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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 1
Season 9 Episode 182
The most famous thing about Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is the riot that took place at its premiere. Perhaps its overcompensating for classical…
3 years, 1 month ago
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Season 9 Episode 181
If you listened to my show last week about Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, you know that Stravinsky's life was never the same after the premiere of…
3 years, 1 month ago
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Season 9 Episode 180
In 1906, the impresario Sergei Diaghilev created a sensation in Paris with an exhibition of Russian Art. This was the first time a major showing of R…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pavel Haas, Symphony
Season 9 Episode 179
This February, I have the great honor of joining the Indianapolis Symphony for the North American premiere of Pavel Haas' remarkable unfinished symph…
3 years, 1 month ago
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Season 9 Episode 178
Ask a non-classical music fan to name a piece of classical music. If they don't say Beethoven 5, or the Ode to Joy, they probably will say The Four S…
3 years, 2 months ago
Chopin Etudes (and Godowsky!)
Season 9 Episode 177
You might be thinking, "Why on earth would anyone want to devote an entire podcast to etudes?"
For most instrumentalists, etudes are the bane of our …
3 years, 2 months ago
Schubert Cello Quintet
Season 9 Episode 176
In the late summer or early autumn of 1828, Schubert completed an extraordinary work, his String Quintet in C Major. 6 weeks later, he was dead. Nowa…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Music of Film Composers
Season 9 Episode 175
Film music began as a solution to a problem. Early film projectors were really loud, therefore something was needed to cover up all the noise. In ad…
3 years, 3 months ago
Janacek Sinfonietta
Season 9 Episode 174
Along with Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek is known as one of the three great Czech composers. He was born in Moravia, part of the A…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Degenerates: Music Suppressed By The Nazis
Season 9 Episode 173
The center of Western Classical Music, ever since the time of Bach, has been modern-day Germany and Austria. You can trace a line from Bach, to Hayd…
3 years, 3 months ago