Larry Gold on String Arrangements, Red Bull Music Academy

Subscribe to Red Bull Music Academy: Larry Gold is one of the unsung heroes behind The Sound of Philadelphia. As part of Gamble Huffs MFSB house band, his love of the cello, strings and classical music lent an edge to records by Teddy Pendergrass, the OJays and more. In this special episode of Studio Science, filmed at the Funkhaus as part of RBMA Berlin 2018, Larry Gold works with Academy alumni Quinn Oulton and August Rosenbaum to arrange strings live in the studio, offering a unique insight into what it takes to make violins and cellos come alive on record. , LarryGold, Strings, RedBullMusicAcademy Having begun his career in the 60s, Gold would find himself once again at the centre of a global phenomenon three decades later when, in the late 90s, he quietly became the goto string arranger for hiphop and R B artists including Brandy