ITL #37: I Used to Think...

ITL #36: Rehearsal Rules

ITL#35: The Lenny Special

Chris and Sridhar share some thoughts on YouTube Music before discussing the life, art, and legacy of Leonard Bernstein. Then, in true Lenny fashion, they (night)cap it off by naming some of their favorite Bernstein YouTube videos.

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Useful Links:

YouTube Music - App Store

Netherlands Bach Society

Bernstein plays and conducts Rhapsody in Blue

Bernstein - Ravel Piano Concerto

Bernstein - Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

Young People's Concert: What is American Music?

Young People's Concert: What Does Music Mean?

Photos from the set of "Maestro"

Isaac Stern - Fiddler on the Roof

Alan Menken's Razzie winning song - High Times, Hard Times

Jean Ferrandis Flutist - Official Archive

Ferrandis rehearses Mozart with Leonard Bernstein

Glenn Gould - Bach Keyboard Concerto in D Minor

Gould - Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto (Bernstein's speech included)

The Truth About a Legend - Leonard Bernstein on the Gould "scandal"

Bernstein - Beethoven 9 at the fall of the Berlin Wall

Bernstein - "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma Variations

Triangle lessons with Bernstein

Bernstein riffing with a tuba player

Best of House Speaker John Bercow

Sridhar's Picks:

Bernstein documentary rehearsing Rite of Spring

Bernstein discusses Beethoven's 6th and 7th symphonies

Teachers and Teaching - An Autobiographic Essay by Leonard Bernstein

Chris' Picks:

Trumpet player disagrees with Bernstein in rehearsal

Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 1

Bernstein on Debussy's Faune - Part 2

The Making of West Side Story documentary

ITL #34: Conservatory Blues

ITL #33: Music of the Plains

ITL #32: From Kyiv With Love

ITL is back with a 100% topical episode: after a quick review of the new West Side Story movie, Chris and Sridhar chat about the politics of music as it pertains to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They discuss the cancellation of Russian music and musicians in wartime, music as propaganda, musicians who enable and benefit from Putin, and much more.

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Useful links:

West Side Story 1961 Opening

West Side Story 2021 Opening

Neil Gaiman - A View from the Cheap Seats

Ansel Elgort - Thief

Erik Hoel - CGI did, in fact, ruin movies

Subscribe to Erik Hoel's (free!) newsletter, The Intrinsic Perspective

Borys Lyatoshynsky - Symphony no. 3 in B Minor, "Peace Will Defeat War"

Borys Lyatoshynsky - wikipedia

Alexander Malofeev - wikipedia

NPR article on Malofeev's cancelled concerts

Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

Malofeev plays Rachmaninoff: Lilacs

Valery Gergiev - wikipedia

Summary of Navalny's report on Gergiev's illegal activities

Putin's War Conductor - Navalny's report in Russian on Gergiev

Navalny singles out Gergiev for sanctions - Reuters

Life in a Day - Valery Gergiev

Gergiev checks the Chelsea score

Anna Netrebko - wikipedia

Alex Ross - Listening to Russian Music in Putin's Shadow

Zachary Woolfe - Putin's Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime

Netrebko posing with flag of Novorossiya

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano

Zelenskyy plays Hava Nagila

ITL #31: Stirred, Not Shaken

ITL #30: Whiplash

Chris and Sridhar play a game of Overrated/Underrated/Properly Rated with the Cleveland Orchestra, seats behind the orchestra in a concert hall, Mahler's 5th Symphony, and standing ovations. Then, for another edition of ITL At the Movies, they discuss Damien Chazelle's 2014 film "Whiplash," which prompts a conversation about abusive teachers and "old school" teaching methods.

(Disclaimer--in the spirit of "Whiplash," this episode is uncensored.)

