Latest Basso Podcast Episodes
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" - LIVE with the Aalborg Symphony!
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - November 16, 2023 07:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI had the great joy to do my first ever live edition of Sticky Notes last month with the Aalborg Symphony in Denmark. For this concert, I chose a piece that is extremely close to my heart, Dvorak's New World Symphony. The story of the New World Symphony is a fascinating one. The symphony was the...
100 – From Science Teacher to STEM School Founder (w Stephanie Lammlein)
#EduCrush - November 13, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFasten your seatbelts as Natalie takes you on a journey through the inception, challenges, and triumphs of Bio-Med Science Academy with its founder, Stephanie Lammlein. They explore how she turned a bold vision into reality, how the students are thriving in this educational ecosystem and the imp...
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - November 09, 2023 07:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThroughout the history of Western Classical Music, folk music has imprinted itself as an invaluable resource for composers from all over the world. In fact, it’s easier to make a list of composers who never used folk music in their compositions than it is to make a list of the composers who did!...
99 – The Person, The Team and the Task
#EduCrush - November 06, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLeadership is often cited as one of the most important and contentious parts of school’s life. Many dream of being a leader that is effective and inspiring and many more have opinions on what exactly a leader needs in order to be effective and inspiring. What if we focused on the leadership that...
R. Schumann Piano Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - November 02, 2023 06:59 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn January of 1839, Clara Wieck, Robert's future wife, wrote to Robert, “Don’t take it amiss if I tell you that I’ve been seized by the desire to encourage you to write for orchestra. Your imagination and your spirit are too great for the weak piano.” Clara knew that she would have struck a nerv...
98 – Five Culture Fixes for Schools
#EduCrush - October 30, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this solo episode, Natalie honors the Halloween season by describing five ghastly ghouls haunting our schools: phantom policies, zombie meetings, dementor processes, and the control and avoidance poltergeists. Learn what they are and how to defeat them! 💬 Continue the conversation with Nata...
Brahms Violin Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - October 26, 2023 07:03 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsBrahms’ violin concerto is one of the most difficult works for any violinist to tackle. It is as virtuosic as the hardest piece of Paganini as well as being as musically complex as a Brahms symphony. It takes most violinists years or even decades to feel comfortable with this piece, and many vio...
97 – Athletics for Education w/ Nick Waterbury
#EduCrush - October 23, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSchool or Athletics? That’s the question we often ask students athletes if grades begin to slip. What if we are misunderstanding the role that sports have in the education space? How can teams help students better grasp the concepts in the academic classroom. This week Alex sits down with Teache...
What Does Music Mean?
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - October 19, 2023 06:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsToday is a bit of an unusual episode. Last month I was invited by the British Society of Aesthetics to address their annual conference. My task was to give a lecture on whatever topic I wanted, having to do with music. So, considering it was an Academic Philosophy conference, I chose the easiest...
96 – Learning, Assessment and Belonging in Physical Health Education (w Josh Ogilvie)
#EduCrush - October 16, 2023 15:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIs participation the only thing that can be assessed in Phys Ed class? How might health be integrated as a goal alongside physical activity? Nat joins Canadian PHE and assessment expert Josh Ogilvie to explore what’s possible for Phys Ed when we embrace conversation, personal inquiry and belongi...
William Grant Still Symphony No. 1., "Afro-American"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - October 12, 2023 06:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsOn October 29th, 1931, The Rochester Philharmonic presented the world premiere of a new symphony by the composer William Grant Still. A symphonic premiere is always something to look out for in musical history, but this one had an even greater significance. The premiere of Wiliam Grant Still’s F...
95 – Perilous Burnout
#EduCrush - October 09, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat is burnout? Why does it have such a tight grasp on discussions of educator’s efficacy and longevity? This week on #Educrush Alex discusses learnings about the insidious natures of and potential strategies for dealing with Burnout. **For the curious, here are some links to the papers I re...
(Part 2) - The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - October 05, 2023 06:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThis is another episode where I highly recommend listening to Part 1 from last week before listening to this episode! It was a great honor to speak with the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler about his remarkable new book "Time's Echo." In today's episode, we speak about Richard Straus...
94 – Are you an EduPreneur? (w Dr. Will Deyamport III)
#EduCrush - October 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhere is the space for entrepreneurship in education? How might visionary educators expand their impact outside the four walls of their classroom and school? Dr. Will joins Natalie to discuss what an EduPreneur is and how we can disrupt our limiting beliefs around money and worthiness to become ...
The Music of World War II and the Holocaust with "Time's Echo" writer Jeremy Eichler (Part 1)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - September 28, 2023 05:40 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI had the great pleasure and honor this week(and next week) to speak with the author of the new book Time's Echo Jeremy Eichler. The book chronicles four composers and their varied reactions to World War II and the Holocaust, including Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, and Britten. This week we...
