WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.250 My name is Patricia Weinam. 2 00:00:03.250 --> 00:00:07.235 line:15% At the moment I am retired and so for a living, I'm having 3 00:00:07.235 --> 00:00:11.744 line:15% a good time, but I worked in music and concert production, 4 00:00:11.744 --> 00:00:15.246 line:15% press information, and fundraising - that was what I did, 5 00:00:15.246 --> 00:00:17.849 line:15% after I graduated from WestConn. 6 00:00:17.849 --> 00:00:21.185 Running a concert office is a complicated position, 7 00:00:21.185 --> 00:00:25.391 line:15% I was writing press releases and getting contacts with 8 00:00:25.391 --> 00:00:29.399 line:15% the press which hadn't really been done before I was there. 9 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.755 line:15% I was very surprised to see how things were being run 10 00:00:32.755 --> 00:00:34.047 when I was there. 11 00:00:34.047 --> 00:00:36.177 So I was getting the press coverage, 12 00:00:36.177 --> 00:00:38.083 I was doing fundraising, 13 00:00:38.083 --> 00:00:42.750 doing fundraising mostly with events, some solicitation. 14 00:00:43.716 --> 00:00:48.049 And I was hiring artist planning programs, I ran the 15 00:00:49.113 --> 00:00:53.804 line:15% chamber music series in Yale which the New York Times 16 00:00:53.804 --> 00:00:57.390 line:15% called the best chamber music series in Connecticut. 17 00:00:57.390 --> 00:00:59.064 line:15% I... what else did I do? 18 00:00:59.064 --> 00:01:02.976 I was also the general manager of the graduate student 19 00:01:02.976 --> 00:01:06.327 orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia. 20 00:01:06.327 --> 00:01:10.910 Before I got there, the series was all string quartets, 21 00:01:12.083 --> 00:01:16.584 and the center of the series was the Tokyo String Quartet, 22 00:01:16.584 --> 00:01:19.871 who were faculty in the Yale School of Music 23 00:01:19.871 --> 00:01:22.411 and who are a wonderful quartet. 24 00:01:22.411 --> 00:01:26.124 And I felt that having just string quartets was 25 00:01:26.124 --> 00:01:29.707 line:15% a little constricting, so what I used to do 26 00:01:30.660 --> 00:01:34.974 line:15% was I would have string quartets with a piano. 27 00:01:34.974 --> 00:01:38.290 The bass and the core were string quartets but I would 28 00:01:38.290 --> 00:01:40.764 have other instruments come with them. 29 00:01:40.764 --> 00:01:44.522 It was wonderful doing that and I would first... 30 00:01:44.522 --> 00:01:47.189 I would choose the artists 31 00:01:47.189 --> 00:01:49.768 and then I would work on the programs. 32 00:01:49.768 --> 00:01:52.735 I tried very hard to make sure that before every 33 00:01:52.735 --> 00:01:55.295 intermission, there was a contemporary piece because 34 00:01:55.295 --> 00:01:57.913 I feel audiences really need to have their 35 00:01:57.913 --> 00:02:02.080 ears broadened so that they get used to new music. 36 00:02:03.210 --> 00:02:05.058 And I always did that before intermissions so they 37 00:02:05.058 --> 00:02:06.583 couldn't go home at intermission. 38 00:02:06.583 --> 00:02:07.440 (laughs) 39 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:09.680 line:15% You do everything, absolutely everything. 40 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.839 line:15% I pushed a harpsichord from my office all the way 41 00:02:12.839 --> 00:02:16.234 line:15% down College Street to the Shubert Theater. 42 00:02:16.234 --> 00:02:19.769 line:15% I mean I have time to think about some of the odd things 43 00:02:19.769 --> 00:02:23.885 that I've done, but it is true, you do everything, 44 00:02:23.885 --> 00:02:28.140 you really have to do everything focusing on the outcome. 45 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:30.742 And you do everything that will make the outcome work. 46 00:02:30.742 --> 00:02:32.742 That's what's important.