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Alex Ross joins the panel to talk about his career as a music critic, the release of the paperback edition of Listen to This, copyright law, the Occupy Museum movement, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton and Alex Ross.

Rob Deemer joins the panel to discuss amateurism, the SONiC Festival, the release of a catalogue of forgotten recordings, music and technology, and the most relaxing tune ever. (Try not to fall asleep.) This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo and Rob Deemer.

Rachel Yoder joins the panel to discuss SONiC, classical music in bars, racial inequality in arts funding, pension problems with the Philadelphia Orchestra and amateur composers (get enough money to make it through retirement or die tryin’). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Rachel Yoder.

Los Angeles New Music Ensemble music director Christina Giacona joins the panel to discuss the passing of Steve Jobs, the Gramophone Awards (what’s that?), good times in Seattle and Brooklyn, and the perfidy over donor money in the Philadelphia Orchestra. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and Christina Giacona.

This week the panel grooves on Steven Mackey’s It Is Time, how virtuosity can lead to a bland performance, music theory and helicopter shortages in college music programs and the best fake musicology papers Twitter can muster. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Geoffrey Deibel.

The panel discusses the new Greenwood-Penderecki album, what you can’t do at arts venues, Kojiro Umezaki’s Cycles (what falls must rise), and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and Nate Bliton.

David Smooke joins the panel to discuss the John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award, his provocative NewMusicBox article on The Audience, and his piece, Empty Every Night. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and David Smooke.

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the panel discusses the Music After concert, works inspired by the attacks, the compulsion to write an opera, James Levine’s newest health issues, Nico Muhly’s anger over recordings, and the non-existence of Beethoven. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and David Kulma.

Composer/performer Ken Ueno joins the panel to discuss political protest at classical concerts, a primer for the classically confused, making better listeners out of composers and audiences, the catharsis of Jimi Hendrix and “success” as a composer. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Ken Ueno.

Composer Daniel Felsenfeld discusses Music After (an all day event for composers who lived through the 9/11 attacks), the bold musical life of Jennifer Choi, fisticuffs between the AMF and the Louisville Orchestra and the utility of program notes. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Daniel Felsenfeld.