Speaker 1: Hudson River Radio dot com. It beats listening to nothing.
Speaker 1: My goodness, being Frank, where the only way to be
Speaker 1: is Frank.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to being Frank. We're the only
Speaker 2: way to be is Frank. I'm your host, Frank Lebonno,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to thank you for joining us on
Speaker 2: what we like to call the Intelligent Conversation Podcast, where
Speaker 2: no conversation out of bounds and all points of view
Speaker 2: are welcome. You know, we record live to tape and
Speaker 2: I give you the date so you have some context
Speaker 2: and relevance. It is the thirtieth of October. You know.
Speaker 2: The actor Felicia Rashad said, before a child talks, they sing,
Speaker 2: before they write, they draw, as soon as they stand,
Speaker 2: they dance. Art is essential to human expression. Well, our
Speaker 2: guest has been bringing the world of art to so
Speaker 2: many people in so many ways for a long time
Speaker 2: as a digital creator, producer, journalist, empresario, teacher, philanthropists, and
Speaker 2: so much more. Here is just a partial list of
Speaker 2: as many accomplishments and qualifications. It's a creative consultant at
Speaker 2: the Public Theater and NYC Studios, producer at ITZAC Perman
Speaker 2: broadcaster and producer at New York Public Radio, Radio host
Speaker 2: at the Chamber of Music, Society of Lincoln Center, executive
Speaker 2: producer at the Public Theater, executive and artistic director at
Speaker 2: Arts Rock. Please welcome my friend Elliott Farrest to being
Speaker 2: Frank Elliott. Thank you so much for joining us here.
Speaker 1: Today, Prank, thank you so much for having me. And
Speaker 1: I just want to start off and say what a
Speaker 1: treasure you are to our community. You seem to be
Speaker 1: everywhere at every major event, and you document it in
Speaker 1: a way nobody else does. So thank you for everything
Speaker 1: you do, Elliott.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. I truly do. And you can
Speaker 2: tell them a little nervous because we've got a heavyweight
Speaker 2: here today. I've already stumbled over myself far more than
Speaker 2: I usually do, and I usually do a lot.
Speaker 1: So just take a deep breath.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I feel about heavyweight. I've tried
Speaker 1: to lose weight. But this is going to be fun.
Speaker 2: It works with whist from a true pro, and we'll
Speaker 2: do our best and I'm going to have some fun
Speaker 2: and I think people are going to enjoy what we
Speaker 2: have to say, what you have to say. We talk
Speaker 2: a little about arts Rock here locally, which is a
Speaker 2: wonderful organization. Who's your work I enjoyed, But we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that in time. First let's talk about Elliott Forrest.
Speaker 2: You know what from your youth shaped your future? I mean,
Speaker 2: what was your childhood like, I know you come from Midland,
Speaker 2: Texas originally. What was it about your childhood that prepared
Speaker 2: you for a life in the arts.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a number of things. You know. I
Speaker 1: blame my parents for introducing me my both my parents
Speaker 1: were born and raised in Brooklyn, and my father was
Speaker 1: transferred to West Texas in the Air Force. We were
Speaker 1: always these fish out of water. We were these New
Speaker 1: York Brooklyn Jews in West Texas. And I was the
Speaker 1: only Jewish kid in my high school. So we were
Speaker 1: always just a little bit outside the mainstream in West Texas.
Speaker 1: But my parents were involved with the community theater. We
Speaker 1: went to the symphony. I was in the band and
Speaker 1: in the orchestra early on in junior high and it
Speaker 1: was particularly a community theater, the Midland Community Theater that
Speaker 1: I got involved in from age fourteen, and just like,
Speaker 1: well this is where I need to be. I need
Speaker 1: to be. I wasn't sure what I was going to
Speaker 1: do whether I was going to be an actor. I
Speaker 1: went on to get my theater degree at the University
Speaker 1: of Texas in Austin and was told one day in
Speaker 1: one acting class from a teacher that we were paying
Speaker 1: you're not an actor. And I was hurt and I
Speaker 1: didn't know what to make of that, although I didn't
Speaker 1: really feel like acting was necessarily going to be my call.
Speaker 1: But I took some directing classes and ended up directing
Speaker 1: and producing my first musical at nineteen and have pretty
Speaker 1: much done the same thing ever since.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I heard very similar things Elliott, when
Speaker 2: somebody told me I have the face for radio. That's
Speaker 2: what you notice we stream We stream audio here, but
Speaker 2: no video. So thank god for small fings. But anyway,
Speaker 2: let's continue your journey. So you start producing in high school,
Speaker 2: but Midland, Texas is a long way from New York
Speaker 2: City and then, nayak, how did you work your way
Speaker 2: back into into New York and major producing here in
Speaker 2: the media capital of the world. That's no easy feat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like a lot of people, I had
Speaker 1: my eye frankly coming out of college in the late
Speaker 1: seventies early eighties, thinking that it's going to be either
Speaker 1: in New York or LA. And I didn't really know
Speaker 1: anybody in Los Angeles at the time, and I still
Speaker 1: had a lot of family here in New York. So
Speaker 1: you know, I called an ant and said, can I
Speaker 1: come live in your basement? There was a little way
Speaker 1: station in there, which actually was quite pivotal. After college
Speaker 1: and before New York, I lived in Kansas City, Missouri
Speaker 1: for eighteen months. There was a friend of mine who
Speaker 1: had a theater company. I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to go to New York or LA.
Speaker 1: And she said, come to Kansas City. I have a
Speaker 1: theater company, a children's theater company. You can act and
Speaker 1: direct and design and be a part of my theater company.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's the only offer I had. I
Speaker 1: moved to Kansas City, and in that eighteen months, not
Speaker 1: only did I find lifelong friends, some of which I'm
Speaker 1: more in touch with than at people I went to
Speaker 1: college with, but we were doing a play for kids
Speaker 1: and they said, you were on the radio. My first
Speaker 1: radio job was in West Texas. I never thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be my life, but I'd been on
Speaker 1: the radio at seventeen and so when I moved to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. They said, oh, you were on the radio
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, as a summer gig, but you have a
Speaker 1: nice Voicego record this public service announcement at this radio
Speaker 1: station in a horse pasture in Kansas City, Kansas. And
Speaker 1: I went out to this radio station. It was a
Speaker 1: classical music radio station. I recorded the PSA and I said,
Speaker 1: you guys don't need anybody, do you. I wasn't making
Speaker 1: a lot of money doing theater in Kansas City. And
Speaker 1: they went, yeah, we're looking for an afternoon announcer, and
Speaker 1: I auditioned, got the gig. I was on the air
Speaker 1: on a classical station in Kansas City for a year.
