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Phil MUSICIANS

Who are your favorite

composers and pieces?

Ira: Mahler. Anything Beethoven. Photo credit Alexis Marie Brickner
Beethoven is just perfect.

Laura: Brahms, Dvořák, all the
Russians. Debussy is amazing.
I’d love to play the Dvořák Wind
Serenade sometime with the wind
section of the Phil.

Is there something funny

or interesting about how
you met?

Laura: Well, it’s no secret that we
met in orchestra. I think that’s been What’s it like working with your spouse?
pretty well covered in past articles. We both joined
the Plymouth Philharmonic and Cape Symphony Ira: Well, before the pandemic, gig nights were like
around the same time. We were married to other date nights. It’s fun, but it’s been so long since we’ve
people at first, then separated from them, and then worked together. Holiday pops 2019 was the last gig
began hanging out with a group of friends after we played together, that’s too long!
concerts. It was during those “hangs” that we got Laura: It’s been pretty great. Ira really gets me and
to know each other, became friends, and later fell what I go through to perform. He listens to me testing
in love. all my different reeds and I ask him what he thinks

Ira: I knew Laura was the one for me when we went and even though he doesn’t hear a difference, he
to the Sandwich boardwalk together on a date. We understands how important it is to me.
both conquered our fears and jumped (alongside the
local teenagers) into the creek at high tide. It was a
good date! Certainly not your average date.

“Gig nights are like date nights.”

“Ira really gets me and what I go through

to perform. He listens to me testing all my

different reeds and I ask him what he thinks

and even though he doesn’t hear a difference,

he understands how important it is to me.”

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