Fenway Park
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Fenway Park
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At 112 years previous, Fenway Park is the oldest Main League Baseball stadium within the U.S. Whereas the Boston Crimson Sox are the primary attraction, there’s one other efficiency taking place on sport day.
For our Sense of Place: Boston sequence, we sat down with Josh Kantor, the organist at Fenway Park since 2003.
Nestled in a nook of the stadium’s luxurious clubhouse, Kantor performs his double-decker electrical organ. He has an ideal view of the motion on the sphere — which he must seamlessly weave music into the movement of the sport.
Kantor performs the organ in Fenway’s Park’s Aura Pavilion, overlooking the sphere.
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Kantor performs the organ in Fenway’s Park’s Aura Pavilion, overlooking the sphere.
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“It goes a great distance should you can anticipate when there’s going to be a pinch hitter, see a double play unfolding, or acknowledge an infield fly rule or you realize when a pitching change is about to occur. All of these little issues that come from watching lots of baseball,” he says.
Kantor explains how he tackles the unpredictability of gameday, how he auditioned for the job, and the way he handles music requests from the group.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
