The Next Track

By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.... more

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The Next Track episodes:

August 19, 2020Episode #190 - Nostalgic about CDs
We wax nostalgic about CDs, those plastic (and partly metal) discs that changed the music industry starting in the mid-1980s, and whose popularity has waned since the rise of streaming.
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Show notes:
CD Text to CD Info AppleScript
Dave’s Picks Volume 34
FNAC
Goldberg Variations by Kenneth Gilbert
Compact disc bronzing (Wikipedia)
CD Single (Wikipedia)
BTHVN 2020 - Beethoven The New Complete Edition
BACH 333 – The New Complete Edition
Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition
NAD C538
Denon AVR-S540BT
Our next tracks:
Durutti Column: Vini Reilly
The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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August 05, 2020Episode #189 - Renaissance Men of Music
A reviewer suggested that we mentioned John Cage in this podcast as a "cheap marketing ploy." That made use think about taste: highbrow, lowbrow, and unibrow. We reflect on whether we are really the "Renaissance men of music."
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Show notes:
John Cage Trust
Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani
Episode #7 – Music and Genres
Brotherhood
The Murder Capital live from the Guinness Storehouse
Episode #187 - Live Performances during Covid-19, and After
- Springsteen on Broadway
Our next tracks:
John Cage, Witold Lutosławski - LaSalle-Quartett, String Quartets
Jack Bruce: Harmony Row
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28min
July 22, 2020Episode #188 - Kathryn Williams on the Breath in Music
Kathryn Williams plays the flute, and, because of some health issues, has a unique approach to the breath. In addition to being a free diver, she has been commissioning pieces of music for one single breath. And she's going to try to break the Guinness world record for the longest sustained note on a wind instrument.
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Guest:
Kathryn Williams
Show notes:
The Listening Service: Music and breathing - BBC Sounds
Royal Northern College of Music
Our next tracks:
Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Poor Until Payday
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38min
July 08, 2020Episode #187 - Live Performances during Covid-19, and After
John Wyver's company Illuminations produces films of live performances: theater, dance, opera, and music. He joins us to discuss the future of live performances in what he calls The After, that period when Covid-19 is just a memory. Will live performances be able to start again even if there isn't a vaccine? How can social distancing allow live performances to return?
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Guest:
John Wyver - Illuminations
Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History
Show notes:
Shakespeare, from Theater to Cinema: Interview with John Wyver - Part 1, Part 2
The BBC Shakespeare Collection
Wigmore Hall live streams
Royal Opera House streams
Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home
Bolero Julliard
Magdalen College: Virtual May Morning 2020
As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens
Berlin Philharmonker Digital Concert Hall
Our next tracks:
Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways
Supergrass: Life on Other Planets
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Special Guest: John Wyver.
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42min
June 24, 2020Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani
We meet harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, who is showing how the harpsichord is no longer an instrument just for "old" music. His latest recording features contemporary music for harpsichord and electronics.
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Guest:
Mahan Esfahani
Musique? Modern and electro-acoustic works for harpsichord
Show notes:
Wigmore Hall
The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons
Kazoophony
Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin
A Playlist of Music by Black Classical Composers
Our next tracks:
Brad Mehldau: Suite: April 2020
Black Stone Cherry: Black to Blues
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Special Guest: Mahan Esfahani.
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52min
June 10, 2020Episode #185 - Use Plex to Manage Your Media Library
Plex is a great way to manage your media library. Doug and Kirk discuss how they use it. Note: we recorded this episode before the lockdown began, but held off publishing it because we had a number of interviews with musicians in lockdown.
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Show notes:
Plex
A Suitable Boy
Our next tracks:
Ustad Vilayat Khan: From the NCPA Archives
The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings
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May 29, 2020Episode #184 - TJ Connelly, Boston Sports DJ
TJ Connelly is a sports DJ: he provides "scores" for live sporting events, such as baseball, football, and hockey games. Since the lockdown, he's been out of work, and he has been focusing his attention on Uncertain Times, a daily streaming radio show. We talk with him about what it means to score live sports, and how his streaming show is reconnecting him with real radio.
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Guest:
TJ Connelly
Uncertain Times
Show notes:
Jock Jams
The Duo Behind The Sound Of Fenway Park (WGBH)
QLab
WFNX
Our next tracks:
Harrington, Gustin & Zahn: Tura Lura
D.I.Y.: Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene
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May 22, 2020Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home
Timo Andres is a young composer and pianist, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. We discuss his music, and how he missed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall du to the coronavirus lockdown, and decided to make home videos of all the works to present his program to the public. (Apologies for the audio; we made some mistakes when recording.)
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Guest:
Timo Andres
Timo Andres's recordings
House Special; Timo Andres's Carnegie Hall recital filmed in his living room
Show notes:
Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music
Episode #25 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music, Part 2
List of clarinet quartets (Wikipedia)
I Still Play (Nonesuch)
Milou
Life Inside an Electronic Cottage (Washington Post: 1980)
FabFilter
Our next tracks:
Coda
Malo: Malo
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Special Guest: Timo Andres.
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May 15, 2020Episode #182 - Oliver Craske on His Biography of Ravi Shankar, Indian Sun
Oliver Craske has just published the first biography of the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Craske knew and worked with Shankar near the end of his life, and carried out extensive research to tell the tale of the man who brought Indian music to the west. (Apologies for the poor Skype audio quality.)
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Guest:
Oliver Craske
Indian Sun
Show notes:
The Ravi Shankar Foundation
Ravi Shankar: Improvisations
Our next tracks:
Thomas Mapfumo: Mabasa
Fleetwood Mac: Mr Wonderful
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36min
May 08, 2020Episode #181 - Classical Music Critic Anne Midgette
Anne Midgette resigned as classical music critic for the Washington Post a few months ago, but she is well placed to discuss the dangers facing live performances of classical music in The After. And she tells us about the historical novel she's writing about the woman who built pianos for Beethoven.
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Guest:
Anne Midgette
Anne Midgette's articles on the Washington Post
Show notes:
Furloughed Musicians and A New Digital Frontier: Performing Arts in the COVID-19 Shutdown
Julliard Bolero
A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus
Classical music in crisis - this what the future looks like
Coronadämmerung
Our next tracks:
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park N. J.
Kraftwerk: Computer World
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44min

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