Episode 7: Violinist Edmond Agopian & Sousa’s Secret Career  I speak with a musician of passionate curiosity, violinist Edmond Agopian. I also tell the story of John Philip Sousa’s secret career, and the mysterious tale of the artwork still on the Moon.    CBC website story on the Thorgy Thor | orchestra collaboration: https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/drag-star-thorgy-thor-brings-her-star-power-to-the-world-of-orchestral-musi   CBC gem link to the complete film “Disruptor Conductor” https://gem.cbc.ca/media/cbc-docs-pov/season-3/episode-5/38e815a-0119a7bfbd7?cmp=sch-disruptor (note outside of Canada, the entire film might still be available here https://watchmoviesonlinenow.xyz/movie/752824/   Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser page at the Toronto Symphony: https://www.tso.ca/conductor/daniel-bartholomew-poyser   Slate Article on the tangled controversy that surrounded “Fallen Astronaut” past and present: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/sculpture_on_the_moon_paul_van_hoeydonck_s_fallen_astronaut.html   Another Artwork on the Moon: https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/tiny-art-museum-on-the-moon.html   German gallery selling authorized replicas: https://www.galerie-breckner.de/edition-paul-van-hoeydonck-man-in-space/   VOD film documentary on “Fallen Astronaut” https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thefallenastronaut?ref=tw-share   The United States Marine Band’s appreciation of its former director Sousa: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/About/Our-History/John-Philip-Sousa/   Sousa and “The Transit of Venus” https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2009/02/sousas-transit-of-venus.html   More info about Sousa as a writer: https://web.archive.org/web/20041021201305/http://wgpark.com/page.asp?pid=10   Edmond Agopian page at SCPA-University of Calgary https://arts.ucalgary.ca/creative-performing-arts https://scpa.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/edmond-agopian   Edmond Agopian speaking of Beethoven’s 250th birthday and his continued influence: https://ckua.com/listen/honouring-two-hundred-and-fifty-years-of-beethoven/   UCalgary String Quartet Album “Far Behind I left My country” featuring Agopian’s arrangements: Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/far-behind-i-left-my-country-klezmer-east-european/324074237 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XM84Glc4OAUIh6qr0LAJd   Livestream: Dvořák – Morawetz Connections II: https://arts.ucalgary.ca/creative-performing-arts/news-and-events/school-events#!view/event/event_id/289813   Livestream: A Celebration of Music by Black Composers II: https://arts.ucalgary.ca/creative-performing-arts/news-and-events/school-events#!view/event/event_id/289893   Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat: Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/chausson-symphony-in-b-flat-major-op-20-franck-le-chasseur/1166131594 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4bItTskYxH3Q6TgwIi1Uj0   Enescu: Poème Roumain Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/enescu-po%C3%A8me-roumain-vox-maris-voix-de-la-nature/403125669 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6bOXNXmNOhAd9vqTlStKsz?si=df433a123c0c4ef2   “President’s March (Hail Columbia)” courtesy of the US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/presidents-march-rights-man-death-general-wolf-rights/394209001?i=394209028 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5Oxxso8ZLyfwd9BHZnVsvB?si=ba4b62b637a446f8   “Transit of Venus March” by John Phillip Sousa, courtesy of the US Marine Band https://music.apple.com/ca/album/transit-of-venus/1021275726?i=1021275907   “Ukrainian Dance” from Far Behind I left my Country featuring UCalgary String Quartet: Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/far-behind-i-left-my-country-klezmer-east-european/324074237 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XM84Glc4OAUIh6qr0LAJd   Episode published March 2021 CultureMonster.ca Support the Podcast and help create future episodes at buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster