Friday FIVE: August 28 - Farther Along
Dolly Parton passed away this week at the age of 80. In this episode I add to the conversation about her music, hopefully by taking you on some of the backwoods roads rather than the main road of her best known hits. Everybody is doing those right now. Instead I want to point you to the 1987 Tri ...
Friday FIVE: September 4 - Morning Mood
On September 4, 1907, Edvard Grieg died in Bergen, Norway, the same city where he was born. 119 years later, his music is still among the most recognized in the classical repertoire. In this episode, I reflect on two pieces from his Peer Gynt suite that could not be more different. In the Hall o ...
Friday FIVE: September 11 - Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber composed his Adagio for Strings in 1936 as an intimate meditation inspired by a passage from Virgil's Aeneid. He did not write it for grief. And yet grief found it. On this 25th anniversary of September 11th, I reflect on how this piece became the unofficial anthem of American mour ...
Friday FIVE: September 18 - Chopinesque
Jon Batiste comes from one of New Orleans’ great musical dynasties, not unlike the Marsalis family. He was playing drums in the Batiste Brothers Band at age eight, earned his bachelor’s and master's degrees in jazz at Juilliard, served as bandleader on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, won the ...
Friday FIVE: September 25 - Gone Fishin’
In 1951, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong teamed up for “Gone Fishin’,” and the recording’s charm comes from the fact that they never try to sound alike. Crosby is smooth, relaxed, and conversational. Armstrong is gravelly, flexible, and unmistakably himself. In this episode, I reflect on the tea ...
Friday FIVE: October 2 - Suffering and Glory
Reginald Heber’s “The Son of God Goes Forth to War” is a familiar hymn text in many Christian traditions, but one lesser-known setting brings out something different in it. In this episode, I reflect on Leonard Payton’s Dorian setting of the hymn and the way its musical character holds together ...
Friday FIVE: October 9 - In My Life
On what would have been John Lennon’s 86th birthday, I return to “In My Life,” one of his most reflective songs and one of the great tracks from Rubber Soul. In this episode, I consider the restraint of Lennon’s lyric, George Martin’s iconic keyboard interlude, and the way memory, people, and th ...
Friday FIVE: October 23 - Irrigating Deserts
Someone once asked me how you get a person to love Bach when they would rather listen to Taylor Swift. In this episode, I reflect on why that question is framed the wrong way and how C.S. Lewis’s distinction between cutting down jungles and irrigating deserts relates to musical education. The go ...
Friday FIVE: November 6 - The Piano Bench
On Monday I opened the piano bench to get the choir’s singing vitamins, forgot to close it, and promptly sat back down into it in front of a room full of elementary singers. It immediately reminded me of Victor Borge. In this episode I reflect on the Danish pianist and comedian who made a career ...
Friday FIVE: November 13 - The Concert Hall at Home
On this day in 1937, NBC gave its first full symphony broadcast from Studio 8H in New York City, with conductor Pierre Monteux leading more than 90 musicians through Bach, Mozart, Franck, Debussy, and Richard Strauss. In this episode, I reflect on what it meant that a major American network deci ...
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