93 – A Student's View on Community
#EduCrush - September 25, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush, we’re talking to a recent high school graduate and previous guest to the pod, Reese Gagne. She shares her insights about the value, complexity and elusive nature of community as she begins her post-secondary journey, and we begin our school year! Links: Conti...
Mahler Symphony No. 4, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - September 21, 2023 04:03 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIf you haven’t listened to Part 1 of this episode about Mahler's 4th symphony, I highly recommend doing that, as every movement of this symphony builds to the "Heavenly Life" of the last movement. On Part 2, we'll be going through the 3rd and 4th movements. Mahler told his friend Natalie Bauer-L...
92 – The Functionality, Narrative, and Aesthetic of Design (w Christine Boos)
#EduCrush - September 18, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat makes for good design? If teachers are to see themselves as learning designers, what qualities might guide their work? Join Natalie as she talks to a professional interior designer to discover parallels to teaching. Show Notes: If architects create the outside of a building, interior des...
Mahler Symphony No. 4, Part 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - September 14, 2023 06:48 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsAfter the truly heavenly slow movement of Mahler’s 4th symphony, a soprano emerges and sings a song literally called “The Heavenly Life.” It is a symphonic ending like no other, one that leaves the listener peaceful and contented after taking a long(but not as long as usual) and winding journey ...
91 – Apathy the Enemy
#EduCrush - September 11, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush Alex talks a little bit about his summer learning and discusses the true enemy of education, Apathy. Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram Continue the conversation with Alex on Twitter or Instagram Continue the conversat...
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 132, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - September 08, 2023 09:54 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIf you joined me last week, you heard about the severe intestinal illness that Beethoven suffered from during the year of 1825. Beethoven thought that he was near death; he was spitting up blood, in terrible pain, and regularly begged his doctor for help. Ensconced in Baden, a Viennese suburb ...
90 – The time I began anew...and failed.
#EduCrush - September 04, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the season 4 opener, Natalie comes to you solo to share a story of failure that reveals an important truth about change. 💬 Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram ✊ Join our Facebook group for community, connection, and allies. ✨Download Nat's six researc...
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 132, Part 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - August 31, 2023 04:53 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI had long hesitated to write a show about any of Beethoven’s late string quartets. These are pieces that professional quartets spend the better part of their careers grappling with, struggling with, failing with, and much more rarely, succeeding with. They are some of the most extraordinary p...
Nielsen Symphony No. 4, "Inextinguishable"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - August 24, 2023 05:59 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsAt the top of the score for the Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s 4th symphony, he wrote: “Music is life, and like it, inextinguishable.” This could easily be the shortest podcast I’ve ever done. I could leave you with that quote and then play you the beginning of the symphony, and you would unde...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - August 17, 2023 12:57 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThe stories, legends, and myths about the trials and travails of composers lives are legion, like Beethoven’s battles against fate, Mozart and Schubert’s struggles with finances, Brahms’ failures with women, Mahler’s troubles with just about everyone, and Shostakovich’s near fatal interactions w...
Elgar Cello Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - August 10, 2023 07:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsElgar's Cello Concerto was composed in the shadow of World War 1. It was a piece that marked a profound shift in Elgar's outlook on life and music, and was his last major work before a long silence caused by the death of his wife Alice. It is a piece of remarkable passion for a composer like Elg...
Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - August 03, 2023 04:42 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThe "love theme" from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture is one of the most famous themes in the history of Western Classical Music. The story it accompanies might be the most famous Western play ever written. Just like Eine Kleine Nachtmusik seems to define the powdered wig era ...
Mozart Symphony No. 38, "Prague"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 27, 2023 06:51 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsVery few cities have had a relationship with a single person, especially a foreigner, like the city of Prague and its love affair with Mozart. Here’s what Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist for some of his greatest operas, said about it: "It is not easy to convey an adequate conception of the...
Jean-Louis Duport Cello Concerto No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 20, 2023 05:40 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThank you to Nicole for sponsoring today's show on Patreon! Have you ever heard of Jean-Louis Duport? I imagine that unless you are a professional cellist, or someone who studied cello as a child, you probably haven’t. Even though my sister is a professional cellist, I had never heard of him b...
Brahms B Major Piano Trio
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 06, 2023 11:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhen we listen to the music of Johannes Brahms, we often are reminded of the image of the portly bearded Brahms at the piano, eyes closed in a soulful pose. Brahms’ works always, even in his youth, seemed to have a burnished maturity about them. As I’ve said many times on this show, Brahms’ musi...