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Accelerando
by Paula Tuttle
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S. 2. 13. Stepping Into History: Jack Bazalgette’s Vision for Cheltenham Music Festival
For eight decades, the Cheltenham Music Festival has been a cornerstone of Britain’s classical music calendar, nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. This storied festival has built its reputation not only by presenting world-class performances but also by championing new works...
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S. 2. 12. Mingxuan Xu: Classical Music Across The World
Ming, a Music and Philosophy student at the University of Pittsburgh, used our cello lesson time this week to videotape an interview for his “Music Culture and History” course. The class explores classical concerts in Pittsburgh and discusses performances around the world. The group attended…
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S. 2. 11. Sonja Thoms: Stewarding the Legacy and Future of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
Sonja Thoms is expanding the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s community presence through an innovative outreach strategy. Building on her decades of experience with the League of American Orchestras, Thoms recently established the WSO Community Choir, which will make its debut performing alongside…
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S. 2. 10. Germany: Scholars Authenticate A Previously Unknown Mozart Serenade For Two Violins And Cello
A twelve minute composition in seven movements has been dubbed “Very Little Night Music” and added to the catalogue of Mozart’s work, it is now KV 648. Scholars believe it was a work of Mozart’s youth, maybe as young as ten years old. There are very few chamber works from Mozart’s youth that...
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S. 2. 9. Live Music: Business is Good/Candlelight Concerts with Juan Jaramillo
Live music is increasing in our post-covid world. Gen Z-ers are outpacing Millenials for the first time as ticket buyers. It’s an exciting time to be a professional musician, and Juan Jaramillo gives us a look at the Candlelight concerts featuring classical musicians. More in the show notes at...
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S2. 8. With the Beo Quartet's Sean Neukom: Beethoven's op. 132- Song of Thanksgiving
Beethoven became gravely ill in the Spring of 1825. When he recovered he continued writing his fifteenth String Quartet. This third movement gives us special insight into Beethoven’s belief that he dodged death for at least a few years. Sean Neukom finds Beethoven’s use of Renaissance and Baroque...
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S2. 7. Earworms (The Songs In Your Head)
The Germans had the word for centuries. In Ancient times, they even thought a bug ground up could treat ear diseases. Today it simply means the music that gets stuck in your head More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show_notes/ The post S2. 7. Earworms (The Songs In Your Head)...
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S2. 6. Misophonia, ASMR and Bagpipes
People often get a repulsion to sounds. Chalk, dentist drills, even bagpipes. Is this the same as Misophonia? What about ASMR: is it a subset of Misophonia? Today we find out. More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show_notes/ The post S2. 6. Misophonia, ASMR and Bagpipes first...
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S2. 5. The Auditory Complex; How We Hear
Over the course of your lifetime your auditory complex learns your preferences in terms of what you want to focus on in environment and music. We can make a lot of technical comparisons like the way AI learns our likes and dislikes: Music, Shopping, Foods, and more. Every day our ears filter...
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S2. 4. Timbre and Texture
Perhaps the most distinctive element of music is the one that gives nuance to our daily lives. Our ears never really sleep. They interpret the world, keep us safe, and give ongoing descriptions as we make our way through the day. When you ask yourself what your favorite song or singer or type of...
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S2. 3. Music after Digital Recording
The Camera can’t be equated with the Phonograph if you consider artists were capturing images and likenesses for centuries. The phonograph is more like the first canvas that can hold a performance or a moment in perpetuity. It came sixty years after the camera. It’s been here for one hundred…
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S2. 2. Authenticity
This week’s episode makes a wide arc from classical musicians and how they determine authenticity in an orchestral audition scenario, to how non musicians listen to music and determine which artists earn the badge of “authentic” in a variety of genres. More in the show notes at...
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S2. 1. Taking Back Art And Culture
Its for sale: our time and attention. And it’s time to turn off the doomscroll and get back to real culture. More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show_notes/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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100. Pittsburgh's Own Henry Mancini Would Be 100 Years Old This Week
What better way to mark 100 episodes in the Accelerando Podcast than to feature Pittsburgh’s son Henry Mancini. I also talked to another great musician who hails from Aliquippa- George Perilli, when he performed for Chambersite’s Diamante Jazz Quartet this weekend. Joined by Kevin Clark, Lilly...
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99. Sprezzatura
The Italian word, sprezzatura, was invented in the sixteenth century by Castiglione, a writer. His book: The Book of the Courtier describes the perfect courtier, and uses the word to define and group the qualities that exemplify him. The word is popular today in fashion, and is useful to…
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98. Encore: The Trouble With Auditions
Daniel Kahnemann wrote about how we make decisions, and he won s Nobel Prize for his work on Behavioral Economics. With his passing last week we are thinking about his impact, and contribution to the world. When I began this podcast in April 2022 it was Kahneman who inspired this first episode.…
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97. One Note
Composers often use a single repeated note in a piece of music, and it usually tends to get the attention of the audience in a particular manner. Sometimes it’s soft, other times loud, but it’s always persistent. Today we talk about some well known pieces that use the One Note More in the show...
