How Musical Revolutions Were Created, Part 1 - w/Jan Swafford
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jan Swafford was such a fantastic guest last time that I thought we had to have him back on. This week(and next week), we discussed how so much of the revolutionary music in the history of classical music was influenced by storytelling, whether it was Monteverdi, Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Debussy, Ives, Stravinsky, or Schoenberg. This week, on Part 1, we discuss the first 4 composers on the list, trying to understand the chicken or the egg question of which came first? The story? Or the revolution?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm a |
| 0:02.0 | I'm a conductor |
| 0:04.0 | I'm the |
| 0:05.0 | and |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes |
| 0:10.0 | the Classical Music Podcast |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Joshua Wilerstein I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic |
| 0:14.4 | director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne Switzerland. This podcast is for anyone who |
| 0:19.3 | loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:26.0 | Before we get starting, I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors Jason, Brian, Joy, Michael, |
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| 0:58.0 | So today I'm really happy to have back, Jan Swafford. We had such a fantastic conversation the first time and we were exchanging some emails |
| 1:02.0 | and Jan had come up with this really |
| 1:04.1 | incredible theory about how musical revolutions happened in the classical |
| 1:08.3 | music world all the way back from the age of Monteverdi to the 20th century and the dissolution of tonality. |
| 1:16.2 | So it was a really fun conversation we actually talked for quite a while. |
| 1:19.4 | And I ended up deciding to split the episode into two parts. |
| 1:22.2 | So we talk about the first four composers today and the second four composers next week. |
| 1:26.7 | It was really amazing, especially in the second part, to hear Jan's description of the last movement of Ives' three places in New England, |
| 1:34.8 | a really profoundly moving moment on the show. |
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