Program Number 141 Originally broadcast May 14, 1997 “Marches Are Your Friends” IVES: “‘Gyp the Blood’ or Hearst – Which Is Worst?”, Ensemble Modern/Metzmacher, EMI 7 54552 2 9 Hey, I Know That Song! BAGLEY: “National Emblem”, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra/ Fennell, Brain BOCD 7502 SCHICKELE: From “Brass Calendar,” “July”, Chestnut Hill Brass Ensemble, Private recordings SOUSA: “Ancient & Honorbale Artillery …
Program Number 140 Originally broadcast May 7, 1997 “Bang the Drum Slowly” IVES: “‘Gyp the Blood’ or Hearst – Which Is Worst?”, Ensemble Modern/Metzmacher, EMI 7 54552 2 9 MOZART: From Piano Concerto No. 21 in C (K 467), 2nd Mvt., Murray Perahia/English Chamber Orchestra/Perahia, Sony 00DC 420 Priests, Fireman & Pharaohs MOZART: From “Die Zauberflöte,” Marsch der …
Program Number 139 Originally broadcast April 30, 1997 “Symphonic March Music: All the Fun and None of the Responsibility” IVES: “‘Gyp the Blood’ or …
Program Number 138 Originally broadcast April 13, 1997 “From the Marching Field to the Concert Hall in Two Quick & Easy Steps” IVES: “‘Gyp …
Program Number 137 Originally broadcast April 16, 1997 “Marcia Exotica” IVES: “‘Gyp the Blood’ or Hearst – Which Is Worst?”, Ensemble Modern/Metzmacher, EMI 7 54552 2 …
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*This episode audio was marked as “edited” and comes in much shorter than a typical episode. If anyone has the complete audio, …
Program Number 134 Originally Broadcast March 19, 1997 “No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Program” FARINA: From “Capriccio stravagante”, Monica Huggett/European Community …
Program Number 133 Originally Broadcast March 12, 1997 “SFX 1138” SCHICKELE: “Jack & Jill”, Peter Schickele, “Schickele Mix” recording Siren Songs VARESE: “Ionisation”, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, “Percussion Music”, Elektra …
Program Number 132 Originally Broadcast February 19, 1997 “If You’ve Got It, Baby, Flaunt It!” J. D. Q. BACH: From Cantata: Iphigenia in Brooklyn, The …
Program Number 131 Originally Broadcast February 12, 1997 “First Among Equals, and Don’t You Forget It, Buster” MENDELSSOHN: From Violin Concerto in E minor, Cho-Liang …
Program Number 130 Originally Broadcast February 2, 1997 “The Reverbing of America” BOUBLIL/SCHONBERG: From “Les Misérables,” Overture, Original Broadway Cast Recording, Geffen 9 24151 2 From Office …
Program Number 129 Originally Broadcast January 15, 1997 “Opposition is True Friendship” BERLIN/HERBERT & DOROTHY FIELDS: From “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Anything You Can …
Program Number 128 Originally Broadcast January 8, 1997 “Sonic Boomerangs” The Simulated Real Thing Echo Suite LASSO: Echo Song, American Boy Choir/Litton, “The American Boy Choir …
Program Number 127 Originally Broadcast November 20, 1996 “The Harmonie Ensemble: Life of the Party or Music Molester?” BRECHT/WEILL: “Threepenny Opera”, Sammy Kaye, “Best of the …
Program Number 126 Originally Broadcast November 13, 1996 “Loud & Portable” HANDEL: From Music for the Royal Fireworks, Overture, London Symphony Orchestra/Mackerras, Seraphim CDE 7243 5 …
Program Number 125 Originally Broadcast October 16, 1996 “My, That’s an Odd Meter!” HARRIS: Little Suite, “Children at Play”, Richard Zimdars, Albany TROY 105 BERNSTEIN: From “Candide,” …
Program Number 124 Originally Broadcast October 9, 1996 “Quintessential Music” BROWN/HENDERSON (Chappell & Co., Inc): “Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries”, “Schickele Mix” recording …
Program Number 123 Originally Broadcast December 18, 2017 “Keeping Christmas” The Christmas Bells of Bethlehem from the Cathedral of Christi Birth, “The Bells of …
Program Number 122 Originally Broadcast October 2, 1996 “The Count Is 3 & 2” SCHUMANN: From Symphony No 3 in C, Opus 61, London Philharmonic/Welser-Möst, EMI …
Program Number 121 Originally Broadcast July 17, 1996 “That Weird & Intoxicating Effect” MOZART: From “Così fan tutte,” Overture, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Mackerras, Terarc CD 80360 …
Program Number 120 Originally Broadcast July 10, 1996 “The Ties that Bind” MOZART: From Piano Concerto No. 20 (K 466), 1st Mvt., Scottish Chamber Ochestra/Mackerras, Telarc …
Program Number 119 Originally Broadcast July 3, 1996 “I Sing the Body Eclectic” FREED/NOBLE/LELEIOHAKU: “Hawaiian War Chant”, Spike Jones, “The Spike Jones Anthology”, Rhino R2 71574 The …
Program Number 118 “Vox Omnia” Originally Broadcast June 29, 1996 The Avian Suitelet TRAD.: “Corrocloclo”, Germaine Montero, “Canciones de Espana”, Vanguard VSD 6534 (LP) JANEQUIN: Le Chant des …
Program Number 117 Originally Broadcast June 19, 1996 “Gin & Pentatonic” MOZART: From Symphony No. 41 in C (K 551), Academy of Ancient Music/Marriner, Philips 412 …
Program Number 116 Originally Broadcast June 12, 1996 “Five Finger Exercises” From “Fishing Boats Singing in the Night”, Chinese Blossom Orchestra, “Music from China”, Laser Light 12 …
Program Number 115 Originally Broadcast June 5, 1996 “And Now for Something Not Really So Very Different At All” MOZART: From Symphony No. 11 …
Program Number 114 Originally Broadcast May 29, 1996 “If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Again” The Band on the Stand PRAETORIUS: 6 Dances …
Program Number 113 Originally Broadcast May 1, 1996 “We Never Make Misteaks” SEBASTIAN: “Nashville Cats”, The Lovin’ Spoonful, “Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful”, Buddah PCD 3305 ROWAN …
Program Number 112 Originally Broadcast April 24, 1996 “Revenge of the Nerdy Instruments” LEWIS: Honky Tonk Train Blues, Meade Lux Lewis, “Finest Vintage Jazz”, ASV CD AJA …
Program Number 111 Originally Broadcast April 17, 1996 “Leave the Playing to Us” HAYDN: Allegretto, from an original musical clock, Musical Clocks, Candide …
Program Number 110 Originally Broadcast April 10, 1996 “Exoticism Begins at Home” Composer/Title, Artist/Album, Label/Number BERLIN: From “I’m an Indian Too”, Ethel Merman, …
Program Number 109 Originally Broadcast August 28, 1996 “If It’s a Folk Song, It Isn’t Stealing” DUFAY: From Missa “L’homme arme,” Agnus Dei, …
Program Number 108 Originally Broadcast August 21, 1996 “The Whole Picture Includes the Frame” The Setter & the Setee HAYDN: “Sir Watkin’s Dream”, …
Program Number 107 Originally Broadcast August 14, 1996 “Folk Music, Schmolk Music!” FOSTER arr. GERHARDT: From “Beautiful Dreamer”, Rober White, “Beautiful Dreamer”, RCA …
Program Number 106 Originally Broadcast August 7, 1996 “‘And How Would You Like that Prepared Sir?’ ‘Rhythmically, Please.’” The “I’ll Do a Melody, …
Program Number 105 Originally Broadcast July 31, 1996 “Boom Chick & Beyond” DONIZETTI: From “Lucrezia Borgia,” “Maffio Orsini, signora, son io Orsini”, Sutherland/Horne/Aragall/Wixell/National …
Program Number 104 Originally Broadcast July 6, 1994 “‘And How Would You Like that Prepared Sir?’ ‘Harmonically, Please.’” RODGERS/HAMMERSTEIN: “The Sound of Music”, …
Program Number 103 Originally broadcast may 22, 1996 “Background Information” BRADDOCK/PUTNAM (Tree Pub.): “D-i-v-o-r-c-e”, From Karaoke Cassette, “In the Style of Tammy Wynette”, …
Program Number 102 Originally Broadcast May 15, 1996 “Things Fall Apart” PARKER: “Au Privave”, Charlie Parker, “Compact Jazz”, Verve 833 288 2 GILLESPIE/FULLER: …
Program Number 101 Originally broadcast May 8, 1996 “Green Dolphin is a Two-Way Street, But It’s Got a Median Strip” COPLAND: From “Our …
Program Number 100 Originally Broadcast April 3, 1996 “Good Enough for Jazz” HERMAN: “Goosey Gander”, Woody Herman, “The Thundering Herds 1945-1947”, Columbia CK …
Program Number 99 Originally Broadcast March 30, 1996 “All That Jazz: The Early Years” JOHNSON: “Carolina Shout”, Fats Waller, “The Indispensable Fats Waller”, …
Program Number 98 Originally Broadcast March 23, 1996 “I’ve Got a Right to Be Influenced by the Blues” D. Q. BACH: From Royal …
Program Number 97 Originally Broadcast February 17, 1996 “Under the Influence” MOZART: From Quintet in A Major for Clarinet, Two Violins, Viola & …