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96. The Brandenburg Concertos
It seems appropriate to post a podcast about the masterpieces Bach dedicated on the same date (March 24) a little over three hundred years ago, 1721 to be exact. They were first published in 1850, one hundred years after Bach’s death. The original scores were passed down haphazardly, we don’t…
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95. Muzio Clementi, The Composers' Composer
Muzio Clementi was respected and praised by most of his contemporaries, especially Beethoven. Mozart paid respects by quoting or borrowing some of his themes, as composers did often in the classical era. Mozart may have been envious of Clementi’s technique and the two were put side by side on a...
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94. A Guy Walks Into Three Violin Shops In Cremona
The three violin makers that shaped the violin we know today lived in Cremona in the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century. Amati, Stradavari and Guarneri Del Gesu may have influenced each other and their influence reaches violin makers today. David L. Fulton collected twenty eight fine...
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93. Page Turning
The seemingly easy and mundane task of turning another’s pages can be difficult at times or amusing. We look at a few comic skits where the page turner is the souce of jokes. We also take a deeper dive into those that take it seriously. Finally we see how technology assists in the effort, another...
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92. Boccherini: Our Hero Among Cellist Composers
The music of Luigi Boccherini is some of the most elegant and refined of the era that emerged out of the Baroque and eventually arrives at the Classical Era. Boccherini lived in this in-between time. He began writing polyphonic music and switched to homophonic writing after he met Sammartini.…
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91. Leadership in the Twenty-First Century
Some people say we live in a gig economy. And its certainly true for musicians who gig, and have always gigged. But its different now than fifty years ago when industries hired locally and everything was run like a factory, because today you can choose to be infungible, one of a kind. There are…
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90. Opera Supertitling
Opera is the art form that incorperates everything from complex stage sets to lighting and effects. In Italian “opera” means “work”. And Opera is a lot of work. It has drama, ballet, singing and instrumental music. Its “the works” alright. When supertitling came on the scene in the 1980’s, some...
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89. Yes To Practice
Environment has as much to do with our resolve and discipline as other factors like time management, finding good teachers, and being fortunate to have a good instrument. Meaning, we can have all four, and hopefully we can get good work done. Lots of books talk about preparation and planning.…
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88. Take My Viola, Please
One can’t talk about the viola without including the viola joke. Today we explore the viola, its sometimes lonely existence, and its far too few moments in the spotlight. Stephen Weiss comments at the close about an up and coming violist/composer. There’s a lot to the viola we should give credit,...
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87. Le Grand Tango
Astor Piazzolla grew up playing bandoneon in tango orchestras in New York City where he met Carlos Gardel. He would return to Argentina to study music composition with Alberto Ginastera, move to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, and eventually become the world’s greatest tango composer.…
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86. Chaconne
J.S. Bach wrote a lot of monumental works and the Chaconne for violin is one of the great masterpieces in the repertoire for solo violin. Aside from the many recordings, there are countless transcriptions for piano, orchestra and chamber groups. Violinists get hooked on the Chaconne early in…
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85. Improvisation for Classical Musicians
There’s a signifigant amount of stigma among classical musicians when it comes to improvisation. But it wasn’t always this way. The Italian conservatories certainly taught improvisation in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Episode 73). The composers from most schools of music...
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84. NFTs: Possibility and Potential for Musicians' Careers
2024 will see development of Web 3. We’re already seeing marketplaces for non-fungible tokens, and the on-going creation of blockchain technology. Music NFT’s are available to creators and buyers. Though these seem expensive, the novelty is what sells, and the notion that we can be our own...
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83. Barbara Krakauer's Legacy and Memory: With Katie Kresek, Barbara Podgurski and Colin Pip Dixon
Barbara Krakauer taught violin in New York during the year and then took her students to Provence France each summer for a three week retreat or “Stage” as the French name it. Katie Kresek and Colin Pip Dixon are two violinists who studied with Mrs. Krakauer in their youth, attended the Stage...
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82. Music Symbolists: Debussy, Ravel, Liszt and Scriabin
The Symbolist movement was definitely a revolution. Artists, composers, authors and poets wanted to break away from the rules. And can you blame them? Today art means personal expression. Looking back we see times when art seemed to build on the past. The Symbolists were interested in infusing...
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81. Streaming and AI: How WILL Technology Change Music?
We’ve seen music adapt to new technologies over the last one hundred years . Formats determined song length: when singles had to fit on a 33 rpm vinyl record, for example. Hits in the 50’s, 60’s 70’s, and up until the 2000’s were three and a half minutes because that was the duration of a 33 rpm...
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80. The MP3: How Technology Changed Music (Part Two)
When digital downloads made it easy to get music for free, artists had to make big adjustments. Loyal fans would still buy CD’s but the handwriting was on the wall. We see a shift to concert tours and an increase in the ticket prices. Today we rely on philanthropy on every level in the Arts....
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79. The Phonograph: How Technology Changed Music
Applying scientific knowledge to music inevitably changes the course of what gets published, what gets popular. In the earliest electrical adaptation- the phonograph- we find certain instruments and certain ranges work better than others. As a result some artists’ careers are defined by the...
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78. Violins of Hope: Aron Zelkowicz and Glenn Lewis with Violinists Performing on the Violins of Hope
The Violins of Hope, visiting cities around the world, makes a seven week stop in Pittsburgh. They are both a museum exhibit and an interactive display because Violins of Hope lets musicians play on their violins for concerts and educational programs. The instruments (including over 70 violins...
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77. Solresol: The Language of Music
In 1820 François Sudre, a musician and a music teacher, created a language based on the musical scale. For twenty years he worked to complete this auxlang. He offered it to the military first, calling it La Telephone. For a while his language was considered because it seemed codeable. When the...
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76. Christopher Wilson: Trumpet Careers
Christopher is known to the world of trumpet players as a clinician, YouTuber and multi-career classical trumpeter. Today he talks about his passion for teaching young players and sheperding them through the rigorous audition process. The auditions for Military Bands are both special and similar…
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75. Wearing Your Union Blues Under Your Concert Black
Being a performer and a union member doesn’t usually compute. The two seem to be worlds apart. Thats why its hard for musicians to join committees and negotiating panels. They play on a stage for a living. And this might seem glamourous, maybe even powerful, and anything but mundane. And Unions...
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74. Marc Reisman: A Celebration of 50 Years of Musical Collaborations as Pittsburgh's Harmonica Man
Marc Reisman is bringing together over 34 musicians at the Thunderbird Cafe in Laurenceville on October 26 to celebrate the music and the milestones he shared with friends and colleagues in the music scene of the ‘Burgh. Joining him on stage will be Joe Grushecky, Billy Price, Ernie Hawkins, Bill...
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73. Composition and Conservatories
Composition was a practical skill in Naples in the sixteenth century. There were over 3000 Churches in need of music. And they needed lots of musicians and singers too. The conservatories pumped out a lot of music apprentices, organists, singers, instrumentalists. These conservatories and the...
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72. Moulin Rouge: With Katie Kresek and Stephen Weiss
The Pittsburgh PNC Broadway Series opens the Season with the 2021 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Moulin Rouge. Katie Kresek is the original Concertmaster for the Broadway production and talks today about the orchestration and her role in that regard. Stephen Weiss will become the latest...
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71. Rock n' Roll: Who Gets the Crown?
There’s Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Rock and Roll, Early Rock. How do we decide where it started, and who wrote the first Rock and Roll Song? Its like asking when did a chicken originally come out of the egg. Chuck Berry was the first to write the lyrics “Rock n’Roll” in his hit Roll Over Beethoven....
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70. The Beo String Quartet: Classical to Heavy Metal
The Beo String quartet is in its second decade and remains in Pittsburgh because they recognize the city’s artistic and logistic values. With Artist Residencies in several states, they maintain a vigorous schedule of concerts, recording, video production, music publication and educational…
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69. Demystifying Classical Music
Does Classical Music carry a note of elitism, maybe even a mystique? Or is classical music just a bit confusing? Classical music shouldn’t be for just some of our society: it is intended for the masses. Most of the time. But there are a few decades where classical music went a bit high brow and...
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68. Gershwin and The Duke, Were They Rivals?
Gershwin and Ellington came from different corners of the musical world. They both started their careers in New York: Gershwin started in Tin Pan Alley where songwriters and “songpluggers”, worked in department stores to sell instruments and songs. Ellington was drawn to the poolrooms and the...
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67. Pitch: The Evolution Of a Scale -or- Why the Greeks Nearly Got it Right
Pythagoros was a polymath: He dabbled in so many subjects including the mathmatics behind the musical scale. Today’s scale is not that far off from what he proposed 2,500 years ago. His passion for harmony within the universe was a gift and a curse. At least he started things in the right...
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66. Surprising the Audience: Composers' Methods to Keep Audiences Emotionally Engaged
The key to holding listeners’ attention is to keep them wondering what the composer will do next. Whether its a film score, rock band or a classical music concert hall, audiences want to have experiences ranging from astonishment and surprise to awe and amazement. The twentieth century saw a wave...
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65. 4'33" (Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds) The Music of John Cage
In the twentieth century music moves toward avant-garde or experimental and controversial. John Milton Cage (1912-1992) was an American composer who embraced all of these. A pioneer in chance music, he used non-standard instruments including pianos altered by putting objects in the piano strings…
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64. Stephen Foster's Legacy
He’s been called the Father of American Music. Maybe we can learn a bit more about him and how he really viewed the African American roots found in much of his music. Scholar Deane Root proposes educating people about the meaning of the Statue that was removed due to public protest. Stephen…
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