Speaker 1: Little did I know that that day changed the course
Speaker 1: of the rest of my life. I had no idea
Speaker 1: on that day, but I reflect back to it all
Speaker 1: the time because it was a pretty casual sort of well,
Speaker 1: this will be fun, and it affected everything for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. I've been on the radio in
Speaker 1: New York for over thirty five years. It led to
Speaker 1: a gig on A and E television that I had
Speaker 1: for twelve years. So after about eighteen months in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I just went, I think it's time to move to
Speaker 1: New York and didn't have a gig, didn't have a job,
Speaker 1: moved in with an ant into a basement, and then
Speaker 1: just started pounding away doing plays and doing theater and
Speaker 1: eventually more radio and then TB.
Speaker 4: And never a classic. Never looked back in a way.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you have, because you have reflected. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a term that we understand. You just
Speaker 4: kept going.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a little bit about WQXR, your radio
Speaker 2: gig here in New York, which you're very well known
Speaker 2: for in just a second. But but you also produced concerts,
Speaker 2: major concerts and major shows around the country in the world.
Speaker 2: Are there any that stick out in particular after so many?
Speaker 2: Are there? There are there one, two, a few that
Speaker 2: really stick in your out in your mind?
Speaker 1: And why well, it's on my mind now because I
Speaker 1: just got off of a tour co directing a large
Speaker 1: scale oratorio about Matthew Shepherd called Considering Matthew Shepherd. As
Speaker 1: many or most of your audience may know, Matthew Shepherd
Speaker 1: was the young man who was tied to a fence
Speaker 1: and beaten because he was gay and died and was
Speaker 1: a turning point in the LGBTQ community in the subject
Speaker 1: of the play Laramie Project, which is one of the
Speaker 1: most produced plays in America. And now there's this musical
Speaker 1: version of Matthew's story called Considering Matthew Shepherd. I was
Speaker 1: the original director for the I directed the PBS television
Speaker 1: version and then an early tour, and then we just
Speaker 1: went on tour again. An extremely meaningful and beautiful work
Speaker 1: composed by Craig Hella Johnson for choirs, and I've been
Speaker 1: involved in some thirty different productions of it in one
Speaker 1: way or another. So just beautiful. And we just did
Speaker 1: that both in Philadelphia and in Austin. And then I'm
Speaker 1: also on and off on tour with the great violinist
Speaker 1: at Zuck Pearlman.
Speaker 2: I was going to mention that specifically, the incredible virtue
Speaker 2: of so yes, that must be experience, you know.
Speaker 1: I first started to create these large scale symphony concerts
Speaker 1: by adding projections and multimedia stuff in two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: strangely enough, and the first one I ever did was
Speaker 1: at the Hollywood Bowl, which was a wild place to
Speaker 1: be the first one. But once I had these incredible
Speaker 1: pictures of the Lace, the Elis Orchestra, La Symphony Orchestra,
Speaker 1: and at the Hollywood Bowl. I was able to take
Speaker 1: these pictures and pitch and be able to do concerts
Speaker 1: for a number of different orchestras. And then I got
Speaker 1: a call from Itzac Pehlman's manager, what I create and
Speaker 1: produce this multimedia event, this concert series, concert tour with
Speaker 1: him that is half playing, half storytelling.
Speaker 2: He's very charming, He's very Is he really that witty?
Speaker 2: You know? You know these and forgive me for the
Speaker 2: expressions kind of eggheaded musicians. All they can do is
Speaker 2: play the violin, but he gives the impression of being
Speaker 2: a real win Is that real?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Oh no, totally. If I had written down
Speaker 1: every joke he ever told at a meal, you know,
Speaker 1: every meal contains the phrase have you heard the one about? And?
Speaker 1: And they're usually these really sort of bad shaggy dog stories.
Speaker 1: You know. We tell the story in our concert tour
Speaker 1: because it's biographical, autobiographical about him having polio at the
Speaker 1: age of five and not being able to use his
Speaker 1: legs for the last almost seventy five years. But I
Speaker 1: walked into his dressing room after the first performance and
Speaker 1: I said, you know, you're really funny. If you hadn't
Speaker 1: been a violinist, you could be a stand up comic.
Speaker 1: And without missing a beat, he went, except not standing up.
Speaker 2: It's the kind of thing you've kind of grown to
Speaker 2: expect for me.
Speaker 1: And it's very real, very great guy. Really, I'd loved
Speaker 1: the tour. I've really relished every moment of it. We
Speaker 1: did five performances pre COVID and then like everyone else,
Speaker 1: we shut down for about a year and a half
Speaker 1: and then we went back on tour and we've probably
Speaker 1: done it another twenty five times and then you know,
Speaker 1: we have more on the books, but we're actually starting
Speaker 1: continuing next week to create part two, this biographical evening
Speaker 1: with multimedia. You know, it's ok. Pearlman, great violinist, was
Speaker 1: on the Ed Sullivan Show when he was thirteen, and
Speaker 1: we show that during our show and made his concert
Speaker 1: debut at age seventeen, and so we were just going
Speaker 1: to continue after that.
Speaker 2: Terrific, you know, and you mentioned WQXR. It's in one
Speaker 2: of your more consistent gigs. With all the things you've done.
Speaker 2: It's through thick and thin, You've always seemed to come
Speaker 2: back to w QXR. Tell us about your experiences there,
Speaker 2: how you wound up there, what is it you like
Speaker 2: about it, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, after I came to New York and really
Speaker 1: was pursuing a life in the theater, broadcasting just kept
Speaker 1: calling me. I was on a radio station, a w
Speaker 1: EVD for those who remember the Eugene V. Debs radio
Speaker 1: station in Manhattan, and I was on a station on
Speaker 1: Long Island, and then a dear friend of mine called
Speaker 1: me up and said, hey, you know, if you ever
Speaker 1: want to be in New York City, which you know,
Speaker 1: at that point, I had not been on a New
Speaker 1: York City radio station, which was you know, for a
Speaker 1: kid from a small West Texas town, was kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, a dream. WNCN is looking for people, which
Speaker 1: was the other classical music radio station for many years
Speaker 1: here in New York. And so I auditioned, I got
Speaker 1: the job, and I was on WNCN for seven years.