Program Number 96 Originally broadcast January 20, 1996 “He Hasn’t Been the Same Since” MOZART: “Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,” “Singt dem grosen …
Program Number 95 Originally broadcast: June 10, 1995 “Prodigious Talents” MOZART (attributed to): Violin Concerto in D (K Anh 294a), 3rd Mvt., Yehudi …
Program Number 94 Originally Broadcast June 3, 1995 “There’s Nothing Between Us – We’re Just Good Friends” WAGNER: From “Tristan und Isolde,” Prelude, …
Program Number 93 Originally Broadcast May 13, 1995 “Transitory Pleasures” SCHUBERT: From Symphony No. 8 in B minor (“Unfinished”), 1st Mvt., Vienna Philharmonic …
Program Number 92 Originally Broadcast September 25, 1996 “Climactic Conditions” HAYDN: From String Quartet in G, Opus 76, No. 1, 1st Mvt., Amadeus …
Program Number 91 Originally broadcast: March 16, 1996 “You Can’t Pin That On Me!” MOZART: Menuett & Trio in G (KV 1), Walter …
Program Number 90 Originally Broadcast March 9, 1996 “Cherchez la Femme” HENSEL: “Italien”, Lauralyn Kolb, soprano/Arlene Shrut, piano, Cantaur CRC 2120 Cherchez la …
Program Number 89 Originally broadcast March 2, 1996 “Masculine/Feminine” LERNER/LOEWE: “A Hymn to Him”, Rex Harrison, “My Fair Lady” Original Cast Recording, Columbia …
Program Number 88 Originally Broadcast April 29, 1995 “Ah, Youth!” COPLAND: “The Cat & the Mouse”, Eric Parkin, “Music for Piano”, Silva SSD …
Program Number 87 Originally Broadcast April 22, 1995 “First Things First” MOZART: Menuett & Trio in G (KV 1), Walter Gieseking, Angel/EMI 7 63688 …
Program Number 86 Originally broadcast July 8, 1995 “Pendulum in White Tie & Tails” MUIR/NORDEN/GOODWIN: From “Balham-Gateway to the South”, Just for Laughs, …
Program Number 85 Originally Broadcast August 5, 1995 “What it Takes Two to” GADE: “Jalousie”, The Tango Project, “The Tango Project”, Nonesuch 9 …
Program Number 84 Originally Broadcast July 29, 1995 “Clarinet Plus” BRAHMS: From Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 120, No. 1, 3rd …
Program Number 83 Originally Broadcast January 14, 1995 “Clarinet Marmalade” HANDEL: From Overture Clarinet, Keith Puddy & Gary Brodie, clarinets/Susan Dent, Baroque horn, …
Program Number 82 Originally Broadcast January 7, 1995 “Words Fail Me” ANON.: From Offertory: Felix namque, Anonymous 4, “An English Ladymass”, Harmonia Mundi …
Program Number 81 Originally Broadcast February 11, 1995 “Why are Conductors Paid?” MOZART: From “A Little Night Music,” “The Ladies’ Triumph”, Orpheus Chamber …
Program Number 80 Originally Broadcast December 17, 1994 “A Fargo Christmas” Weather RITCHIE: “Wintergrace”, Jean Ritchie, “Kentucky Christmas”, Greenhays GR70717 SHAPIRO: “Winter Weather”, …
Program Number 79 Originally Broadcast December 3, 1994 “Great Endings I Have Known” SCHUBERT: From Quintet for Piano & Strings in A, Opus …
Program Number 78 Originally Broadcast November 26, 1994 “Let’s Get This Thing Over With!” BEETHOVEN: From Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus …
Program Number 77 Originally Broadcast October 29, 1997 “Beyond the Blue Danube” The “Not Quite Nice” Waltzes JOPLIN: “Bethena”, Joseph Smith, “Rhythmic Moments”, …
Program Number 76 Originally broadcast: Oct. 22, 1994 “Do I Hear the Waltz? Well, Do I?” JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.: “Fruhlingsstimmen,” Opus 410, Vienna …
Originally broadcast: October 15, 1994 Program Number 75 “Schickele Mix: The Movie” STOCKHAUSEN: From “Gruppen” fur 3 Orchester, Kolner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Deutsche …
Program Number 68 Originally Broadcast November 12, 1994 “What IS that Instrument?” One-of-a-Kind Instrumental Aggregations PARTCH: From “And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell …
Program Number 67 Originally Broadcast November 5, 1994 “Instrumental Exotica” Field Recording: Musical Bow, Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest, Smithsonian SF CD 40401 Jaw …
Program Number 66 Originally Broadcast April 16, 1994 “Say It and Sing It” Stop the Music MOZART: From “Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,” Dialog …