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Useful links:

Mahler Symphony no. 10 - Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez

Bruckner - String Quintet

Mahler Symphony no. 5 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado

Pretend It's a City with Fran Leibowitz and Martin Scorsese

Whiplash - Amazon Prime Video

Whiplash - wikipedia

Whiplash deleted scene

Ian Pace on systemic abuse in music education

ITL #29: All I Want for Christmas

ITL #28: Gone Chopin

ITL #27: What Makes Music Scary?

ITL# 26: Concerts in Caves

Chris and Sridhar discuss Beethoven’s 10th Symphony as completed by Artificial Intelligence, the role of AI in music, a pop quiz, and some superlative questions. Shots are fired, but it’s all in good fun.

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Useful links:

Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony completed by AI - classicfm

Beethoven X: The AI Project: III. Scherzo

Curse of the ninth symphony

27 club

Daniel Barenboim - Beethoven masterclasses

Sporcle

Classical music triplets quiz

Pasta shape or Italian composer quiz

Debussy - Sonata for flute, viola, and harp

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 - Leonard Bernstein

Glenn Gould plays Bach's Italian Concerto

András Schiff - Italian Concerto masterclass

Gould plays Bach's Chromatic Fantasia

Daniel Barenboim conducts Ravel's Bolero

Walt Disney Concert Hall - wikipedia

Glare at Walt Disney Hall

Cracked - 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever ft. Walt Disney Hall

Musical Arts Center at Indiana University (doubles as a bomb shelter)

Cave of the Mounds in Wisconsin

Boston Symphony Hall

Royal Festival Hall (if the Death Star had a concert hall)

St. Matthew Passion - All of Bach project

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Berlioz Requiem in Notre Dame de Paris

Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Mahler 3

Mahler 3 Posthorn solo - Abbado/LFO

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row

Desolation Row lyrics

Nat King Cole - Stardust

Stardust lyrics

Hoagy Carmichael statue at Indiana University

Chris' Cocktail Piano Hour - Stardust

ITL #25: The Jazz Loft

ITL #24: I Love a Piano

ITL #23: Off the Record

Chris and Sridhar discuss some behind the scenes for Sridhar's recently released solo flute album, recording techniques, the merits of recording, and solo music in general. They also set "The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith" as homework and finish by veering into a vexillological tangent.

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Useful Links:

Check out Sridhar's album "The Quarantine Tapes" on:

Bandcamp (buy it here if you wish to support him)

Spotify

Apple Music

...and on all good streaming platforms.

Ben Johnson (audio engineer)

Libby Danforth (photographer)

Glenn Gould records & edits Sarabande from Bach English Suite no. 1

Glenn Gould records & edits Bourrées from Bach English Suite no. 1

Leonard Bernstein conducts Tchaikovsky 5 at Tanglewood

Emmanuel Pahud plays Mozart Flute Concerto in G Major (disappearing flutists at 3:00)

Netherlands Bach Society play Bach solo works:

Six Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

Six Suites for Solo Cello

Partita for Solo Flute

The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith:

Watch on Tubi

Watch on Amazon

Look at these if you want to follow along with the flag talk:

Flags of the U.S. States & Territories

Indianapolis' great flag

Tennessee flag inexplicably flying in Juneau

Betsy Ross flag

U.S. State flag redesigns

Roman Mars' TED Talk on flags

North American Vexillological Association's report on American city flags

Madison flag

San Francisco's awful flag

SF rebel flag flying in the wild

Japanese prefecture flags (great example of a cohesive, yet unique set of designs)

Flags of the Union Jack

Paris' boring flag

Ann Arbor's awful flag

Phoenix's awesome flag

ITL #22: Vinyl Revival

Chris and Sridhar discuss orchestras’ concert programs as America tentatively opens up. Then they pilot a segment, “Vinyl Revival,” in which they each talk about all aspects—music, artwork, liner notes, etc.—of a record that they own. Today’s records are Frank Sinatra’s “Sinatra at the Sands” and Bob Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home.”

