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07 November

Weekly SpinOn:
Swan Songs

This week’s edition follows how composers have listened to and imitated birds — from the notated calls of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony to Respighi’s recorded nightingale, from Sibelius’s mythic swan to Wagner’s remembered forest bird. Each piece marks a different stage in the long conversation between nature and music. The title…

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31 October

Weekly SpinOn: Melancholy

This week we look at a word with a long history. Melancholy comes from the Greek μελαίνη χολή (melainē cholē), meaning “black body fluid.” In ancient medicine it described one of the four fluids believed to shape human temperament. A melancholic person was calm and serious, often inclined to study…

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23 October

Weekly SpinOn: Time

Time is an essential element of music. Music is the only art form that depends entirely on time. A painting or sculpture stands still, but a piece of music only exists as it unfolds. Its shape depends on our ability to remember what came before and to connect it with…

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16 October

Weekly SpinOn: Freedom

Freedom takes many forms, and like so many aspects of life, it appears in music. The four works in this playlist follow that idea: Beethoven’s Egmont Overture speaks of political struggle, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 marks independence from the system of patronage as he began composing on his own terms.…

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