Impolite to Listen: Classical Music Conversations: Recent Episodes
Chris Arkin & Sridhar Bhagavathula
Classical music taken out of the ivory tower and into the town square. Hosted by Chris Arkin (trumpet, piano) and Sridhar Bhagavathula (flute).
Chris and Sridhar discuss the latter's upcoming audition, their dislike of the classical saxophone, and things about which they have changed their minds (including Aaron Copland, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Beethoven's even symphonies).
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Useful links:Kate Clark - an introduction to the Baroque flute
Telemann - Fantasia for Solo Flute in E Minor
Jed Wentz - Blavet Flute Sonatas
Saxophone quartet plays Bach's Italian Concerto
Stan Getz - Misty
Copland: Rodeo - Zubin Mehta conducting the LA Philharmonic
Copland conducts Hoedown from Rodeo
Marsalis - Swing Symphony
Marsalis - Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma plays the Bach Cello Suites live at the BBC Proms
Yo-Yo Ma - NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncant, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - Attaboy from Goat Rodeo Sessions
Goat Rodeo Sessians NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
Yo-Yo Ma on re-recording the Bach Cello Suites
Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax - The Making of Beethoven for Three
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 - Yo-Yo Ma, Beethoven for Three
2001: A Space Odyssey opening
2001: A Space Odyssey docking scene
Schindler's List - black tie Nazi party
Jordi Savall - Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Beethoven Late Quartets - Quator Mosaïques
Chris and Sridhar discuss the New York Philharmonic’s new concert hall, TikTok’s influence on the music industry, and rules to make rehearsals run smoothly.
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New York Philharmonic's new David Geffen Hall
Stella Katherine Cole
Hank Green - So...TikTok Sucks
Willem de Fesch - wikipedia
Willem de Fesch: Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major - Bremer Barockorchester
Online Tone Generator
Tuning Drones
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano - minutephysics
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
René Voisin - wikipedia
Roger Voisin
Chris and Sridhar share some thoughts on YouTube Music before discussing the life, art, and legacy of Leonard Bernstein. Then, in true Lenny fashion, they (night)cap it off by naming some of their favorite Bernstein YouTube videos.
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Useful Links:
YouTube Music - App Store
Netherlands Bach Society
Bernstein plays and conducts Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein - Ravel Piano Concerto
Bernstein - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
Young People's Concert: What is American Music?
Young People's Concert: What Does Music Mean?
Photos from the set of "Maestro"
Isaac Stern - Fiddler on the Roof
Alan Menken's Razzie winning song - High Times, Hard Times
Jean Ferrandis Flutist - Official Archive
Ferrandis rehearses Mozart with Leonard Bernstein
Glenn Gould - Bach Keyboard Concerto in D Minor
Gould - Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto (Bernstein's speech included)
The Truth About a Legend - Leonard Bernstein on the Gould "scandal"
Bernstein - Beethoven 9 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
Bernstein - "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma Variations
Triangle lessons with Bernstein
Bernstein riffing with a tuba player
Best of House Speaker John Bercow
Sridhar's Picks:
Bernstein documentary rehearsing Rite of Spring
Bernstein discusses Beethoven's 6th and 7th symphonies
Teachers and Teaching - An Autobiographic Essay by Leonard Bernstein
Chris' Picks:
Trumpet player disagrees with Bernstein in rehearsal
Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 1
Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 2
The Making of West Side Story documentary
Chris and Sridhar discuss their favorite Victor Borge bits, the ins and outs of concert attire, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's acquisition of the record label Pentatone.
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Useful links:
Victor Borge documentary
Victor Borge performs at the White House
White House Steinway
Victor Borge & Anton Contra play Monti's Czardas
Victor Borge as Franz Liszt
Victor Borge & Michala Petri play Czardas
Victor Borge - Inflationary Language
Victor Borge - Happy Birthdays
Netflix to Stop Greenlighting Vanity Projects
Criterion Channel
First Woman Joins Vienna Philharmonic in 1997
Claudio Abbado's suit
Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk - NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Joshua Bell & Yuja Wang play Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9
Mischa Maisky plays Bruch's Kol Nidrei
A New Model for a Music Conservatory by Ted Gioia
The Honest Broker - Ted Gioia's substack
Pentatone Music
Reprise Records - wikipedia
Samuel Lipman - The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions
Natalia Osipova dances Giselle
Erich Leinsdorf - The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians
Chris and Sridhar discuss session gigs, band education, Chris’ dream of becoming a piano salesman, Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, Gerard Schwarz, the Seattle Symphony, and the art of conducting.
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Useful links:
Pierre Boulez with hula girls
Karajan conducts Sibelius: Finlandia
Karajan conducts Smetana: The Moldau
Karajan conducts Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
Wayne Bergeron
Malcolm McNab
Movies Jim Walker has played in
Ratatouille - Wall Rat (Jim Walker flute solo)
Alexander Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff - Lilacs
Gerard Schwarz conducts Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2
Howard Hanson - wikipedia
Hanson Symphony No. 2 - wikipedia
Gerard Schwarz - wikipedia
Bernstein plays Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
András Schiff: Schubert documentary
Seattle Symphony on YouTube
Trumpet player disagrees with Bernstein - BBC Symphony
Leonard Bernstein rehearses Elgar's Enigma Variations
ITL is back with a 100% topical episode: after a quick review of the new West Side Story movie, Chris and Sridhar chat about the politics of music as it pertains to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They discuss the cancellation of Russian music and musicians in wartime, music as propaganda, musicians who enable and benefit from Putin, and much more.