Speaker 1: And then it turned heavy metal overnight. We we had
Speaker 1: literally less than twenty four hours notice.
Speaker 2: Didn't quite fit in with the heavy metal scene. I
Speaker 2: gather Elliott, now.
Speaker 1: You know it was. It actually turned into Q one
Speaker 1: O four, which is classic rock. And at the time
Speaker 1: of the of the when WNCN went off the air,
Speaker 1: I was actually hosting a number of different series on
Speaker 1: A and A television, including a rock series, and I
Speaker 1: was touring. I interviewed Chicago, the Ben Chicago and Aaron
Speaker 1: Neville and a whole bunch of people. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: the music. I actually felt like I could have done that.
Speaker 2: It was heavy metal music. Would you feel comfortable with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, heavy metal was sort of a little on the
Speaker 1: edge of the well. It was sort of a transitional
Speaker 1: thing they did before Q one A four took over,
Speaker 1: and not exactly my favorite exactly, to be honest, but
Speaker 1: you know, we sense that that was going to be transitional,
Speaker 1: and eventually it turned into classic rock, which I love
Speaker 1: and Ken Dashau, who's on that station at Denis Elsis
Speaker 1: are for all friends of mine, you know, I love
Speaker 1: those formats. But but I didn't want to stay. I
Speaker 1: really felt like that the way they handled the canceling
Speaker 1: of the format was was not great, and I just
Speaker 1: I really objected to the whole politic of the way
Speaker 1: they handled the the ending of w NCN. So I
Speaker 1: quit and a couple of months later I went to QXR,
Speaker 1: which was you know, I can be honest with you
Speaker 1: because it's frankly speaking, you know, qx For seven years,
Speaker 1: NCN and qx R were competitors. This was the station
Speaker 1: we wanted to beat. QXR at the time was the
Speaker 1: old fogie classical station and NCN had more of a
Speaker 1: hip appeal, and so we loved that competition. We relished
Speaker 1: in that radio competition that we would check the books
Speaker 1: and who had the better ratings, and you know, seven
Speaker 1: years of and you know, this would have been my
Speaker 1: late twenties and early thirties where I was really you know,
Speaker 1: fun to really take on the competition and be competitive
Speaker 1: and be exciting. So when NCN went off the air,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I guess I'll apply to
Speaker 1: QXR whatever. And so I did go there and I
Speaker 1: was there, frankly about a year, and I was only
Speaker 1: doing part time and I had a small, you know,
Speaker 1: a growing family, kids that needed to be fed, mortgages
Speaker 1: that needed to be paid. And I got I applied
Speaker 1: and got a job with the CBS Radio Network, co
Speaker 1: hosting a late night radio talk show with the legendary
Speaker 1: Tom Snyder. And that was great. It was a full
Speaker 1: year of doing I think some three hundred and sixty interviews,
Speaker 1: including spending a lot of time with Tom Snyder, which
Speaker 1: was just great and so important to me and pivotal.
Speaker 1: But that contract lasted a year, and when it was over,
Speaker 1: I was looking back at regular radio and local radio
Speaker 1: in New York and QXR came knocking and somebody was leaving.
Speaker 1: My mentor and friend, Lloyd Moss, was retiring at the
Speaker 1: age of eighty. Did I want to come back on
Speaker 1: the air there? Which I did, And now I've been
Speaker 1: on QXR for twenty two years. XR during the first
Speaker 1: part of that was owned by the New York Times,
Speaker 1: and we just passed the fifteen year mark where WQXR
Speaker 1: was sold by the New York Times and purchased by
Speaker 1: New York Public Radio and being a sister station at WNYC.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't be more delighted. It's a great building.
Speaker 1: It's a you know I have you know, been next
Speaker 1: to I've been at the urinal next to Brian Larr
Speaker 1: and yessive, those those moments are you know, very exciting
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: We are being frank right, no conversation is out of
Speaker 2: bounds here we go.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't at the urinal with Brook Gladstone, but
Speaker 1: you know there are that when I would listen to
Speaker 1: on the media or radio lab or Brian Lair. I
Speaker 1: was a fan, you know, and a listener well before
Speaker 1: I was a colleague and a fellow employee. So to
Speaker 1: have a galla or even a meeting or just run
Speaker 1: into them down the hall to be a part of
Speaker 1: New York Public Radio is glorious. Public Radio is is
Speaker 1: is very important to me, and I think very important
Speaker 1: to our country and and I think it's been a
Speaker 1: good partnership.
Speaker 2: Absolutely Now and you mentioned some of you mentioned Chicago,
Speaker 2: and through the course of your time both working directly
Speaker 2: with or interviewing many celebrities and famous people, you continue
Speaker 2: to do. So we're going to talk about that as
Speaker 2: part of your duties as artistic and executive director of
Speaker 2: Arts Rock. And you've got a big one coming up
Speaker 2: with Tony Shaloub and Brooke Adams shortly. I've seen a
Speaker 2: few of your interviews here locally at what used to
Speaker 2: be the First Reformed Church is now the Angel and
Speaker 2: I going to talk about that too, and just a bit.
Speaker 2: But to get to it, of all these people is
Speaker 2: the first of all the twofold question, how do you
Speaker 2: prepare for your interviews? Okay? And then who sticks out
Speaker 2: in your mind as one of the better interviews that
Speaker 2: you've done and one of the better interview is So first,
Speaker 2: how do you prepare for some of these people who
Speaker 2: are always very well known? As you already try to
Speaker 2: make as I do, try to make the questions, and
Speaker 2: it's interesting in penetrating what method do you use? And
Speaker 2: then who sticks out in your mind as one of
Speaker 2: the better interviews.
Speaker 1: My preparation is all about preparation. I you know, I
Speaker 1: can sit in front of my laptop and go through
Speaker 1: video clips and old interviews and Wikipedia, and you know,
Speaker 1: I come up with what I believe to be as
Speaker 1: an arc of an interview. I believe a good one
Speaker 1: has a beginning, middle, and ending.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm and I'm a big fan of that order.
Speaker 1: And and then I prepare and then and then I listen,
Speaker 1: you know, Then I I like, I like to be prepared,
Speaker 1: but I also want to be flexible. Sometimes I've had
Speaker 1: interviews go directions I never expected. And I've I've personally
Speaker 1: seen way too men interviews where it might as well
Speaker 1: be question one, and then they ask their question question two,
Speaker 1: and it's like they're not even paying attention to something
Speaker 1: interesting that comes up that go really tell me more
Speaker 1: about that. So I'm perfectly willing to be surprised and
Speaker 1: delighted and have it go into a different direction than
Speaker 1: I expected. But yeah, I I like to be really prepared.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need to know the answer to every question,
Speaker 1: but it helps oftentimes into both avoid pitfalls and also
Speaker 1: overall just to make my guests feel comfortable. I want them.
Speaker 1: I think if they're comfortable, the audience is comfortable, and
Speaker 1: everybody enjoys themselves. It's hard for me to pick. I've
Speaker 1: been so lucky and fortunate. You know, it's just name
Speaker 1: dropping central basically, but please do so.
Speaker 2: It's an impressive list. I've seen some of them there.
Speaker 2: They're always fascinating interviews with really fascinating people. You have
Speaker 2: the ability to bring that interest out because if you will,
Speaker 2: look a hackneyed phrase going beyond the headlines. But yes,
Speaker 2: so well, so many. Please please give us the list.
Speaker 2: It's important to know. I think it is.
Speaker 1: Well. Let's see in the beatle category, I interviewed Paul
Speaker 1: McCartney at Carnegie Hall at the debut of his Liverpool Oratorio.
Speaker 1: That was pretty exciting. Linda was still alive and the
Speaker 1: bodyguard was holding onto me the whole time. I have
Speaker 1: a picture of it. It's on my website, but there's
Speaker 1: a guy in the corner and all you see at
Speaker 1: the back of his head and a black jacket, but
Speaker 1: that's the bodyguard literally holding onto my jacket. So like
Speaker 1: like I was gonna hit him on the head with
Speaker 1: the microphone, I don't know. I did a live interview
Speaker 1: on the radio with George Martin because he had something
Speaker 1: to promote, which was very exciting. And then on A
Speaker 1: and E television I spent some time with Ringo Star
Speaker 1: so I'm the fifth Beatle basically. And then even out
Speaker 1: here in Rockland County, we've done so many sit down interviews.
Speaker 1: I was able to bring Edward Albe out, you know.
Speaker 1: I think one of the first ones I did in
Speaker 1: Nyak was actually Mike Nichols. We was sold out in Nayak.
Speaker 1: We had six hundred people in the audience, and I
Speaker 1: walked him through his entire career with film clips. He
Speaker 1: put together some of the clips himself for us we
Speaker 1: sort of waited and held the grad. We did it
Speaker 1: chronologically except for the graduate, which we waited until the
Speaker 1: very end to show he was really gracious and lovely
Speaker 1: and funny. And if we can jump ahead many years,
Speaker 1: I ended up interviewing Mike Nichols again in the cast
Speaker 1: of Death of a Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman, and
Speaker 1: this was in the Green Space. And I mean clearly
Speaker 1: Philip Seymour Hoffman, after dying of a drug overdose, had
Speaker 1: bigger problems than me. And I'm not taking this personally,
Speaker 1: but he just did not want to be on stage
Speaker 1: with us, and so everything I asked was yes. I
Speaker 1: mean I tried to avoid yes or no questions, but
Speaker 1: I was getting monosyllabic answers. I was just getting one
Speaker 1: and it wasn't going anywhere. And it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be twenty minutes with him, and then the rest of
Speaker 1: the cast was going to come on, So like five
Speaker 1: or ten minutes into the interview, I just like went, oh,
Speaker 1: this is great to spend some time with you. Let's
Speaker 1: bring out the rest of the cast, you know, I
Speaker 1: just sort of like bolted the interview.
Speaker 2: As they say, he was.
Speaker 1: It was just very weird. And then I brought Nicholas
Speaker 1: and Andrew Garfield and the rest of the cast, and
Speaker 1: Mike Nichols saved the day. You know, he was a
Speaker 1: stand up comic, He's charming, he's funny, and so I
Speaker 1: had two shots at at Mike Nichols, which was very
Speaker 1: important to me. You know, we've got this series at
Speaker 1: in Rockland that I do hear. We had David Hyde, Peers,
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, Lewis Black, Robert Klein, Cheetah Rivera again, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about Tony Schlubin Brook Adams coming up soon. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's an education, it's great fun for me,
Speaker 1: and the audiences seem to like spending time with these
Speaker 1: celebrities close up and hearing them and being able. And
Speaker 1: they've been so gracious to come out to Nayak and
Speaker 1: spend some time with us on stage.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Mike Nichols. Who else in your mind, and
Speaker 2: not only for their interviews, for their personality. Who is
Speaker 2: someone that sticks out in your mind as Wow, that's
Speaker 2: an impressive person.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I love comedians and that's just me. So,
Speaker 1: you know, having time with John Cleese and again, more
Speaker 1: than once Lewis Black. I knew Lewis frankly for more
Speaker 1: than twenty five years. He wasn't even really a stand
Speaker 1: up comic when I first met him, so I love
Speaker 1: spending time with him. So lots of funny people. I
Speaker 1: always really enjoy that you mentioned Felicia Rashad. She was
Speaker 1: a part of it. That she's she did one of
Speaker 1: ours out in Nayak, Susie Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izard goes
Speaker 1: by Susie now and she has been a part of
Speaker 1: what we've done out here in Nayak and at WQXR
Speaker 1: for a while too. Also an amazing talent, superstar, comic
Speaker 1: and actor. So yeah, I've been I've been fortunate you.
Speaker 2: Certainly, and we've been fortunate to have you, to have
Speaker 2: your work, to have you on QXR, to have you
Speaker 2: here at Nayak. And you know, people always tease them,
Speaker 2: always raving about Nike, but there was something about this
Speaker 2: place and talk a little bit more about it where
Speaker 2: it embraces art and how important that is. Elliot Love
Speaker 2: was going to save that for later, but since it
Speaker 2: came up, now, why don't we talk about the importance
Speaker 2: you do it here locally? I mean, you do it
Speaker 2: on a grand scale. We've talked about that nationally internationally,
Speaker 2: but you do a lot of work locally too with
Speaker 2: local arts organization. We're going to talk after the break
Speaker 2: in more detail exactly about Arts Rock as an organization,
Speaker 2: but before that, why is it important for you and
Speaker 2: for others to become involved in local art projects in
Speaker 2: art themed projects.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think we're carrying on a tradition,
Speaker 1: you and I Arts Rock and all the other artists
Speaker 1: and creatives in Rockland County that goes back several generations.
