I was not able to find a complete description of all the shows in this series but from the ones I did find and the general description of the format it is an excellent set. the dates run from February 24, 1607 to November 4, 1964
The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days when Music Changed Forever
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The San Francisco Symphony’s radio project called The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever is about musical revolutions: the composers, works, and musical movements that changed the way people heard or thought about music. Each program will explore the historical backdrop and the musical precursors to the revolutionary change, and examine the aftershock and the lasting influence of that moment in music history.
The production design will include musical excerpts mixed with commentary from the host, pop icon Suzanne Vega, and interviews with composers, musicologists, writers, and musicians. Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, will be the key interview subject.
The producer of the series is Tom Voegeli, known as one of the leading audio producers in the United States. He has received multiple awards for his work, including two Grammy Awards, a Prix Italia for Best Radio Drama, three Peabody Awards, several Audie Awards for the Best Book on Tape, and an Ohio State Award. He is also known for his radio adaptations of the Star Wars films, as the creator of the long-running radio series Saint Paul Sunday, and as a theatrical sound designer.
The script writers are:
Justin Davidson, music critic for New York Magazine and Newsday. Mr. Davidson was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002.
Tim Page, currently Professor of Journalism and Music at the University of Southern California and former music critic for The Washington Post, Newsday, and The New York Times. Mr. Page was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1997.
Pierre Ruhe, former music critic for The Atlanta Journal Constitution and The Washington Post.
Chloe Veltman, host of KALW’S Voice Box, a weekly radio series about the art of song, chief theater critic for SF Weekly, and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Music Magazine, among others.
The series is underwritten by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The first installment - February 24, 1607: The premiere of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo; a program about the dawn of opera
October 29, 1787: The Premiere of Don Giovanni in Prague
With this work, Mozart attains his maturity and writes a masterpiece that dominates opera forever, echoing in Wagner and beyond. Suzanne Vega is host.
It's August 8, 1803, and Parisian Piano Maker Sebastien Erard Gives One of His Sturdy New Creations to Beethoven - a new piano! With this instrument, the composer was able to set aside his forte piano and write more expressive and emotional music, beginning with the Waldstein Sonata.
It was April 7, 18o5: Beethoven turned the music world on its ear at the premiere of what - up until that time - was the longest, most complicated symphonic work ever composed. His 3rd symphony, the Eroica, changed our idea of what music could express.
Instead of classical form and rarified beauty, the symphony laid out the full range of human feelings and emotions. The first public performance of Beethoven's Eroica is the theme for this show.
New instruments and new technologies have unalterably changed music many times, but the pace of change quickened in the 20th century, with the record player, the computer, and the Internet. Suzanne Vega is host of the San Francisco Symphony series Keeping Score: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever.
The premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring took place on May 29, 1913. The composer's completely original instrumentation and rhythms, and his use of dissonance, have made this work one of the most important of the 20th century, not to mention the riot and ensuing scandal that caused the Paris premiere to be one of the most shocking in all of performance history.
January 28, 1936: The Publication in Pravda of the Article "Chaos Instead of Music." This article signaled Stalin’s displeasure with Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and led to the composer’s “redemption” in his Symphony No. 5. This program will explore Shostakovich and the sometimes mutually beneficial, sometimes terrifying, relationship between music and the totalitarian state. Suzanne Vega and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
November 4, 1964: The premiere of Terry Riley's "In C" at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. This piece, and the minimalist outpouring that it sparked, were a reaction to the rigid strictures of serialism and the stranglehold of the academic composers of the time. Hosted by Suzanne Vega and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
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Thanks Rick -- what a find!
I also found the download page for all the NTR shows that had a podcast. -------------------------------------- R