Massive Armpits with Gary Schocker

In a landmark moment for this podcast, I am DELIGHTED to welcome the world's most published living flute composer, and legit flute superstar, the one and only; Gary Schocker. Gary and I chatted online over the course of an hour about everything from his early musical on Superman and Lois Lane's child, to the role études play for a flutist; via Alexander Technique, New York in the 70s and his chosen karaoke song. I even got an impromptu performance of a Beatles tune on the harpsichord from Gary, all while I sat with a can of G&T and drank the moment in. (We also address THAT Florida flute scandal) Check out the chapters below for all the different topics and to skip to your favourite bit. I hope you all enjoy listening to this as much as I did making it, because I had an absolute blast. Smooches x Chapters: 00:00 - Intro and some housekeeping 03:18 - Interview with Gary Schocker 04:25 - The Florida Flute "scandal" 06:50 - Easton, PA 09:04 - Childhood composing and music notation 13:44 - Superman Musicals 16:58 - Composing pieces in a day!? 19:35 - Compositional Process 21:48 - Armpits 26:39 - Perfect Pitch 30:13 - Alexander Technique 39:06 - Metronomes and Tuners in practice 41:36 - Is the flute rep limited? 42:22 - Debussy faune solo 45:45 - Gary's favourite flutists 48:26 - 70s New York 50:08 - Guilty Pleasures and Karaoke songs 53:58 - THAT Beatles/Harpsichord cover 57:10 - Quick Fire Questions If you'd like to support the podcast, you can buy me a beer or a Dr Pepper with my PayPal link below (also in my Instagram bio!) Inline G will ALWAYS be free of charge, but small donations of a few euro/pounds/dollars help keep the lights on round here, if you can afford it x www.paypal.me/garethhouston92 And, if you want to chat more, he's all my socials, I'd love to hear from you! TikTok: @GarethHoustonFlute Instagram: @garethhouston_flute Facebook: @GarethHoustonFlute