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

Zakir Hussain plays tabla

Sridhar's essay on John Cage

Player piano - wikipedia

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

AIVA soundtrack playlist

Aiva.ai - website

AIVA - TED Talk

Victor Borge - (music/comed)ian

Victor Borge - Live in Minneapolis

Louis Armstrong - trumpeter

Louis Singin' 'Dinah' in Copenhagen

Ken Burns: Jazz