This week, Garrett and Scott spend some time reviewing and unpacking the latest Grammy Award ceremony, highlighting the show's performances by Lady Gaga, Doja Cat, Curtis Stewart, Chris Stapleton, and several others. In the second movement, Garrett revisits a bit of operatic video game music while Scott honors the birth anniversary of Muddy Waters. Perri and Charlotte from the "Thrilled to Announce" podcast join Garrett in the third movement to discuss digital creation, DEI in opera, and podcasting in the "classical" sphere. And in the weekly TRILLOQUY Scott offers a whistleblower letter written by a former employee of Chamber Music America, and Garrett sends a dark shout out to three senators who refused to vote for the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.

Support for TRILLOQUY comes from the Lakes Area Music Festival: https://lakesareamusic.org

Playlist:

Lady Gaga - "Do I Love You"

Doja Cat - "Mooo!"

perf. Curtis Stewart - "Isn't She Lovely" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Gd0T1hPBU)

Chris Stapleton - "Cold"

Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man"

Nobuo Uematsu - "Maria and Draco" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8D8x3NQySE)

Kaija Saariaho - "Lonh"

Tyshawn Sorey - "Autoschediasms" for Crash Ensemble, Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJj3mlIhYsw)

Marlon Craft - "HANS ZIMMER"

More:

Thrilled To Announce Podcast: https://www.thrilledtoannounce.com

Downbeat (Virgil Abloh speaks to the world as his muse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcOe90wMRQ

Grammy 2022 Winners: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/arts/music/grammys-winners.html

Who Gets To Define Classical Music?: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/03/31/grammys-classical-music-black-artists

Volodymyr Zelensky's Grammys Speech: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/volodymyr-zelenskys-grammys-speech-full-transcript/ar-AAVPbbj

5 Questions to Orlando Jacinto García: https://icareifyoulisten.com/2022/02/5-questions-to-orlando-jacinto-garcia-composer/

Grammy for Best Reggae Album Goes to a Bunch of White Guys: https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/white-guy-group-soja-wins-grammy-for-best-reggae-album.html

Whistleblower Calls Out Chamber Music America: https://twitter.com/griffincandey/status/1510967274357805061?s=20&t=CIGKp9ggc12SdxWkS-8mlQ

Three Republicans Just Couldn’t Help Voting Against Making Lynching a Hate Crime: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/thomas-massie-andrew-clyde-chip-roy-lynching-bill-1314375/