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Classical Classroom, Ep 118: Alisa Weilerstein On The Romance Of Rachmaninov
A little romantic music with cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
Classical Classroom, Ep 117: Alban Berg “motif-ates” The Dover String Quartet
The Dover String Quartet brings Dacia a new recording (from the night before) of Alban Berg’s Opus 3, and they jam to some 12 tones in a row!
Classical Classroom, Episode 116: John Luther Adams Swims Through “Become Ocean”
This piece moved Taylor Swift to donate $50,000 and critic Alex Ross to poetry. Guess you’d better learn about it.
Classical Classroom, Episode 115: Awakening John Williams’ “Force” With Brett Mitchell
Listen to this episode, you must.
Classical Classroom, MusicWorks, Episode 114: Mozart In The Jungle Author Blair Tindall
The author of the book that inspired the Amazon series on why she wrote the book, and working on the show’s set.
Classical Classroom, Episode 113: Rufus Wainwright On Composing Traditional Opera For A Modern World
The singer-songwriter and opera composer talks about composing traditional opera in contemporary music world.
Classical Classroom, Episode 8: Wesley Horner On Bach’s B Minor Mass, The Sound Of Heaven, And Classical Music Mosh Pits
Learn the secret of appreciating classical music (hint: it’s not all that secret).
Classical Classroom, Episode 112: The Ugly Christmas Sweaters Of Classical Music, With Alecia Lawyer
There’s a lot of beautiful Christmas music out there. This isn’t it. Learn what makes bad Christmas music bad in this episode.
Classical Classroom, Episode 31: The Music Of Hanukkah (Chanuka? Hanuka?) With Cantor Benjamin Matis
It’s the last day of Hanukkah. Celebrate one last time by learning about the music of Hanukkah in this episode of Classical Classroom.
Classical Classroom, Ep 111: The Franchomme Episode, With Louise Dubin
Best friends with Chopin, hung out with Liszt, played for King Louis-Philippe. Never heard of him?
Classical Classroom, Ep 47: 500 Megatons Of Tuba With Øystein Baadsvik
A beat-boxing Norwegian tuba player talks about this misunderstood instrument.
Classical Classroom, Ep 110: Starting From Scratch – Bryce Dessner, Aron Sanchez, & So Percussion
The story of the making of a piece of classical music, from instruments to performance.
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