Behind the Curtain with Nanette McGuinness - Part 3

For Good Measure

For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Episode 102: Behind the Curtain with Nanette McGuinness (part 3)
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In this week’s episode, we continue our conversation with For Good Measure’s host/producer and E4TT co-founder Nanette McGuinness, in our “Behind the Curtain” mini-series. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nanette McGuinness, check her out here: https://www.e4tt.org/nanette_mcguinness.html.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
Co-Producer, Host, and E4TT co-founder: Nanette McGuinness
Co-Producer and Audio Engineer: Stephanie M. Neumann
Podcast Cover Art: Brennan Stokes
With assistance from Hannah Chen, Sam Mason, Renata Volchinskaya

If you're curious to hear a little music from our guest Carla Lucero, who we spoke to in our most recent episode, check out E4TT's annual concert of music by women and non-binary composers "Midnight Serenades" on January 25.

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Chapters

1. Behind the Curtain with Nanette McGuinness - Part 3 (00:00:00)

2. We continue today interviewing artistic executive director of Ensemble for These Times, and For Good Measure host and producer, Nanette McGuinness (00:00:40)

3. As a singer, you deal with text, which is not something that all musicians actually encounter. When you start rehearsing a piece of repertoire, do you have a specific way you like to learn it? What does your rehearsal practice look like? (00:00:50)

4. So how is that actually dealing with, you know, when you're sick? And is there something, do you have any tips, also, or things that you do to get through that? (00:07:26)