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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).
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Chris and Sridhar discuss famous musical families, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his father Johann Sebastian, the magnificence of the organ as an instrument, the affinities between Baroque and Jazz music, and a mysterious instrument conceived by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Useful Links:
Sridhar's New York Times Crossword
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - wikipedia
Johann Sebastian Bach - wikipedia
ITL #7: The Source Code (the Bach episode)
Gabrieli in St Mark's Basilica
Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata XIII
The Making of Gabrieli - mini documentary with John Williams
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Sideways - Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary
Some of Bach's technical specs and a menu from his organ consulting days
Bach - Organ Pedal Exercise BWV 598
Denis Bouriakov plays Bach Chaconne on flute
Karl Joseph Riepp - organ builder
Riepp's organ in Ottobeuren Abbey
Karl Richter plays Bach at Ottobeuren Abbey
Netherlands Bach Society - All of Bach Project
Netherlands Bach Society play Vivaldi's "Winter"
Bill Evans in conversation with his brother Harry
Miles Davis - Stella by Starlight
Ella Fitzgerald - Stella by Starlight
Lullaby of Birdland - Count Basie
Barthold Kuijken - Bach Partita for Flute
Chick Corea & Hubert Laws play Bach
MrVinylObsessive's video of So What by Miles Davis
The mysterious picture Sridhar sent to Chris
First performance on Leonardo da Vinci's viola organista
Walter Isaacson - Leonardo da Vinci biography (highly recommended by both of us!)
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Chris and Sridhar do a live listening of Mozart’s newly discovered piece before discussing the peculiar role of Spain in Western music, operas set in Seville, and the greatness of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.”
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Previously unknown Mozart piece enthuses Mozart week
Classic FM article on Mozart's Allegro in D
Manuel Barrueco plays Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar
Gil Shaham plays Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen
Gil Shaham in "Run Gil Run" (feat. Sarasate's Zapateado)
Barenboim/Berlin Philharmonic - Carmen Suite No. 1
Emmanuel Pahud - Entr'acte to Act III
Elīna Garanča - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera)
Elīna Garanča - "Près des remparts de Séville"
Elīna Garanča - "Les tringles des sistres tintaient" (Chanson bohème)
Leonard Bernstein - "La cloche a sonné"
Sridhar & Thomaz (as a matador) play the ending to Borne's Carmen Fantaisie
Maxim Vengerov - Carmen Fantasy by Franz Waxman
Gil Shaham - Carmen Fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate
A scene from Rebecca showcasing Waxman's score
Hitchcock's "Rebecca" - full movie (shh...don't tell anyone!)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - wikipedia
Gil Shaham - Korngold Violin Concerto
Shaham - Korngold Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio Abbado/London Symphony - Carmen
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Chris and Sridhar discuss the premiere of a newly discovered work by Mozart, the challenges of playing Mozart, some frustrations with Mozart despite his obvious genius, and some of their favorite Mozart interpreters.
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Useful Links:
Classic FM article on Mozart's "unheard" piano piece
"Previously unknown Mozart piece enthuses Mozart week"
Premiere of Mozart's "Allegro in D"
Dr Jay Hook - our music theory professor at Indiana University
Salvator Mundi - Da Vinci painting
Krystian Zimerman plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 10
Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto - Emmanuel Pahud/Marie-Pierre Langlamet
Noah Bendix-Balgley gives a masterclass on Mozart's Symphony no. 40
Mozart Symphony no. 40 in G Minor
Leonard Bernstein's lecture on Mozart Symphony no. 40
Victor Borge - Happy Birthday as different composers
Bernstein conducts Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Haitink conducts Mozart Symphony no. 35, "Haffner"
Mozart String Quartet no. 15 - played by Alban Berg Quartet
Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart Piano Concerto no. 24 in C Minor
Maurizio Pollini plays Mozart Piano Concerto no. 21 in C Major
Peter Pringle plays Mozart on theremin
Glenn Gould plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major
Henryk Szeryng & Ingrid Haebler play Mozart Violin Sonata no. 18 in E Minor
Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart Piano Sonata no. 10 in C Major
Robert Levin - "Improvising Mozart" lecture
Robert Levin - "Composing Mozart" lecture
F Murray Abraham's iconic performance as Salieri in "Amadeus"
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
New year, new ITL: after some light banter about the rebranding, Chris and Sridhar discuss the similarities between music and chess, why it might be that there are so many musicians who are avid chess players, a poster for an old New York Philharmonic concert conducted by none other than Gustav Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherezade,” and Leonard Bernstein’s affinity for Mahler.
