The Music Listening Project

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The Music Listening Project episodes

January 05, 2019 Sleigh Bells
Join Mark and Jeff, the EPO's percussionist, in an intriguing discussion about the use of sleigh bells in the sleigh rides of Mozart, Delius and Anderson.
20 min
February 28, 2017 Talking about Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke"
In this podcast, I talk to my brother, musician and teacher Rob Whale, about what it is that makes Stevie Wonder's song, "Sir Duke" at once "popular" and original.
Transcript
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13SieJvJg4R3cvJt9Cu7nodx_taPd0cYp36c4xfLFbuk/edit?usp=sharing
19 min
February 15, 2017 Why is Bach's St. Matthew Passion relevant today?
In this short podcast I listen to opening music of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, performed by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir with the English Baroque Soloist, and offer one possible answer to the question of why a piece written in German, 300 years ago, in celebration of Christianity, is 'worth listening to" by non-Christian, non-German speaking people, today.
14 min
January 21, 2017 Jonathan Crow on Walton and Heifetz
Jonathan Crow, concertmaster of the TSO, listens with me to Heifetz's recording of Walton's violin concerto and shares his insight into the connection between the composition and Heifetz's distinctive sound.
27 min

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In these podcasts I talk to musicians and listeners about what they are hearing in the music that touches and moves them.