Speaker 1: I think part of it is the duality of being
Speaker 1: less than an hour from Times Square and we're close
Speaker 1: to Manhattan, so you know, whether it's Maxwell Anderson or
Speaker 1: Helen Hayes Hersel for uh, Jonathan Demiville. Yeah, so historically
Speaker 1: this is it's the duality of being close to Manhattan
Speaker 1: but cheaper than Westchester and a little harder to get to,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit more in the country.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I've heard stories about Kurt Vile and lot of Lenya
Speaker 1: who are married lived in our community here in the
Speaker 1: Nyak Rockland area, and evidently she hated to do the dishes,
Speaker 1: so she'd have famous people over, they have big dinner parties,
Speaker 1: and she just walk out to a creek behind her
Speaker 1: house and just throw the dishes in the creek instead
Speaker 1: of my style of housekeeping the dishes exactly. So we're
Speaker 1: carrying on this tradition of artists. I mean, I live
Speaker 1: a block from Joe A. Lessi, the first chair trombone
Speaker 1: player of the New York Philharmonic, people from the Metropolitan Opera.
Speaker 1: They're actors, they're directors, They're all sorts of artists here.
Speaker 1: So I think this a bit a little bit of countryside,
Speaker 1: this little bit of deer in our front yard, while
Speaker 1: being close to Manhattan, attracts a certain artist that doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be in the heart of Manhattan. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: there is a philosophy and we at Arts Rock at
Speaker 1: artsrock dot org care about this. Is that every community
Speaker 1: should have law enforcement, should have their garbage taken, and
Speaker 1: have a hospital and healthcare, but they should also have
Speaker 1: their own arts. And just because we're forty five minutes
Speaker 1: or an hour from Times Square doesn't mean that everyone
Speaker 1: goes into the city. And so we believe that both
Speaker 1: national artists coming to Nayak and featuring local artists who
Speaker 1: already live here. Is important to the culture and the
Speaker 1: lifestyle of what it is to be a member of
Speaker 1: the community.
Speaker 2: Hell, we're going to take a quick break when we
Speaker 2: come back, and we're talking detail about arts rock, their mission,
Speaker 2: the role that you play, and the exciting lineup you
Speaker 2: got coming up shortly. It begins in November. So you
Speaker 2: mentioned with your interview with Tony Shaloub and Brooke Adams.
Speaker 2: Is also a candlelight concert. Too many things for me
Speaker 2: to mention. I know you have a list and I
Speaker 2: go over them because they're terrific, and the role that
Speaker 2: arts rock plays and how important it is. And we'll
Speaker 2: have all of that coming up in just a minute.
Speaker 2: So you don't go anywhere, but you don't have to
Speaker 2: have got you as a captain, for he is talking
Speaker 2: about everybody else. Please don't go anywhere yet. This is
Speaker 2: being Frank. I'm your host, Frank Lobono. It's intelligent conversation
Speaker 2: for sure. My very special guest is mister Elliott Forrest.
Speaker 2: We'll be back more with him and so much more
Speaker 2: right after these brief commercial messages. Don't go anywhere yet.
Speaker 5: Hudson River Radio dot Com, Hudson River radio dot com.
Speaker 5: This is Hudson River Radio dot com.
Speaker 1: You're a local Rockland County station.
Speaker 3: This is Hudson River Radio dot com.
Speaker 6: Hudson Riverradio dot com.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Being Frank, the Intelligent Conversation podcast. Thanks
Speaker 2: for sticking with us. I'm your host, Frank Lebono. Our
Speaker 2: engineer is Neil Richter. Our very special guest, who will
Speaker 2: we will reintroduce in just a moment, is Elliott Forrest.
Speaker 2: You know, we bring our audience a fresh topic every
Speaker 2: week and we stream from Hudson River Radio, which is
Speaker 2: located and beautiful and very historic Stony Point, New York.
Speaker 2: But remember you can catch Being Frank anywhere you get
Speaker 2: your favorite podcast that includes Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio and all
Speaker 2: the others. And remember Being Frank is archives, so you
Speaker 2: can listen to any program anytime you like. It's very convenient.
Speaker 2: Can finally to Being Frank on the Hudson River Radio
Speaker 2: Facebook page or at our website Hudsonriverradio dot com. Just
Speaker 2: click and you're there. Okay, back to our special guest,
Speaker 2: Elliott Forrest from wqxor Arts Rock Rockland, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 2: et cetera. If we go through it all again. We
Speaker 2: won't have any time left in the show, so let's
Speaker 2: get back to it. You are the artistic and executive
Speaker 2: director of Arts Rock. You mentioned a little bit about
Speaker 2: what it is as an organization. Tell us a little
Speaker 2: bit more in detail about what your overall mission is
Speaker 2: and what role you play as executive and artistic director there.
Speaker 1: Arts Rock started very much as a community effort in
Speaker 1: the center of Nayak out of a former space that
Speaker 1: we had been programming in for four years. And then
Speaker 1: a number of us got together and said, well, we
Speaker 1: should just continue the programming when the space went away.
Speaker 1: And so that was fifteen years ago, and so we
Speaker 1: have a robust board and a lot of programming and
Speaker 1: we've kept the programming philosophy and a mission going for
Speaker 1: all these many years, in which we present family shows, concerts, conversations,
Speaker 1: some theater, you know, a mixed bag of classical and
Speaker 1: rock and folk music again, professional performing arts in Rockland
Speaker 1: County and a number of different venues. As artistic and
Speaker 1: executive director, I oversee all the programming. I have a
Speaker 1: managing director, Derre Falco, who had been with us for
Speaker 1: many many years, stepped down recently and Laura Steinberger is
Speaker 1: now our managing director and Kate Ashby is our marketing director.
Speaker 1: So it's basically the three of us and then help
Speaker 1: from both financial and guidance and programming help from the
Speaker 1: board as well. So we do anywhere. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we did some virtual programming during during COVID, but basically
Speaker 1: we do about ten shows a year in the community
Speaker 1: and that may expand as we look to having more
Speaker 1: of a home at the new Angel Nayak.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about that, so then we'll
Speaker 2: get into the specifics of the upcoming season. But there
Speaker 2: is this really nice new venue called the Angel in Nayak,
Speaker 2: which was formally, if I'm correct, the First Reformed Church,
Speaker 2: beautiful old Gothic structure. But tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: more about how they're involved in the community and your
Speaker 2: involvement with them.
