In this début episode of the Classical Gabfest, hosts Kensho Watanabe, Tiffany Lu, and William White play a round of "Game of Pairs" featuring Haydn and Mozart, and then tackle three topics:

Gabby Gifford's Appearance Playing Horn at the DNC Convention
Gifford's DNC video The Internet Controversy Over the "Double Beat" Metronome TheoryWim Winters' "It is not 'Half Tempo'"A response from "Piano Pat" Does a Beethoven Celebration Have a Place in the Year 2020?Andrea Moore's commentary in the Chicago Tribune
Will's planned 2020-21 Beethoven season, cancelled due to Covid

and we finish up with our Classical Mixtape:
Tiffany: Vaughan Williams, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
—bonus: the "Dives and Lazarus" folk song
Will: Beethoven, Contredanses WoO 14
Kensho: Hindemith, The Flying Dutchman Overture as Sightread by a Bad Spa Orchestra at 7 am by the Well

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