Hello and I'm Iicky Notes to Classical Music Podcast. My name is Joshua Weilerstein. I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lozan Switzerland.

This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting ready to dive into this

amazing world of incredible music.

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six possible.

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So I had the great pleasure to speak with an old friend of mine, Indu Wang, about her fascinating

research into the connections between music and language.

Indu is a wonderful pianist with a special love for chamber music and we actually went to school

together at New England Conservatory where she studied with my mom,

and we also played the Shostakovich piano trio

together way back when I was playing the violin all the time.

She's recently branched out to include academic studies

along with her performance career, and in a brilliant doctoral

dissertation, explore the connections between speech rhythms and how people from different countries

interpret works of Western classical music. I find this research

extremely fascinating and compelling and I hope you will too. I mentioned this at the end of the

show but if you would like to see a copy of Indus Thesis, please send me an email at stickynotes podcast at gmail.com, and I will forward it on to Indu who is more than happy to share her research.

Thanks again for listening and here is Indu Wang.

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