Speaker 1: Well, Arts Rock for the first fifteen years of our organization,
Speaker 1: including now, has been nomadic, and we will be at
Speaker 1: Bosi's or Nayak High School or the Nayak Center, or
Speaker 1: we would be in Japan, or at the First Reformed
Speaker 1: Church in Nayak, which is across the street from Key Bank,
Speaker 1: right in the center of town. And then the church
Speaker 1: had decided that they really couldn't keep it going on
Speaker 1: their own anymore, that they didn't have enough of a
Speaker 1: congregation to be able to make it work, and wanted
Speaker 1: to sell it. So a group of people have stepped up,
Speaker 1: and it looks like if all goes through, it will
Speaker 1: be converted to an event and art space. And it's
Speaker 1: in the process of that right now, meaning a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, paperwork and things with the state of
Speaker 1: New York and that sort of thing, but ultimately renovation
Speaker 1: including adding air conditioning and lighting and both inside and out.
Speaker 1: I mean, you drive by it at night, there's no
Speaker 1: outside light at all. You don't even see the building.
Speaker 1: It's just dark there. But as you indicate, it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful Gothic structure. It's got a clock tower on it.
Speaker 1: The idea that we would in a way finally have
Speaker 1: a new performing arts center in Nayak is long overdue.
Speaker 1: You know, I've attempted this a number of times in
Speaker 1: a number of places. If you think about it, Rockland
Speaker 1: County has the turning point as far as a regular
Speaker 1: performing art space, and you know that seats like sixty people.
Speaker 1: You know, it's extremely tiny. We don't have any more.
Speaker 2: The Maurene Jazz Club of great jazz venue and also
Speaker 2: sixty seventy people, small.
Speaker 1: Beautiful place, and I love Dave Budway and his beautiful wife,
Speaker 1: and I really admire the work they're doing in their
Speaker 1: jazz club. But as a broad based performing arts center
Speaker 1: that can be used by a number of different people
Speaker 1: that could see hundreds of people, we just don't. We
Speaker 1: don't have a Terrytown music hall, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: have that in our community. And so it's time, and
Speaker 1: so we're hoping this is it. And I have been
Speaker 1: invited and my organization has been invited to be a
Speaker 1: or the underlying arts organization at the Angel Nayak and
Speaker 1: for the first time in fifteen years, we might have
Speaker 1: a regular home, which would be foundational for any nonprofit
Speaker 1: arts organization to have a to have a space that brings.
Speaker 2: You to then the consistency of a great season. You
Speaker 2: have a really exciting upcoming season this new venue. Talk
Speaker 2: about it in some detail, please.
Speaker 1: Well, we have five shows that are on our website
Speaker 1: right now at artsrock dot org. But that's just the
Speaker 1: beginning for this particular season. And actually we're already looking
Speaker 1: ahead at twenty twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven. You know,
Speaker 1: these things are usually planned out well in advance, but
Speaker 1: arts Rock starts off our season on November ninth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four this year with another candlelight, a classical candlelight series.
Speaker 1: This has been a national trend to have classical candlelight
Speaker 1: series in different churches and venues. And there's actually one
Speaker 1: I really love out in a cemetery out in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: And so for those that might be either slightly intimidated
Speaker 1: or don't really know or care that much about classical music,
Speaker 1: the idea that the entire concert is lit almost entirely
Speaker 1: by candlelight, we hope is an added value of a
Speaker 1: date night, an environment, something that's really fun and exciting
Speaker 1: for people to enjoy. We've done a couple of them already.
Speaker 1: We had Bridget Kibbi, who is one of the great
Speaker 1: harp players in America, she's a regular with the Chamber
Speaker 1: Music Society of Lincoln Center Beautiful Night and Sarah Sana
Speaker 1: brogio cello player. So on November ninth will be the
Speaker 1: next one. It's a group called Trio Fate Aline and
Speaker 1: they'll be playing a number of different kinds of pieces
Speaker 1: of music highlighting the immigrant experience. It's a combination between
Speaker 1: violin and fadolina and cello. So I really encourage everyone
Speaker 1: to come. As a matter of fact, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: see all that information at artsrock dot org. We follow
Speaker 1: that up a couple of like a week or so
Speaker 1: later with one of our signature interviews in which the
Speaker 1: great Emmy Award winning actor Tony Shaloub will be on
Speaker 1: stage with his beautiful wife, Brooke Adams. If people remember
Speaker 1: the film Days of Heaven, she was the beautiful angenoue
Speaker 1: in that film, and they're married. They're a married couple.
Speaker 1: They've done Broadway together, and of course he was Galaxy
Speaker 1: Quest and Men in Black and Monk Monk is actually
Speaker 1: coming to Nayak. So that's November sixteenth with Tony Shalhoub
Speaker 1: and Brooke Adams. Then we're going to do another Candlelight
Speaker 1: series in February with a group that is a chamber
Speaker 1: ensemble that'll have multimedia. They do images and video in
Speaker 1: addition to their performances with the Candlelight stuff. And then
Speaker 1: in March of twenty five and next year, I've invited
Speaker 1: the esteemed Multi Grammy award winning conductor Leonard Slackin to
Speaker 1: join me on stage and talk about movie music. I
Speaker 1: have a passion for movie music. I play it on
Speaker 1: the radio on WQXR all the time. We have a
Speaker 1: thing we call the Score at four at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: We play movie music every day, every weekday. And so
Speaker 1: I put together an evening It's about ninety minutes with
Speaker 1: forty different film clips on the history of movie music
Speaker 1: from the silent era up to today. And I was
Speaker 1: going to do it by myself, and I was talking
Speaker 1: to Leonard Slackin for something QX are and I said,
Speaker 1: would you join me on stage and just talk about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of your audience knows Leonard Slacken,
Speaker 1: but he's probably conducted the recordings of I don't even
Speaker 1: know how many sixty recordings, major recordings over his eighty years.
Speaker 1: But his parents were in Los Angeles and were in
Speaker 1: the orchestra for a number of these classic film scores,
Speaker 1: Corn Gold for the Robin Hood film and a number
Speaker 1: of other films. So he grew and he would go.
