Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide

On this episode, we take a deep dive and look at one scene from Mozart's Magic Flute, the quintet from Act 1. We examine... Read more

On this episode, we continue our opera SparkNotes series with a review of Mussorgsky's great Russian epic, Boris Godunov... Read more

We continue our breakdown of Strauss's striking masterwork Salome, looking at the second part of the opera, including th... Read more

On this episode, we break down the first half of Richard Strauss' groundbreaking and controversial Salome, an opera prem... Read more

On this episode, we look at the incredible film composer John Williams, ranking our favorite pieces from his body of wor... Read more

In celebration of 100 episodes of the podcast, we fashioned a fun musical quiz designed to test our hosts' and audience'... Read more

We conclude our series on what to expect from symphonic movements with finales! We look at the history of last movements... Read more

On this third episode in our mini-series on what to expect in standard symphonic movements, we supplement our breakdown ... Read more

On this episode we continue our breakdown of symphonic form, now looking at slow movements! We highlight some of the mos... Read more

On this episode, we begin a series where we break down the main characteristics of each movement of a standard symphony,... Read more