Program Number 65 Originally Broadcast April 9, 1994 “License or Larceny?” MOZART: From Symphony No. 3 in E Flat, 3rd Mvt., Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of …
Program Number 62 Originally Broadcast September 16, 1995 “True or Falsetto” ANON.: From “Edi beo thu hevene quene”, Anonymous 4, “An English Ladymass”, Harmonia Mundi HMU 907080 …
Program Number 61 Originally Broadcast September 9, 1995 “H2O Above and Below” BRITTEN: From “Noye’s Fludde,” Opus 59, “Ha! children, me thinkes my bottle …
Program Number 60 Originally Broadcast March 19, 1994 “Weathering the Storm” Triple Weather Whammy VIVALDI: “La Tempesta di Mare” (RV 253), 1st Mvt., Concentus …
Program Number 56 Originally Broadcast January 29, 1994 “Varieties of Variation” RAVEL: From Rapsodie espagnole, 1st Mvt., Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Lopez-Cobos, Telarc CD 80171 MOZART: From Variations “Ah, …
Program Number 55 Originally Broadcast July 26, 1995 “Is There a Fugue in Your Future?” J. S. BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1, …
Program Number 53 Originally Broadcast August 19, 1995 “Fugues: Can’t Live With ’Em, Can’t Live Without ’Em” J. S. BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, …
Program Number 52 Originally Broadcast August 12, 1995 “The Fugal Gourmet” ANON.: “Sumer is icumen in”, The Hilliard Ensemble, Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1154 PALESTRINA: …
Program Number 51 Originally broadcast December 11, 1993 “Splitting the Octave” Monody Offertory: “Felix namque” (chant), Anonymous 4, “An English Ladymass”, Harmonia Mundi 90 7080 TRAD.: “Poor …
Program Number 50 Originally Broadcast November 6, 1993 “A Pair of Chords That Will Last” Major/Minor Suitelet STRAUSS: From “Also sprach Zarathustra,” Opus 30, Detroit …
Program Number 49 Originally Broadcast March 12, 1994 “Imitation Is the Sincerest Form” A Round of Rounds TRAD.: “Russian Lullaby”, Libana, “A Circle Is Cast”, Spinning …
Program Number 47 Originally Broadcast Jan 22, 1994 “You Are, and You Sing About, What You Eat? The “Food Is Better Than …
Program Number 42 Originally Broadcast May 1, 1996 “Dominant Characteristics” BEETHOVEN: From Symphony No. 5, 4th Mvt., Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon 429 036 2 LASSUS: From Psalmi …
Program Number 37 Originally Broadcast March 27, 1993 “The Big Chill-Out? Chill-Out Suite No. 1 SATIE: “Trois Gymnop?dies,? No. 3, Aldo Ciccolini, Angel CDC 74774 SEBASTIAN/YANOVSKY …
Program Number 36 Originally Broadcast March 27, 1993 “Ma & Pa Kettle Drum” PROKOFIEV: From “Peter & the Wolf”, English String Orchestra/Menuhin, Nimbus …
Program Number 34 Originally Broadcast January 30, 1993 “The Bach of Gibraltar” S. BACH arr. SCHICKELE: From “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, Leopold …
Program Number 33 Originally Broadcast on January 6, 1993 “A Musical Aviary” ANON.: From “The Bird Fancyer’s Delight”, Laurence Trott, “For the Birds”, …
Program Number 31 Originally Broadcast January 2, 1993 “What Happens Between the Notes” Great Pauses in Western Music SCHUBERT: From Symphony No. 8 …
Program Number 24 Originally Broadcast September 12, 1992 “Parental” The Parental Song Cycle MOZART: From “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “E’decisa la lite” & …
Program Number 19 Originally Broadcast May 30, 1992 “Parallel #2” The Parallel Thirds Suite VIVALDI: From Concerto for Two Trumpets, Opus 46, No. …
Program Number 17 Originally Broadcast May 2, 1992 “Parallel #1” LASSUS: “Beatus Homo”, Girl’s Chorus of Gyor/Miklos Szabo, director, Qualiton LPX 11441 GODRIC: …
Program Number 10 Originally Broadcast June 27, 1992 “Trio” S. BACH: From Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, 4th Mvt., English Chamber Orchestra/Somary, Vanguard VSD …
Program Number 6 Originally Broadcast May 16, 1992 “Religious Music” Composite Mass No. 1 OCKEGHEM: From Missa au travail suis, “Kyrie”, Pomerium Musices/Alexander …