Speaker 1: He would as a kid, he would sit by on
Speaker 1: his parents knee while these film scores were being made
Speaker 1: these classic film scores from the forties, and he was
Speaker 1: in the recording studio and has since gone on and
Speaker 1: championed movie music as well. So I couldn't be more
Speaker 1: thrilled to have Leonard Slack and join me on stage
Speaker 1: on March twenty eighth to talk about movie music. Last year,
Speaker 1: we partnered with this great cellist named Jody Ferber for
Speaker 1: something called Ecotnes. I'm not sure if you made it, Frank,
Speaker 1: but we did this event in which world class players
Speaker 1: were playing live in Riverhook and Upper Nayak outdoors.
Speaker 2: Fabulous location, beautiful parks, the mansions on Upper broad North
Speaker 2: Broadway and Upper Niac, beautiful spot. Folks worth taking a
Speaker 2: ride to believe me.
Speaker 1: It's a really beautiful idea that she places these chamber
Speaker 1: ensembles throughout the park. You wander around to hear different
Speaker 1: groups and different parts of the park play, and then
Speaker 1: everyone comes together as one big group and play together.
Speaker 1: She's done this in other cities and she approached me
Speaker 1: for doing it here and we partner on it, and
Speaker 1: we did it last year, so we're going to do
Speaker 1: it again and that's June first.
Speaker 2: It's coin was by the way, it was wonderful.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. I mean we look you know again,
Speaker 1: speak speaking frankly. When you do outdoor events, it's the
Speaker 1: big three. It's it's power, bathrooms, and weather, weather, and
Speaker 1: we had all three in our favor that day. You know,
Speaker 1: the bathrooms provided the way. Other was spectacular, and we
Speaker 1: worked out the power, considering most of it was acoustic,
Speaker 1: but we did have some electricity. Anyway worked out well.
Speaker 1: We're fingers crossed it'll happen again. That's June first of
Speaker 1: twenty five, and then those are the ones that are listed.
Speaker 1: But I'd love to take this opportunity just to sort
Speaker 1: of mention a couple of the other things we're working on.
Speaker 1: Some of them are more solid than others. But it
Speaker 1: looks like we're going to partner again with the Rockland
Speaker 1: Symphony Orchestra for a family concert. And we did Peter
Speaker 1: and the Wolf and something I wrote called Babbling Orchestra
Speaker 1: last year, and now we're going to do Dan Brown's
Speaker 1: Wild Symphony. Dan Brown, who is the noted writer of
Speaker 1: all sorts of books, has written a children's book and
Speaker 1: accompanying a work for symphony orchestra. So we're going to
Speaker 1: partner with them. And do that with the Rockland Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 1: Our our conversation series can continues. I'm just tossing this
Speaker 1: out because this is what's happening. Although we haven't picked
Speaker 1: a date yet, but I'm hoping John Torturo comes out
Speaker 1: and then another event with Kevin Bacon to do another
Speaker 1: one of our interviews. We did a show two years
Speaker 1: ago with Alice Leon. It was a tribute to Peggy
Speaker 1: Lee and it was really spectacular and I think we're
Speaker 1: going to repeat that again.
Speaker 2: Great local artists too, terrific.
Speaker 1: Alison a great singer, songwriter, a great.
Speaker 2: Work loves with children and special needs people.
Speaker 1: Great, great lady, great lady, and she did this really
Speaker 1: lovely evening as a tribute to Peggy Lee. And I
Speaker 1: think we're going to do it again. And finally, the
Speaker 1: one I'm gonna mention again this is not on our website.
Speaker 1: We haven't announced it, we haven't locked it down yet,
Speaker 1: but next year is Tom Chapin's eightieth birthday, and so
Speaker 1: we are working with the family to do a tribute
Speaker 1: four and two Tom Chapin in twenty twenty five to
Speaker 1: celebrate this national hero, this national artist that lives right
Speaker 1: in our community and hope to celebrate the birthday of
Speaker 1: Tom Chapin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another big player in the arts scene here in
Speaker 2: Rockland and the surrounding areas for a long time. You know,
Speaker 2: you mentioned inspiration, and these are inspirational people, But who
Speaker 2: inspires Elliott Farest.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. I you know, I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of mentors in my life. They're not necessarily, you know,
Speaker 1: people that people know. But my good friend Don France,
Speaker 1: who is a producer and was one of the original
Speaker 1: producers of Lion King and Beauty and the Beast on Broadway,
Speaker 1: I met in nineteen ninety five and it's been a
Speaker 1: close friend ever since. And you know, people see that
Speaker 1: I juggle stuff from around the country and arts rock
Speaker 1: and WQX are and they go, how do you do it?
Speaker 1: And I have mentors who I feel like do more
Speaker 1: than twenty four to seven more than me. And so
Speaker 1: I see the work, I see the dedication, I see
Speaker 1: the compassion, the kindness that I get from other people
Speaker 1: in show business. That's not always around in show business,
Speaker 1: but there are certainly people the ones that I am,
Speaker 1: I admire and love and that have taught me have
Speaker 1: all those qualities. And Don was one of them. You know,
Speaker 1: my father ninety six years of age.
Speaker 2: You'll have him. That's wonderful, that's.
Speaker 1: Kind of doing okay. He's been okay on and off.
Speaker 1: He's taken another fall recently, but always a zest for life.
Speaker 1: Knows the news is up on things. My mom passed
Speaker 1: away more than ten years ago, and he started dating
Speaker 1: again at the age of ninety. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: inspiration there. So yeah, those are just a few.
Speaker 2: I guess, good stuff, Eliet. Now, and you mentioned your
Speaker 2: time and your programming at QXR. Where exactly can people
Speaker 2: dial in? Do they still dial in? I know it's
Speaker 2: probably streamed as well, but do we actually dial in?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't own a radio. I mean I do,
Speaker 1: but none of them are plugged.
Speaker 2: In actually work? Now, how can we here? How can
Speaker 2: people listen to you? At what time? Slide? Can they
Speaker 2: catch you on QXR.
Speaker 1: So if you do have a radio and still have
Speaker 1: something that's close to it in your.
Speaker 2: Car, many people still do listen to car radios, right.
