The Harvest Series podcast, hosted by Rose Claverie, welcomes award-winning composer and music supervisor Justin Levine for a very special conversation that unfolds as much through sound as through words. Recorded in nature during Harvest, this episode blends music, reflection, and creative honesty.

Levine shares how creativity should exist beyond productivity, why vulnerability is essential in collaboration, and how major works like Moulin Rouge! are built through trust, humility, and collective vision. He also reflects on courage, leadership, and learning to let creativity exist without judgment.

What happens when we stop asking creativity to justify itself and allow it to simply be part of how we live?

Chapters

00:00 – Welcome to Harvest

01:05 – Music as conversation, not performance

03:40 – Teaching creativity for its own sake

05:10 – Starting without talent or permission

06:30 – Growing up self-taught in a musical home

08:40 – Discovering music as a profession

10:15 – What a music director actually does

14:20 – Orchestrating Moulin Rouge!

18:15 – Collaboration, ego, and leadership

21:00 – Adapting iconic works for Broadway

26:35 – Violence, music, and emotional impact

32:40 – Courage, vulnerability, and creative trust

36:20 – Closing reflections and music

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Credits:

Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
Music by: Chambord

Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners

Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

Music and Creative Beginnings with Justin Levine