Latest Basso Podcast Episodes
89 – Season 3 Reflection!
#EduCrush - July 03, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNat and Alex come together to answer the season 3 inquiry question, “How might we rehumanize education through story?” by reflecting on what they learned from conversations with guests. Show Notes: · Nat and Alex check-in. (0:30) · Stories are the bedrock of community and how...
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 29, 2023 06:20 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere’s a joke among classical musicians that the only parts of a piece that matter are the beginning, the end, and one place in the middle. I don’t think its something that anyone really believes in, but the value of the beginning of a piece in setting the scene cannot be ignored, and the abso...
88 – Decolonization Through Story (w Carolyn Roberts)
#EduCrush - June 26, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat is decolonization? How is story integral to it? How might we all become better at receiving and telling stories? Natalie joins Indigenous scholar, teacher and changemaker Carolyn Roberts to discuss circle work, deep listening, performative allyship and finding our voices. Carolyn’s Blog P...
Ravel, Bolero + La Valse
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 22, 2023 06:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMaurice Ravel the Magician, the Swiss Watchmaker, the aloof, the elegant, the precise, the soulful, the childlike, the naive, the warm, the radical, the progressive. These are all words that were used to describe a man of elegant contradictions throughout his life and into today. I talked a lot ...
87 – Learning for All w/ Ceri Riley
#EduCrush - June 19, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush, Writer, Producer and Science communicator Ceri Riley shares her experiences being an educator outside of the classroom, the challenges that she has faces and the importance of making sure that everyone has access to learning! Ceri on Twitter: @Ceriley Alex on Twitter:...
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 15, 2023 05:34 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever been to an art museum and wished that you had music to accompany your experience? Music that made the art you were looking at more vivid, more immediate, and more emotionally intense? Well, Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is the piece for you. Inspired by his late ...
86 – What if students took a stand against racism? (w Harsh, Victoria, Chris & Katie)
#EduCrush - June 12, 2023 07:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWho is the greatest lever for change in our education system? Teachers? Parents? Students? In this episode, Natalie connects with three former students and their mentor teacher from Prince George, Canada, to explore how students can become visionary catalysts who spark learning in an entire comm...
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 08, 2023 05:54 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWelcome to episode number 200 of Sticky Notes!! On December 22nd, 1808, a day that would live in classical music lore forever, Ludwig Van Beethoven sat down for his very last appearance as a solo pianist to play this new piano concerto, his 4th. This performance was not only the premiere of th...
85 – Word and Story w/ Wakefield Brewster
#EduCrush - June 05, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDescription: This week on #Educrush we hear from Calgary’s Current and the first ever Black Poet Laureate of the city, Wakefield Brewster as he shares with us the importance of story and poetry and education. Wakefield on Twitter @LyricalPitpull Wakefield on Instagram @Wakefield_Brewster ...
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 01, 2023 09:17 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhat did Dmitri Shostakovich intend to portray in his music? There is probably no more debated a question in all of 20th century Western Classica lMusic than this one. On the surface, it seems to have an easy answer. Shostakovich portrayed his own thoughts and feelings in his music, just as any ...
84 – Building Community by Telling the Story of Us (w Melody McAllister)
#EduCrush - May 29, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat is community? How do we build it, and break it? Who are we as a wider education community? Natalie connects with former teacher and current community engagement strategist, Melody McAllister, to unpack the complexities of both youth and adult communities in the age of social media. Join ...
What Does a Conductor Really Do?
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 25, 2023 12:14 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever wondered what it is that us conductors are really doing up there? Are we just waving our arms in time to the music? What role does the conductor actually play in a concert? How about a rehearsal? Do we also learn to be train conductors as well? Well, today's episode is about answer...
83 - Pursuing Passions w/ Nick Hughes
#EduCrush - May 22, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDescription: This week Alex talks to Multimedia Specialist and Search and Rescue volunteer Nick Hughes. He share how his experiences with high school influenced his passions today. What does it look like for teachers to nurture the interests and passions of students and where might that start...
All things Piano with Marc-André Hamelin
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 18, 2023 11:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMarc-André Hamelin is one of the world's greatest living pianists. He is known as a virtuoso of the highest order and has made nearly 100 recordings spanning the gamut of the piano repertoire. In this conversation we talk about how Marc fell in love with Gershwin, piano rolls, Busoni, Godowsky, ...
