06.27.07
Emanuel Ax
Yo-Yo talks about his best friend Emanuel Ax and the piece “Song Without Words.”
Featuring The Music of Masterworks and Masterworks Broadway Podcast Theatre
Yo-Yo talks about his best friend Emanuel Ax and the piece “Song Without Words.”
Actor Mary Faber (Kate Monster and Lucy The Slut) is interviewed by Princeton.
2. THE RITE OF SPRING OR WHEN LENNY MET IGOR (13’20)
The story of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), and Stravinsky legendary introduction to Leonard Bernstein.
If ever anything deserved to be called a bolt from the blue, then surely it’s The Rite of Spring. At its premiere in Paris in 1913, this ballet provoked a riot; six months later, its composer, Igor Stravinsky, was the darling of the Paris scene.
That’s what happens when you create a sensation. People talk; they share stories. And over the next half century The Rite of Spring provoked many stories — about Stravinsky and his genius, about his artistic vision, about how Stravinsky left Leonard Bernstein speechless the one and only time they met.
As part of Stravinsky at 1-2-5, a series celebrating the 125th anniversary of the composer’s birth, producer Jackson Braider tells some stories from the life of The Rite of Spring, or “When Lenny met Igor.”
Featuring music from:
Stravinsky: Petroushka (Original 1911 Version) & The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) (CD)
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Suite from “The Firebird” [Expanded Edition] (CD)
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Featuring interviews with:
John Heiss, Professor of Composition and Music Theory at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston
John McClure, Igor Stravinsky’s producer at Columbia Masterworks
The track “First Impressions” is discussed as well as artists Edgar Meyer and Mark O’Connor.
Listen to the fascinating story of how the first complete version of Stravinsky conducting Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale came to be.
Features interviews with Stravinsky’s producer John McClure, reissue Executive Producer Warren Wernick, 1961 session musicians and more.
Hosted and produced by Jackson Braider.

Igor Stravinsky, Jeremy Irons, Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Robert Craft
Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale (Histoire du Soldat) (Complete) (CD)
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Eldar discussed broadening the description of what makes a piano trio.
We visit with Broadway’s greatest singer, dancer, actress Ms. Chita Rivera.
In this episode of the Masterworks Podcast, jazz phenom Eldar talks about creating the sound for “re-imagination,” which is in stores today.
More information about Eldar can be found on http://www.eldarjazz.com/
Music featured in this episode includes selections from:
RE-IMAGINATION (CD)
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