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Useful links:
West Side Story 1961 Opening
West Side Story 2021 Opening
Neil Gaiman - A View from the Cheap Seats
Ansel Elgort - Thief
Erik Hoel - CGI did, in fact, ruin movies
Subscribe to Erik Hoel's (free!) newsletter, The Intrinsic Perspective
Borys Lyatoshynsky - Symphony no. 3 in B Minor, "Peace Will Defeat War"
Borys Lyatoshynsky - wikipedia
Alexander Malofeev - wikipedia
NPR article on Malofeev's cancelled concerts
Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff: Lilacs
Valery Gergiev - wikipedia
Summary of Navalny's report on Gergiev's illegal activities
Putin's War Conductor - Navalny's report in Russian on Gergiev
Navalny singles out Gergiev for sanctions - Reuters
Life in a Day - Valery Gergiev
Gergiev checks the Chelsea score
Anna Netrebko - wikipedia
Alex Ross - Listening to Russian Music in Putin's Shadow
Zachary Woolfe - Putin's Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime
Netrebko posing with flag of Novorossiya
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano
Zelenskyy plays Hava Nagila
In this cocktail of an episode, Chris and Sridhar discuss the theme from HBO’s Succession, naming a chamber music group, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, whether or not music theory should be mandatory, and the merits of a theoretical perspective of music. They also get distracted and shop for domain names.
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Useful links:
Succession - theme and opening credits
Nicholas Britell explains the Succession theme
San Francisco Philharmonic
Karl Jenkins - wikipedia
Karl Jenkins - Palladio
Dvořák - Serenade for Strings
Ivry Gitlis plays Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sergei Nakariakov plays Saint-Saëns on trumpet
Sergei Nakariakov - official website
Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Stirred Not Shaken - jazz ensemble
Stirred, Not Shaken - the podcast about how to drink better
Tony Bennett/Bill Evans: When in Rome
Rhapsody in Blue - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
George Gershwin plays Rhapsody in Blue
United Airlines Rhapsody in Blue Commercial
Woody Allen - Manhattan opening scene
Fantasia 2000 - Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein/Los Angeles Philharmonic - Rhapsody in Blue
Maja Babyszka - Rhapsody in Blue
Diminished Jazz Theory - Tony Winston
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus I
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus IV
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus XIV
Chris and Sridhar play a game of Overrated/Underrated/Properly Rated with the Cleveland Orchestra, seats behind the orchestra in a concert hall, Mahler's 5th Symphony, and standing ovations. Then, for another edition of ITL At the Movies, they discuss Damien Chazelle's 2014 film "Whiplash," which prompts a conversation about abusive teachers and "old school" teaching methods.
(Disclaimer--in the spirit of "Whiplash," this episode is uncensored.)
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Useful links:
Mahler Symphony no. 10 - Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez
Bruckner - String Quintet
Mahler Symphony no. 5 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
Pretend It's a City with Fran Leibowitz and Martin Scorsese
Whiplash - Amazon Prime Video
Whiplash - wikipedia
Whiplash deleted scene
Ian Pace on systemic abuse in music education
After an obligatory chat about The Nutcracker, Chris and Sridhar reveal their musical Christmas wishlists. They discuss vocal training, baroque instruments, ballet orchestras, music festivals, entertainment in the metaverse, and the growing number of pops concerts. Will Santa give them what they want?
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Useful links:
Staatsballett Berlin (not Munich!) on the Nutcracker
ITL #13: The Christmas Special
Billie Holiday - I'm a Fool to Want You
King's College Choir - Coventry Carol
Kate Clark - Introduction to the Baroque Flute
All of Bach - Cantata BWV 102
Marten Root and Shunske Sato on BWV 102
Gabriele Cassone and Ton Koopman - Brandenburg Concerto no. 2
Lucerne Chamber Circle - Bach Christmas Oratorio
Glenn Gould - The Question of Instrument
Kuijken Brothers - Bach Trio Sonata from Musical Offering
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Album
Natalia Osipova dances Giselle - The Royal Ballet
Count Basie at Newport
Emmanuel Pahud - Haydn Trio at Festival Salon
Entertainment in the Metaverse
Chris and Sridhar discuss concerts during COVID, tips for writing program notes, buying a digital piano, the International Chopin Piano Competition, and the music of Frédéric Chopin in general.
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Useful links:
International Chopin Piano Competition - wikipedia
2021 Chopin Piano Competition - full playlists
Bruce Liu, first prize winner - first round
Bruce Liu - second round
Bruce Liu - final round
Chopin Cello Sonata - Natalia Gutman and Sviatoslav Richter
Kristin Zimerman plays Ballade no. 1 in G Minor
Zimerman plays Ballade no. 4 in F Minor
Zimerman plays Waltz in A-Flat Major (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Zimerman plays Mazurka in G Minor (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Zimerman plays Grande Polonaise Brillante (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Maurizio Pollini at the 1960 Chopin Competition
Pollini plays Chopin Preludes Op. 28
Glenn Gould plays Chopin Piano Sonata no. 3 in B Minor
Hershey Felder - wikipedia
Hershey Felder - stream his shows on his website
Hershey Felder in "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein"
For this Halloween special, Chris and Sridhar ask: what makes music scary? They discuss "scary" associations with certain kinds of music, whether or not music can be intrinsically scary, classic scores for Alfred Hitchcock films, and Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre."
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Useful links:
Karl Richter - Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
German Brass - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Sideways - Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary
Stephen King - Three types of horror
Psycho - Shower scene
Cat watches horror movie
Bernard Herrmann - wikipedia
Psycho - soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann
Jaws - soundtrack by John Williams
Uncanny valley
Ligeti - Lontano
György Ligeti - wikipedia
Ligeti - Musica ricercata
Franz Waxman - wikipedia
Four Pieces from Rear Window
Rebecca Suite - Franz Waxman
Waxman - Theme from Rebecca
Sequence from Rebecca showing Waxman's brilliant scoring
Truffaut interviews Hitchcock
Psycho - opening scene
North by Northwest soundtrack - Bernard Herrmann
James Bond Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Danse macabre - wikipedia
Danse macabre - l'orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Danse macabre animation
Chris and Sridhar discuss Beethoven’s 10th Symphony as completed by Artificial Intelligence, the role of AI in music, a pop quiz, and some superlative questions. Shots are fired, but it’s all in good fun.
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Useful links:
Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony completed by AI - classicfm
Beethoven X: The AI Project: III. Scherzo
Curse of the ninth symphony
27 club
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclasses
Sporcle
Classical music triplets quiz
Pasta shape or Italian composer quiz
Debussy - Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 - Leonard Bernstein
Glenn Gould plays Bach's Italian Concerto
András Schiff - Italian Concerto masterclass
Gould plays Bach's Chromatic Fantasia
Daniel Barenboim conducts Ravel's Bolero
Walt Disney Concert Hall - wikipedia
Glare at Walt Disney Hall
Cracked - 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever ft. Walt Disney Hall
Musical Arts Center at Indiana University (doubles as a bomb shelter)
Cave of the Mounds in Wisconsin
Boston Symphony Hall
Royal Festival Hall (if the Death Star had a concert hall)
St. Matthew Passion - All of Bach project
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Berlioz Requiem in Notre Dame de Paris
Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Mahler 3
Mahler 3 Posthorn solo - Abbado/LFO
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Desolation Row lyrics
Nat King Cole - Stardust
Stardust lyrics
Hoagy Carmichael statue at Indiana University
Chris' Cocktail Piano Hour - Stardust
Chris and Sridhar discuss the documentary “The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith.” They also discuss the musical scenes and cultures of various cities and their orchestras.
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Useful Links:
W. Eugene Smith - Profile (with lots of his photos!)
W. Eugene Smith - Master of the Photo Essay
W. Eugene Smith - Wikipedia
The Picture He Took When He Stood Up - Blast photo
Soldier from the Battle of Saipan
Train tracks from Smith's Pittsburgh essay
Eugene Smith portrait
Dali at the Jazz Loft
Thelonious Monk at the Jazz Loft
Zoot Sims at the Jazz Loft
Thelonious Monk with Hall Overton at the Jazz Loft
Another of Monk and Overton
Vincent Lucas recital - professor at the Paris Conservatory
Jean-Pierre Rampal - Marseilles style
Petrouchka with Abbado and London Symphony Orchestra
Rite of Spring with Abbado and London Symphony Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida - Chopin Chromatic Étude Op. 10/2
Gustav Leonhardt - Bach English Suite no. 1
Bach - Musical Offering with the Kuijken Brothers
Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra - Bach Orchestral Suite no. 2
Pierre Hantaï on Gustav Leonhardt - All of Bach Project
George Balanchine and New York City Ballet
We do not endorse Peter Martins
Analysis of Mikhail Baryshnikov's dancing
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Elaine Kudo dance Sinatra
Chris and Sridhar discuss big news in the classical music streaming world, Chris' first composition, composition technology, video game music, and the merits of the piano as an instrument.
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Useful Links:
Primephonic statement on Apple Music
Forest Morning by Chris Arkin
Chris' website
Video game music with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Spitfire Audio
E.T. bike chase scene
Guy Michelmore
How to Write a Classic Wild West Theme
Philip Glass - Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
@visakanv on Twitter
"Do 100 Thing"
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 1
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 2
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 3
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 4
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 5
Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclass 6
Leonard Bernstein on Conducting
Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 - Maurizio Pollini
Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 - Andràs Schiff masterclass
Emil Naoumoff plays Bach Preludes and Fugues
Naoumoff plays Bach Passacaglia BWV 582
Tony Bennett sings I Love a Piano
Chris and Sridhar discuss some behind the scenes for Sridhar's recently released solo flute album, recording techniques, the merits of recording, and solo music in general. They also set "The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith" as homework and finish by veering into a vexillological tangent.
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Check out Sridhar's album "The Quarantine Tapes" on:
Bandcamp (buy it here if you wish to support him)
Spotify
Apple Music
...and on all good streaming platforms.
Ben Johnson (audio engineer)
Libby Danforth (photographer)
Glenn Gould records & edits Sarabande from Bach English Suite no. 1
Glenn Gould records & edits Bourrées from Bach English Suite no. 1
Leonard Bernstein conducts Tchaikovsky 5 at Tanglewood
Emmanuel Pahud plays Mozart Flute Concerto in G Major (disappearing flutists at 3:00)
Netherlands Bach Society play Bach solo works:
Six Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Six Suites for Solo Cello
Partita for Solo Flute
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith:
Watch on Tubi
Watch on Amazon
Look at these if you want to follow along with the flag talk:
Flags of the U.S. States & Territories
Indianapolis' great flag
Tennessee flag inexplicably flying in Juneau
Betsy Ross flag
U.S. State flag redesigns
Roman Mars' TED Talk on flags
North American Vexillological Association's report on American city flags
Madison flag
San Francisco's awful flag
SF rebel flag flying in the wild
Japanese prefecture flags (great example of a cohesive, yet unique set of designs)
Flags of the Union Jack
Paris' boring flag
Ann Arbor's awful flag
Phoenix's awesome flag
Chris and Sridhar discuss orchestras’ concert programs as America tentatively opens up. Then they pilot a segment, “Vinyl Revival,” in which they each talk about all aspects—music, artwork, liner notes, etc.—of a record that they own. Today’s records are Frank Sinatra’s “Sinatra at the Sands” and Bob Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home.”
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Useful Links:
The Music of E.T. - A discussion with John Williams
Atlanta Symphony plays 20th Century Fox Fanfare & Star Wars Intro
ITL #2: Does Film Music Count?
