"Chasing Chopin," with Annik LaFarge
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Annik Lafarge, author of "Chasing Chopin," a book being released Tomorrow, August 11th, wherever books are sold. This is really a wonderful book and you'l...
10 Aug 202057min
Brahms Requiem
In February of 1865, Johannes Brahms received a letter from his brother saying: "If you want to see our Mother again come at once." Brahms rushed off to Hamburg but was two days too late. He had long ...
6 Aug 20201h 2min
Talking Conducting, Studying, and Loneliness w/ Dalia Stasevska
Dalia Stasevska is a wonderful conductor whose career has skyrocketed in the past few years. She is the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony and is the incoming Chief Conductor of the Lahti S...
3 Aug 202047min
The Connection Between Language and Music w/ Yundu Wang
I had the great pleasure of speaking with my friend Yundu Wang about her doctoral thesis exploring the connections between language and music. This research gets into thorny questions about the relati...
27 Jul 202050min
A Decidedly Undogmatic Conversation w/ Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani is a world-renowned harpsichordist who has said that it is his mission to rehabilitate the harpsichord as an instrument for modern audiences. In this conversation, we talked about Beeth...
20 Jul 20201h
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
