Classical music can be intimidating to newcomers and frequent concertgoers alike. Attention to Detai
On today's episode, we attempt to bring the world of blind wine tasting to music! Like expert wine t
Continuing with our explorations of what music actually is, we examine another key element of music:
Music is filled with silence. But is that silence actually part of the music? And more importantly,
We finish our series on era-specific listening tips by exploring the most challenging and diverse su
We're back to our instrument breakdown episodes, this time exploring two members of the low string f
In celebration of Election Day, we're offering up a fun listening game to exercise your listening sk
We continue our series on listening tips by examining the era and style of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler
We're back with some more era-specific tips for listening to classical music, and this time we're ta
In a new series, which we'll alternate with our instrument breakdowns, we provide five tips for list
In a new series, we discuss how to listen to some of the most important musical instruments that mig
Today we're joined by Hannah to break down our final fundamental technique, Mapping! We discuss how
Today we review the second fundamental technique of this podcast, Hearing Ideas! We talk about how t
After many weeks of Wagner, we decided to get back to basics and review our four fundamental techniq
Our final review of the Ring Cycle! Today we look at Act 3 of Götterdammerung, which includes some o
We continue our review of Götterdammerung, looking at the gloomy second act. A transition act that p
We're on to the final (and our favorite) opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Götterdammerung! Today we rev
We're joined today by my co-host, Hannah Reffett, who returns to help us break down Act 3 of Siegfri
Today we continue with Act 2 of Siegfried, deep in the forest where the dragon Fafner is guarding th
We continue our breakdown of Wagner's Ring Cycle by looking at the first act of the third opera, Sie
On this episode, we take a break from our SparkNotes-style reviews of Wagner's Ring Cycle to look at