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Classical music taken out of the ivory tower and into the town square. Hosted by Chris Arkin (trumpet, piano) and Sridhar Bhagavathula (flute).
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Chris and Sridhar discuss the latter's upcoming audition, their dislike of the classical saxophone, and things about which they have changed their minds (including Aaron Copland, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Beethoven's even symphonies).
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Chris and Sridhar discuss the New York Philharmonic’s new concert hall, TikTok’s influence on the music industry, and rules to make rehearsals run smoothly.
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New York Philharmonic's new David Geffen Hall
Hank Green - So...TikTok Sucks
Willem de Fesch: Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major - Bremer Barockorchester
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano - minutephysics
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Chris and Sridhar share some thoughts on YouTube Music before discussing the life, art, and legacy of Leonard Bernstein. Then, in true Lenny fashion, they (night)cap it off by naming some of their favorite Bernstein YouTube videos.
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Useful Links:
Bernstein plays and conducts Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein - Ravel Piano Concerto
Bernstein - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
Young People's Concert: What is American Music?
Young People's Concert: What Does Music Mean?
Photos from the set of "Maestro"
Isaac Stern - Fiddler on the Roof
Alan Menken's Razzie winning song - High Times, Hard Times
Jean Ferrandis Flutist - Official Archive
Ferrandis rehearses Mozart with Leonard Bernstein
Glenn Gould - Bach Keyboard Concerto in D Minor
Gould - Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto (Bernstein's speech included)
The Truth About a Legend - Leonard Bernstein on the Gould "scandal"
Bernstein - Beethoven 9 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
Bernstein - "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma Variations
Triangle lessons with Bernstein
Bernstein riffing with a tuba player
Best of House Speaker John Bercow
Sridhar's Picks:
Bernstein documentary rehearsing Rite of Spring
Bernstein discusses Beethoven's 6th and 7th symphonies
Teachers and Teaching - An Autobiographic Essay by Leonard Bernstein
Chris' Picks:
Trumpet player disagrees with Bernstein in rehearsal
Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 1
Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 2
The Making of West Side Story documentary
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Chris and Sridhar discuss their favorite Victor Borge bits, the ins and outs of concert attire, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's acquisition of the record label Pentatone.
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Victor Borge performs at the White House
Victor Borge & Anton Contra play Monti's Czardas
Victor Borge & Michala Petri play Czardas
Victor Borge - Inflationary Language
Victor Borge - Happy Birthdays
Netflix to Stop Greenlighting Vanity Projects
First Woman Joins Vienna Philharmonic in 1997
Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk - NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Joshua Bell & Yuja Wang play Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9
Mischa Maisky plays Bruch's Kol Nidrei
A New Model for a Music Conservatory by Ted Gioia
The Honest Broker - Ted Gioia's substack
Samuel Lipman - The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions
Natalia Osipova dances Giselle
Erich Leinsdorf - The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Chris and Sridhar discuss session gigs, band education, Chris’ dream of becoming a piano salesman, Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, Gerard Schwarz, the Seattle Symphony, and the art of conducting.
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Useful links:
Karajan conducts Sibelius: Finlandia
Karajan conducts Smetana: The Moldau
Karajan conducts Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
Movies Jim Walker has played in
Ratatouille - Wall Rat (Jim Walker flute solo)
Alexander Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff - Lilacs
Gerard Schwarz conducts Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2
Hanson Symphony No. 2 - wikipedia
Bernstein plays Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
András Schiff: Schubert documentary
Trumpet player disagrees with Bernstein - BBC Symphony
Leonard Bernstein rehearses Elgar's Enigma Variations
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
ITL is back with a 100% topical episode: after a quick review of the new West Side Story movie, Chris and Sridhar chat about the politics of music as it pertains to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They discuss the cancellation of Russian music and musicians in wartime, music as propaganda, musicians who enable and benefit from Putin, and much more.
