Backstage with Ray Chen & the LA Phil

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @RayChenViolinist
    @RayChenViolinist  5 лет назад +912

    Download my app Tonic today tonicmusic.app/join-in if you'd like join a community of musicians practicing together! 🎵
    If you enjoyed this video and it kept you entertained for at least 2 minutes then please 'like' and 'subscribe'.
    After all, 2 minutes in heaven is longer than 1 minute in heaven.

    • @karlanavarrete3906
      @karlanavarrete3906 5 лет назад +4

      👏👏👏🎶🎻🎼🍎Apple day with Ray Chen 🎉🎉🎻🎻#playwithray @nereaviolincanarias

    • @atherismagic4639
      @atherismagic4639 5 лет назад +11

      We all know the only way to get to heaven is to play Caprice no. 5 at Kavakos speed

    • @pacovl46
      @pacovl46 5 лет назад +3

      As it turns out, an apple pie a day does not keep the doctor away! ;-)

    • @loubsnixxvlogs4364
      @loubsnixxvlogs4364 5 лет назад

      I've been a subscriber for a year and more :) i learnt and laugh a lot! Lol

    • @0boecase362
      @0boecase362 5 лет назад +1

      YESSS RAYYYYY!! wait r u the forever lost Ling Ling?

  • @AP-bl2do
    @AP-bl2do 5 лет назад +1896

    This is nearly 8 minutes of Ray cracking dad jokes 😂.

    • @RayChenViolinist
      @RayChenViolinist  5 лет назад +584

      IS THAT ALL I AM TO YOU?!

    • @AP-bl2do
      @AP-bl2do 5 лет назад +37

      Ray Chen well you certainly have the cap to carry it off :p

    • @adaliaht.spears639
      @adaliaht.spears639 5 лет назад +11

      Aishwarya Pantula
      Gotta love him for that.XD

    • @kennethhwang3425
      @kennethhwang3425 5 лет назад +18

      @@RayChenViolinistNo, you're also every undergrad before going into finals, ever, especially the stream of thoughts from 03:35 until 04:55.

    • @sugarplumprincess6833
      @sugarplumprincess6833 5 лет назад +2

      You mean a whole lot more, whiny baby.😉

  • @huntermorgan6177
    @huntermorgan6177 5 лет назад +908

    Whenever you think that the orchestra is the culmination of the world's greatest performers and high society artists, just remember that behind the scenes one of the greatest violinists in the world is also the world's biggest DORK

  • @jocax188723
    @jocax188723 4 года назад +360

    Ray Chen: 80% genius violinist
    20% memes and dad jokes

    • @datoboe9228
      @datoboe9228 4 года назад +7

      I think it needs to be flipped to 80% memes and dad jokes and 20% genius violinist😂😂

    • @RicoLee27
      @RicoLee27 3 года назад

      @@datoboe9228 no

  • @Hklxu
    @Hklxu 5 лет назад +610

    The Tzigane harp cadenza the harpist is playing in the beginning is actually really hard to play and the nightmare of every harpist in audition! 😂

    • @noelic6744
      @noelic6744 5 лет назад +54

      Only the best to accompany the best.

    • @soporificsnail8675
      @soporificsnail8675 5 лет назад +46

      Lmao she was probably playing it as a warm up

    • @JamesLee-yn4wj
      @JamesLee-yn4wj 4 года назад +14

      She is in the LA Phil

    • @Hklxu
      @Hklxu 4 года назад +12

      @@JamesLee-yn4wj she was, she retired this year :)

    • @JamesLee-yn4wj
      @JamesLee-yn4wj 4 года назад +5

      H3nessa damn, good for her though!

  • @sneddypie
    @sneddypie 5 лет назад +587

    nobody:
    ray chen: *you are a sexy beast*

    • @charlotterose6724
      @charlotterose6724 4 года назад +18

      I wouldn't say "Nobody"😍

    • @aredesuyo
      @aredesuyo 2 года назад +2

      Gaggles of young asian female concertgoers aren't nobody!

    • @clairdemure
      @clairdemure 5 месяцев назад

      @@charlotterose6724😂

    • @clairdemure
      @clairdemure 5 месяцев назад

      @@aredesuyono I’m that Eddy fan

  • @noelic6744
    @noelic6744 5 лет назад +368

    5:55 "Fly check."
    I really need to start learning from the pros. I already went through at least two concerts with my fly open.

