David Ogden
David Ogden
critically hear hour window
I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.
ensures events evidence history issues protected research resolution scholarly tragic
The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in American history will be protected for scholarly and research uses.
contradict evolution script
You read each script as you get it and you try not to contradict what you've done before and keep the sense of evolution present.
credulity embrace moves offer spiritual
The world moves so quickly. We need more and more the things that are true, because we embrace them and offer our spiritual credulity to them.
biography recording
I'm actually recording for PBS, doing some pickups for a narration I did on Chicago. When you're doing a biography of a town, I'm your voice!
carrying causes cigarettes denied despite knowledge pulled repeatedly smoking
We allege that in carrying out that campaign, they pulled no punches, ... For decades, they repeatedly and consistently denied that smoking cigarettes causes disease, despite their knowledge that it does.
architecture moments playing wish
There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.
hard-work writing people
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
funny men years
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
orchestra singers different
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
nice hands people
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
commitment outcomes scheduling
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
orchestra crafts masters
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
teacher school high-school
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.