1: The Great Problematic Fave - a podcast by The Classical Gabfest

In this début episode of the Classical Gabfest, hosts Kensho Watanabe, Tiffany Lu, and William White play a round of "Game of Pairs" featuring Haydn and Mozart, and then tackle three topics:

Gabby Gifford's Appearance Playing Horn at the DNC Convention
Gifford's DNC video

The Internet Controversy Over the "Double Beat" Metronome Theory
Wim Winters' "It is not 'Half Tempo'"
A response from "Piano Pat"

Does a Beethoven Celebration Have a Place in the Year 2020?
Andrea Moore's commentary in the Chicago Tribune
Will's planned 2020-21 Beethoven season, cancelled due to Covid

and we finish up with our Classical Mixtape:
Tiffany: Vaughan Williams, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
—bonus: the "Dives and Lazarus" folk song
Will: Beethoven, Contredanses WoO 14
Kensho: Hindemith, The Flying Dutchman Overture as Sightread by a Bad Spa Orchestra at 7 am by the Well

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