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Useful links:
Neil Gaiman - A View from the Cheap Seats
Erik Hoel - CGI did, in fact, ruin movies
Subscribe to Erik Hoel's (free!) newsletter, The Intrinsic Perspective
Borys Lyatoshynsky - Symphony no. 3 in B Minor, "Peace Will Defeat War"
Borys Lyatoshynsky - wikipedia
Alexander Malofeev - wikipedia
NPR article on Malofeev's cancelled concerts
Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff: Lilacs
Summary of Navalny's report on Gergiev's illegal activities
Putin's War Conductor - Navalny's report in Russian on Gergiev
Navalny singles out Gergiev for sanctions - Reuters
Life in a Day - Valery Gergiev
Gergiev checks the Chelsea score
Alex Ross - Listening to Russian Music in Putin's Shadow
Zachary Woolfe - Putin's Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime
Netrebko posing with flag of Novorossiya
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
In this cocktail of an episode, Chris and Sridhar discuss the theme from HBO’s Succession, naming a chamber music group, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, whether or not music theory should be mandatory, and the merits of a theoretical perspective of music. They also get distracted and shop for domain names.
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Useful links:
Succession - theme and opening credits
Nicholas Britell explains the Succession theme
Ivry Gitlis plays Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sergei Nakariakov plays Saint-Saëns on trumpet
Sergei Nakariakov - official website
Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Stirred Not Shaken - jazz ensemble
Stirred, Not Shaken - the podcast about how to drink better
Tony Bennett/Bill Evans: When in Rome
Rhapsody in Blue - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic
George Gershwin plays Rhapsody in Blue
United Airlines Rhapsody in Blue Commercial
Woody Allen - Manhattan opening scene
Fantasia 2000 - Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein/Los Angeles Philharmonic - Rhapsody in Blue
Maja Babyszka - Rhapsody in Blue
Diminished Jazz Theory - Tony Winston
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus I
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus IV
Glenn Gould - Bach Contrapunctus XIV
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Chris and Sridhar play a game of Overrated/Underrated/Properly Rated with the Cleveland Orchestra, seats behind the orchestra in a concert hall, Mahler's 5th Symphony, and standing ovations. Then, for another edition of ITL At the Movies, they discuss Damien Chazelle's 2014 film "Whiplash," which prompts a conversation about abusive teachers and "old school" teaching methods.
(Disclaimer--in the spirit of "Whiplash," this episode is uncensored.)
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Useful links:
Mahler Symphony no. 10 - Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez
Mahler Symphony no. 5 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
Pretend It's a City with Fran Leibowitz and Martin Scorsese
Ian Pace on systemic abuse in music education
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
After an obligatory chat about The Nutcracker, Chris and Sridhar reveal their musical Christmas wishlists. They discuss vocal training, baroque instruments, ballet orchestras, music festivals, entertainment in the metaverse, and the growing number of pops concerts. Will Santa give them what they want?
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Useful links:
Staatsballett Berlin (not Munich!) on the Nutcracker
ITL #13: The Christmas Special
Billie Holiday - I'm a Fool to Want You
King's College Choir - Coventry Carol
Kate Clark - Introduction to the Baroque Flute
Marten Root and Shunske Sato on BWV 102
Gabriele Cassone and Ton Koopman - Brandenburg Concerto no. 2
Lucerne Chamber Circle - Bach Christmas Oratorio
Glenn Gould - The Question of Instrument
Kuijken Brothers - Bach Trio Sonata from Musical Offering
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Album
Natalia Osipova dances Giselle - The Royal Ballet
Emmanuel Pahud - Haydn Trio at Festival Salon
Entertainment in the Metaverse
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Chris and Sridhar discuss concerts during COVID, tips for writing program notes, buying a digital piano, the International Chopin Piano Competition, and the music of Frédéric Chopin in general.
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Useful links:
International Chopin Piano Competition - wikipedia
2021 Chopin Piano Competition - full playlists
Bruce Liu, first prize winner - first round
Chopin Cello Sonata - Natalia Gutman and Sviatoslav Richter
Kristin Zimerman plays Ballade no. 1 in G Minor
Zimerman plays Ballade no. 4 in F Minor
Zimerman plays Waltz in A-Flat Major (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Zimerman plays Mazurka in G Minor (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Zimerman plays Grande Polonaise Brillante (from 1975 Chopin Competition)
Maurizio Pollini at the 1960 Chopin Competition
Pollini plays Chopin Preludes Op. 28
Glenn Gould plays Chopin Piano Sonata no. 3 in B Minor
Hershey Felder - stream his shows on his website
Hershey Felder in "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein"