Sep 23, 2019
Praised for her dynamic, passionate conducting style, Taiwanese-American conductor Mei-Ann Chen is acclaimed for infusing orchestras with energy, enthusiasm and high-level music-making, galvanizing audiences and communities alike. In our conversation we follow her musical evolution from shy violin player in her birth country, Taiwan, to dynamic, trailblazing, internationally sought-after conductor. Mei-Ann also shares the inspirational interaction with Martin Luther King that inspired the creation of the MacArthur Award-winning, Chicago Sinfonietta, the nations most diverse orchestra, of which she is the principle conductor and music director.
Here's a link to every Musical Mention in this episode:
0:19 Mei-Ann Chen
0:29 The World Music
Foundation
1:33 Western Classical
1:34 Conducting
3:17 Violin
3:18 Piano
3:58 Melody
4:00 Thais Meditation: by
Jules Massenet
4:25 Orchestra
5:39 Helen Quach (Guō Mei
Jen)
7:07 Solfege
7:10 Note Sight
Reading
8:21 National Taiwan Symphony
Orchestra
9:56 Yo-Yo-Ma
11:08 Mozart
11:09 Brahmes
11:10 Beethoven
11:10 Tchaikovski
12:23 Taiwanese Folk
13:19 Minga 校園民歌
16:27 Pentatonic Scale
17:34 Impressionists
17:46 Claude Debussy
17:47 La Mer
18:02 Joseph Maurice
Ravel
18:03 Mother Goose
Suite
18:15 Giacomo Puccini
18:29 Mo Li Hua: The Jasmine
Flower
18:33 Turandot
21:59 Vibrato
25:46 Antonin Dvorak
25:47 Symphony No. 9 in E minor
(New World Symphony)
25:47 Carnegie Hall
26:15 Jazz
26:17 African Music
27:03 American Youth Orchestra
27:13 Benjamin Zander
27:44 Henryk Wieniawski
28:43 Music Score
28:44 Gustav Mahler
28:44 Mahler’s Symphony
#5
29:19 Transposition
29:28 Soundcheck
29:40 Stand Partner
31:46 Notes
32:17 Music Teacher
32:28 Conductor
32:44 Assistant
Conductor
32:49 Music Director
32:54 Guest Conductor
33:18 Memphis Symphony
33:28 Chicago Sinfonietta
33:41 Symphonic
34:35 Project W
34:55 Cidille Records
35:39 Project 19
36:34 Diwali Festival
37:04 Maestro Paul
Freeman
37:55 Project Inclusion Freeman
Fellowships
38:37 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
43:23 Concertino For Cell Phone And
Orchestra
44:17 Conservatories
46:19 Pops
47:08 Beethoven’s “5th”
47:28 Felix Mendelssohn
47:28 The Hebrides Overture
(aka Fingal’s Cave)”
50:51 Modest Mussorgsky
51:07 Jennifer Koh
51:13 Courtney Bryan
51:38 Maurice Ravel
53:29 Jennifer Higdon
53:34 Reena Esmail
53:34 Florence Price
54:04 Dora Pejacevic
58:19 Carmen
1:00:01 New York Philharmonic
1:02:19 Chicago Symphony
1:02:24 Florence Price
1:03:05 Yo-Yo Ma
1:03:08 Sheherazade
1:03:42 Harp Glissando
1:03:49 Eighth note
1:03:56 Principle harp
1:05:00 Berlin Philharmonic
1:05:04 Claudio Abbado
1:06:19 Intonation
1:06:38 Flat
1:06:54 Octave
1:06:56 Bassoon
1:06:58 Oboe
1:08:12 Maestro
1:09:09 Portland Youth Orchestra
1:09:35 Rite of spring
1:09:56 Beat
1:11:39 Percussion
1:11:40 Brass
1:12:54 Transition
1:12:55 Balance
1:13:08 Ensemble
1:16:40 Chicago Sinfonietta