While classical music has always been affected by what’s happening in the world around it, never in the industry’s history has it just completely shut down. Until now. In this moment, what is a classical music podcast supposed to do?
Classically Speaking: Two Horns Take The Stage
While the English horn and the French horn couldn’t be much more different as instruments, the Nashville Symphony has given both their time to shine, thanks to the talents of Roger Wiesmeyer and Leslie Norton.
Classically Speaking: Jazz In C
Here in Nashville, where every genre of music is able to come together, the intersection of classical and jazz is as busy as the rest of our traffic.
Classically Speaking: Clara Schumann At 200, Part 2
The continuation of the life story of famed pianist and composer Clara Schumann, as told by Vanderbilt history professor Jim Lovensheimer during 91Classical‘s Clara Schumann 200th Birthday Festival.
Classically Speaking: Clara Schumann At 200, Part 1
To celebrate the bicentennial of one of the most important musicians of the Romantic Era, 91Classical held a two-week festival of concerts, broadcasts and storytelling in her honor. Join Vanderbilt history professor Jim Lovensheimer to learn all about the remarkable life of Clara Schumann in a special two-part episode of Classically Speaking.
Classically Speaking: Stephen Hough And The Seven “Con Fuoco”
Pianist Stephen Hough can’t stop talking about fire. He treats each aspect of his creative life as a furnace – with all of his many milieu fueling the fire. And when he visited Nashville to perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, he pointed directly to the repeated expression marking – “con fuoco” – in his […]
Classically Speaking: For Rhiannon Giddens, ‘There Is No Other’
Banjo. Lavta. Tamborello. Already a collection of instruments that don’t seem to go together at first glance. But Rhiannon Giddens wants you to know that they do. And as she says, “that’s the point of the whole thing.”
Classically Speaking: Cristina Spinei’s Music For Dance
Looped and layered rhythmic lines give Cristina Spinei’s music an amazing amount of motion. This is what has put her work in demand with choreographers.
Classically Speaking: The Tearjerkers
Since being used to commemorate the funerals of the likes of FDR, JFK and Albert Einstein, Samuel Barber’s famous, lush tearjerker Adagio for Strings has become an unofficial anthem of communal mourning. But the work has also elicited some very different emotions by appearing in some unexpected places, like an episode of Seinfeld or the […]
Classically Speaking: After Inspiration, Before Notation
For every piece of music that’s ever been notated there’s a moment, however brief, where the composer has the inspiration, but nothing is yet written down.
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