Trailer for Season 4 Episode 8: Carlos Franzetti and Allison Brewster Franzetti -- Grammy &...

10 Dec 2023 · 3 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube trailer (title: "Trailer for Season 4 Episode 8: Carlos Franzetti and Allison Brewster Franzetti -- Grammy &...", created 2023-12-10) containing a short podcast-style interview excerpt. Participants in the clip are Grammy/Latin Grammy–winning composer Carlos Franzetti and pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti, plus a host (unnamed in the excerpt). They discuss award wins, their collaborative relationship (referred to as a "power couple" who complement each other), working and traveling together, and broader reflections on adapting to changing times and the cultural/historical role of classical music. The excerpt closes with a promotional call-to-action to watch/listen to the full episode on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel.

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You both are nominated for Grammy, Latin Grammy both, and Carlos, you won 5 awards, correct?
6 Grammys, yes. 2 in composition, 2 in tango, and 1 with an album that I did duets with a fabulous jazz bass player Eddie Gomez.
Allison, you are also nominated Yeah, I've been nominated twice for Grammys and three for Latins, and my name is on one of his wins. Carlos won for composition. It was a piece that I recorded, but I'm not the winner because the piece won, not the recording itself.
In my book, you are.
Aww. You know, people call a duo like you power couple, right?
Actually, yeah. We have been referred to that way, which we find really fascinating because We really just do what we do.
And the good thing is that, I must say, I mean, she's, she's the pianist, she's the concert pianist, I am a composer. So we share things, but we don't get to the point of competing. We, it's not that we compensate each other. We complement.
We complement. That's the word you're looking for. You know, we've been extraordinarily fortunate that way. We're very, very respectful of each other's work. Very separately, as well as everything that we've done together. You know, you are basically finishing sentences to each other.
So cute.
So sweet. That's so sweet. So yeah, working together for us is really very organic and it was—
We have fun working together. Yeah, we really do. And we have fun traveling together and working together.
Then later in the episode, we moved on to more reflective conversation.
You have to be willing to adjust to the times. And the world that we originally were brought up in has nothing to do with the world we're in. It really has changed that radically in so many ways. You know, just the fact that we're having this conversation, a few years ago, we wouldn't have done it.
No. But classical music matters because it's something that narrates a time, narrates a state of mind. You can't have impressionistic music at the times of Bach. It happened because it was a whole movement of painting, of literature, of music. So it's a time, and that's what culture does. Culture is history, and so is music. Music is our history.
Tune in this Tuesday, December 12th at 8 PM Eastern for an enlightening conversation with Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning artist Carlos Franzetti and Alison Brewster Franzetti on The Piano Pod's YouTube channel or wherever you listen to your podcast. Make sure to hit subscribe or follow The Piano Pod. Find all the necessary links in the description. Catch you this Tuesday.