Weekly SpinOn

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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