Classical Classroom, Episode 11: Mendelssohn, “love potion”, and Shakespeare with Catherine Lu

06/21/13 • 40 min

Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Suite from Incidental Music! In this episode, Classical 91.7 announcer and producer, and Cheeto the cat's person, Catherine Lu chats with Dacia. Learn about scherzos, nerds, and Dacia's totally plausible theory about Puck's "love potion".

Audio production from Todd Hulslander, with a lot of help this time actually from Dacia Clay.

Music used in this episode includes:

– Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Op. 61 (We used CBS/Sony 37760 with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, which is not available – we think – for MP3 download, but here is another recording which is perfectly lovely.)

Audio production from Todd Hulslander, with a lot of help this time actually from Dacia Clay.

Music used in this episode includes:

Previous Episode

Classical Classroom, Episode 10: Oboe Playing As An X-treme Sport With ROCO’s Alecia Lawyer

In this episode, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra's Artistic Director, founder, and principal oboist, Alecia Lawyer takes Dacia inside the mind of an oboe player. In this strange world, people grow their own (bamboo), enjoy fame alongside Willie Nelson, and live on the edge without all of the annoying parachutes and bungee cords.

Audio production by Todd Hulslander, with pearls of editing wisdom from Dacia Clay.

Music used in this episode includes:

– Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel: St. Paul chamber Orchestra with Kathy Greenbanks, principal oboist

– La Scala, by Rossini: rocohouston.org (look for the Season Finale)

– Shostakovich Symph #5, Mvt. III

– Tchaikovsky #4 Mvt. II, Lorin Maazel with the Cleveland Orchestra

– Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Mvt III oboe solo

– Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite, Mvt II, Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta

– William Schuman New England Tryptich, Mvt. II. When Jesus Wept, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony

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Classical Classroom, Episode 12: The Continued Education of Tracy Jacobson – Debussy’s piano works

WindSync Wind Quintet bassoonist, Tracy Jacobson, takes Dacia along on her journey to continue her musical education as a professional musician. She steps outside of her comfort zone and into Debussy’s piano works. Come with us to Paris, talk in your museum voice, and have some wine. It’ll be awesome!

Audio production by Todd Hulslander with encouraging yelps from Dacia Clay, and s few nods and shakes of the head from Tracy Jacobson, too.

For more about WindSync: www.windsync.org.

Thumbnail photo of Tracy Jacobson courtesy of WindSync’s website.

Audio production by Todd Hulslander with encouraging yelps from Dacia Clay, and few nods and shakes of the head from Tracy Jacobson, too.

Music used in this episode included:

– Debussy Preludes, Book 1 & 2, pianist Pascal Roge, Onyx Classics

– Debussy Piano Works, pianist Pascal Roge, London/Decca

– Arthur Rubinstein playing “La Plus Que Lente”

– Jack Kerouac, “American Haikus” from Blues and Haikus

– Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight”