![]() ![]() ![]() Were there any special considerations you had to make in working with someone who wasn’t classically trained? I think he’s a great storyteller and he has a very good ear. I think it’s fair to say, though, that he’s not conventionally thought of as a great singer. “Classical music shouldn’t be an elite little world.”īill is both reciting and singing on the album. That was so fantastic, and I started thinking maybe we could do something together. After two years, Bill invited me to a Poetry Walk and at the gala after, he recited a poem by Walt Whitman. We’re in very different fields but we liked hanging out together. It’s really very rare in life that something is completely born out of friendship. How did you and Bill go from that chance first meeting to a musical partnership? Time Out New York caught up with the German-born, NYC-based cellist to ask him about the unlikely pairing. The pair delve into the material again, with Vogler’s piano trio, at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 16. Combining music by Van Morrison, Henry Mancini, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin with Murray’s affecting, assured readings of text by Hemingway and Twain, it’s a surprisingly cohesive journey through a broad range of Americana. ![]() Eventually the friendship developed into an unexpected musical partnership and an album, New Worlds, released in August. As far as stories go, the beginning of this one isn’t particularly remarkable: Cellist Jan Vogler and comedy legend Bill Murray first met when they struck up a conversation on a trans-Atlantic flight. ![]()
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