    • @cat-zd3nt
      @cat-zd3nt 5 лет назад +7

      Whats a fly check

    • @Emeand33
      @Emeand33 5 лет назад +11

      Bot 1 when you check your fly-

    • @cat-zd3nt
      @cat-zd3nt 5 лет назад +4

      @@Emeand33 whats a fly

    • @gimbapco1313
      @gimbapco1313 5 лет назад

      Noelic hey i saw you on that reupload of ray playing with Albert and lily lmao I remembered your pfp haha

    • @noelic6744
      @noelic6744 5 лет назад +1

      @@gimbapco1313 Ahh, I remember that too. Sorry, I don't watch those two. I just clicked because Ray Chen was on the thumbnail and title. (But I do know about those two, specially Lily. Just never watched her videos or streams.)

  • @brendinho1993
    @brendinho1993 5 лет назад +245

    On behalf of woodwind players, screw EVERYONE that eats food backstage and is still able to play. Looking straight at you, Ray...

    • @calebyao.
      @calebyao. 5 лет назад +7

      Thank you I’m a clarinetist

    • @no1chopperstan
      @no1chopperstan 4 года назад +15

      Brendon Phillips it’s really bad for brass too, the previous owner of my first trumpet didn’t wash it, and it was full of mouldy food

    • @JamesLee-yn4wj
      @JamesLee-yn4wj 4 года назад +8

      Nicola Dickinson but at least you can give your instruments a bath :(

    • @datoboe9228
      @datoboe9228 2 года назад

      PREACH!😂😂

    • @SaraCasal
      @SaraCasal 2 года назад +6

      As a non musician, I was thinking that it was a risky move to eat a sandwich while wearing his performance suit...

  • @nilahpennington
    @nilahpennington 5 лет назад +233

    What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...or kills me more slowly. My thoughts exactly when I have school or recitals.

  • @miwamikachuu
    @miwamikachuu 5 лет назад +262

    Almost 8 minutes of Ray flexing. Entertaining flexing.

  • @ScarrVett
    @ScarrVett 5 лет назад +92

    * Washes hands *
    *Coughs in hands*
    *Touches violin*
    Ray omg

  • @imanabu5862
    @imanabu5862 5 лет назад +102

    It's good to know that amazing people like Ray also do those kind of funny conversations with them selves to relieve the stress, 😂😂

  • @pithet1953
    @pithet1953 5 лет назад +276

    Thank you Ray for letting us have a glimpse of what it is to be a world class musician! All that in a humorous and not self indulgent way, keep being awesome mate.

  • @thanglongnguyenvu3815
    @thanglongnguyenvu3815 5 лет назад +42

    Ray Chen "that's the extent of my skills"
    *Don't you lie*

  • @kwabzycomposer
    @kwabzycomposer 5 лет назад +178

    5:34 Did this world-famous virtuoso violin soloist just make an Undertale reference in front of my eyes?
    This man may or may not be the perfect human.

  • @WillieValdehuezaMunar
    @WillieValdehuezaMunar 5 лет назад +220

    I always love this backstage videos😂😂!

  • @amarismilano845
    @amarismilano845 5 лет назад +87

    ray: an apple a day keeps the bad intonation away
    me: *buys 45838184957106926581668 apples*

    • @clairdemure
      @clairdemure 5 месяцев назад +1

      Intonation: still bad

    • @amarismilano845
      @amarismilano845 5 месяцев назад

      @@clairdemure to this day

    • @clairdemure
      @clairdemure 5 месяцев назад

      @@amarismilano845 😂

  • @katie4623
    @katie4623 5 лет назад +67

    Watching this after a terribly demoralizing session at orchestra rehearsal. My third time going for orchestra practice and I feel like I'm the least experienced musician in the group and am feeling so stressed out.

    • @FiddlerSteve
      @FiddlerSteve 5 лет назад +15

      Keep at it, you can do it!

    • @samb-i3675
      @samb-i3675 5 лет назад +12

      I felt the same way! Keep practicing, it'll get better

    • @רעותלוי-ש9ש
      @רעותלוי-ש9ש Год назад +1

      keep do it! dont give up!! you can do it!!

  • @rubygloom73
    @rubygloom73 4 года назад +14

    he's so chaotic and i love it

  • @annalittlejohn7772
    @annalittlejohn7772 5 лет назад +77

    I don't really comment on videos, and I can't believe that I would ever become one of those "I'm early!" commenters and I don't really want to become one of those people. I just want to say that I really enjoy these Backstage with Ray videos. You're really inspirational and also funny and human at the same time, showing the world how you deal with performance nervousness, which is always helpful. If you are really feeling sick, give yourself as much of a break as you can and practice, because I've been told that practicing makes you get better faster!

