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Episode #187 - Live Performances during Covid-19, and After Jul 08, 2020

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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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Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani Jun 24, 2020

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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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Episode #185 - Use Plex to Manage Your Media Library Jun 10, 2020

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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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Episode #184 - TJ Connelly, Boston Sports DJ May 29, 2020

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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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Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home May 22, 2020

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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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Episode #182 - Oliver Craske on His Biography of Ravi Shankar, Indian Sun May 15, 2020

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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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Episode #181 - Classical Music Critic Anne Midgette May 08, 2020

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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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Episode #180 - Harpsichordist and Conductor Richard Egarr May 01, 2020

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We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music.

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Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin Apr 24, 2020

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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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Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge Apr 17, 2020

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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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