ITL #10: Side Notes
Music Streaming is Fueling Vinyls's Resurgence
Music industry sales visualized
Arthur Lintgen, the man who can recognize records by looking at them
Arthur Lintgen reads records with Georg Solti
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands vinyl
Sinatra at the Sands - wikipedia
Sinatra at the Sands - Remembering Frank's Time-Stopping Performance
Sinatra at the Sands - YouTube playlist
Al Grey, trombonist in the Count Basie Orchestra, remembers Sinatra at the Sands
Count Basie Orchestra - wikipedia
Quincy Jones - wikipedia
Sinatra - One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
Bill Miller - Sinatra's pianist
Fred Astaire: One for My Baby (dance & song)
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home vinyl
Bringing It All Back Home - wikipedia
No Direction Home - Bob Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese
Final Scene of No Direction Home
Electric Dylan Controversy - wikipedia
The Story of the Bringing It All Back Home album cover
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Desolation Row - Sridhar's favorite song by Bob Dylan
In this long awaited return, Chris and Sridhar discuss the ways in which classical music institutions might launch successful digital ventures, the pay what you can model, Steven Spielberg's 2021 remake of West Side Story, realism in musicals, and how La La Land is, surprisingly, a breath of fresh air.
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Philip Daniel, composer - YouTube
Paul Hindemith - wikipedia
Leonard Bernstein conducts Hindemith - Symphonie Mathis de Maler
Glenn Gould & Raymond Crisara play Hindemith's Trumpet Sonata
Heinrich Schütz - wikipedia
Brandon Patrick George plays the Bach Flute Partita
Orchestra of St. Luke's
West Side Story (2021) - Trailer
Screenwriter Tony Kushner on the West Side Story remake
Steven Spielberg on his West Side Story
Why Jurassic Park Looks Better Than Its Sequels
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Leonard Bernstein - The Making of West Side Story
Sideways - Why the Music in Les Misérables (2021) is Worse than you Thought
Ansel Elgort - Thief (Meet the new Tony!)
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Officer Krupke
Chris and Sridhar answer more questions in the final installment of the Anniversary Special: 1.) What’re your opinions on “pop” classical musicians such as André Rieu? 2.) Sridhar, have you ever played an Indian flute? 3.) Chris, how do I learn to play jazz? 4.) What is your favorite movie about classical music?
Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here’s to another! Cheers!
Useful links:
André Rieu - The Beautiful Blue Danube
Chris Botti and Josh Groban - Old Devil Moon
James Galway - Danny Boy
Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar - West Meets East
L'aube enchantée based on the raga "todo" by Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha - Raga Desh
Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha explain Indian classical rhythms
Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha live in London
Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
Chad LB's YouTube Channel
Aimee Nolte's YouTube Channel
Tony Winston's YouTube Channel
Whiplash - Amazon Prime
Schubert - "Trout" Quintet Documentary
Chris and Sridhar answer some more of your questions in the Anniversary Special sequel: 1.) What advice do you have for performance anxiety? 2.) What are your thoughts on music competitions? 3.) Can you tell us more about Chris’ page turning days? 4.) Have you guys ever performed together? 5.) What was the most surprising part about making a podcast?
Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here’s to another! Cheers!
Useful links:
Check out our website!
Impolite to Listen merch
Richard Felciano - American composer
Felciano's "Masks" (link works best on desktop)
"Masks" score
Combination tone - psychoacoustic phenomenon
Combination tones - video by Physics This Week
To celebrate the show's first anniversary, Chris and Sridhar answer some questions they have been asked over the year in three installments. Today's questions are: 1.) What orchestras or artistic organizations have done a good job handling the pandemic? 2.) Who do you think is the most underrated composer? 3.) What was your favorite class in music school?
Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here's to another! Cheers!
Useful links:
Check out our website!
Impolite to Listen merch
New York Philharmonic on YouTube
Tweet at the New York Philharmonic about their lost Halloween Concert
University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band - wikipedia
One O'Clock Lab Band: Ray Noble - Cherokee
University of North Texas Masquerade Concert
Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic plays Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein conducts Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Bedřich Sematana - Czech composer
Rafael Kubelik conducts Smetana at the 1990 Prague Spring Festival
Antonín Dvořák - Czech composer
Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Leoš Janáček - Czech composer
Janáček - Sinfonietta
Georg Philipp Telemann - German Baroque composer
Maurice André - Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D Major
Barthold Kuijken - Telemann Fantaisies for Solo Flute
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra - The Colorful Telemann
James Stephenson - composer
James Campbell - clarinetist
James Campbell & Glenn Gould play Debussy - Première Rhapsodie
Chris and Sridhar discuss famous musical families, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his father Johann Sebastian, the magnificence of the organ as an instrument, the affinities between Baroque and Jazz music, and a mysterious instrument conceived by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Useful Links:
Sridhar's New York Times Crossword
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - wikipedia
Johann Sebastian Bach - wikipedia
ITL #7: The Source Code (the Bach episode)
Sridhar's essay on CPE Bach
Teatro La Fenice in Venice
Gabrieli in St Mark's Basilica
Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata XIII
Rick Steves in St Mark's
The Making of Gabrieli - mini documentary with John Williams
Early Music Revival
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Sideways - Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary
Some of Bach's technical specs and a menu from his organ consulting days
Bach - Organ Pedal Exercise BWV 598
Denis Bouriakov plays Bach Chaconne on flute
Karl Joseph Riepp - organ builder
Riepp's organ in Ottobeuren Abbey
Karl Richter plays Bach at Ottobeuren Abbey
Netherlands Bach Society - All of Bach Project
Netherlands Bach Society play Vivaldi's "Winter"
Notes inégales - wikipedia
Bill Evans - wikipedia
Bill Evans in conversation with his brother Harry
Miles Davis - Stella by Starlight
Ella Fitzgerald - Stella by Starlight
Lullaby of Birdland - Count Basie
Barthold Kuijken - Bach Partita for Flute
Chick Corea & Hubert Laws play Bach
MrVinylObsessive's video of So What by Miles Davis
Kind of Blue - wikipedia
The mysterious picture Sridhar sent to Chris
Viola organista - wikipedia
First performance on Leonardo da Vinci's viola organista
Walter Isaacson - Leonardo da Vinci biography (highly recommended by both of us!)
