The Classical Gabfest

14/09/2022

With the podcast on hiatus, we've launched the Classical Gabfest newsletter!

The first edition is already available and the second will hit inboxes tomorrow morning.

And just like the podcast, it's totally free!

Check our new link for all of our social media links and email address!



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An Oregon bar for classical hipsters; Placido Domingo's walk of shame; Cate Blanchett takes the baton

01/09/2022

This week on the Gabfest:

♪ A transatlantic Covid flareup
♪ Album review: Vivaldi's Women
♪ Should classical radio institute quotas?

Plus an all-American round of Game of Pairs!

25/08/2022

This week on the Gabfest:

♪ Placido Domingo tied to international crime ring
♪ Lorin Maazel's bizarre "The Conductor's Week"
♪ Are audiences ever coming back?

Plus our guest hosts are en pointe in a round of Classical Chronology!

18/08/2022

This week on the Gabfest:

♪ Classical NEWS! headlines
♪ Amateur violin-making videos
♪ Dead bodies accompany Mahler's “Resurrection”

Plus a round of everyone's favorite game Two Truths and a Lie!

13/08/2022

The gang is all here! Through summer travels, the team coordinated as many meetups as possible… listen to this week’s podcast for stories and memories of the summer!

11/08/2022

This week on the Gabfest, we present a roundup of our summer travels, with stops in New York City, rural Maine, and Paris France.

Plus, we reveal the answers to episode 100's round of everyone's favorite game, “Listener, Name THY Tune!”

04/08/2022

This week, it's another Classical Gabfest All-Games Extravaganza! Pit your wits against four of our listening challenges and hope your wits aren't quite as pitiful as ours! 😉

This week, it’s another All-Games Extravaganza! We’ve got four musical listening challenges for you, followed by our Classical Mixtape.CLASSICAL MIXTAPEThe f...

29/07/2022

This week for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE we flip the script on our listeners!

We challenge YOU to name three anonymous pieces of classical music. Think you can do it? Email us at [email protected] with your best guesses.

CLASSICAL MIXTAPEThe full playlisthttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnEg4S4Cl0LeNIRcgv2WXGt1yH1kyEZ7NTHINK YOU CAN STUMP US? GO AHEAD AND TRY!Google For...

21/07/2022

This week, Will rants about piano benches. That's literally the whole show.

14/07/2022

This week for Bastille Day 🇫🇷 we revisit the story of Édmond Dédé, the expatriate American composer who made his life and career in Bordeaux FR in the late 19th century.

We dig even deeper into the archive for our prélude segment, 2 vérités et 1 mensonge

07/07/2022

This week's minisode topic is – by popular demand – viola jokes!

What's your favorite? We want to know!

Suitably, we start off with a round of viola hero. 🎻🦸‍♂️

30/06/2022

On this week's minisode, we talk about Teachers & Teaching.

But can we teach ourselves to Name that Tune? Listen to find out!

23/06/2022

On this week's Gabfest minisode, we discuss matters sartorial. Should classical music embrace its fancy past or look towards a more casual future? We've got ~opinions~

Plus, a rousing round of Listening Limbo!

16/06/2022

This week we start our series of off-the-news summer discussions and up first it's: Programming

Themes, flow, and ideals vie for precedence in creating good programs, but so do logistics and budgets — and that's when you have control over the program!

https://cgf.buzzsprout.com/1313269/10776091-94-programming-minisode

19/05/2022

This week on the Gabfest:

♪ Musicians fired from their own quartet
♪ NK-China friendship concert
♪ A groundbreaking Pulitzer winner

Plus a record-setting round of Back to the Future AKA Retrogradus ad Parnassum!

https://cgf.buzzsprout.com/1313269/10642296-90-friends-like-these

This week, we start out with a rousing round of Back to the Future AKA Retrogradus ad Parnassum, and then we move on to our three topics:MUSICIANS FIRED FROM THEIR OWN QUARTETNonprofit board fires DaPonte String Quartet musicians, changes mission ...

18/05/2022

Join us tomorrow as we discuss the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in music and more!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/arts/music/raven-chacon-pulitzer-prize-music.html

Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass,” a work for ensemble and pipe organ that “evokes the weight of history in a church setting,” won the prize for music.

13/05/2022

This week, the Gabfest presents our collaboration with the Moveable Do podcast as Will White chats about his career and music with host Steve Danielson.



https://cgf.buzzsprout.com/1313269/10601363-89-will-on-moveable-do

05/05/2022

This week on the Gabfest:

♪ A youth orchestra's smart response to a dumb car ad
♪ Lizzo does an orchestra audition on SNL
♪ Jeffrey Epstein & a mysterious cello

Plus a round of everyone's favorite game, Name that Tune. Will the hosts be stumped?

https://cgf.buzzsprout.com/1313269/10559882-88-putting-in-the-twerk

This week, we start out with a rousing round of Name That Tune AKA Stump the Hosts and then we move on to our three topics:YOUTH ORCHESTRA RESPONDS TO OFF-KEY CAR ADN.B. Youth Orchestra posts masterful clapback to car ad that rubbed them the wrong...