  • @SpaceMuffin
    @SpaceMuffin Год назад +3

    Ray Chen the GOAT

  • @sherrygorse9568
    @sherrygorse9568 5 лет назад +51

    "What doesn't kill me, kills me more slowly." Someone embroider that on a pillow for me. :P

    • @antine1279
      @antine1279 Год назад

      I thought "why die slowly if you can die quickly" xD that record dude is so quotable!

  • @uran5568
    @uran5568 5 лет назад +88

    Watching this makes me nervous. 😂😆

  • @大道存乎一心
    @大道存乎一心 5 лет назад +8

    Keep hilarious in backstage, take-it-easy in staccato, yet serious in every pitchnote, your performance is 100% entertaining.

  • @janetgu5696
    @janetgu5696 4 года назад +24

    Why is ray chilling backstage giving me performance anxiety

  • @mikanakazato5492
    @mikanakazato5492 11 месяцев назад

    なんて、サービス精神が旺盛なんでしょう。舞台に出る寸前までオフの彼なの?凄い切り替えで、超人的。貴重な動画をアップしてくださって、ありがとう!

  • @isabellahfwang
    @isabellahfwang 5 лет назад +58

    I thought he was going to say an apple a day keeps the violas away

  • @LaMerleNoir216
    @LaMerleNoir216 3 года назад +2

    I can’t even tell you how much I wish I could see this guy perform live

  • @pointonepointtwo7045
    @pointonepointtwo7045 5 лет назад +141

    Hey guys, I finally found Ling Ling, it's the boy at 7:41.

    • @da96103
      @da96103 5 лет назад +5

      Ling Ling pronounces Saint-Saens that way?

    • @foxmulder8955
      @foxmulder8955 5 лет назад +22

      He said "excellent" in front of the camera but in reality he was thinking "mediocre/half decent"

  • @jh.y00N
    @jh.y00N 2 месяца назад

    Ray, that was so lovely and funny, hahaha!!! You could be a Hollywood actor!!!😆👍🏻✨🌞🎻👑💖

  • @suedavis3525
    @suedavis3525 8 месяцев назад

    So encouraging to see that even he gets nervous.

  • @vulcan9125
    @vulcan9125 5 лет назад +358

    straight hair will make your bowing straight...
    -An apple a day keep -*-Ling Ling-*- away-

    • @radamstep
      @radamstep 5 лет назад +18

      Rather I'd want Ling Ling to possess me and maybe give me some of his skill

    • @marks9618
      @marks9618 5 лет назад +6

      *cronch*

  • @GerrianeR
    @GerrianeR 5 лет назад +84

    You got my like for that "You are a sexy beast" line 😂😎👏

    • @blauespony1013
      @blauespony1013 5 лет назад +5

      I'm shocked that I needed to look for this comment for so long ...

  • @maryannarep
    @maryannarep 4 месяца назад

    Ray...check your fly!! Love your concerts!!

  • @DragonBonder
    @DragonBonder 4 года назад +5

    I love dork Ray! Even the conductor is shaking her head haha

  • @Guitar-11b
    @Guitar-11b 5 лет назад +9

    That counting down from 5 makes me really nervous even though I am just sitting in front of my PC.

  • @isabelserrano2750
    @isabelserrano2750 5 лет назад +9

    I was at your concert!! Sooo cool to watch now what was going on while I was sitting up in the audience haha, the concert and your performance was inspiring and magical :D

  • @nataliesindelar8691
    @nataliesindelar8691 2 года назад +3

    Oh my gosh…we have the same humor😂 If we were desk mates we would be unstoppable and drive everyone crazy🤣🤣🤣

  • @MagdalenaMantler
    @MagdalenaMantler 4 года назад +4

    The moment you walked on the stage - LOVE IT! I am so missing this, playing on a stage with an orchestra.

  • @marshmellow5344
    @marshmellow5344 5 лет назад +6

    Cool!! Please do more of this kind of videos hehe 😊 so cool to see your activities backstage!! You are awesome Ray!!

