These podcasts are designed to help listeners of all experiences to gain some understanding of "classical music" from the perspective of a conductor, teacher, performer, and artist - they are a synthesis of what I have gained from my life experience with this music and it is my hope that they will enable you to enjoy this music and be able to utilize the tools I provide for further listening in your life.
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These podcasts are designed to help listeners of all experiences to gain some understanding of "classical music" from the perspective of a conductor, teacher, performer, and artist - they are a synthesis of what I have gained from my life experience with this music and it is my hope that they will enable you to enjoy this music and be able to utilize the tools I provide for further listening in your life.
Maestro Eugene's Podcast 3: Poetry, Mahler and Tennyson
Maestro E's Talk Forward Podcasts
20 minutes
12 years ago
Maestro Eugene's Podcast 3: Poetry, Mahler and Tennyson
Poetry, Mahler, and Tennyson - Approaching Beethoven's 9th. This is the third in a series of podcasts I began with the idea to simply walk with you through various composers and their music. Any tool, whether for music lovers, musicians or those new to "classical" music, is always helpful to hear from anyone and everyone who has performed, studied, lived, taught and/or conducted the wide array and miscellany of musical works in the repertoire, be they familiar masterworks or gems that are less frequently performed. In this podcast, with the intention being able to eventually approach listening and talking about Beethoven's 9th (Choral) Symphony, I present just the simplest of ideas about music as language, poetry as an expression of the soul and dare to render a "musician's" interpretation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses as a means to allow words, poetic words, to just "wash over us." I repeat some of the ideas I presented in my first podcast for emphasis and simply move on to setting up the poem of Tennyson. After doing so, the next podcast will treat the notion of words (or lyrics/poems) set or "married" to music - the marriage of word and music. This, I believe, will enable us to have some common "vocabulary" tools with which to approach Beethoven's immortal masterwork with some greater clarity.
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Maestro E's Talk Forward Podcasts
These podcasts are designed to help listeners of all experiences to gain some understanding of "classical music" from the perspective of a conductor, teacher, performer, and artist - they are a synthesis of what I have gained from my life experience with this music and it is my hope that they will enable you to enjoy this music and be able to utilize the tools I provide for further listening in your life.