Chris and Sridhar do a live listening of Mozart’s newly discovered piece before discussing the peculiar role of Spain in Western music, operas set in Seville, and the greatness of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.”
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Mozart's Allegro in D
The Unknown Mozart
Previously unknown Mozart piece enthuses Mozart week
Classic FM article on Mozart's Allegro in D
Joaquín Rodrigo - wikipedia
Manuel Barrueco plays Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar
Pablo de Sarasate - wikipedia
Gil Shaham plays Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen
Gil Shaham in "Run Gil Run" (feat. Sarasate's Zapateado)
Georges Bizet - wikipedia
Carmen - wikipedia
Barenboim/Berlin Philharmonic - Carmen Suite No. 1
Emmanuel Pahud - Entr'acte to Act III
Elīna Garanča - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera)
Laurent Naori - Toreador song
Elīna Garanča - "Près des remparts de Séville"
Elīna Garanča - "Les tringles des sistres tintaient" (Chanson bohème)
Leonard Bernstein - "La cloche a sonné"
Sridhar & Thomaz (as a matador) play the ending to Borne's Carmen Fantaisie
Maxim Vengerov - Carmen Fantasy by Franz Waxman
Gil Shaham - Carmen Fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate
A scene from Rebecca showcasing Waxman's score
Waxman - Rebecca Suite
Hitchcock's "Rebecca" - full movie (shh...don't tell anyone!)
Carmen on the theremin
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - wikipedia
Gil Shaham - Korngold Violin Concerto
Shaham - Korngold Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio Abbado/London Symphony - Carmen
Stromae - wikipedia
Stromae - Carmen music video
Chris and Sridhar discuss the premiere of a newly discovered work by Mozart, the challenges of playing Mozart, some frustrations with Mozart despite his obvious genius, and some of their favorite Mozart interpreters.
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"Previously unknown Mozart piece enthuses Mozart week"
Premiere of Mozart's "Allegro in D"
Dr Jay Hook - our music theory professor at Indiana University
Salvator Mundi - Da Vinci painting
Krystian Zimerman plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 10
Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto - Emmanuel Pahud/Marie-Pierre Langlamet
Noah Bendix-Balgley gives a masterclass on Mozart's Symphony no. 40
Mozart Symphony no. 40 in G Minor
Leonard Bernstein's lecture on Mozart Symphony no. 40
Victor Borge - Happy Birthday as different composers
Sonata form - wikipedia
Bernstein conducts Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Haitink conducts Mozart Symphony no. 35, "Haffner"
Mozart String Quartet no. 15 - played by Alban Berg Quartet
Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart Piano Concerto no. 24 in C Minor
Maurizio Pollini plays Mozart Piano Concerto no. 21 in C Major
Peter Pringle plays Mozart on theremin
Glenn Gould plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major
Henryk Szeryng & Ingrid Haebler play Mozart Violin Sonata no. 18 in E Minor
Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 10 in C Major
Robert Levin - "Improvising Mozart" lecture
Robert Levin - "Composing Mozart" lecture
F Murray Abraham's iconic performance as Salieri in "Amadeus"
New year, new ITL: after some light banter about the rebranding, Chris and Sridhar discuss the similarities between music and chess, why it might be that there are so many musicians who are avid chess players, a poster for an old New York Philharmonic concert conducted by none other than Gustav Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherezade,” and Leonard Bernstein’s affinity for Mahler.
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Ennio Morricone Plays Chess - Paris Review interview
Leonard Bernstein explains the harmonic series
Bernstein conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
Composer Alexander Liebermann notates animal sounds
Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir (The Blackbird)
Arnold Schoenberg's paintings
Chris's Elementary School chess handbook
Bobby Fischer Against the World on YouTube
Arthur Rimbaud - one of the few poetic prodigies
Sergei Nakariakov - shopping for a new trumpet
How many chess games are possible? - Numberphile video
Gustav Mahler - wikipedia
Program for Mahler's matinee with the New York Philharmonic
Scheherazade (1001 Arabian Nights)
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov piece) - wikipedia
Scheherazade - Sinfónica de Galicia (YARR!)
Leif Segerstam - Finnish composer/conductor
Bernstein conducts Mahler's unfinished Symphony no. 10
Mahler - "Ulricht" from Symphony no. 2 on theremin
Who is Gustav Mahler? - Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
The Unanswered Question: Bernstein on Mahler
Mahler rehearsals with Leonard Bernstein
Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
The Mask of Zorro suite by James Horner
Alma Mahler - wikipedia
Bernstein & Alma
Tom Lehrer - "Alma"
Chris and Sridhar say goodbye to 2020 with an epic Christmas Special. They discuss classic--and Classical--Christmas music, what makes music sound Christmassy, their favorite things to listen to around this time of year, and yes...The Nutcracker.
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Home Alone soundtrack
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
1889 World's Fair in Paris
The Nutcracker - Coffee (Arabian Dance) played on theremin
White Christmas (weather) - wikipedia
Charles Dickens - "the man who invented Christmas"
Felix Mendelssohn - wikipedia
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Santa's Midsummer Night's Dream
Vince Guaraldi
A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
Brian Setzer jazzy Nutcracker arrangement
Ding Dong Merrily on High - Philharmonia Brass Quintet
German Brass - "Now you are well avenged" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
German Brass - "Let honor be sung to You, O God" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
German Brass goes Bach
Matthias Höfs - A Spanish Christmas
Béla Fleck - banjo player
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Jingle All the Way
Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Handel's Messiah - Christopher Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music
Tom Lehrer - wikipedia
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol
Tom Lehrer - concert in Copenhagen
Eric Idle - Monty Python comedian/musician
Eric Idle - F*ck Christmas
Eric Idle - Boozy Philosopher's Song
Nat King Cole - wikipedia
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Hoagy Carmichael - wikipedia
Stardust - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole L-O-V-E
Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
Boston Pops Christmas album
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by John Williams
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by Shaq
John Sergeant - Home Alone/Nutcracker medley
Verily, He is Worthy - Russian Orthodox chant
Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Some of our favorite Nutcrackers:
San Francisco Ballet (audio only)
New York City Ballet (movie w/Home Alone kid)
Berlin Philharmonic (audio only - abridged)
Bolshoi Theatre (complete performance)
Impolite to Listen welcomes its first guest as Sridhar interviews tango dancer, teacher, and author Iona Italia. They discuss the complexity of tango music, how it evolved from immigrant influences in Buenos Aires, interpreting music through dance, the dynamics of leading and following, orchestras of tango’s Golden Age, placebo effects in dancing, Tango Nuevo, and more.
