In this episode, Dana Hill calls Sonya Leonore Stahl to talk about mothers, but instead ends up talking about fruit science, refrigerators, operas set in space, and Alexander Borodin, a famous chemist.

The Socially Distant Music Podcast, Episode 5: Borodin the Scientist

In this special Mother's Day episode of the Socially Distant Music Podcast, Dana Hill calls Sonya Leonore Stahl to discuss mothers in opera.

Socially Distant Music Podcast, Episode 6: Mothers

In this episode, Dana Hill calls up Sonya Leonore Stahl to talk about Richard Wagner's operas on the composer's birthday. Meistersinger is discussed at length.

Socially Distant Music Podcast, Episode 7: Wagner

In this episode, Dana Hill calls up Sonya Leonore Stahl to talk about Fausts, Manons, and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, plus, detours on trains and soda.

Socially Distant Music Podcast, Ep. 8: A Grown-Up's Guide to Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Sonya and Dana discuss pieces that they love and wish were better known. Sonya's pick is Bernstein's Serenade and Dana's is Gottschalk's Night in the Tropics.