Crafting Musical Lives

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  • 'Crafting Musical Lives' is a podcast that centres on the creation of biographical narratives pertaining to musicians throughout the ages. Join Nicholas Ong, Terrence Wong, and their guests in exploring the process of life-writing and the methods adopted by biographers to create a comprehensive account of the lives of musicians.
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  • Episode 6: Erik Satie (with Caroline Potter)

    Episode 6: Erik Satie (with Caroline Potter)
    Jan 6 2023
    In this episode, we spoke to Dr Caroline Potter, who is Visiting Reader in French Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Caroline has published books with Routledge on composers Nadia and Lili Boulanger, and Henri Dutilleux. She is a frequent broadcaster for organisations including the BBC, and was Series Advisor to the Philharmonia Orchestra's 2014 season titled ‘City of Light: Paris 1900-1950’. We spoke to Caroline about her most recent book, Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World, published by The Boydell Press in 2016, and was named the ‘Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year’. She spoke about Satie’s place in the bohemian and artistic milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris, the challenge of extracting his narrative from his network of artists, as well as his influence on future generations of musicians. This episode was originally published in May 2021.
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    43 min
  • Episode 5: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (with Philip Ross Bullock)

    Episode 5: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (with Philip Ross Bullock)
    Jan 6 2023
    This episode’s guest is Professor Philip Ross Bullock, who is professor of Russian literature and music at the University of Oxford. Philip’s areas of expertise include theories of gender and sexuality, interdisciplinary approaches to the relationship between literature and the other arts, and the study of translation, reception and cultural exchange. His books include The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov and Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England, both published by Routledge. We spoke to Philip about his 2016 biography of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Philip touched on a variety of topics, including the sifting through of a plethora of historical sources, Tchaikovsky’s unique relationship with his private patron, as well as the differences between Russian and Western European perceptions of Tchaikovsky’s music and sexuality. This episode was originally published in April 2021.
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    1 h et 7 min
  • Episode 4: Thomas Tallis (with Kerry McCarthy)

    Episode 4: Thomas Tallis (with Kerry McCarthy)
    Jan 6 2023
    In this episode, we spoke to Dr Kerry McCarthy, a musician and author known for her work on early English music. Kerry has published articles in the journals The Musical Times and Early Music. She was given the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in 2014 for her book on Renaissance composer William Byrd, published by Oxford University Press. We spoke to Kerry about her book on Thomas Tallis published in 2020. In addition to speaking about her personal experience performing Renaissance polyphony, Kerry elaborated on her unique yet necessary approach to structuring the biography. She also shared some fascinating thoughts on what life was like in Tudor England. This episode was originally published in March 2021.
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    42 min

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