Excellent informative and entertaining

Question #11: What should we do with people who are late to the concert hall? Venue provides a screen in the lobby until an appropriate time to allow latecomers to crawl across a row of seated patrons? Wait until an entire piece of music is completed before seating those unable to tell time? How about when a soloist is onstage-how do late arrivals affect their ability to concentrate? Does late arrival spoil the effect or mood that has been set in the venue?

wow amazing music and super commentary

Really enjoyed you leading us through Beethoven symphony No1. Thanks 🙏

Wow! Wow again! Thank you so much for taking the time to record this, Joshua. This is my first time listening to the series and I am so glad to have started. You have opened up a whole new world for me. What a place to start, with Shostakovich 10. I have just read Julian Barnes’s short novel The Noise of Time, written as if from the composer’s perspective, and it captures perfectly that sense of fear and anger at being forced into reluctant compromise. Anyway, thank you again. Carl, UK.

thanks for your amazing analyses!

Amazing podcast. Thank you so much

nice journey, thanks.

very informative, thanks.

Joshua—thanks for braving the Milwaukee cold this weekend to share the great music. I’ve never heard of William Grant Still and did really enjoy that piece. Pathetique was beautiful and not having heard it recently, I have to admit that I was one of those fooled into applauding at the end of the dramatic and grand third movement. Bravo! Also enjoying Sticky Notes which I recently discovered. Ross