The Next Track

By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearnTechnology Music

The Next Track episodes

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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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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52 min
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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Special Guest: TJ Connelly.
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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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Special Guest: Oliver Craske.
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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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Special Guest: Anne Midgette.
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44 min
May 01, 2020Episode #180 - Harpsichordist and Conductor Richard Egarr
We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music.
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Guest:
Richard Egarr
Show notes:
Richard Egarr on Harmonia Mundi
Richard Egarr on Linn Records
Academy of Ancient Music
Goldberg Variations
Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Schubert: Lebenssturme (Richard Egarr's four-hands Schubert recording)
Livestream: Richard Egarr & Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya: Quatre-Mains, May 5
Our next tracks:
J. S. Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo, Anner Bylsma
The Electric Flag: A Long Time Comin'
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Special Guest: Richard Egarr.
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April 24, 2020Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin
We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman.
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Guest:
Marc-André Hamelin
Show notes:
Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion Records
Marc-André Hamelin stream for the 92nd Street Y
Rockport Music’s Virtual Gala 2020
Cathy Fuller
Catoire: Piano Music
Ives & Barber: Piano Sonatas
Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
Charles Ives: Essays Before a Sonata
Ives: Concord Sonata, John Kirkpatrick
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
Our next tracks:
Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra: The Rolling Stones Songbook
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Special Guest: Marc-André Hamelin.
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44 min
April 17, 2020Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.
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Guest:
Ian Bostridge
Show notes:
Lieder (Wikipedia)
Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian)
Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color
Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014)
Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015)
Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750
Our next tracks:
Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters
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Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.
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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.