Musical Trauma Dump

In Episode 6 of The Classic! Pod, we’re having a good ol' fashioned MTD.This week, we look back at our own musical journeys: childhood music exams, terrifying adjudicators, sight-singing nightmares, memory slips, sweaty Grade 8 violin exams, rogue piano competitions, orchestral chaos, university recitals and all the weird little formative moments that come with growing up around classical music.We also talk about what happens after studying music: job interviews, classical music media, arts work, bookbinding old scores, the strange smallness of the music world, and why being nice about other musicians should not be a controversial act.Plus, our Albums of the week take us from Rachmaninov’s choral music with Tenebrae to Mackerras’s gloriously fun Gilbert and Sullivan ballet Pineapple Poll.Expect exam trauma, career confusion, inexplicable dogs in dissertations, and probably too many things we had to edit out.Let us know your own musical highs, lows and horror stories in the comments.