82 – #EESummit23 Debrief (w Katie White & Tom Schimmer)
#EduCrush - May 15, 2023 15:06 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFresh off the first-ever Empowerment Ecosystem Summit in Vancouver, BC, Natalie sits down with co-hosts Katie White and Tom Schimmer to reflect on highlights, insights, and next steps for the innovative event. Show Notes: · What’s sticking with each of us immediately after the event. ...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 11, 2023 05:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings“This is Fate, the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal, which jealously stands watch lest our peace and well-being be full and cloudless, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over our heads and constantly, ceaselessly poisons our souls.” With t...
81 – Education, Physical Education w/ Alora Popow
#EduCrush - May 08, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush, our guest Alora Popow shares the importance of both the Physical and Education portion of Physical Education. As a PE teacher herself, Alora shares her Philosophy of education, how classroom outcomes intertwine with outcomes in the gym space and how we can better utilize ...
My 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 2)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 04, 2023 06:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsLast week we covered moments 1-15 in my top 25 favorite moments in classical music, going all the way up towards the end of the 19th century. This week we're going to explore 9 of my favorite moments from the wide world of 20th century music, and then, in a little twist, I'm going to look at 5 o...
80 – The Discipline of Wellness (w Jonathan Erickson)
#EduCrush - May 01, 2023 06:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWellness is so much more than a pizza party or a coffee cart; it’s deep, personal excavation and ruthless time management. Jonathan Erickson is currently the principal of Parras Middle School in Redondo Beach, California, and he joins Natalie to share what he learned about the discipline of well...
My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 1)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 27, 2023 06:38 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhat MAKES a moment in a piece of classical music? Sometimes it’s the result of careful pacing from a composer, the slow build to a powerful release. Sometimes it’s about surprise, a sudden explosion, or even a sudden extinguishing of sound. Sometimes it’s about a harmonic transition, where the ...
79 - Cross Curricular Conversations to Energize Your Time w/Alex Noel
#EduCrush - April 24, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we further explore what we started in Ep 72, where Natalie and Alex talked about what it means to “craft a public narrative” in education. Welcome to part of Alex’s public Narrative. “Cross Curricular Conversations to energize your time.” Don’t forget to sign up the Empowerment Ecosy...
Mendelssohn Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 20, 2023 04:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFrom 1825-1827, Mendelssohn wrote 3 of his most beloved and most played works: his Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, his String Quartet, Op. 13, and the piece were going to talk about today, his Octet. What is truly astonishing about these three pieces is that they were all written before Mendel...
78 – What is the future of education?
#EduCrush - April 17, 2023 20:41 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis season, we have explored many stories of education here in the present, but what is the future of education? Join Natalie to play within two future simulations that will stretch your capacity to discover creative opportunities, today. Empowerment Ecosystem Summit website: https://sites.go...
Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 13, 2023 05:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI left you last week after Part 1 of Mahler’s 5th symphony, dazed and defeated. There seems to be no hope, and no way out. But as many of you know by now, Mahler reaches for the entire emotional spectrum in his music, and what Mahler builds out of the ashes of the first two movements is a comp...
77 - Restorative Education w/ Kelsey Brown
#EduCrush - April 10, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on #Educrush we dive into how our expectations of students change the stories that they get to tell about themselves. Kelsey Brown talks a bit about a restorative justice program run out of the Calgary Youth Justice society. Don’t forget to sign up the Empowerment Ecosystem Summit! ...
Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 06, 2023 06:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere is a thread of musical theory called Schenkerian analysis, based on the work of Heinrich Schenker. Schenker believed that musical works could be boiled down to their fundamental structures and harmonies. Entire works could be described with single chords. If Schenker had applied his ana...
76 – What if students rewrote the narrative of school? (w Breana Jacques & Shannon Finnegan)
#EduCrush - April 03, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBreana Jacques and Shannon Finnegan are two “engagement guides” at the Collaborative Lab School in Minneapolis with a fascinating mission: to empower students to reinvent school. What principles do students think school should follow? What do they think should be assessed? How do they want to fe...
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 30, 2023 05:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI’m not sure there’s ever been a composer who changed as much throughout his or her life as Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg would become famous, or infamous, depending on who you talk to, for his invention of atonality; the equalization of all keys so that the system of harmony that had been follo...
What Does an Opera Director Really Do? W/ Tabatha McFadyen
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 23, 2023 06:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever wondered what exactly goes on behind the scenes putting together an opera? Have you ever asked yourself how a director make decisions on how to interpret the libretto of an opera? Why do some productions look so completely different to others? What is "regie theater" and why it is ...
The Life and Music of Clara Schumann
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 16, 2023 06:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsClara Schumann, without a doubt, was one of the greatest pianists of all time. Schumann’s playing didn’t just leave critics and audiences in raptures, it also left other composers amazed that their music could sound so beautiful. Liszt called her the Priestess of the Piano, Chopin adored her ...