Jazz saxophonist Krit (@i.cant.understand.hegel) hops on the pod to discuss the myth of Bach's lute suites, authenticity in music, what classical music you should listen to while tripping balls, and why mindset is everything. Also: Jesse drops some deep lore, and Krit shares some insight into the mind of a jazzer.

For this week's listening segment, your host Jesse discusses two short English-language operas that couldn't be more different: Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera (1958) and Du Yun's Angel's Bone (2016). Next: covering Henry Kingsbury's seminal ethnography of a certain American conservatory, Music, Talent and Performance: A Conservatory Cultural System (1988).

For the pod's inaugural episode, your host Jesse discusses generative AI, Blair Tindall's Mozart in the Jungle (2005), an essay by Richard Taruskin (2007), and the contradictions and existential dilemmas inherent to the current state of classical music.