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Following our discussion of CDs in episode #190, we continue our discussion about these plastic discs, mainly because Doug bought some new audio gear and is now CD-obsessed. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: Episode #190 - Nostalgic about CDs Elizabethtown The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Wendy Brooke on Twitter @ProgRockers The story of the Grateful Dead Europe 72' release The Cure: Faith (Cassette release) A Certain Ratio: The Graveyard and the Ballroom (Wikipedia) Our next tracks: A Certain Ratio: acr:set The Flock: Dinosaur Swamps If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We begin an irregular series of key albums that stand out in the history of music. For our first foray into this type of discussion, we talk about The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: The Renaissance Men of Music Exile on Main Street Exile on Main Street (Wikipedia) Stones in Exile (Wikipedia) Robert Frank: The Americans Exile on Main Street review, Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone Side Splitter (AppleScript) Our next tracks: Brian Eno & Jah Wobble: Spinner Brian Eno & John Cale: Wrong Way Up Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We wax nostalgic about CDs, those plastic (and partly metal) discs that changed the music industry starting in the mid-1980s, and whose popularity has waned since the rise of streaming. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: CD Text to CD Info AppleScript Dave’s Picks Volume 34 FNAC Goldberg Variations by Kenneth Gilbert Compact disc bronzing (Wikipedia) CD Single (Wikipedia) BTHVN 2020 - Beethoven The New Complete Edition BACH 333 – The New Complete Edition Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition NAD C538 Denon AVR-S540BT Our next tracks: Durutti Column: Vini Reilly The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

A reviewer suggested that we mentioned John Cage in this podcast as a "cheap marketing ploy." That made use think about taste: highbrow, lowbrow, and unibrow. We reflect on whether we are really the "Renaissance men of music." Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: John Cage Trust Episode #186 - Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani Episode #7 – Music and Genres Brotherhood The Murder Capital live from the Guinness Storehouse Episode #187 - Live Performances during Covid-19, and After - Springsteen on Broadway Our next tracks: John Cage, Witold Lutosławski - LaSalle-Quartett, String Quartets Jack Bruce: Harmony Row If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Kathryn Williams plays the flute, and, because of some health issues, has a unique approach to the breath. In addition to being a free diver, she has been commissioning pieces of music for one single breath. And she's going to try to break the Guinness world record for the longest sustained note on a wind instrument. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Kathryn Williams Show notes: The Listening Service: Music and breathing - BBC Sounds Royal Northern College of Music Our next tracks: Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: Poor Until Payday If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Kathryn Williams.Support The Next Track

John Wyver's company Illuminations produces films of live performances: theater, dance, opera, and music. He joins us to discuss the future of live performances in what he calls The After, that period when Covid-19 is just a memory. Will live performances be able to start again even if there isn't a vaccine? How can social distancing allow live performances to return? Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: John Wyver - Illuminations Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History Show notes: Shakespeare, from Theater to Cinema: Interview with John Wyver - Part 1, Part 2 The BBC Shakespeare Collection Wigmore Hall live streams Royal Opera House streams Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home Bolero Julliard Magdalen College: Virtual May Morning 2020 As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens Berlin Philharmonker Digital Concert Hall Our next tracks: Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways Supergrass: Life on Other Planets If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: John Wyver.Support The Next Track

We meet harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, who is showing how the harpsichord is no longer an instrument just for "old" music. His latest recording features contemporary music for harpsichord and electronics. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Mahan Esfahani Musique? Modern and electro-acoustic works for harpsichord Show notes: Wigmore Hall The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Kazoophony Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin A Playlist of Music by Black Classical Composers Our next tracks: Brad Mehldau: Suite: April 2020 Black Stone Cherry: Black to Blues If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Mahan Esfahani.Support The Next Track

Plex is a great way to manage your media library. Doug and Kirk discuss how they use it. Note: we recorded this episode before the lockdown began, but held off publishing it because we had a number of interviews with musicians in lockdown. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: Plex A Suitable Boy Our next tracks: Ustad Vilayat Khan: From the NCPA Archives The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

TJ Connelly is a sports DJ: he provides "scores" for live sporting events, such as baseball, football, and hockey games. Since the lockdown, he's been out of work, and he has been focusing his attention on Uncertain Times, a daily streaming radio show. We talk with him about what it means to score live sports, and how his streaming show is reconnecting him with real radio. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: TJ Connelly Uncertain Times Show notes: Jock Jams The Duo Behind The Sound Of Fenway Park (WGBH) QLab WFNX Our next tracks: Harrington, Gustin & Zahn: Tura Lura D.I.Y.: Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: TJ Connelly.Support The Next Track

Timo Andres is a young composer and pianist, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. We discuss his music, and how he missed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall du to the coronavirus lockdown, and decided to make home videos of all the works to present his program to the public. (Apologies for the audio; we made some mistakes when recording.) Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Timo Andres Timo Andres's recordings House Special; Timo Andres's Carnegie Hall recital filmed in his living room Show notes: Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music Episode #25 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music, Part 2 List of clarinet quartets (Wikipedia) I Still Play (Nonesuch) Milou Life Inside an Electronic Cottage (Washington Post: 1980) FabFilter Our next tracks: Coda Malo: Malo If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Timo Andres.Support The Next Track