ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND's Maestro on The Project

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maestro, Maestro Jim Sinclair, are you a Seinfeld fan?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Do you know the episode about Maestro when the conductor
who preferred to be he preferred to be called maestro,
don't That's just what came to mind. I'm always everything
leads back to Seinfeld.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
For all this episode in the Seinfeld Yeah series it is.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I love to hear that, but I'd love to hear
this too. Orchestra New England opening their fifty second season
with their Festive Colonial Concert, and it's November twenty ninth,
and I'm gonna need a little help with is it
concert of musk?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh? Yes, right, that's right. It's all done in old style.
What we're doing is recreating what a concert was like
in the seventeen eighties, in the colonial era. And then
there's wigs, candle lights, waistcoats. It's all in costume.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
And it says here this is the forty sixth year
of a tradition bringing a lot this music composer's popular
in the seventeen eighties. You mean for this has been
going on for decades in New Haven, dressing up in
the garb. Because I'm born and raised in New Haven,
I would have loved to have seen something. I would
have loved to have brought my kids to this.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It is fun because there's an historical conceit. It's theaptical
in that sense. But the music is still very popular now,
you know, Mozart, be hengled Bach, it's a lot of fun.
They did things differently back then that actually appealed everyone. Now,

(01:39):
if there was a symphony, Mozart Symphony, for instance, they
wouldn't play all four movements of it and everyone sits silently.
And here they would use the first movement to open
the show, use the last movement to close the show,
but the other movements would be interspersed. There would be

(02:02):
applause after every movement, after every piece. No sitting on
your hands.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, you know. And I shouldn't be surprised by the
way that I just said that I was having missed
this all this time. I always say on my show,
I've been on the air around here for a good
long time now, and I always have maintained and I've
said to my kids too, there are so many different
concerts and events that take place in New Haven that

(02:30):
you got to be downtown new Haven sometimes to find
out about that. You know, the good old days with
the flyers that you'd find, you know, thumbtack to the trees.
I remember once seeing that there was a screening of
a silent movie taking place at a church. I think
it's the very church this is taking place at on.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The corner of the green is Yeah, the Ulm Street
in the middle of the Green.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm pretty sure it was this church. I stumbled upon
a flyer one day, many many years ago, and a
silent film was being shown there, but a live orchestra
perhaps even I don't know, but it would be accompanied
by a live orchestra, And I thought, you know, you've
got to be downtown and you'll find out about all
of these great events that are going on. Let me
ask you, as a maestro, is it difficult for you

(03:19):
to do what you've got to do considering you know,
you're in costume? Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Right, well, no, it works perfectly. Well, okay, handsome, handsome
costume that I have, you know, beautiful wig and it's
very constructed, exactly like the materials would have been done
in those days.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, I would think the wig would cause sweating and
this and that, but I suppose not. If you love.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's winter, it keeps me warm.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, well, true enough to I'm fairly.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Bald, and the orchestra says I look better in the wigs.
It's a keeper.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I would take fair I'm completely bald, so I would
take fairly bald. I would love to be able to
say that there. And of course everybody can go to
the website it's Orchestranewengland dot org. But it would appear
to me that there is there a way, like there's
this preconcert dinner that sounds absolutely wonderful and a reasonable

(04:19):
ticket price.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Attack across the street.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, yeah, where's that at the Elm City Club?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I believe Elm City Club, which used to be the
Graduate club named Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I mean it could be a night of dinner and
just great music, holidays.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
E spirit night out. It's a huge entertainment and great
music and great fun. It's often witty. We like to
echo the politics of those days and the politics of
these days. For instance, right at the time of this
concert in seventeen eighty seven, as we recreated, the folks

(04:57):
in Philadelphia are putting together the US Institution.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Wow, yeah that is that's that's powerful. Now can one
just see the concert, like, is there a way. Hey,
I'm just attending the concert, not then.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, tickets at the lobby, no problem.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So tell me about this, my stroke, because I see
here it says, you know, the local newspapers at the
time would admonish patrons not to turn over benches. Is
the music that that galvanizing that one would be prone to?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I think that. I think that New Haven was a
little less sophisticated in those days. It's wild and it's
amazing that the newspapers had to admonish people like that. Yeah,
well about their concert behavior. And he even said here
it sounds like a rock concert out of control.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well it's just seventeen hundreds, And it says the newspaper
would instruct people please don't enter through the windows. Why
were people coming through the windows for this concert?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Don't know. Maybe they didn't have the shilling to get
into the concert.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
This sounds wonderful. How long a performance is it? What
are we looking at?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Language? It's about our forty five and there's a wonderful
reception afterwards, food and drink.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
This is wonderful for everybody. It's Saturday night, November twenty ninth,
Orchestra New England again the website is Orchestra Neewengland dot org.
It's the Concert of mufik here ye, hear ye. I
love it. I might even take on the whole darn
thing if I can find somebody. If I could find
a young lady that I can squire about town, I'd

(06:34):
like to take on the meal myself. I have you, yeah,
and it's Maestro Jim Sinclair. I appreciate you taking the time.
Orchestra in New England opening their fifty second season with
this concert on November twenty ninth. Take care now and
hopefully I'll see you that Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Great talking with you, Anny.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Take care, sir,