Practice, Practice, Practice

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there?

2011 / Stanzi Vaubel / Third Coast / CDS Listening Institute, USA

producer Stanzi Vaubel

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there?

Four musicians describe the physical and mental challenges they face pursuing, against the odds, careers in classical music.

Practice, Practice, Practice features the voices of Andrew McCann (violin), Emily Hu (cellist), Alexandra Jones (cellist), and anonymous (cellist), and music by Stanzi Vaubel. Sound engineering for the musical arrangement is by Lucas Segall.

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Stanzi Vaubel

Stanzi Vaubel studies radio and film documentary at Northwestern University. She has interned at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she designed an interactive website for their youth program, with WNYC's culture desk, and with the Third Coast Festival's Re:sound. Most recently, she worked with the Poetry Foundation, producing short videos to help promote the 2009 and 2010 Printers' Ball.

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