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Part 2 of our conversation with the brilliant Bailey Myers!

This episode is really specially to us since it's with hornist Bailey Myers, our favorite person.

Hi M&M's! Welcome to part 2 of our conversation with Professor of Music Theory Dr. Andrew Pau.

This week we have a super special guest, our first non-student guest here at Music and More.

Thinking that ten years of "pre-professional" training prepares you to choreograph a three-minute contemporary solo is kind of like spending years reading Shakespeare and then being told to whip up a novel with some magical realism.

This week we got the chance to chat with our dear friend trumpet player Wyeth Aleksei.

Hello listeners! Welcome to part two of our talk with bass trombonist Israel Gutierrez.

Meet Israel Gutierrez, fourth-year bass trombonist here at Oberlin Conservatory.

Hello listeners! We are so excited to bring you the first episode of our podcast!

Hint: It's two credits. Hint: It's in the Conservatory. Confession: It's not easy at all.

I was surprised at the level of detail that goes into every inch of the piano. You can see why a good piano costs as much as a car - we spent a few classes repainting the dampers, aligning and glueing new felt to each damper (the shape of the felt changes through different registers of the piano), putting them back into the piano, and fitting them until they perfectly silenced the strings.

Oberlin students make many noises, some of them are beautiful, others, not so much. Here is a mix of some of the sounds that I like that emanate from the Conservatory practice rooms and the...