Recent Episodes
April 24, 2025
Happiness… Music to make you feel good.
Sometimes music can just be for pleasure and if that is the composer and the performers’ intention, then good for them… and good for us listeners. If most music is created to make you ‘feel’… then some music can just be to make you feel...
April 17, 2025
Muses. Six people who have inspired great music.
Much music has been inspired by love, passion or obsession… but only in a handful of cases has the person who was the inspiration… the muse… become publicly linked to a work. Here are the stories of six of them… Alma Schindl...
April 10, 2025
Percussion. A loud episode.
A percussion instrument is pretty much anything that can be hit, tapped, scraped, scratched or banged. In an orchestra it is generally the responsibility of the individual or small group up the back… the ones who get to make ...
April 3, 2025
Johann Sebastian Bach. An introduction in nine pieces.
If you’ve ever been puzzled why once you scratch the surface of classical music the name Johann Sebastian Bach seems to just keep turning up… this episode might offer some clues… beyond the fact that the music is pretty good....