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(Recorded June 2021) Estonian conductor Paavo J\xe4rvi is one of the most in-demand maestros in the world, and one of Alec\u2019s favorite conductors. J\xe4rvi is currently the chief conductor of the NHK symphony orchestra in Tokyo and the Tonhalle Orchester-Z\xfcrich. Over his career, he\u2019s led orchestras in Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Malm\xf6, and, for the decade between 2001 and 2011, here in the United States, as the musical director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He and his musical family are pillars of the thriving classical music scene in his home country of Estonia. Paavo J\xe4rvi talks to Alec about how slowing down in the pandemic offered Paavo time to think, his early love of music, what it was like to come to the United States from Soviet-era Estonia as a 17-year-old, and what he took away from a decade of conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.\xa0

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