Latest Basso Podcast Episodes
Thank you #Educrush
#EduCrush - July 15, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHey there Friends, It's Alex. I just wanted to come and say thank you to all of you for everything! Thanks especially to Natalie for all she's shared and taught me. I'm working on some new things starting with a new podcast on Youtube (for now) called Curiosity Bridge, the link is below. h...
The Life and Music of Lili Boulanger
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 04, 2024 07:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThe history of classical music is littered with the stories of great composers who tragically died young. The composer I’ve been talking about for the last two episodes, Franz Schubert, died at 31. Mozart died at 36, Mendelssohn at 38, Bizet at 37, Gershwin at 38, Gideon Klein at 25, Purcell at...
114 — Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting #EduCrush
#EduCrush - June 24, 2024 14:11 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOn her final episode of the #EduCrush podcast, Natalie reflects on her personal growth throughout the past four years of creating the show and shares insights into what's next. Show Notes: The greatest validation comes from within. Creativity thrives on consistency. Equity without intros...
Introducing...Unleash YES with Tom & Nat!
#EduCrush - June 21, 2024 19:59 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis new podcast from Natalie Vardabasso with co-host Tom Schimmer will help you leave the politics of your job behind and experience the freedom of becoming your own boss. →Use this link to subscribe/follow on Apple, Spotify, or Google Podcasts!
Schubert Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (Part 2)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 20, 2024 04:11 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere are a few tropes when it comes to Schubert’s late music. The pieces are very long. They have four movements. The first two movemnts are expansive, magisterial explorations of the human psyche, and the last two movements are much lighter, almost like two different pieces are at play. All ...
113 - Dungeons and Formative Assessment w/Andrew Rigby
#EduCrush - June 17, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOn this episode Alex interviews passionate and innovative educator Andrew Rigby, on the numerous benefits of TTRPG’s for students in the classroom. Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram Continue the conversation with Alex on Twitter or Instagram ...
Schubert Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (Part 1)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 06, 2024 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFor a long time I’ve received emails and messages from people asking, and sometimes demanding, that I explore the solo piano repertoire. Other than a look at the Goldberg Variations of Bach, I’ve basically neglected a huge amount music, including some of the greatest works ever written. Why have...
112 - Changing Ourselves, Our Assessment Practice & Our Careers (w Starr Sackstein)
#EduCrush - June 03, 2024 06:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThough Starr is considered a leading voice in innovative assessment and grading practices, it didn’t start out that way. Once upon a time, she was a teacher in her classroom on the precipice of making a terrifying change. In this episode, Nat talks with Starr about how her personal growth journe...
Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 24, 2024 10:24 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsH.C. Robbins Landon, the great musicologist, once wrote about Mozart that his music was “an excuse for mankind's existence and a small hope for our ultimate survival." I couldn’t agree more, especially when it comes to a piece like the one we’re going to talk about today, Mozart’s Piano Conce...
What is a Mode?
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 09, 2024 05:09 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMy first interaction with the musical term modes was Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant Young People’s Concert, also called What is a Mode? In that show, Bernstein showed how modes are an essential part of what makes modern music, meaning pop and rock music, tick. This was central to Bernstein’s poin...
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 25, 2024 04:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn 1857, Brahms wrote to his friend Joseph Joachim about his first Piano Concerto, saying, “ “I have no judgment about this piece anymore, nor any control over it.” Brahms first began sketching his first piano concerto in 1853, but it would be five full years before Brahms finished the piece, a...
Fast, Furious, Fortissimo
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 12, 2024 06:29 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsVery often, when I tell people that I’m a classical musician, I am told, “wow, I love classical music! It’s so relaxing!” I think almost all classical musicians have heard that before, and you know what? Sometimes, it’s true! Classical music can be relaxing! But sometimes, and actually pretty of...
Copland Symphony No. 3
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 28, 2024 16:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere has always been a debate about “The Great American Symphony.” By the time most prominent American composers got around to writing large scale symphonic works, the symphony had very nearly gone out of fashion. To many musicians and thinkers, the symphony had passed on with the death of Mahl...
An Exploration of Klezmer Music w/ Abigale Reisman
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 14, 2024 07:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsKlezmer music has always been very close to my heart, even as a classical violinist. During the pandemic I attempted to learn Klezmer clarinet, and soon I began collaborating with the great Klezmer(and classical!) violinist Abigale Reisman on her work for Klezmer band and orchestra called Gedank...
111 – The Court of Public Opinion
#EduCrush - March 04, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsContinue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram Continue the conversation with Alex on Twitter or Instagram Join our Facebook group for community, connection and allies. Download Nat's six research-based ways to INSPIRE change in assessment a...
