Written, produced, and viciously redacted by Dacia Clay.
Music used in this episode includes:
– Gregorian chant by
– Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
– Alessandro Scarlatti, La Giuditta
– George Gershwin, “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess
– Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
– Sergei Prokofiev, New Year’s Eve Ball Waltz, from the opera War and Peace
– Richard Wagner, “Die Walküre”
– Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor
– Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice
References for this episode include:
Wikipedia Articles
Degenerate Music, Guido of Arezzo, Porgy and Bess
Other Articles
Art of Fear: Composing under Stalin
David Alan Grier Shrugs Off Porgy and Bess Controversy
‘Porgy and Bess’: Messing With A Classic
Top Five Infamous Bans on Classical Music
Books
– Censorship By Frank Caso
– Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow edited by Thomas J. Mathiesen, Benito V. Rivera, George J. Buelow
– Opera’s Orbit: Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome By Stefanie Tcharos