“Ur Kind of Music?”

I cannot think of a better conversationalist about music, and about the state of things musical today, than the conductor Kenneth Woods. Ken is an American based in the UK, where he conducts the English Symphony Orchestra in Worcester and resides in Wales. He programs bravely and insightfully. He presides over a Mahler festival in Boulder and an Elgar festival in Worcester.

Ken just posted our second podcast: “Is This Ur Kind of Music?” The starting point is my recent rant about the music of the future, pondering the pertinence of Ferruccio Busoni’s notion of a primal “Ur-Musik” – and applying it to music by Sibelius, Busoni, Ives (his Universe Symphony) and John Luther Adams.

To revisit our first, no-holds-barred  podcast, “The Making and Unmaking of Classical Music in America,” click here.