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Iona Italia - ionaitalia.com
Buy Iona's tango books on Milonga Press
"Our Tango World vol. 1: Learning & Community" on Amazon (also available on Kindle)
"Our Tango World vol. 2: At the Milonga" on Amazon (also available on Kindle)
Follow Iona on Twitter @ionaitalia
Two for Tea Podcast on SoundCloud (also available on most podcast players)
Areo Magazine
Persuasion on Substack
Letter - a platform for thoughtful conversation
Iona dancing to "Vuelves"
Iona Italia on YouTube
Milonga - wikipedia
Tango waltzes
"Si la llegaran a ver" - Juan D'Arienzo
Bandoneon - wikipedia
Noelia Hurtado & Carlitos Espinoza (one of Iona's favorite couples)
Tango music - wikipedia
Orquesta típica - wikipedia
Astor Piazzolla - wikipedia
The Golden Age of Tango - tangology 101
Lunfardo - Buenos Aires argot
Piazzolla - Zero Hour
Piazzolla - Oblivion played on theremin
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Bordel 1900
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Café 1930
Piazzolla - Nightclub 1960
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Concert d'aujourd'hui
Some Golden Age orchestras on YouTube:
Ángel D'Agostino
Osvaldo Pugliese
Anibal Troilo
Carlos Di Sarli
Juan D'Arienzo
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Chris and Sridhar discuss Keith Jarrett’s retirement, the blurry line between composition and improvisation, late Romantic/early Modern music by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, and the San Francisco Ballet’s new video with music from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”.
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Keith Jarrett - American pianist
Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano - The New York Times
Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri play Bach Flute Sonatas
Keith Jarrett & Kim Kashkashian play Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Keith Jarrett - solo Bach
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett - Live in Tokyo
Clifford Brown - Joy Spring
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Claude Debussy, musicien français
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
L'après-midi d'un faune (poem by Stéphane Mallarmé)
Debussy himself plays the Faune flute solo
Leonard Bernstein - Norton Lecture on Debussy & Wagner
Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Richard Wagner - German composer
Wagner's Ring Cycle - wikipedia
Erik Satie - gymnopédist
Alice Sara Ott plays Satie's "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes"
Jessye Norman sings Satie's "Je te veux"
Furniture music (musique d'ameublement)
Clip from "Parade" (ballet by Satie, Picasso, Cocteau, and Diaghilev)
San Francisco Ballet - Dance of Dreams (music video w/Herrmann's "Scène d'amour")
Benjamin Millepied - choreographer/Natalie Portman's husband
"Vertigo" - music by Bernard Herrmann
Scène d'amour - scene from "Vertigo" (SPOILERS!)
Scène d'amour - score analysis
The Vertigo Effect
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Wagner - Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Tristan chord
After some John Cage follow up, Chris and Sridhar discuss the Steinway & Sons Spirio player piano, vinyl revival, the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and how AI might affect the future of the music industry.
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4'33'' performed by a death metal band
Tabla - Indian percussion instrument
Zakir Hussain - tabla virtuoso
Zakir Hussain plays tabla
Sridhar's essay on John Cage
Player piano - wikipedia
Steinway & Sons Spirio player piano
Music Streaming is Fueling Vinyl's Resurgence
Music industry sales visualized
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major
Khatia Buniatishvili - French-Georgian pianist
Khatia Buniatishvili plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Russian composer/pianist
Rachmaninoff - Vocalise on theremin
Denis Matsuev - Russian pianist
Denis Matsuev plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2 & 3 back-to-back
Vladimir Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff 3 with Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta - Indian conductor
Zubin Mehta's final 3 minutes of conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian composer
Valery Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
Gil Shaham plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor
Denis Matsuev plays Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Augustin Hadelich plays Paganini - Caprice no. 24
AIVA - artificial intelligence composer
AIVA soundtrack playlist
Aiva.ai - website
AIVA - TED Talk
Victor Borge - (music/comed)ian
Victor Borge - Live in Minneapolis
Louis Armstrong - trumpeter
Louis Singin' 'Dinah' in Copenhagen
Ken Burns: Jazz
After issuing a correction from Episode 1, Chris and Sridhar discuss Glenn Gould's early appreciation of recording technology, the music of John Cage and Philip Glass, the phenomenon of 20th century music generally, and humans' attitudes towards the new.
