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the
Flute doctors
provide a cure for our society‘s misrepresentations of
classical music by offering remedies that are easy to swallow.
Remedy #1: A punchy, magazine–style format that proves this is music for everyone. Fusing their infectious enthusiasm with two doctorates worth of information about these four hundred years of music, Liesa Norman and Laura Barron will get listeners jazzed about their passion. The hosts, busy soloing with the Boston Symphony, composing film scores for the BBC, recording Radiohead cover tunes for their flute duo, and singing original songs opening for Chantal Kreviazuk, finally put their dusty degrees to good use.
Remedy #2: Entertaining anecdotes that dispel common misconceptions by providing a context for classical music that relates it to our listeners‘ daily life. Some may think that Bach would roll over in his grave if he heard a ringtone of his Second Orchestral Suite, but think how many commissions he‘d have had, to help feed his 22 children, if he‘d had a Blackberry.
Remedy #3: Fun factoids that draw natural parallels between rock, jazz, film and classical music, peaking the interest of everyone from martini–drinking hipsters to the tea and crumpet crowd. What do LL Cool Jay, Ben Stiller, British Airways and an obscure French Romantic opera composer have in common? LL‘s hit “Dear Mallika” sampled this airline‘s theme song that was also used in “Meet the Parents” (originally, Delibes,” Flower Duet” from Lakme).
Remedy #4: Interviews with artists, rock stars, celebrated chefs, authors, and architects, that reveal their classical influences. Ben Mink, producer of Feist‘s smash hit, “1,2,3,4” was inspired by many childhood years of counting along with his metronome while practicing violin.
Remedy #5: Live and recorded performances, as well as CD reviews and recommended playlists for everyday activities. There‘s nothing like a dose of the mad–dash gallop from Rossini‘s “William Tell” to help you over the finish line.
Remedy #6: Contact with our listeners on the street and through social media networks. Our show will include conversations with the public – backstage at musical events, in their local record stores, and throughout their city – to better understand what music moves them. Laura and Liesa playfully accost shoppers at HMV with If–you–like–then–you‘ll–like classical music prescriptions.
Remedy #7: An interactive website that supports the show‘s content. From here, we will field questions that we can answer on air, offer extended interviews and videos of our guests, and elaborate on the classical music facts and stories that we cover in each episode. Dear Flute Doctors, Can you please alleviate my burning symptoms of curiosity. What‘s that menacing music they always play just before something powerful happens on film or tv? I‘ve heard it on everything from a Carlton beer ad, a WWF match with “The Undertaker”, the movie “Jackass”, and even for the” evil puppy” music on Conan O‘Brien? Funny, we get that question all the time. It‘s “O Fortuna” from German composer Carl Orff‘s 1936 choral orchestral piece, “Carmina Burana”.
the
Flute doctors format
This format will work well for a program with a 22–minute running time, but can easily be adapted to 44–minutes. Each episode will include the following segments:
OVERTURE
(Introduction)
– 1 min.
CLASSIC TALES
(News)
– 2 min.
• Each show will open with amusing stories, facts and trivia related to classical music.
FROM THE PIT
(Field Report)
– 3 min.
• In each episode, our hosts will hit the streets, the record stores, the concert halls, even the board rooms, to talk to the public about their perceptions of classical music.
MUSINGS
(Interview)
– 4 min.
• Each episode will feature a famous, creative professional who has been inspired by classical music in some way. (see potential guest list on pg. 3)
COMPOSED BY YOU
(Viewer Mail)
– 2 min.
OFF THE RECORD
(Live or Recorded Music)
– 7 min.
• Using live performance and audio/video recordings, each show will feature select classical works, demonstrating their relationships to certain aspects of pop culture (film, tv, ringtones, video games). accompanied by pop–up video factoids to highlight related anecdotes and facts.
STANDING OVATION
(CD Reviews)
– 2 min.
• Each episode will highlight several recommended CDs from the huge body of classical recordings.
FINALE
(Customized Playlist)
– 1 min.
