This week, we start out by taking Classic FM’s “Personality Test to Reveal Your Deepest Desire” then we move on to our three titillating topics:
CLASSIC FM ROMANCE
Marian and Paul’s Dating Success Story (Classic FM)
MOVIE CLUB: MUSIC OF THE HEART (1999)
Trailer (YouTube)
COMPOSERS AND VENEREAL DISEASE
Classical Composers Unfairly Tainted by STD Rumors, Book Claims (Guardian)
Franz Schubert — One Too Many Nights Out (Scandalous Overtures)
Music Chat: Why Didn’t Sibelius Die of Syphillis? (YouTube: David Hurwitz)
CLASSICAL MIXTAPE
The full playlist
Will
Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3, mvmt. 2
Tiffany
Chen Gang and He Zhanhao, Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Kensho
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet in c minor, mvmt. 3
THINK YOU CAN STUMP US? GO AHEAD AND TRY!
Google Form for “Name that Tune: Stump the Hosts Edition”
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