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Ennio Morricone Plays Chess - Paris Review interview
Leonard Bernstein explains the harmonic series
Bernstein conducts Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
Composer Alexander Liebermann notates animal sounds
Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir (The Blackbird)
Chris's Elementary School chess handbook
Bobby Fischer Against the World on YouTube
Arthur Rimbaud - one of the few poetic prodigies
Sergei Nakariakov - shopping for a new trumpet
How many chess games are possible? - Numberphile video
Program for Mahler's matinee with the New York Philharmonic
Scheherazade (1001 Arabian Nights)
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov piece) - wikipedia
Scheherazade - Sinfónica de Galicia (YARR!)
Leif Segerstam - Finnish composer/conductor
Bernstein conducts Mahler's unfinished Symphony no. 10
Mahler - "Ulricht" from Symphony no. 2 on theremin
Who is Gustav Mahler? - Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
The Unanswered Question: Bernstein on Mahler
Mahler rehearsals with Leonard Bernstein
Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
The Mask of Zorro suite by James Horner
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Chris and Sridhar say goodbye to 2020 with an epic Christmas Special. They discuss classic--and Classical--Christmas music, what makes music sound Christmassy, their favorite things to listen to around this time of year, and yes...The Nutcracker.
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Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Nutcracker - Coffee (Arabian Dance) played on theremin
White Christmas (weather) - wikipedia
Charles Dickens - "the man who invented Christmas"
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Santa's Midsummer Night's Dream
A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
Brian Setzer jazzy Nutcracker arrangement
Ding Dong Merrily on High - Philharmonia Brass Quintet
German Brass - "Now you are well avenged" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
German Brass - "Let honor be sung to You, O God" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Matthias Höfs - A Spanish Christmas
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Jingle All the Way
Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Handel's Messiah - Christopher Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol
Tom Lehrer - concert in Copenhagen
Eric Idle - Monty Python comedian/musician
Eric Idle - Boozy Philosopher's Song
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by John Williams
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by Shaq
John Sergeant - Home Alone/Nutcracker medley
Verily, He is Worthy - Russian Orthodox chant
Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Some of our favorite Nutcrackers:
San Francisco Ballet (audio only)
New York City Ballet (movie w/Home Alone kid)
Berlin Philharmonic (audio only - abridged)
Bolshoi Theatre (complete performance)
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Impolite to Listen welcomes its first guest as Sridhar interviews tango dancer, teacher, and author Iona Italia. They discuss the complexity of tango music, how it evolved from immigrant influences in Buenos Aires, interpreting music through dance, the dynamics of leading and following, orchestras of tango’s Golden Age, placebo effects in dancing, Tango Nuevo, and more.
Useful Links:
Buy Iona's tango books on Milonga Press
"Our Tango World vol. 1: Learning & Community" on Amazon (also available on Kindle)
"Our Tango World vol. 2: At the Milonga" on Amazon (also available on Kindle)
Follow Iona on Twitter @ionaitalia
Two for Tea Podcast on SoundCloud (also available on most podcast players)
Letter - a platform for thoughtful conversation
"Si la llegaran a ver" - Juan D'Arienzo
Noelia Hurtado & Carlitos Espinoza (one of Iona's favorite couples)
The Golden Age of Tango - tangology 101
Piazzolla - Oblivion played on theremin
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Bordel 1900
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Café 1930
Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango: Concert d'aujourd'hui
Some Golden Age orchestras on YouTube:
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Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Chris and Sridhar discuss Keith Jarrett’s retirement, the blurry line between composition and improvisation, late Romantic/early Modern music by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, and the San Francisco Ballet’s new video with music from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”.
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Keith Jarrett - American pianist
Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano - The New York Times
Keith Jarrett & Michala Petri play Bach Flute Sonatas
Keith Jarrett & Kim Kashkashian play Bach Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Claude Debussy, musicien français
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
L'après-midi d'un faune (poem by Stéphane Mallarmé)
Debussy himself plays the Faune flute solo
Leonard Bernstein - Norton Lecture on Debussy & Wagner
Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Richard Wagner - German composer
Wagner's Ring Cycle - wikipedia
Alice Sara Ott plays Satie's "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes"
Jessye Norman sings Satie's "Je te veux"
Furniture music (musique d'ameublement)
Clip from "Parade" (ballet by Satie, Picasso, Cocteau, and Diaghilev)
San Francisco Ballet - Dance of Dreams (music video w/Herrmann's "Scène d'amour")
Benjamin Millepied - choreographer/Natalie Portman's husband
"Vertigo" - music by Bernard Herrmann
Scène d'amour - scene from "Vertigo" (SPOILERS!)
