Introducing Classical Music Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax
Hello Open Ears fans, pianist Emanuel Ax is dropping into the feed to introduce Classical Music Happy Hour, a new podcast he hosts that you...
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The Open Ears Project
Part mix tape, part sonic love-letter, the Open Ears Project is a daily podcast where people share the classical track that means the most to them. Each episode offers a soulful glimpse into...
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Introducing Our Common Nature with Yo-Yo Ma
Ana González is here to introduce you to her new podcast, Our Common Nature , a musical journey with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. When the world stoppe...
Janna Levin on Mozart’s Unfinished Ambitions
Janna Levin is a theoretical cosmologist and professor of astronomy and physics at Barnard College in New York City, specializing in the stu...
Hanna Arie-Gaifman on Bach and Survival
Hanna Arie-Gaifman served as the director of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y for over 20 years, where she produced countl...
Caroline Shaw on Mendelssohn and Possibility
Caroline Shaw is a tireless musician, active as a violinist, vocalist, producer, and composer. She’s won multiple Grammy awards and, along w...
Nick Ferrone on Why Barber’s “Adagio” Gets a Bad Rap
By day, Nick Ferrone is a Brooklyn real estate agent, but on most Saturday nights, he can be found playing the harmonica at Sunny’s Bar in R...
Lucy Boynton on Chopin and Getting Into Character
You might know actress Lucy Boynton from the television mini-series “The Ipcress File” and films like “Chevalier” and “Murder on the Orient...
Martha Lane Fox on Perseverance and Beethoven
If anyone can claim the title of Renaissance Woman, it is Martha Lane Fox. Though she gained prominence during the dot-com boom of the 1990s...
Steve Reich on Why Medieval Music Sounds So Fresh
Steve Reich is one of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A leader in developing and popularizing what many describ...
Anne-Sophie Mutter on Why Bach Is Always the Answer
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” is one of Bach’s best known works. For acclaimed violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, it has been part of her life si...
Víkingur Ólafsson on the Unpredictable Futurism of Rameau
All classical musicians are devoted to the art of reinterpretation — of trying to make the old feel new again. Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson act...
Garth Greenwell on Finding Refuge in the Music of Britten and Pears
By now, Garth Greenwell is an award-winning author, poet, literary critic, and teacher of writing whose novels include “What Belongs To You”...
Jennifer Egan on Chopin's Narrative Masterclass
Jennifer Egan has spent a lifetime thinking about what makes a good story — to good effect. Her novels have received many awards and recogni...
Rowan Williams on Bach and the Daily Discipline of Silence
Rowan Williams is a British theologian and poet. From 2003-2012, he served as the Archbishop of Canterbury — a role that placed him, along w...
Dexter Filkins on Tension, Tenderness, and Ravel
Dexter Filkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Iraq War correspondent for the New York Times, and author of the bestselling b...
Marin Alsop on Beethoven and Humanity’s Infinite Potential
As one of the leading conductors of our time, Marin Alsop has collected a lot of “firsts”: She’s the first woman to head a major orchestra i...
Nathalie Joachim on the Connection Between Brahms and Haiti
Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated flutist, vocalist and composer. She is the co-founder of the acclaimed flute-meets-electronica duo Fl...
Elizabeth Day on Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar and Navigating Loss
Elizabeth Day is an author, broadcaster, and host of the podcast “How to Fail,” where she interviews guests about what they have learned fro...
Damien Sneed on Dreams, Family and Franz Liszt
Damien Sneed is an award-winning musician, conductor, composer and arts educator who works across classical, jazz, R&B and other genres. Whe...
Deborah Frances-White on Chance Encounters and Mozart
Deborah Frances-White is a comedian, writer, and host of “The Guilty Feminist” podcast, where she explores the balancing act between feminis...