• Each show will end with a scrolling recommended playlist customized for various uses (IE. classical music for: an Italian dinner party, a road trip, studying philosophy, yoga, a marathon).
the
Flute doctors First Season
SONGS FROM THE COLD WAR •
How Russian Cold War composers inspired decades of American rock bands.
SIX DEGREES OF SPECULATION •
Fun connecting film, tv, and other pop culture icons back to the divas of previous centuries.
HIDDEN MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE •
Is there truth to author Emoto‘s claim that water crystals prove Mozart is more beautiful than heavy metal?
BEYONCE MEETS CARMEN •
Highlighting A Pepsi ad using opera music from Bizet‘s Carmen, and other commercials that include classical music.
STARS AND SCALES •
Practice, practice, practice gets some to Carnegie Hall and others to Madison Square Garden. An exploration of classically trained rock stars.
RACHI 3 •
Featuring Jeffrey Rush as the crazed genius who performed Rachmaninoff‘s Third Piano Concerto in Shine, and other famous films about classical music.
FLUTE HERO ANYONE? •
Will learning an instrument on Wii create a new generation of musicians?
WHAT‘S UP BACH? •
Footage of Bugs Bunny and dozens of other cartoons that have loved using classical music to accompany their animation for years.
SOMETHING BAROQUE, SOMETHING BLUE •
Revealing the source of those tunes you‘ve heard over and over at weddings, funerals, and graduations.
LOONS AT TWILIGHT •
This 2009 hit vampire movie included Debussy‘s Clair de Lune in its soundtrack, following the footsteps of hundreds of Hollywood hits using classics.
READ BETWEEN THE LINES •
Tracing the disappearing line between musical genres, from the Kronos Quartet‘s Tool album to jazz master Keith Jarrett‘s Bach Sonatas recording.
THE PLANETS IN THE AIRWAVES •
The phenomena behind the popularity of Holst‘s The Planets, used as the Rugby Union theme, in The Right Stuff, in a current Reese‘s commercial, and by 70‘s rockers Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
THE LONGER TALE •
A look into the classical recording boon that itunes and the internet spawned.
the
Flute doctors First Episode
Songs From the Cold War
OVERTURE •
Introduction explaining what inspired classical performers, Liesa Norman and Laura Barron, to curate their music for the masses.
CLASSIC TALES •
Highlighting the Great Russian Masters, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky and the rock music, from AC/DC to Sting, that they inspired.
FROM THE PIT
•
The Flute Doctors give 6 passing strangers comps and a bag of tomatoes to attend the Vancouver Symphony‘s performance of Stravinsky‘s Rite of Spring to see if they decide to hurl them at the stage like the audience did at this piece‘s 1913 Paris premiere.
MUSINGS •
Conversation with Feist/Elton John/KD Lang producer, Ben Mink, and his classical, Russian, klezmer, and rock influences.
COMPOSED BY YOU •
On–air answers to viewer mail relating to Russian music.
OFF THE RECORD •
Liesa and Laura perform their jazz original, Purple Phobia, based on Prokofiev‘s Vision Fugitive; and video footage of the opening to a 1977 YES concert which features Stravinsky‘s Firebird Suite.
STANDING OVATION •
Recommendations and critical comparisons between several recordings of Tchaikovsky‘s iconic Nutcracker Suite, to help our listeners navigate through the hundreds of CDs in print.
FINALE •
Having your own cold war at home? Here‘s a romantic Russian playlist that will warm your hearts (including Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky‘s Romeo and Juliet).
We are confident that
the
Flute doctors will fill a broadcasting niche not available anywhere else in North America, and we feel that audiences are ripe for our show‘s contemporary yet cultural content.
Potential Guests — (Note: We are personally connected to each of the artists below):
(Grammy–winning jazz artist), Ben Mink (Grammy–winning Feist producer), St. Lawrence String Quartet (Juno–winning classical artists), Sarah Maclachan (Grammy–winning singer/songwriter), Bramwell Tovey (Grammy–winning Vancouver Symphony conductor)
The following personnel have been involved throughout the development of our show.
Hosts & Writers: Laura Barron forbidden flutes.com &
Liesa Norman laurabarron.net for bios and info
Director: RJ Sauer see brudder.ca for bio and info
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