Orchestra Next is proud to announce the release of HomeNut – a radical recording project that involved all of our musicians recording their parts to The Nutcracker from home! In this episode, you’ll hear Sarah Viens and Brian McWhorter talk about how it all went down – so get ready, because it’s a nutty ride!
The movements featured in this release are: Overture, Overture to Act II, Chocolate, Coffee, Cavalier, and Sugar Plum.
Orchestra Next engaged its professionals, fellows, and University of Oregon SAIL ON high school students to produce sections of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker for the Eugene Ballet from April through October of 2020 during the pandemic. Musicians from Oregon, across the U.S. and as far away as Puerto Rico recorded their parts for several movements from their homes. More information at www.orchestranext.com/homenut
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Lynn Olson
Dec 20, 2020 -
Wow! You guys are amazing! It must have been a ton of hours/work to put together, but it was worth it!
Barbara Mossberg
Dec 20, 2020 -
It is amazing ingenuity and just what our community needs! I just sat. and closed my eyes, and was there, lost—or found—in the music.
Amy Adams
Dec 20, 2020 -
(The cricket noises cracked me up.)
You’re such engaging storytellers, Brian and Sarah – thanks!
What a work of love and dedication.
John Reynolds
Dec 20, 2020 -
What a complex story, and what a great result! Thanks all, for staying with this enormous effort. Looking forward to the “older” recorded Nutcracker to be played this year, introduced by this HomeNut Overture.