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Useful Links:

The Music of E.T. - A discussion with John Williams

Atlanta Symphony plays 20th Century Fox Fanfare & Star Wars Intro

ITL #2: Does Film Music Count?

ITL #10: Side Notes

Music Streaming is Fueling Vinyls's Resurgence

Music industry sales visualized

Arthur Lintgen, the man who can recognize records by looking at them

Arthur Lintgen reads records with Georg Solti

Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands vinyl

Sinatra at the Sands - wikipedia

Sinatra at the Sands - Remembering Frank's Time-Stopping Performance

Sinatra at the Sands - YouTube playlist

Al Grey, trombonist in the Count Basie Orchestra, remembers Sinatra at the Sands

Count Basie Orchestra - wikipedia

Quincy Jones - wikipedia

Sinatra - One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

Bill Miller - Sinatra's pianist

Fred Astaire: One for My Baby (dance & song)

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home vinyl

Bringing It All Back Home - wikipedia

No Direction Home - Bob Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese

Final Scene of No Direction Home

Electric Dylan Controversy - wikipedia

The Story of the Bringing It All Back Home album cover

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

Desolation Row - Sridhar's favorite song by Bob Dylan

ITL #21: The Grumpy Special

ITL #20: Anniversary Special - Part III

Chris and Sridhar answer more questions in the final installment of the Anniversary Special: 1.) What’re your opinions on “pop” classical musicians such as André Rieu? 2.) Sridhar, have you ever played an Indian flute? 3.) Chris, how do I learn to play jazz? 4.) What is your favorite movie about classical music?

Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here’s to another! Cheers!

Useful links:

André Rieu - The Beautiful Blue Danube

Chris Botti and Josh Groban - Old Devil Moon

James Galway - Danny Boy

Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar - West Meets East

L'aube enchantée based on the raga "todo" by Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha - Raga Desh

Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha explain Indian classical rhythms

Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha live in London

Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival

Chad LB's YouTube Channel

Aimee Nolte's YouTube Channel

Tony Winston's YouTube Channel

Whiplash - Amazon Prime

Schubert - "Trout" Quintet Documentary

ITL #19: Anniversary Special - Part II

Chris and Sridhar answer some more of your questions in the Anniversary Special sequel: 1.) What advice do you have for performance anxiety? 2.) What are your thoughts on music competitions? 3.) Can you tell us more about Chris’ page turning days? 4.) Have you guys ever performed together? 5.) What was the most surprising part about making a podcast?

Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here’s to another! Cheers!

Useful links:

Check out our website!

Impolite to Listen merch

Richard Felciano - American composer

Felciano's "Masks" (link works best on desktop)

"Masks" score

Combination tone - psychoacoustic phenomenon

Combination tones - video by Physics This Week

ITL #18: Anniversary Special - Part I

To celebrate the show's first anniversary, Chris and Sridhar answer some questions they have been asked over the year in three installments. Today's questions are: 1.) What orchestras or artistic organizations have done a good job handling the pandemic? 2.) Who do you think is the most underrated composer? 3.) What was your favorite class in music school?

Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here's to another! Cheers!

Useful links:

Check out our website!

Impolite to Listen merch

New York Philharmonic on YouTube

Tweet at the New York Philharmonic about their lost Halloween Concert

University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band - wikipedia

One O'Clock Lab Band: Ray Noble - Cherokee

University of North Texas Masquerade Concert

Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

Berlin Philharmonic plays Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein conducts Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Bedřich Sematana - Czech composer

Rafael Kubelik conducts Smetana at the 1990 Prague Spring Festival

Antonín Dvořák - Czech composer

Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

Leoš Janáček - Czech composer

Janáček - Sinfonietta

Georg Philipp Telemann - German Baroque composer

Maurice André - Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D Major

Barthold Kuijken - Telemann Fantaisies for Solo Flute

Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra - The Colorful Telemann

James Stephenson - composer

James Campbell - clarinetist

James Campbell & Glenn Gould play Debussy - Première Rhapsodie