Mahler Symphony No. 6, Part 3
Albert Camus once wrote: "when I describe what the catastrophe of man looks like, music comes into my mind—the music of Gustav Mahler." The last movement of Mahler 6 is a symphony within a symphony. I...
16 Jul 202047min
Mahler Symphony No. 6, Part 2
There are few controversies like the ones surrounding the order of the inner movements of Mahler 6. Musicologists and conductors battle with each other about what Mahler meant and what his wife knew, ...
9 Jul 202049min
Programming Post-Covid, Competitions, and the Negro Folk Symphony, w/ Ryan Bancroft
Ryan Bancroft is a conductor who has seen a meteoric rise ever since winning the Malko Competition for Conductors in 2018. In this conversation, we talked about programming post-pandemic, and also abo...
6 Jul 202039min
Mahler Symphony No. 6, Part 1
Mahler's 6th Symphony is one of his most complex and ambitious pieces, though it retains a firmly classical structure throughout. It has notorious performance problems such as the order of the middle ...
2 Jul 202041min
Founding an Orchestra, w/ Eric and Colin Jacobsen of The Knights
Eric and Colin Jacobsen are co-founders of the The Knights. The orchestra has claimed a spot over the last 10 years as one of the most dynamic and adventurous orchestras in the world. Colin and Eric a...
29 Jun 202044min
Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
Saint-Saens considered his 3rd symphony his greatest work: "I have given all that I had to give. What I have done I shall never do again." Later in his life, Saint-Saens would be known as an arch-cons...
25 Jun 202046min
The Organ, Competitions, Filmmaking, and more w/ Alcee Chriss and Stacey Tenenbaum
I had a chance to sit down with the award winning duo of organist Alcee Chriss and filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum for a fascinating interview about the organ, competitions and more. We talk about Chriss' ...
22 Jun 202037min
Beethoven Triple Concerto
Beethoven's Triple Concerto might be his most heavily criticized work. Musicians look down on it, critics always complain about it, conductors hate conducting it, orchestral musicians hate playing it,...
18 Jun 202051min
