Episodes

  • The Gryphon Trio and Calidore String Quartet at Tippet Rise: Talking about Perfect Halls and Great Chamber Music

    The Gryphon Trio and Calidore String Quartet at Tippet Rise: Talking about Perfect Halls and Great Chamber Music
    Jun 13 2023
    Tippet Rise Art Center has a jewel box of a concert hall: the Olivier Music Barn. Audiences love it, and so do all the world-class musicians who come to Tippet Rise each year. Two great chamber music ensembles – the Gryphon Trio and the Calidore String Quartet – performed Tippet Rise the same weekend in September 2022, and sat for interviews in front of their audiences. As the name suggests, “chamber music” was created for intimate performance spaces – in Baroque palaces. You may not think that sounds intimate, but Joseph Haydn composed his music for the room in a European palace that the engineering and design firm Arup used as the model for the Olivier Music Barn.
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    18 mins
  • Sharing Emotion through Technology

    Sharing Emotion through Technology
    Dec 3 2021
    The evolution of music doesn’t happen by accident. To move from one era to the next is to find common values, use them as stepping stones, and organically develop them into something new.
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    34 mins
  • Refreshing the Spirit

    Refreshing the Spirit
    Apr 2 2021
    29 mins
  • Life Told In Machines

    Life Told In Machines
    Mar 5 2021
    20 mins
  • Preserving A Moment

    Preserving A Moment
    Feb 5 2021
    When Jim Ruberto is in the recording studio at Tippet Rise, his overarching mission is to preserve the performers’ intentions and the music’s profound emotional impact. To accomplish this, he must work to remove hundreds of noises from every live performance our audio team records—it's exacting work and a labor of love for our Assistant Audio Engineer.
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    40 mins
  • How I Became A Fanatic

    How I Became A Fanatic
    Jan 8 2021
    Tippet Rise Co-Founder, Peter Halstead, shares his passion for playing and recording music through some inspirational moments of a fifty-year musical journey.
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    15 mins
  • Renewing the Gift

    Renewing the Gift
    Dec 4 2020
    Music, like the stillness and solitude of a Montana winter, is a special kind of gift. John Luther Adams and the JACK Quartet share their thoughts and hopes for the music of our time.
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    54 mins
  • Where Stories Intersect

    Where Stories Intersect
    Nov 6 2020
    Inspired by extraordinary concert halls, and designed to share in the joy of music, the Olivier Music Barn connects us to nature and to each other.

    Cover Photo by Erik Petersen
    Engineered by Jim Ruberto
    Produced and Narrated by Zachary Patten
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    29 mins