Ranked #1
Sacred Cow Tipping: The 'Warm-Up'
Sacred Cow Tipping: The 'Warm-Up'
Richard and Eric ramble on in attempting to tip over a perceived 'sacred cow' of the current choral scene: the 'warm-up'... Read more
15 Oct 2019
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1hr
Ranked #2
Meaning(full)
Meaning(full)
Using two recent articles by David Brooks (New York Times opinion columnist and cultural commentator) as a jumping off p... Read more
8 Feb 2019
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1hr 2mins
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Ranked #3
What's the Point?
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Richard and Eric respond to a small excerpt about Nora Ephron found in Greg McKeown's wonderful book: "Essentialism: The... Read more
4 Dec 2019
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #4
Saturation: Secondhand Music and the Primary Experience
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Richard and Eric discuss the positive and potential negative ramifications of music saturation, which is becoming increa... Read more
22 Feb 2019
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48mins
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Richard and Eric are together (finally), and LIVE from Tribe Street Kitchen in downtown Kansas City. They are joined by... Read more
3 Mar 2019
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1hr
Ranked #6
Mr. Maslow Goes To A Choir Concert
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Richard and Eric take an unusual approach in discerning what it means to have successful choirs in performance and pract... Read more
27 Oct 2019
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Ranked #7
Cult of the Conductor
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Richard and Eric take a look at an article about the late Robert Shaw composed in 2006 by Peter Phillips (conductor of t... Read more
25 Aug 2019
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #8
Rank the Requiems
Rank the Requiems
Richard and Eric take a break from their recent heavy lifting to rank the top 5 choral Requiems of all time. Some surpr... Read more
19 Jun 2019
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59mins
Ranked #9
Bring Your Tired...
Bring Your Tired...
Richard and Eric broach the subject and philosophy of being within the ensemble. How 'real' are we really willing to ge... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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46mins
Ranked #10
Hedonic Adaptation: Watching the Wheels
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Richard and Eric examine the prevalent human adaptive process called "hedonic adaptation" and its relevance to not only ... Read more
1 Jul 2019
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #11
Unheard Music
Unheard Music
Richard and Eric discuss Umberto Eco's short essay ("On unread books") about Pierre Bayard's book entitled "How to Talk ... Read more
21 Mar 2019
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53mins
Ranked #12
Wet Sand and the Post-Convention Down
Wet Sand and the Post-Convention Down
Eric flies solo for this episode to discuss the phenomena of feeling down after attending the recent National ACDA Conve... Read more
7 Mar 2019
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44mins
Ranked #13
Context, Dr. Strangelove, Context.
Context, Dr. Strangelove, Context.
Richard and Eric discuss a recent article from The Spectator by Andrew Mahon, who was critical of Peter Sellars's stagin... Read more
4 May 2019
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #14
Retreat to Move Forward
Retreat to Move Forward
It is Season 2, folks! Richard and Eric dig deep and cover the highly controversial and substantive topic of the yearly... Read more
1 Oct 2019
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Ranked #15
Yearly Double Take
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Richard and Eric take a brief look back at their year and find its a little harder to do than it would seem. What can b... Read more
22 May 2019
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #16
Virtual Choir: Buckminster Fuller's Fever Dream
Virtual Choir: Buckminster Fuller's Fever Dream
Richard and Eric discuss the now famous Virtual Choir phenomenon and its varying ramifications on not only the choral co... Read more
3 Jun 2019
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1hr 27mins
Ranked #17
Art for Art's Sake
Art for Art's Sake
Back after a short summer hiatus Richard and Eric take up the surprisingly controversial topic,"l’art pour l’art" (art f... Read more
8 Aug 2019
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #18
Sacred Cow Tipping: Closing With a 'Crowd-Pleaser'
Sacred Cow Tipping: Closing With a 'Crowd-Pleaser'
Richard and Eric try a new mode of discussion and ramble on in attempting to tip over a perceived 'sacred cow' of the cu... Read more
5 Apr 2019
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #19
Where Have All the Critics Gone? Feat. Dr. Jeremiah Cawley
Where Have All the Critics Gone? Feat. Dr. Jeremiah Cawley
In what amounts to a double episode, Richard and Eric are joined by special guest Dr. Jeremiah Cawley, and plunge into t... Read more
18 Apr 2019
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1hr 52mins
Ranked #20
Canon goes Boom!
Canon goes Boom!
Richard and Eric make their return after a short winter hiatus. They begin 2020 discussing the choral "canon" and some ... Read more
25 Jan 2020
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1hr 6mins
