight to the masses. Something that Maestro Yamploski is very proud of.
[Maestro Victor Yampolsky]
My own role here as their lealder is blissful because they like me. And if I decide to take it easy, they will give me business. They will tell me, Victor, we want you to demand... we want you to work hard... what’s wrong with you? You’re not feeling well? So I would say oops, I’d better listen very carefully. So we do have a chemistry which is so unusual. It is quite common for newlyweds to have honeymoon, but sometime in the future honeymoon is over. But here... I finish seven years and the honeymoon is going on so I guess I can’t complain.
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