David Cooper (host)

What are the social functions like?

What goes on?

Oh, man.

Um...

The first time I really encountered a classical music party was coming back from Duncan.

We would take a bus up to Duncan in Victoria and then we would play in this arena that had like this giant hockey stick and they would put like the hockey boards that went around the hockey rink, the ice rink, right behind the horn section because otherwise we'd be blowing into a velvet curtain.

And so we would call it the giant hockey stick.

And so on the way back, we'd go over the Malahat and we would drink beer from the cooler in the bus.

And it was just normal people hanging out after work.

It's just people enjoying a beer and drinking.

I think when you get people who are really type A, right?

We're obviously super detail-oriented, super competitive, and then you put us all together in one room.

We're going to be pretty intense, but I think we're also pretty fun.

We really like music.

We really are caring.

We're good listeners.

You have to be a good listener to... I mean, the stories are what I live for.

I live for getting to talk to older musicians and hearing what it was like back in the day, what it was like to work with this conductor, what it was like to play this piece of music or go on this tour.

What are the wild stories that you might get told at a party with a bunch of classical musicians?

You know, I think the biggest one would be like if someone didn't show up on time.