SoundNotion 66: No Repeats

This week Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel. We take on music myths, creative programing, conflict in performance, Make Music, Occupy Guitarmy (yes Guitarmy), settlement in Louisville? NEWS FLASH: MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY.


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Music is Hard 42: Encore

This week:
Chloe Veltman got us thinking about the nature of the encore. Why do people give encores? What is the value to the audience? What does it take to get a standing ovation? (hint: not much)

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Veltman: “Boo to Encores”

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SoundNotion 65: Revolutions

Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana join the panel to discuss anthologizing composers, the Tokyo String Quartet’s official goodbye, the music initiative Classical Revolution, Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize win, and much more!


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Music is Hard 41: Alt

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Even the style-curmudgeons at the New York Times are throwing around terms like “alt-classical” and “indie-classical.” What do these terms mean? Are they valuable labels? Are any such labels helpful?

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Streamers and Punches 32: Get Reich

In this episode we look at David Rodwin’s youtube rant regarding the score to The Hunger Games, and we talk about what we’ve been listening to this week. We also look at Roy Budd playing some of his score to the original Get Carter.


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  • There is a rant on youtube from David Rodwin claiming Steve Reich’s Three Movements for Orchestra was more memorably used in The Hunger Games than James Newton Howard’s score.
  • Kevin talks about the original score to Get Carter by Roy Budd.
  • Bill talks about the score to Unknown (Ottman, Rudd) and The Black Cauldron (E. Bernstein).
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