Talks and Insights

The key signatures of music are kind of like the signs of the zodiac. If you take all the music in a given key, you’ll discover certain characteristics —﻿ characteristics that can define your personality.

Visit CBC Music to learn more about the characteristics of all the key signatures covered so far. Which key are you? www.cbcmusic.ca/signatureseries

The Signature Series is produced in Vancouver, Canada for CBC Radio 2's In Concert by @paolopp with Denise Ball.

B major: The Artist

The Music Educators Toolbox is a collection of free, open-source learning resources and assessment tools created for classroom use by music teachers and Carnegie Hall teaching artists. Developed after an in-depth, five-year partnership between Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute and PS/MS 161 in upper Manhattan, the resources are designed to be adaptable for use in a variety of music classroom settings. The Toolbox currently features grade-specific music education resources addressing fundamentals of Meter, Rhythm, Form and Design, Expressive Qualities, Pitch, and Performing. To learn more, visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/toolbox/.

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World', Op. 95 – II. Largo by Antonin Dvořák. Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra. Available from Musopen (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Antonin_Dvorak_-_symphony_no._9_in_e_minor_%27from_the_new_world%27%2C_op._95_-_ii._largo.ogg). Sound files on the Musopen repository are licensed as public domain.

Dvořák: II. Largo, from Symphony No. 9 — Music Educators Toolbox (click to download)

Il concerto completo lo trovi sul gruppo Facebook "Live Rarities" / You can download this complete show FREE on a Facebook group called "Live Rarities"

DAVID SYLVIAN "World Citizen" (live in Bruxelles, 13 Ottobre 2003)

Recorded at the New York Public Library. Details, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/24/malcolm-gladwell-nypl-interview/

TRANSCRIPT / DETAILS

Malcolm Gladwell on critcism

Malcolm Gladwell on tolerance

Malcolm Gladwell on changing your mind

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/23/ursula-k-le-guin-hymn-to-time-janna-levin/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Hymn to Time" by Ursula K. Le Guin

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 2 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-2

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 1)

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 1 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-1

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 2)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/16/zadie-smith-reads-frank-ohara/

Zadie Smith reads "Animals" by Frank O'Hara

Robert Schumann: Album Für Die Jugend Op. 68 - 1. Melody

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
John Malkovich, narrator

Copland Lincoln Portrait

Alexander Scriabin: Etude Op. 8 No. 6

James Joyce reads from the Aeolus episode of Ulysses, the only passage he found to be “declamatory” and thus suitable for recital.

Background and context: http://exp.lore.com/post/53132569188/as-open-culture-explains-this-rare-1924-recording

James Joyce reads from Ulysses

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