Stand Partners for Life

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Violinists (and husband and wife) Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto give you an inside look at performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Each week brings new repertoire, conductors, soloists… and new stories from their life-long love affair with...

Episodes

Music or muddle: Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony

The best cadenza ever? Prokofiev and Ma Vlast

Stand Partners “Four” Life

Travis Maril, Violympic Champion

Kerstin Tenney and the Light Album

Tour-ready? Copland 3, Mahler 1, and more

Welcome back with the All-Time Awards

039: Summer motivation, plus Q & A

038: Do we really need a conductor?

037: Orchestra Players Anonymous

036 – Johnny Lee wasn’t meant to be a Harvard MD

035: Playing by numbers, or Advanced Orchestra Stats

034: The spirit is willing, but the Flesch is weak

033: The audience experience, with superfan Roderick Branch

032: What about Bob? Robert deMaine, our principal cello

031: That’s life in the hot seat, Mr. Concertmaster!

030: All about Amadeus

029: Living the rock star life at the Hollywood Bowl

028: Help, my audition’s tomorrow!

027: A Fistful of Mahlers