Scène d'amour - score analysis
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Wagner - Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
After some John Cage follow up, Chris and Sridhar discuss the Steinway & Sons Spirio player piano, vinyl revival, the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and how AI might affect the future of the music industry.
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4'33'' performed by a death metal band
Tabla - Indian percussion instrument
Zakir Hussain - tabla virtuoso
Steinway & Sons Spirio player piano
Music Streaming is Fueling Vinyl's Resurgence
Music industry sales visualized
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major
Khatia Buniatishvili - French-Georgian pianist
Khatia Buniatishvili plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Russian composer/pianist
Rachmaninoff - Vocalise on theremin
Denis Matsuev - Russian pianist
Denis Matsuev plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2 & 3 back-to-back
Vladimir Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff 3 with Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta - Indian conductor
Zubin Mehta's final 3 minutes of conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian composer
Valery Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
Gil Shaham plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor
Denis Matsuev plays Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Augustin Hadelich plays Paganini - Caprice no. 24
AIVA - artificial intelligence composer
Victor Borge - (music/comed)ian
Victor Borge - Live in Minneapolis
Louis Singin' 'Dinah' in Copenhagen
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
After issuing a correction from Episode 1, Chris and Sridhar discuss Glenn Gould's early appreciation of recording technology, the music of John Cage and Philip Glass, the phenomenon of 20th century music generally, and humans' attitudes towards the new.
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Glenn Gould plays Beethoven's 6th Symphony on piano
Gould's "Acoustic Orchestrations" album
Gould's Scriabin recording session (short documentary)
Gould's recording of Scriabin's Sonata No. 5 - a look under the hood
Glenn Gould statue in Toronto - map link
Marshall McLuhan - Canadian media theorist
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Glenn Gould, and the Goldberg Variations
John Cage - American composer, artist, philosopher, mycologist
Cage's 4'33'' played by David Tudor
Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Cage's notes for preparing the piano for Sonatas and Interludes
Aleatoric (chance) music - wikipedia
"Making Music With Dice" - 12Tone video
A Year With John Cage - How To Get Out Of The Cage (Documentary by Frank Scheffer)
Cage plays "Child of Tree" for amplified cactus and feather
Cage's obsession with mushrooms
Cage's "Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake"
Finnegans Wake - Irish pub in San Francisco's Cole Valley
James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" with annotations
The Orange Tree by Philip Glass (from The Illusionist)
The Illusionist - full movie with music by Philip Glass (shh...don't tell anyone)
Philip Glass' (disowned) Sonatina No. 2
Helen's Theme from Candyman (by Philip Glass) played on theremin
Anton Ego's monologue from "Ratatouille" - voiced by Peter O'Toole
Applebee's All You Can Eat Riblets commercial
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
After catching up on some long overdue housekeeping items, Chris and Sridhar discuss Daniel Barenboim's marathon performances and masterclasses on Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, the issue of tempo and tempo relations in Beethoven interpretations, Beethoven as a cusp composer, and yes, #Beethoven250.
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
Steve Waugh, Australian cricketing legend
Steve Waugh's perfect day against England
"Absolutely on Music" - reading for the Impolite to Listen bookclub
A young Maurizio Pollini at the Chopin Competition
Barenboim's interview on 60 Minutes
Barenboim Beethoven masterclasses - BBC documentary
Playlist of Barenboim's full masterclass videos (Made by Sridhar)
Playlist of Barenboim's performances of all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-Sharp Minor ("Moonlight")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 17 in D Minor ("The Tempest")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 21 in C Major ("Waldstein")
Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 32 in C Minor (the one with the boogie-woogie)
Beethoven Symphony no. 7 on theremin
Glenn Gould interview about Beethoven
Glenn Gould's brilliant thoughts on Beethoven & his performance of the 17th Piano Sonata
Glenn Gould - Beethoven Variations on a Theme in C Minor
Leonard Bernstein's final concert - Beethoven 7 at Tanglewood
The hot mess that is #Beethoven250 on Twitter
Barenboim plays Adios Muchachos