  • @heyhey3684
    @heyhey3684 5 лет назад +7

    "Everything was my favourite"
    So cute❤

  • @greengrapesareawesome
    @greengrapesareawesome Год назад +2

    I love whoever edited this. Literally made my day❤

  • @simonmun1
    @simonmun1 5 лет назад +27

    5:33 “Boom, final boss” *Sans Undertale entered the chat*

  • @liamnevilleviolist1809
    @liamnevilleviolist1809 4 года назад +1

    finding that lovely spot in Ravel's Tzigane at 1:54 was very nice to watch! Just violin and harp! :)

  • @ulugbekoktamov814
    @ulugbekoktamov814 4 года назад +2

    Very professional play violin all the best Ray Chen

  • @vivianguo7872
    @vivianguo7872 Месяц назад +1

    Ray’s before concert mood is so different than mine lol

  • @lovelysie7182
    @lovelysie7182 5 месяцев назад

    The fact that Ray Chen was laughing and all before going on the stage meanwhile me who has stage fright and has to control my breath + be quiet everytime 😭

  • @keywest5184
    @keywest5184 4 года назад +1

    Such a great post. As an orchestral player myself, it's nice to see someone show the combination of pre-show backstage jitters and prepping ("am I getting sick?"), but also the great feeling when it's gone well and you have moved people. AND..it's over! :) :)

  • @da96103
    @da96103 5 лет назад +16

    6:12 Glow in the dark paint arrows pointing to the stage door because too many soloists could not find the door in the moment of panic in the dark before a performance.

  • @kalaumusico
    @kalaumusico 3 года назад

    Wonderfull- i saw in Brasil Maksoud Teather. Bravissimo!

  • @kyven8611
    @kyven8611 4 года назад +11

    Imagine one of the kid was like : Your intonation was off by 1/64th tone

  • @cheyennew.202
    @cheyennew.202 5 лет назад +3

    I don‘t know why I just love that video... Already watched it like 10 times hahaha

  • @fam-guy26
    @fam-guy26 3 года назад +3

    Am I the only one, that also feels that nervousness in the the last minute before his performance?
    I mean I am a musician too and I think every musician knows that specific feeling in your stomach.
    And that's exactly, what I felt watching this😂😂

  • @BURZUMY3ah
    @BURZUMY3ah 2 года назад +4

    Ray is going to be like the best violinist and dad

  • @davidfleming8436
    @davidfleming8436 4 месяца назад

    Always amazing!

  • @LoneToxin
    @LoneToxin 5 лет назад +3

    I am laughing way too hard omg 😂😂 consider me enamoured by your chaotic pre-performance energy

  • @leilayh
    @leilayh Год назад

    Oh my gosh this is so funny. Make more of these videos please Ray!

  • @antine1279
    @antine1279 Год назад +1

    Ray you're great craic!

  • @jocimar1625
    @jocimar1625 3 года назад +3

    I'm pretty sure Ray it's definitely introverted, he has a lot of traits that indicates that. But I loved the video, to know that Even a world class violinist like him gets so nervous before he gets in action, makes him even more like us

  • @saud9389
    @saud9389 5 лет назад

    Oh my god excited for his concert today in Toronto!

  • @jestonlupiano
    @jestonlupiano 5 лет назад +22

    always start with the hair analogy lmao

    • @csieweng
      @csieweng 5 лет назад +2

      Really love his pithy metaphors that connect his hair with his music.

  • @vernalai7126
    @vernalai7126 5 лет назад +12

    im really excited to see who wins playwithray ngl

  • @nilab499
    @nilab499 4 года назад +4

    There is this, and then there is Ray going all shy and blushing on live streams...

  • @katiemcdonald5119
    @katiemcdonald5119 5 лет назад

    This video honestly is a WHOLE mood

  • @masterfilemusicdream
    @masterfilemusicdream 5 лет назад

    Hello from México, thanks for sharing!✌🎻🎶

  • @euven5107
    @euven5107 5 лет назад +1

    Watching this makes me so happy :’)

  • @lol-cd5dd
    @lol-cd5dd 5 лет назад +6

    Please ray!!!!....Upload the score of waltzing maltida its sooo good!!

  • @mgbell4917
    @mgbell4917 5 лет назад +71

    Ray really sounds American now huh. Then - 2:29 ..........nevermind

    • @chajang7292
      @chajang7292 4 года назад +7

      When he's with twoset, his accent comes back full force

    • @StarFireHarmony
      @StarFireHarmony 4 года назад +2

      ​@@chajang7292 I've been so confused since watching him with twoset, and been binging his videos trying to figure out if he's American or not.

    • @chajang7292
      @chajang7292 4 года назад

      @@StarFireHarmony its quite amazing how accents can change over time, for example gillian anderson of x files has an interchangeable british and american accent

  • @frankiefeng-c4b
    @frankiefeng-c4b 5 лет назад

    What a life! Awesome young musician!

  • @darthlily7138
    @darthlily7138 5 лет назад

    I really hope to see Ray live one time.
    In the mean time, more of these please!

  • @haoweishi1340
    @haoweishi1340 5 лет назад +5

    Love the toy story characters when the guy said toi toi toi 😂

  • @carolharris8020
    @carolharris8020 3 года назад

    Enjoying your channel very much.

  • @lapiisdeii
    @lapiisdeii 5 лет назад

    i enjoy how ur violin says hello to u back

  • @TheMaestroCraig
    @TheMaestroCraig 5 лет назад +10

    1:59 I think you made the harpist's day right then and there!

  • @keiobata0404
    @keiobata0404 5 лет назад +16

    For some reason i was as nervous as he was lol

  • @RAFITAESTRADITA
    @RAFITAESTRADITA 5 лет назад

    No matter what, I beg you never lose humbleness.

  • @francismeador8155
    @francismeador8155 2 года назад

    Very nice personality!

  • @janaangle5530
    @janaangle5530 2 года назад

    Oh my gosh he is so cute and hilarious! Well done! Funny and inspiring.

  • @hamwhacker
    @hamwhacker 5 лет назад

    You are maximum fun 😀
    Thank you for sharing!

  • @GerrianeR
    @GerrianeR 5 лет назад +1

    Ray looking pink and blooming after his performance is 👌🔥🌌😘

  • @drandrewtan
    @drandrewtan 5 лет назад +3

    Would love to hear the piece in full (Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso)

  • @akikokoide5705
    @akikokoide5705 5 лет назад

    I enjoy your back stage video. You're Amazing soloist & teachers with wonderful personality. Bravo!!!

  • @jacksonli9002
    @jacksonli9002 5 лет назад

    Thanks man, I really appriciate these videos

  • @ulugbekoktamov814
    @ulugbekoktamov814 4 года назад +2

    Introduction rondo caprichchiozo I'm playing this is music staccato very great

  • @LegoGirlMOC
    @LegoGirlMOC 5 лет назад +4

    AHHHHH! I made it into a Ray Chen video!!

  • @pianoseeker1016
    @pianoseeker1016 5 лет назад +1

    재미있네.. 근데 바이올린 정말 강렬하면서도 열정적으로 잘 하시네요

  • @albertberal2882
    @albertberal2882 5 лет назад

    I started beeing really nervous, then the show, then I felt so good!

  • @joenoah9906
    @joenoah9906 5 лет назад

    I wonder if Ray got a chance to meet with cellist Dahae Kim from the LA Phil. I went to go see the LA Phil in concert recently and she caught my attention right away.

  • @callme_matt1606
    @callme_matt1606 5 лет назад +4

    Just by watching this I'm nervous already 😂😂

  • @Zoorty_
    @Zoorty_ 5 лет назад +22

    For minute 4:00 it's like everything around c :P
    I don't have perfect pitch.
    Got just relative ;-;

  • @ploy7408
    @ploy7408 5 лет назад

    ray chen is my spirit animal

  • @canfelia
    @canfelia 5 лет назад

    The editing is on point!

  • @YYWong-k9z
    @YYWong-k9z 6 месяцев назад

    Those Tim Tams at 2:22.🤤❤Australia has the best Tim Tams… not the same in other countries… miss Australia.🇦🇺

  • @neoniahazelwood9263
    @neoniahazelwood9263 5 лет назад

    I love Ray Chen's backstage videos.

  • @Jay-S04
    @Jay-S04 4 года назад +12

    “Don’t come in I’m naked”
    I died at that part lmao

  • @descerparacima
    @descerparacima 5 лет назад +1

    Are you coming to Beijing again!! I can’t believe I missed your concert when I didn’t even know you! Omg how silly I was!!!!

  • @supershin20
    @supershin20 4 года назад

    You are cute as hell even when U said “I’m feeling sick today” nearly in tears😂
    I have a crash on youuuu❤️

  • @vivaseussonhos
    @vivaseussonhos 5 лет назад

    plz post the full performance

  • @sghoddoucy
    @sghoddoucy 4 года назад

    Came here for the Tim Tams and world class violin playing. Did not disappoint. 😂

  • @leecha3444
    @leecha3444 4 года назад

    That violin whip on 2:58 had me a mini heart attacc