David Cooper (host)

Every orchestra is known for their thing.

She's a brassy girl.

Boston's known to be a really subtle and French traditional orchestra.

They had a French music director.

oh i i want to know about orchestra stereotypes from cities so i grew up in toronto what's that's orchestra what is it the toronto symphony orchestra the tso i think we called it what's the stereotype there negative and positive i mean the so we have typically five big major orchestras um in the united states new york boston philadelphia cleveland and chicago

And so those are the ones that we kind of grew up knowing a little bit more.

But I mean, Toronto is an amazing orchestra.

I mean, Vancouver is an amazing orchestra.

Vancouver is like the New York Philharmonic of the West Coast.

Oh, so I'm Canadian.

So you're saying Vancouver outdoes Toronto there.

Well, no, I mean, Toronto is also like, you know, the other big city and, you know, actually Ottawa, believe it or not, has an amazing orchestra.

But, you know, for me, my favorite Canadian orchestra happens to be Montreal.

Oh.

You know, Montreal, they had all these recordings of the French stuff back in the 80s with Charles Dutoit.

And anytime that you want to like hear like,

This is the definitive recording of anything French, like Ravel, Debussy, even Stravinsky, right?

Anything French, you'd go to the Montreal Symphony.

Is that Orchestra Montreal?

Probably, yeah.