Dorothy Lawson of ETHEL

Cellist and composer Dorothy Lawson is one of the founding members and Artistic Directors for ETHEL, ‪ a string quartet celebrating 25 years of setting the standard for contemporary concert music. In this episode, you’ll hear about many fascinating and meaningful collaborations with musicians including Alllison Loggins-Hull, Robert Mirabal, and Layale Chaker. It was really inspiring to hear how they got started with adapting the concert experience into something less-predictable, and ways to connect with new audiences. Dorothy also shared her insights into playing and teaching the cello and staying healthy. We also talked about many of the long-term relationships with the Metropolitain Museum, Denison College and the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer Apprentice Projecct. You’ll be hearing excerpts from 3 of ETHEL’s recent albums, including wonderful music by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Sam Wu and Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima, and everything is linked to ETHEL’s website: https://ethelcentral.org/ Transcript and YouTube video of this episode: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/dorothy-lawson-ethel This is my final podcast for this year, Episode 51 of Season 4, and Season 5 starts in a couple of weeks in January. Please check the links for different ways to support and follow this independent podcast. I really do need the help of my listeners; I do all the many jobs of research, production and publicity. Can you buy this podcaster a coffee to support this series? ⁠https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman⁠ Thanks! Follow me on Social Media: ⁠https://linktr.ee/leahroseman⁠ Merchandise: https://www.leahroseman.com/beautiful... Newsletter sign-up Complete Catalog of Episodes: https://www.leahroseman.com/about Transcript and podcast on all the platforms linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... You may be also interested in my episodes with: the Euclid Quartet https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... the Cheng2 duo https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Meg Okura https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Martha Mooke https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Rebeca Omordia https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Pat Irwin https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Frank Horvat https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:19) ETHEL string quartet, Persist project Allison Loggins-Hull (07:29)how and why ETHEL got started, Mary Rowell, Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson (13:32) Persist album, Sam Wu composer (14:56) excerpt from Terraria by Sam Wu on the Persist album (16:54) composer Leilehua Lanzilotti, Hawaii history and culture (19:14) excerpt from We began this quilt there by Leilehua Lanzilotti from album Persist (20:33) composer Migiwa Miyajima (23:18) clip from Reconciliation Suite by Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima from album Persist (24:11) Allison Loggins-Hull, about Persist (26:41) excerpt from Perisist by Allison Loggins-Hull (28:50) multi-media shows, Docuamerica (33:02) collaboration with Ringling museum for Circus: Wandering City show (37:21) other episodes that will interest you and different ways to support this series (38:06) the name ETHEL, members (46:09) Robert Mirabal, Grand Canyon Music Festival (56:41) excerpt from trailer for the Red Willow project with Robert Mirabal (58:46) Layale Chaker violinist composer, new album Vigil (01:01:58) excerpt from Vigil with Layale Chaker (01:05:07)Dorothy’s approach to teaching cello, avoiding injury, strategies for staying healthy (01:10:45) Metropolitan Museum collaboration (01:17:47)Denison University residency, city universities in New York Macaulay Honors