Composer/scholar Chris Shultis joins the panel to discuss remaking a Gershwin classic, a super-sleuth in the age of opera 2.0, re-thinking the memoir, why doctoral degrees in music composition are dumb and his newest work for band. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Chris Shultis.

Composer and performer Missy Mazzoli joins the panel to talk about Yuja Wang’s hemline, the WTC9/11 cover, tweeting at concerts, Spotify for fun and profit, grooving in her living room, and her work A Thousand Tongues for singing cellist. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Missy Mazzoli.

Colin Jacobsen joins us to talk about Brooklyn Rider’s new Philip Glass album, composer-performer relations, alternate notation styles, the New York City Opera, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Colin Jacobsen.

This week, the panel discusses the Brooklyn Phil’s new season, Wagner in Israel, the viability of classical music apps, and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Patrick Gullo.

Drew McManus joins us again to help guide us through Lawyerville in Louisville as we discuss Q2’s composers, Reich’s WTC 9/11 imagery, and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Drew McManus.

Bill Withem joins us to talk about aesthetic brutalism vs the new niceness, streaming music services, and folks not playing nice in sports and orchestras. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Bill Withem.

Du Yun joins us this week to talk about attracting younger audiences, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house, and her piece, Visissitudes No. 1. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, Geoffrey Deibel, and Du Yun.

Topics include: what it means to be a badass composer, finding the “American” in American music, writing for piano, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Nate Bliton.

Topics include Rob Deemer’s book project, Jeremy Denk and David Lang talk baseball the value of originality (whatever that is), the future of (batonless) orchestras, a new book of graphic notation, new music-rowboat style, and American experimental music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Rob Deemer.

Topics include additions to the SoundNotion network, Alan Pierson’s open letter to mayor Bloomberg, David Smooke’s “nonopera”, NPR’s top 25 classical albums of the year, and the travails of an audio snob in the time of compression. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.