KSO Front Row with Sally Arai & Sam McNally, KSO principal clarinet & principal horn players

KSO Front Row with Sally Arai & Sam McNally, KSO principal clarinet & principal horn players

February 18, 2022 at 7:24 am  Entertainment, Kamloops, Music, The Arts, Video



Kamloops Symphony music director Dina Gilbert is joined in conversation with Sally Arai and Sam McNally, KSO principal clarinet and principal horn players.

0:00 Welcome from Daniel Mills
2:05 Dina Gilbert joins the chat
2:44 Introducing Sally Arai
4:44 Introducing Sam McNally
7:10 Sally Arai’s musical beginnings
18:23 Sam McNally’s musical beginnings
25:21 The life of a musician – auditions
30:49 The life of a musician – teaching
35:19 Learning more about the clarinet
40:34 Learning more about the french horn
47:22 Sally’s experience with the KSO – how it’s changed from 1989 to today
51:38 Sam on what makes the KSO unique
54:08 Sally’s recent time as a soloist with KSO
56:27 Sally is also the music librarian
1:00:19 Sam also plays the Alphorn (with audience question)
1:04:57 Clip of Sam playing the Alphorn
1:06:37 Sam also bakes bagels
1:08:07 Sally has a concert coming up
1:11:15 Saying goodbye

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