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Rock’s Rough Architect
Season 5 Episode 501
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Before we talk about charts and riffs and influence, I want to begin with a memory.
Years ago, I saw Chuck Berry live at the Paramount…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Creative Inheritance
Season 5 Episode 500
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Birthdays - as well as the 500th episode of a podcast - are times that generally you might want to slow down and look at the past, t…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
West Side Stories
Season 4 Episode 499
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Leonard Bernstein played piano from age 10, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University. So he studied music theory befo…
8 months ago
The Sinatra Method
Season 4 Episode 498
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Today, we’re going to begin in Hoboken, New Jersey, walk through the apprenticeship years, and then trace how partnerships, heartbrea…
8 months ago
Multimedia Pioneer
Season 4 Episode 497
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Today's episode is the first in a look at several dozen musicians who lived after 1900, roughly in chronological order. And let me e…
8 months ago
Precision & Passion
Season 4 Episode 496
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Merci, Monsieur Bartley. I was born in 1875 in the little town of Ciboure, in the Basque country of southwestern France. My father wa…
8 months ago
Debussy’s Paris
Season 4 Episode 495
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Maestro, thank you for joining me. Before we dive into your music, I’d really like to hear about your beginnings. Could you tell us a…
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Cosmic Composer
Season 4 Episode 497
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Welcome, Maestro Gustav Mahler. You’ve been called a composer of contradictions—cosmic in scope, but also obsessively detailed. If yo…
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Spooky Music!
Season 4 Episode 496
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Now in a nutshell, the history of Halloween and how it developed can be described in a few sentences. You see, Halloween originated …
8 months, 1 week ago
From Morning to Mountain
Season 4 Episode 495
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I am most happy to be here today with you, Mr. Bartley.
And we are glad that you're here, Maestro Greig Could you tell us about your e…
8 months, 1 week ago