James Zimmermann
speaker
441 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Jan
James Zimmermann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I didn't really think too far beyond what's going to happen if I actually win.
I just said, you know, the only thing I can control here—
Going into the competition is get my best playing back because I don't play as much as I used to when I was the principal clarinet of the National Symphony.
I'm playing hours and hours a day.
Now I go weeks without practicing sometimes.
So I'm sort of out of shape.
This is the major leagues, these auditions.
So I haven't heard anything from Knoxville yet, but I'm sure their phones have been ringing these last couple days.
I stayed silent after I lost the audition because right after I won the audition and lost the opportunity to get the job, I started, you know, talking to my friends that I've made on X. And I got a lot of connections because of my Nashville story.
And I was led to a foundation in Washington, D.C.
that takes on cases like this.
I picked up some local counsel.
And we're suing on two counts.
One of them is called Tennessee's Promissory Estoppel Doctrine, in which I had reason to believe... Estoppel, sorry.
I'm just a clarinet player.
Glad you clarified that.
So they...
They gave me reason to believe that they were going to hire me.
I sent my resume.
My resume shows that I was gone from the Nashville Symphony since 2020.
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