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Glenn Gould plays Beethoven's 6th Symphony on piano
Gould's "Acoustic Orchestrations" album
Gould's Scriabin recording session (short documentary)
Gould's recording of Scriabin's Sonata No. 5 - a look under the hood
Chris and Glenn
Glenn Gould statue in Toronto - map link
Gould's CBC archives
Marshall McLuhan - Canadian media theorist
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Glenn Gould, and the Goldberg Variations
John Cage - American composer, artist, philosopher, mycologist
Cage's 4'33'' played by David Tudor
4'33'' score
Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Cage's notes for preparing the piano for Sonatas and Interludes
Prepared piano - wikipedia
Aleatoric (chance) music - wikipedia
"Making Music With Dice" - 12Tone video
I-Ching - Book of Changes
A Year With John Cage - How To Get Out Of The Cage (Documentary by Frank Scheffer)
Cage plays "Child of Tree" for amplified cactus and feather
Cage's obsession with mushrooms
Cage and his cat Losa
Cage's "Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake"
Finnegans Wake - Irish pub in San Francisco's Cole Valley
James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" with annotations
The Philip Glass Ensemble
The Orange Tree by Philip Glass (from The Illusionist)
The Illusionist - full movie with music by Philip Glass (shh...don't tell anyone)
Philip Glass' (disowned) Sonatina No. 2
Helen's Theme from Candyman (by Philip Glass) played on theremin
Anton Ego's monologue from "Ratatouille" - voiced by Peter O'Toole
Applebee's All You Can Eat Riblets commercial
After catching up on some long overdue housekeeping items, Chris and Sridhar discuss Daniel Barenboim's marathon performances and masterclasses on Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, the issue of tempo and tempo relations in Beethoven interpretations, Beethoven as a cusp composer, and yes, #Beethoven250.
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
Steve Waugh, Australian cricketing legend
Steve Waugh's perfect day against England
McMurdo Station in Antarctica
"Absolutely on Music" - reading for the Impolite to Listen bookclub
Haruki Murakami
Seiji Ozawa
Chopin Piano Competition
A young Maurizio Pollini at the Chopin Competition
Daniel Barenboim
Barenboim's interview on 60 Minutes
Barenboim Beethoven masterclasses - BBC documentary
Playlist of Barenboim's full masterclass videos (Made by Sridhar)
Playlist of Barenboim's performances of all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-Sharp Minor ("Moonlight")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 17 in D Minor ("The Tempest")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 21 in C Major ("Waldstein")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 32 in C Minor (the one with the boogie-woogie)
Beethoven Symphony no. 7 on theremin
Glenn Gould interview about Beethoven
Glenn Gould's brilliant thoughts on Beethoven & his performance of the 17th Piano Sonata
Glenn Gould - Beethoven Variations on a Theme in C Minor
Octatonic Scale
Leonard Bernstein's final concert - Beethoven 7 at Tanglewood
The hot mess that is #Beethoven250 on Twitter
We blame #Beethoven250
Barenboim plays Adios Muchachos
Chris and Sridhar discuss whether or not Bach is beyond criticism, the comparisons between Bach and Shakespeare, Bach's pedagogical importance, and his influence on popular music. They then wade into the period instruments debate, and finish off by talking about performance spaces that aren't concert halls.
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Leonard Bernstein: The Creative Performer
Ira Glass thinks Shakespeare sucks
Jacques Bono plays Bach on electric bass
Elton John: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, 1st movement
Penny Lane - hilarious music video
David Mason - Penny Lane trumpeter
Penny Lane - Canadian Brass Ensemble
Penny Lane - Anthology version without piccolo trumpet solo
What the hell is a piccolo trumpet?
The Beatles: In My Life
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
One of Bach's subpar fugues
Bach's magnum opus: St. Matthew Passion
András Schiff prefers Bach to "silly" piano exercises
Voyager 1 Golden Record
Bach Air played on air...
Historically informed performance - wikipedia
Shunske Sato plays Bach Chaconne on violin
Chris Thile plays Bach Chaconne on mandolin
Shunske Sato talks about the baroque violin and bow
Chopin played on Chopin's piano
Beethoven played on Beethoven's piano
A brief history of the modern piano
All of Bach - Violin Concerto in D Minor in the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt - The Night Watch
Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials
Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite (ft. Young Miles Davis)
Sridhar plays Bach in a café
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, 1st movement
Bach: Coffee Cantata
Coffee Cantata text
Chris and Sridhar honor the passing of the legendary composer Ennio Morricone. They discuss the iconic status of his film scores, his gifts as a melodist, his use of non-orchestral instruments, his role in the evolution of Hollywood music, and his passion for chess.
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Ennio Morricone: wikipedia
Watch "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" on Netflix
Watch "Cinema Paradiso" on Amazon
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" soundtrack
"Cinema Paradiso" soundtrack
"The Hateful Eight" soundtrack
"The Battle of Algiers" soundtrack
"Django Unchained" soundtrack
Morricone receiving an Honorary Oscar
Morricone wins Best Original Score for "The Hateful Eight"
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" standoff
"Ecstasy of Gold" on theremin & voice
Moog synthesizer
Vladimir Nabokov's index cards
Tom Hanks does a Clint Eastwood impression
Il Gruppo (Morricone's avant-garde composers collective)
Morricone plays trumpet
"If This is a Man": Holocaust memoir by Primo Levi
Primo Levi
"If This is a Man" music by Morricone
Yo-Yo Ma's tribute to Morricone
"Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone" album
Morricone's Paris Review interview about chess
Janos Starker: Cellist, Artist, Teacher
Leonhard Euler: wikipedia
Euler's Speculum Musicum
Tonnetz: wikipedia
What the Heck is Neo-Riemannian Analysis? - video explanation by 12tone
Chris and Sridhar celebrate the Fourth of July by asking: what makes American music American? They discuss 19th century American music, jazz as the quintessential American art form, George Gershwin, the universality of West Side Story, Dvořák in the New World, the American landscape reflected in its music, California as the creative capital of the world, and (regrettably) John Philip S***a.
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Leonard Bernstein: What is American Music?
Ken Burns: Jazz
George "Jazz in a Tux" Gershwin
Nadia Boulanger: teacher extraordinaire
Gershwin plays his Three Preludes
LA Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel: Gershwin's Cuban Overture & An American in Paris
Leonard Bernstein plays & conducts Rhapsody in Blue
West Side Story synopsis
West Side Story lyrics
West Side Story movie on Amazon
Officer Krupke
America
Pyramus and Thisbe
Verdi: Bella figlia dell'amore from Rigoletto
Benjamin Britten: Storm Interlude from Peter Grimes
Jerry Robbins behind the scenes of West Side Story
The Making of West Side Story documentary
Antonín Dvořák
Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Paul Robeson: Going Home
Aaron Copland
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Copland: Duo for Flute & Piano
Ken Burns: The National Parks - America's Best Idea
Grizzly Man soundtrack
Beef: It's What's For Dinner
Copland: Piano Variations
Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed
Arnold Schoenberg's Los Angeles
Chris and Sridhar discuss their favorite classical music YouTube videos.
