
TLPP: Fired From The Nashville Symphony - James Zimmermann
Published: February 3, 2026
Duration: 59:34
On today’s episode of The Lou Perez Podcast, I talk with clarinet player James Zimmermann about being a nine-year-old on Broadway (you may have seen him in The Will Rogers Follies back in 1991), why old people gravitate to the fine arts, the slopification of entertainment, blind auditions, and his firing from the Nashville Symphony.
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