On this episode of The New Classical Order Podcast, David Weuste and Dr. Jennifer Hund scratch the surface of Music & Politics focusing on Nationalism, Censorship, and how music touches our emotions to shape these ideas.
Listen Now:
The New Classical Order – Music and Politics (part 1)
Music on this podcast:
South Sudan National Anthem
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Track: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Suite, Op. 29a: I. Allegro con brio
Album: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 / Suite (of excerpts) from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Artists: Andrey Boreyko, conductor; SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Label: Hänssler Classics
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Track: Symphony No. 5 in D minor – II. Allegretto
Album: Shostakovich: Symphony no 5, Piano Concerto no 2, etc
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Artist: Andrew Litton, conductor; Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Label: Delos
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Track: WTC 9/11 – I. 9/11
Album: WTC 9/11
Composer: Steve Reich
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
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Track: 5 minute Sample from On the Transmigration of Souls, so not the full work!
Album: On the Transmigration of Souls
Composer: John Adams
Artist: Lorin Maazel, conductor; New York Philharmonic
Label: Nonesuch
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Track: WTC 9/11 – III. WTC
Album: WTC 9/11
Composer: Steve Reich
Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
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Jennifer Hund is currently a music professor at Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts. She was previously a professor in the musicology department of Texas Christian University’s School of Music in Fort Worth. Prior to her work in Texas, she was visiting lecturer at Purdue University and Indiana University where she earned her Ph.D. in musicology in August 2007 with her dissertation “The Proposta e Risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio.” In this study, Hund combined her interests in the Italian madrigal, poetry, Renaissance studies, and dialogue. She also has a B.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Illinois Wesleyan University and an M.M. in Musicology from Florida State University. Her other interests include music and humor, opera and politics, the nineteenth-century symphony, and the pedagogy of music history. Hund is currently writing a book based on her dissertation research as well as completing another edition of A Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music (W. W. Norton).
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