Speaker 1: Although you know that I listened to QXR at one
Speaker 1: oh five point nine FM. We're at one o five
Speaker 1: point nine FM. But if your phone is plugged into
Speaker 1: your car. I'm guessing the reception off of our mobile
Speaker 1: app is going to be much better than actually listening
Speaker 1: to FM. So the mobile app is good. You can
Speaker 1: listen online at WQXR dot org. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that not only the future, but what I do
Speaker 1: personally is walk into a room and say, hey, Google
Speaker 1: or Alexa or whatever, you have played WQXR and it
Speaker 1: will so any smart speaker, our mobile app, online or
Speaker 1: or radio you can get WQXR. I'm now doing middays
Speaker 1: from eleven am to four pm Monday through Friday. I
Speaker 1: continue to host the national radio broadcasts of the Chamber
Speaker 1: of Music Society of Lincoln Center. We're on two hundred
Speaker 1: radio stations around the country, and qx are places that
Speaker 1: I think on Saturday evenings at this point I think
Speaker 1: so yeah. And my own personal website at Elliott Forrest
Speaker 1: dot com. There's a lot of disinformation.
Speaker 2: Well, last question, Elliott and we mentioned support for the arts,
Speaker 2: and often some people see, I think, unfortunately, spending on
Speaker 2: local arts as disposable income, if you will, rather than
Speaker 2: using essential income. But that seems contrary to what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. Our initial quote that supporting arts locally is
Speaker 2: important and it is worth the expenditure. Your thoughts on.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: at this point, tax deductible contributions are still part of
Speaker 1: our tax code, so you know, you can fund the government,
Speaker 1: and however they may spend it willy nilly or for
Speaker 1: causes that you believe in, or you could give locally
Speaker 1: and get a write off. But more importantly, I think
Speaker 1: it's to support arts organizations and artists that you believe in.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you one more thing. We have done
Speaker 1: family shows every year, and it became very clear to
Speaker 1: me that after COVID, when we started to have three
Speaker 1: four five year olds in the audience, they had never
Speaker 1: seen a live show that we were introducing. The idea
Speaker 1: of we're in the same space and I'm performing for
Speaker 1: you and you're here and I'm here had never happened
Speaker 1: in their lives. So I think that kind of thing
Speaker 1: is important. Not only that we partnered many times with
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Freiberg and his Music for Life group here in
Speaker 1: NYAK and not only perform warming four kids on the
Speaker 1: spectrum and with different disabilities and different neurodiverse issues, but
Speaker 1: with them. In some cases, we actually created a show
Speaker 1: where all of the students were neurodiverse or had some
Speaker 1: disability of some kind. And coming from a classical background
Speaker 1: where we spend a lot of time going don't talk
Speaker 1: during the movements and make sure and be quiet and
Speaker 1: sit on your hands and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: the idea to present family shows where doesn't matter. Your
Speaker 1: kid can be loud, they can jump around, they you know,
Speaker 1: they do whatever they would do in their lives. And
Speaker 1: we make what they call sensory friendly shows, which is
Speaker 1: the signal to people with families with neurodiverse individuals in
Speaker 1: their family that they might speak up, they might talk,
Speaker 1: they might run around, doesn't matter. All is welcome. It's
Speaker 1: a celebration. We make a place comfortable for families to
Speaker 1: bring their families and know that they are welcome and
Speaker 1: not trying to just constantly monitor their behavior. So that's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing we believe in, and if people
Speaker 1: believe that that's important, I hope they support us. We
Speaker 1: have a donate button at arts rock dot org. People
Speaker 1: can go right to our website and make a donation
Speaker 1: of any amount. Give early and often all.
Speaker 2: Right, one last time too. All the important websites how
Speaker 2: people can find you arts right, arts rock against it.
Speaker 2: We don't do things visually. Sometimes we repeat them with
Speaker 2: audio so they have them. What are the important websites
Speaker 2: that people can get to you, arts rock, tickets, et cetera.
Speaker 2: What do we need? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Everything is it for arts rock and our local shows?
Speaker 1: On how to donate, ticket prices, even information on free
Speaker 1: tickets are all at arts rock dot org, A R T,
Speaker 1: S R O c K dot org And for me personally,
Speaker 1: Elliott Forrest dot com. And that's two l's, two teas
Speaker 1: and two rs. Don't blame me. My parents gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of double letter.
Speaker 2: I keep I have to keep looking and singers. It's
Speaker 2: the two tea's, the two l's, the two do all
Speaker 2: as I know, always gets the redline. What am I missing?
Speaker 1: It's been a lifetime of sous as my mother tell me.
Speaker 2: But mind last name Lobono. I've been called bono everywhere
Speaker 2: every word.
Speaker 1: Where's that capital? So?
Speaker 2: Why is that capital letter in there? That's not right?
Speaker 2: So why I hear your brother? I hear you?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Elliet? What a pleasure? I really want to thank you
Speaker 2: for being so so Frank with your intelligent conversation. Forgive
Speaker 2: the trite analogy, but I had to really Elliot, this
Speaker 2: has been great. I really enjoyed it. Thank you for
Speaker 2: joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you Frank, and thank you for everything you do
Speaker 1: in our community.
Speaker 2: Oh it's so great to hear that. It's my pleasure.
Speaker 2: And of course we have to offer special thanks to
Speaker 2: our listeners because they take time to give us a
Speaker 2: voice in their lives. But remember we also offer fresh
Speaker 2: topic every week. Catch us wherever and whenever you get
Speaker 2: your favorite podcasts, Apple, Spotify, Speaker, all the rest. Also
Speaker 2: check SAT on the Hudson River Radio Facebook page. You
Speaker 2: can leave us a comment and we ask you to
Speaker 2: consider sharing being Frank with others. I always leave you
Speaker 2: with two little I called him nuggets, a song and
Speaker 2: a closing. We start with a stick closing statement, if
Speaker 2: you will, and this one comes from the great artist
Speaker 2: Salvator Dali and it fits within our theme overall, a
Speaker 2: true artist is not one who was inspired, but one
Speaker 2: who inspires others. Okay, I think it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of both there, and we've got some great closing music
Speaker 2: for you. If you remember, last week we featured Eric DeVito,
Speaker 2: a jazz performer and teacher. I saw his opening jazz
Speaker 2: series at the Piermont Library last week. It was terrific.
Speaker 2: He's got another one coming up in Nayak if you
Speaker 2: get a chance to catch it. He's absolutely terrific. So
Speaker 2: here he is with his original tune sunscript for our
Speaker 2: engineer Neil Richter. I'm your host, Frank Lebon, and we
Speaker 2: hope to have you join us on the next being. Frank,
Speaker 2: We're the only way to be is Frank. Thanks everyone, h.
Speaker 6: M L.
Speaker 3: And now at.
Speaker 6: The pad that happened.
Speaker 3: That the.
Speaker 6: The beam SNA. This is Hudson River Radio dot com.