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Composer/performer Ken Ueno joins the panel to discuss political protest at classical concerts, a primer for the classically confused, making better listeners out of composers and audiences, the catharsis of Jimi Hendrix and “success” as a composer. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Ken Ueno.

Composer Daniel Felsenfeld discusses Music After (an all day event for composers who lived through the 9/11 attacks), the bold musical life of Jennifer Choi, fisticuffs between the AMF and the Louisville Orchestra and the utility of program notes. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Daniel Felsenfeld.

Composer/scholar Chris Shultis joins the panel to discuss remaking a Gershwin classic, a super-sleuth in the age of opera 2.0, re-thinking the memoir, why doctoral degrees in music composition are dumb and his newest work for band. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Chris Shultis.

Composer and performer Missy Mazzoli joins the panel to talk about Yuja Wang’s hemline, the WTC9/11 cover, tweeting at concerts, Spotify for fun and profit, grooving in her living room, and her work A Thousand Tongues for singing cellist. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Missy Mazzoli.

Colin Jacobsen joins us to talk about Brooklyn Rider’s new Philip Glass album, composer-performer relations, alternate notation styles, the New York City Opera, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Colin Jacobsen.

This week, the panel discusses the Brooklyn Phil’s new season, Wagner in Israel, the viability of classical music apps, and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Patrick Gullo.

Drew McManus joins us again to help guide us through Lawyerville in Louisville as we discuss Q2’s composers, Reich’s WTC 9/11 imagery, and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Drew McManus.

Bill Withem joins us to talk about aesthetic brutalism vs the new niceness, streaming music services, and folks not playing nice in sports and orchestras. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Bill Withem.

Du Yun joins us this week to talk about attracting younger audiences, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house, and her piece, Visissitudes No. 1. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, Geoffrey Deibel, and Du Yun.

Topics include: what it means to be a badass composer, finding the “American” in American music, writing for piano, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Nate Bliton.

Topics include Rob Deemer’s book project, Jeremy Denk and David Lang talk baseball the value of originality (whatever that is), the future of (batonless) orchestras, a new book of graphic notation, new music-rowboat style, and American experimental music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Rob Deemer.

Topics include additions to the SoundNotion network, Alan Pierson’s open letter to mayor Bloomberg, David Smooke’s “nonopera”, NPR’s top 25 classical albums of the year, and the travails of an audio snob in the time of compression. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.

Topics include the Violagate scandal, a festival of toy piano music, ASCAP / League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming, classical music and copyright at the U.S. Supreme Court, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and David Kulma.

Topics include Ethel’s new violinist, the end of the Kansas Arts Commission, the American Composers Orchestra readings, amateur pianists, new music in Seattle, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.

Meerenai Shim joins the panel this week as we discuss political expression in classical music, the influence of video games on young composers, orchestra news from around the U.S., and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Meerenai Shim.