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SalonEra
by Debra Nagy
SalonEra is a series from Les Délices that brings together musicians from around the world to share music, stories, and scholarship. Each episode features a slate of national and international artists in a combination of live performances, pre-recorded content, and intriguing dialogue you won't hear anywhere else! SalonEra podcast listeners can also access exclusive audio-only episodes about the creation of Les Délices’ Concert Series programs, featuring musical insights, historical context, and audio highlights!
Episodes
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Yankee Doodle
Performer and historian Dominic Giardino discusses the history and cultural background of the tune “Yankee Doodle” in this first-ever SalonEra Spotlight featuring performances from Les Délices, Music of the Regiment, and others.
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Scottish Baroque
Get ready for a fun and fascinating chat focused on 18th century music from Scotland with Debra Nagy and David McGuinness (researcher and director of Scotland’s Concerto Caledonia) exploring dance band bass lines, the legacy of Robert Burns, and much more.
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Sacred & Profane (podcast)
The lines separating earthly desire from holy rapture become blurry in this audio-only episode featuring music by Handel from Les Délices’ April program Starstruck featuring Hannah De Priest.
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Women at the Keyboard
Guests Yiheng Yang, Aisslinn Nosky, Mark Edwards, and Shelby Yamin join SalonEra for music & conversation centering late-18th century female pianist-composers Marianne Mozart, Jane Mary Guest, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, and others.
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Bridging Heaven & Earth (podcast)
Nicaragua’s awe-inspiring volcanoes and vast caldera lakes have inspired countless myths and legends. We focus on the Legend of the Masaya Lagoon in this audio-only episode featuring live performances from Les Délices’ February program La Diosa and excerpts from a new commission by...
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Sounds from the Western Frontier
Guests Kim Gruenwald and Dominic Giardino consider the music and sounds that reverberated across the western frontier as French, English, new American settlers, and Native Americans pushed westward in the decades following the Revolutionary War.
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Musical Menagerie (podcast)
Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my! LD Artistic Director Debra Nagy and cellist Rebecca Landell share Baroque music inspired by the animal kingdom in this audio-only episode featuring recent live performances of music by Biber, Pasquini, and others.
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Music & Labor
Together with conductor Anthony Trecek-King and ethnomusicologist Gibb Schreffler, SalonEra probes the history and evolution of sea shanties and related work songs from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Featuring live concert recordings by Seán Dagher with Les Délices and more.
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Bohemian Rhapsody (podcast)
Czech music scholar Martin Nedbal explores how 18th century Bohemian composers subtly incorporated folk tunes and inflections of their homeland despite cultural suppression under Hapsburg rule in this audio-only episode featuring live performances from Les Délices’ October program Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Musical Vision
SalonEra considers the legacies of blind and visually-impaired historical composer-performers like Jacob van Eyck, Turlogh O’Carollan, and others and talks with vision-impaired harpsichordist & violinist Albano Berberi, lutenist Lucas Harris, and Braille music engraver Kathleen Cantrell.
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In Harmonie (podcast exclusive)
Legendary period clarinetist Eric Hoeprich shares insights on Mozart and looks back on his own career highlights in this audio-only episode featuring live performances from Les Délices’ October program for wind octet, Moonlit Mozart.
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Traveling Musicians in the Middle Ages
How did Medieval artists get exposed to new music, pick up new skills or instruments, and develop their artistry? Guests Allison Monroe (Trobár) and Liza Malamut (Newberry Consort) share performances from a program that explored 14th and 15th century Medieval “Minstrel Schools,” where musicians...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
SalonEra is a series from Les Délices that brings together musicians from around the world to share music, stories, and scholarship. Each episode features a slate of national and international artists in a combination of live performances, pre-recorded content, and intriguing dialogue you won't hear anywhere else! SalonEra podcast listeners can also access exclusive audio-only episodes about the creation of Les Délices’ Concert Series programs, featuring musical insights, historical context, and audio highlights!
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Debra Nagy
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SalonEra currently has 12 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is SalonEra about?
SalonEra is a series from Les Délices that brings together musicians from around the world to share music, stories, and scholarship. Each episode features a slate of national and international artists in a combination of live performances, pre-recorded content, and intriguing dialogue you won't...
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SalonEra has 12 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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SalonEra is created and hosted by Debra Nagy.
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