Ben Folds
speaker
250 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
Ben Folds’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, that was a real thing and and and and I hate to step away from it, but we'll have to do our work outside of the Kennedy Center, I'm afraid, for a while.
Well one it you know for me personally uh it commemorates um eight years of working with that orchestra and that's our nation's symphony orchestra.
Incredibly proud of them.
They're still our nation's symphony orchestra and they still need to be supported.
A little tougher because they're a bit demoralized because their subscriptions are so down.
Um, you know, I th I think a Washington Post reported they were down eighty percent across the board.
I don't know if that directly is a number that applies to the orchestra, but they're feeling it.
Um and so to me this memorializes that and I love that.
Um secondly it it it stands to me for sort of a a a golden period where we were getting the orchestra to the point again of being um an original uh uh uh an orchestra that does original music.
You know, that that is really difficult and expensive to do.
When we did that concert in and um
And we recorded it.
Um, it meant enough to me to have this just recorded to pay for it essentially myself.
And there was something that was funded otherwise, but it it pretty much was me giving my fee and all this kind of stuff to make it work because it's really expensive to do.
So it wasn't a capitalistic endeavor for me, though I dig some capitalism at the right time.
So this is recorded one night, two nights, and um it was before the election.
Things were feeling a little bit eerie.
Um I had chosen a a selection of songs, like a song called Boat Wait There's More, which I'd written a few years ago in the first part of uh of Trump, which is like it seemed like every day was like we were titillated at the next weird story, and we were all paying attention, and like that's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
the the uh the you know uh the press conference in the in the landscaping parking lot next to the dildo shop wow that's pretty weird that's crazy what's next then it's old and then the next thing is even crazier so that's what we started the concert uh on was like look we're still it's getting crazier and crazier are we really out of this um there's a song on there about um uh uh about uh families and friends
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