Schumann Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 29, 2024 06:15 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn 1850, Robert Schumann accepted a position as the new Music Director in Dusseldorf. This job had a lot of responsibilities, including conducting the city orchestra. Schumann, along with his wife, the legendary pianist Clara Schumann, and their 7 children moved to Dusseldorf. The city made a hu...
110 – Hacking Parent Communication (w Crystal Frommert)
#EduCrush - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings✊ Check out the website for the Empowerment Ecosystem Summit for the schedule, locations, and details on how to register! Parent communication isn’t the sexiest part of our jobs, but that doesn’t make it any less critical. Natalie is joined by Crystal Frommert, author of “When Calling Parents ...
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 15, 2024 08:05 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn 1806, the 36 year old Beethoven received a commission from the Russian ambassador in Vienna, Count Andreas Razumovsky. Razumovsky wanted a set of string quartets for what would soon be his house string quartet which included some of the finest players Vienna had to offer. As part of his commi...
109 – Pillars of the community w/ Rodney Noel
#EduCrush - February 05, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOn this episode Alex interviews an expert in the community work that goes on in major cities. He has 20 years of experience working with children and youth, non-profits, schools, and families. He also happens to be my older brother, Rodney Noel. Continue the conversation with Natalie o...
Ethel Smyth Serenade in D
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 01, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI’ve mentioned Ethel Smyth a few times in the past on this show. This is partly because of her music, and partly because she remains one of the most interesting people who ever lived. She was a composer of course, but she was also a conductor and an author, as well as a political activist. Speci...
108 – Assessment Identity (w Karley Alleyn)
#EduCrush - January 29, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings✨Join us at the 2024 Empowerment Ecosystem Summit! Assessment and identity might not seem like a logical pairing on the surface, but they are a powerhouse combo for learning and professional growth. Everyone has an assessment story that we carry into the school space and those experi...
107 – Learning for Need, Honour, and Awe
#EduCrush - January 22, 2024 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHappy new year! What are the things in this world that make your jaw drop? Things that are so awesome that you can’t help but get excited about it, about learning about it and experiencing it? On this episode of #Educrush, Alex explores knowledge for need, for honour and for awe as we take some ...
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - January 18, 2024 10:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhen you think of the genre of the concerto, you might be thinking of something like this: virtuoso fireworks, perhaps over romantic gestures designed simply to show the soloist off, and a rather pedestrian orchestral part, giving the soloist all of the spotlight while the conductor and orchestr...
106 - Let go of limiting BS and transform your life
#EduCrush - January 15, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings✨Join us at the 2024 Empowerment Ecosystem Summit! Sometimes, our focus on external change is just a reflection of the deeper changes we know we're avoiding in ourselves. Go read that again. Join Natalie for a solo episode to seize the new year and finally let go of the toxic habits, patt...
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from Westside Story
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - January 04, 2024 07:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWe're back! Welcome to Season 10! Leonard Bernstein to his wife: "These days have flown so -- I don't sleep much; I work every -- literally every -- second (since I'm doing four jobs on this show -- composing, lyric-writing, orchestrating and rehearsing the cast). It's murder, but I'm excited....
105 – Reflections on Community
#EduCrush - December 18, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush, Alex is looking back on some of the interviews that match with what has turned out to be the focal point of the year…Community. Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram Continue the conversation with Alex on Twitter or Instagram ...
104 – Assessment, Change and Mindset through Story (w Tom Schimmer)
#EduCrush - December 11, 2023 14:23 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this crossover episode, Natalie joins fellow podcast host and co-author, Tom Schimmer, to discuss how story is critical to rehumanize assessment, embrace the messiness of change, and to cultivate the mindset necessary for inner peace. 💬 Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or I...
103 – Sharing Cultures without Fear
#EduCrush - December 04, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs the winter Holiday’s loom, now is the time of the year that I and others start to think about family. The countdown is on and we’re ready for a break. What does it look like to use this time, leading to the holidays, as an opportunity for personal growth and community building? Join Alex for ...
102 - The Goal of Inclusion, is to Not Need Inclusion (w Dr. Shelley Moore)
#EduCrush - November 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs soon as we say the word inclusion, there’s an exclusion. Designing an education system that is grounded in the mindset that all students belong and are capable of high levels of learning is the real goal. Dr. Shelley Moore joins Natalie to talk about what inclusion means to her and how we can...
101– Beginning Equity Conversations w/ Dr. Shirley Steinberg
#EduCrush - November 19, 2023 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDiversity, equity and inclusion will always be a complicated subject. It’s worthwhile to learn and to grow from it, because that allows us as teachers to create environments where all students can learn. Not just about the subject matter that we’re trying to teach but learn about what it means t...