This week, we start out with a rousing round of Two Truths and a Lie and then we move on to our three topics:

THE EASTERN EUROPEAN RECORDING INDUSTRY AND FAR RIGHT POLITICS

The trailer to Dinesh D’Souza’s “Trump Card: The Movie” featuring Debbie D’Souza and the Budapest Scoring Orchestra
Will’s blog post about recording in Ostrava
Will’s vlog about the same

LISTENER FEEDBACK

Music Suggestions for Kensho’s Wedding
The Lark Ascending
Make Our Garden Grow
Knee Play 5 

Will orchestras keep the pace of change?
Jessie Montgomery in the NYT 

THE COVID OUTBREAK AT THE MARIINSKY THEATER

Russian Ballet Returned to the Stage. Then a Covid Outbreak Hit. (NYT)
Valery Gergiev Wants to Make Music, But the West Brings Up Putin (LAT)

CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
The full playlist

Tiffany
Anatoly Lyadov, Kikimora

Will
Boris Lyatoshynsky, Piano Trio No. 2

Kensho
Dohnányi, Piano Quintet, mvmt. 3

THINK YOU CAN STUMP US? GO AHEAD AND TRY!
Google Form for “Name that Tune: Stump the Hosts Edition” 

GET A COPY OF ALEX ROSS’S WAGNERISM FOR OUR BOOK CLUB
We start with the Prelude, and Chapters 1 & 2 next week

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