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Episode 18: Season Finale with Leonard Slatkin
Monday, 30 August, 2021
Episode 18: American Conductor Leonard Slatkin For the Culture Monster season finale, I speak with conductor Leonard Slatkin about his remarkable career and his new book, “Classical Crossroads.” I also endorse music by David Lang and Alan Hovhaness. LINKS The film “Olympia” documenting the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin https://thesportjournal.org/article/leni-riefenstahls-olympia-brilliant-cinematography-or-nazi-propaganda/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LOPhRq3Es David Lang is an American composer known for his association with “Bang on a Can” https://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/89442735/david-lang-wins-music-pulitzer https://bangonacan.org/about_us/ “Cheating, Lying, Stealing” originally for chamber ensemble, heard here in a later version for band. https://davidlangmusic.com/music/cheating-lying-stealing-arr-band/ Leonard Slatkin conducted the premiere of Lang’s first orchestral work with the Boston Symphony in 1991. “International Business Machine” https://davidlangmusic.com/music/international-business-machine/ Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-biography.html Mysterious Mountain- Symphony no. 2 https://hovhaness.com/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain.html “Five Sacred Trees” Album from John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra which includes “Mysterious Mountain” https://open.spotify.com/album/4pjd4sL03OuKTp9nxsyAJo https://music.apple.com/ca/album/hovhaness-mysterious-mountain/263090524 Leonard Slatkin is an internationally acclaimed conductor, most recently Music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra https://www.leonardslatkin.com/timeline/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Symphony_Orchestra in 2016, Slatkin made a series of videos showing how conducting works. Conducting School 1.0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_S0hFw3zDl47TtV7iYbu-XhiuSrkgaW Slatkin’s latest book is entitled “Classical Crossroads.” https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152225/Classical-Crossroads-The-Path-Forward-for-Music-in-the-21st-Century https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/classical-crossroads-the-path-forward/9781538152225-item.html?ikwid=classical+crossroads&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0#algoliaQueryId=83201876771428de3e0ddae5987b9caa Slatkin wrote about his appearance at the Aspen Music Festival at his blog https://www.leonardslatkin.com/august-2021-a-tale-of-two-orchestras/ Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has had many differing interpretations https://medium.com/the-gleaming-sword/socially-distant-beethovens-fifth-symphony-5b457b0bb019 Leonard Slatkin referred to Leonard Bernstein’s deconstruction of Beethovens’s fifth for a 1950s Television show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2HJerMp8A&t Julia Perry “Short Piece for Orchestra” https://music.apple.com/ca/album/short-piece-for-orchestra/554425306?i=554425313 Brahms Serenade no. 1 Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 Copland “Organ Symphony” recorded by Leonard Slatkin and the St Louis Symphony Orchestra https://music.apple.com/ca/album/copland-dance-symphony-short-symphony-organ-symphony/1362101560 Mason Bates “B-Sides” performed by Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrnsy9KHdwQ Slatkin also recommended music by James Lee III https://www.jameslee3music.com Support the podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/culturemonster Published August 2021 https://www.culturemonster.ca