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Jacques Bono plays Bach on electric bass
Benjamin Zander: The Transformative Power of Classical Music
Gilles Apap's cadenza to Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3
Gustavo Dudamel conducts Danse Bacchanale by Camille Saint-Saëns
Jameson Whiskey Ad - "The Hawk of Achill"
Jean-Pierre Rampal plays Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
Mnozil Brass
Mnozil Brass: Hungarian Schnapsodie ft. Zoltan
Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler 9 in Lucerne
Gustav "Buried in Vienna" Mahler
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Bernstein conducts Beethoven 9 to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall
Friedrich Schiller: Ode to Joy
European Union Anthem
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
"Knowledge is the Beginning" - documentary with Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said
Edward Said: Orientalism
Glenn Gould plays Bach Contrapunctus XIV
Bach: The Art of Fugue
Bernstein conducts Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony at Tanglewood
John Denver: Annie's Song
After doing some housekeeping, Chris and Sridhar discuss the digital world of classical music before veering off into a conversation about The Nutcracker's various innovations and difficulties, eventually finding their way back on topic by talking about Spotify, YouTube, and the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall.
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Russian roulette, Nutcracker Edition
The Nutcracker - Wikipedia
Celesta
List of compositions by Tchaikovsky
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Berlin Philharmonic in The Nutcracker
Sir Simon Rattle interview about The Nutcracker
New York City Ballet, The Nutcracker, 2011
Gustavo Dudamel conducts LA Philharmonic in The Nutcracker
San Francisco Symphony's YouTube channel
Netherlands Bach Society YouTube channel
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts: The Creative Performer
Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures at Harvard
Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
Claudio Abbado's Farewell Concert in Palermo
Some of Sridhar's favorite Digital Concert Hall performances
Digital Concert Hall social distancing
Chris and Sridhar discuss whether or not film music counts as classical music, the relationship between opera and film, "silent" films, iconic scores, what we can learn about film as a novel art form, composers who straddle the classical and film worlds, great director/composer collaborations, "the greatest ghost story ever told", and they both watch the documentary "Score".
USEFUL LINKS
Honk It's My Birthday
"Grizzly Man" soundtrack
Richard Thompson in "Grizzly Man" recording session
The Lumière Brothers: first films
"Hook" soundtrack
"2001: A Space Odyssey" opening
Nino Rota: "The Godfather" composer
"The Godfather" opening trumpet solo
Godfather music machine at House on the Rock
Rota's Sonata for Flute & Harp
Mickey Mousing
"Metropolis" full movie
Paramount Studio Map of Potential Film Shooting Locations in California
"Blue Skies" from "The Jazz Singer"
Arnold Schoenberg
Triskaidekaphobia
Max Steiner: "Casablanca" composer
"Casablanca" Suite
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Korngold's Piano Sonata No. 2 in E Major
Korngold's Violin Concerto in D Major played by Gil Shaham
Franz Waxman: "Rebecca" composer
A scene from Rebecca showcasing Waxman's score
Korngold: "The Sea Hawk" Overture
John Williams: "Star Wars" Main Theme
Emma saying "Bayreuth"
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Philip Glass: "Koyaanisqatsi" -- The Pulse
Glass: "Mishima" soundtrack
"E.T." bike chase scene w/John Williams' iconic music
Danny Elfman's band Oingo Boingo
"The Simpsons" theme
Musical modes
"Rebecca" Suite played by City of Prague Philharmonic
"Rebecca" full movie (shh...don't tell anyone)
"The Terminal": Dinner with Amelia scene w/John Williams' score
Glenn Gould plays Bach Contrapunctus I-IV (the soul of Bach)
John Barry: "James Bond" composer
James Bond Suite played by Royal Philharmonic
John Barry Memorial Concert
Bernard Hermann's "Psycho" Suite
György Ligeti
Ligeti's "Lontano": classic horror music used in "The Shining" and "Shutter Island"
Krzysztof Penderecki
Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Penderecki interview: turning history into avant-garde
Aeolian harp
Theremin
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" Theremin studio session
Ennio Morricone: The Ecstasy of Gold from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
The Ecstasy of Gold: theremin & voice
"Psycho" shower scene with and without music
"Score: A Film Music Documentary" on Amazon
Chris and Sridhar discuss the (de)merits of applause, the effects of applause on repertoire and interpretive choices, Glenn Gould’s recording of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony on piano, how recording technology affects concert expectations, the Netherlands Bach Society’s “All of Bach” project, and musicians/human beings extraordinaire.
USEFUL LINKS
Claudio Abbado booed at Vienna State Opera
Glenn Gould: Canadian pianist
Gould plays Beethoven's 6th Symphony on piano
Bird call cadenza in Beethoven's 6th Symphony
Netherlands Bach Society - All of Bach project
Shunske Sato: violinist
Sato plays Bach Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin
Sato plays Bach Sonata in E Major for Violin & Harpsichord
Netherlands Bach Society plays Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Natural trumpet
Gabriele Cassone plays Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major on natural trumpet
Chris with Gabriele Cassone
Keith Jarrett: jazz/classical pianist
Keith Jarrett plays Bach
András Schiff plays Bach English Suites in marathon concert
Joshua Bell plays Brahms Trios
Yo-Yo Ma's NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Yehudi Menuhin with Ravi Shankar
Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven's 9th to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall
András Schiff - "Boogie Woogie"
András Schiff - "There is no moonlight"