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Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

Nobody Dresses Anymore

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Columnist and music critic Jay Nordlinger joins Mona for an excursion into classical music. No coat or tie required.

REFERENCES:

Here’s a list of every musical piece played in the episode.

  1. Thomas Tallis – Motet from the Gospel of John
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach – Preludio from Partita in E major for solo violin
  3. J.S. Bach (arr. Rachmaninoff) – Preludio (Bach/Rachmaninoff transcription)
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven – Final movement from a String Quartet in C major
  5. Léo Delibes – “Flower Duet” from Lakmé
  6. Giuseppe Verdi – Duet from Otello
  7. Antonín Dvořák – Humoresque
  8. Antonín Dvořák – Humoresque (Jazz rendition)
  9. Maurice Ravel – Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
  10. Sergei Prokofiev – “Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet
  11. Sergei Prokofiev – “Midnight” from Cinderella
  12. Scott Wheeler – “If I Had a Wife” (song cycle Serenata)
  13. Daniel Asia – “My Father’s Name Was” (from Breath and a Ram's Horn)
  14. Lee Hoiby – “Goodbye, Goodbye World”
  15. Philip Glass – Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons, final movement

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me on the Mona Charn Show. This is a special episode,

0:07.5

a little departure from our usual today. I have invited Jay Nordlinger, my dear friend of

0:15.7

longstanding. He is a political commentator, writer, also a music critic. He writes music criticism for the new

0:25.9

criterion. And over the years has really enhanced my appreciation for music, and we have fun

0:35.4

discussing our various favorites.

0:40.2

And so Jay has agreed to join us today to just do a little taste of various kinds of music

0:47.5

with the idea that you'll either just enjoy it or maybe if you're not used to this kind of music, which is sort of classical

0:56.8

or concert music, that maybe you'll discover something that you like. So, Jay, thank you so much

1:04.6

for joining me. Mona, it's such a pleasure to see you on my screen here and talk with you and feels like old times.

1:13.9

And what the heck?

1:14.6

You're one of my favorite people lover.

1:15.8

What can I say?

1:17.5

Ditto.

1:18.7

So you've prepared a few selections.

1:21.4

And so what we're going to do is we're going to play them.

1:23.6

And then we'll talk about them.

1:25.3

Or if you want to introduce the first one, please do.

1:28.5

Well, we have done musical programs before you and I. And you told me the other day,

1:33.1

I really like Thomas Tallis, the Renaissance composer, the Englishman. And you were quite right to.

1:39.5

So I thought, in your honor, we would begin with a little motet by Talas.

1:45.9

It's from the Gospel of John, and it will be sung by the Cambridge singers,

1:51.0

conducted by John Rudder, who's well known as a composer as well.

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