A Landmark Episode!! – Pete’s undergraduate mentor and Wake Forest University (NC) Music History Professor David Levy stops by to talk about his position, the music department and its history (04:20), his study of Ludwig van Beethoven, the beginnings of his career, and his book Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (17:00), conducting Beethoven’s Ninth in 1997 (59:00), focusing on Richard Wagner, current issues, the Vietnam War, and New Music in the 1960s and 1970s (01:12:00), and he gets some time for the Random Ass Questions (01:31:00).
Finishing with a Rave on 4 years of Podcast Guests (01:55:40).
Links:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 - 2nd movement
Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery - Robin Wallace
Beethoven: The Music and The Life - Louis Lockwood
Center for Beethoven Research (Boston University)
An die Ferne Geliebte, op. 98 - Beethoven
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III - Wagner
The Ring of the Nibelung - Wagner