The Nightmare of Reason with Roger Rudenstein

Henry Purcell lived in England during the 17th century period known as the Restoration. He was born just forty years after Shakespeare died and composed over 800 works many of which are sublime. He d...

Tar, which has won and been nominated for numerous awards, looks at the career of a fictional female, lesbian conductor who has made it big in the competitive world of the symphony orchestra. Like he...

The Orville is a Star Trek type show produced by Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy. In this look at the far future how did classical music fare? Not well I’m afraid. In this podcast I go o...

The saga continues. In this podcast I go into what atonalism and serialism are and how the ideology grew up around them designating these techniques as the future of classical music in the Twenti...

Who would have thought that a nation founded to be a beacon of liberty and freedom would enter a period where the secret police would have a significant influence on cultural life? Starting in the ...

This podcast concerns arguably the greatest musical work ever created: The Mass in B-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Surprisingly many classical aficionados have not listened to it. The work could a...

In this episode of the podcast I discuss a major venue for classical music, one that brings it to millions of people whatever their musical tastes.I’m talking about the movies. In the not so distance...

“During the Sleep of Reason monsters emerge” - GoyaThis podcast and newsletter was inspired by the Goya etching The Sleep of Reason. Goya pointed out that during the sleep of reason monsters appeared...