Best Stoki Podcasts (2024)

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Serebrier assists Stokie (and Ives) 2:00

13h ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1965, the first complete performance of American composer Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 4 took place in New York. 38 years earlier, in 1927, also in New York, British conductor Eugene Goossens had performed the first two movements of Ives’ Fourth Symphony, after many a sleepless night trying to figure out how to perform cer…

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AMAPIANO 2024 MIX Feat. DJ Boat (EP1) - (IMITHANDAZO KABZA DE SMALL, MASITHOKOZE DJ STOKIE, FUNK55) 1:00:30

24d ago1:00:30

1:00:30

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Puccini victorious 2:00

1d ago2:00

2:00

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Seasonal music by Haydn 2:00

2d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons had its premiere performance on this date in Vienna in 1801. Like its predecessor, The Creation, Haydn’s new oratorio was a great success, and, as before, Haydn received help with the text and a lot of advice from the versatile Gottfried Bernhard Baron van Swieten, an enthusiastic admirer of Handel oratorios an…

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Morton Gould rewrites history 2:00

4d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On this date in 1948, the ballet Fall River Legend was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House by the Ballet Theatre of New York. The choreography was by Agnes de Mille, and the music by Morton Gould. The previous year, de Mille and Gould had met at the Russian Tea Room to discuss their ballet, a retelling of the true story of Lizzie Bor…

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Bernstein and the birds 2:00

5d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis In the biographical film Maestro, Leonard Bernstein’s dramatic 1943 Carnegie Hall debut conducting the New York Philharmonic, filling in at the last moment for Bruno Walter, receives a masterful cinematic treatment. But the first time Bernstein wielded a baton in public took place on today’s date in 1939, when Lenny was still a student at …

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Rimsky-Korsakov joins the Navy (and sees the world) 2:00

6d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1862, an 18-year-old Russian named Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov graduated as midshipman from the Russian Naval Academy and prepared for a two-year’s training cruise around the world. His uncle was an admiral and a close friend of the Czar, and in his autobiography Rimsky-Korsakov admits he, too, at first thought i…

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Violin Concerto No. 2 by George Tsontakis 2:00

9d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis A concerto, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “a piece for one or more soloists and orchestra with three contrasting movements.” And for most classical music fans, “concerto” means one of big romantic ones by Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, works in which there is a kind of dramatic struggle between soloist and orchestra. But on today’s date…

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Bernstein's 'Fancy Free' 2:00

8d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis It was on today’s date in 1944 that the ballet Fancy Free — with music Leonard Bernstein and choreography by Jerome Robbins — was first staged by the Ballet Theater at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. It was a big hit. Bernstein himself conducted, and alongside Robbins took 20 curtain calls. “The ballet is strictly wartim…

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Hugo Wolf and the Wagner-Brahms Wars 2:00

9d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1887, readers of the Wiener Salonblatt, a fashionable Viennese weekly artspaper, could enjoy the latest critical skirmish in the Brahms-Wagner wars. At the close of the 19th century, traditionalist partisans of the Symphonies, Sonatas, and String Quartets of Johannes Brahms rallied around the conservative Viennese music …

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Meyerbeer and Lloyd Webber: "On Ice" 2:00

12d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis A century before crowds of extras and gigantic sets first filled the silver screen of Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood extravaganzas, the Paris Opera brought similar resources to the stage for their historical operas—offering shipwrecks, explosions, massacres, and other crowd-pleasing spectacles. For example, on today’s date in 1849, the premi…

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Bryars and Horner on the Titanic 2:00

13d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis At 2:20 a.m. on this date in 1912, the luxury liner S.S. Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2201 people of on board, only 711 reached their intended destination in New York. Eight British musicians, members of the ship’s band, stayed on board, reportedly playing a hymn tune as the ship went down. In 1969, B…

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Jay Ungar and Roy Harris meet Ken Burns 2:00

14d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis Fiddler Jay Ungar wrote a melancholy tune in 1982 and titled it Ashokan Farewell. It reflected, he wrote, the wistful sadness he felt at the conclusion of a week-long, summer-time fiddle and dance program in the Catskill Mountains at Ashokan Field Campus of the State University of New York. “I was embarrassed by the emotions that welled up…

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Handel recycled by Zwilich (and himself) 2:00

15d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis One of the best-loved works of classical music, Handel’s oratorio Messiah, had its first performance on today’s date in Dublin, Ireland, in 1742. Handel wrote Messiah in a period of only four weeks, then put it aside until he received an invitation to present a new work in the Irish capital. Dublin gave Messiah an enthusiastic reception, b…

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco in New York 2:00

16d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1933, the New York Philharmonic presented the premiere performance of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Violin Concerto No. 2. He was born in Florence in 1895 and enjoyed early success in Europe, but, because he was Jewish, the increasingly harsh racial policies of Mussolini forced Castelnuovo-Tedesco and his …

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George Walker's 'Visions' 2:00

17d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis In 1996, American composer George T. Walker, Jr. became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. That was for his Lilacs, a setting for solo soprano and orchestra of Walt Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” an elegy for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Walker died in the summer of 2018 at 96,…

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Antheil at Carnegie Hall 2:00

18d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” If George Antheil were asked that question in 1927, he would have answered that it was easy. After the scandalous Paris premiere of his aggressively avant-garde Ballet Mécanique, scored for eight pianos and lots of percussion, including airplane propellers, Antheil received a cable offering financial back…

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C.P.E. Bach's 'Magnificat' 2:00

19d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis We’re cranking up the Datebook time machine today to take you back to a charity concert that took place in Hamburg on today’s date in 1786. The concert was organized and conducted by 72-year-old composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who had been producing new sacred music in Hamburg for many years. But instead of new works, for the charity c…

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A Bartok premiere (and patron) 2:00

20d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1935, the Kolisch Quartet gave the premiere performance of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5 in the auditorium of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. That performance was part of a chamber music festival sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, one of the 20th century’s great musical patrons. In 1925, she create…

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Beethoven's 'Eroica' premiere 2:00

21d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1805, Ludwig van Beethoven conducted the first public performance of his Symphony No. 3, subtitled Eroica at Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It was a symphony bolder, louder, and twice as long as any Mozart or Haydn ever wrote and must have been a real challenge for the musicians and audiences of Beethoven’s day. Prior to…

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Ravel's 'Duo' 2:00

22d ago2:00

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Synopsis In 1920, a French publisher commissioned several works in memory of Claude Debussy, who had died two years earlier. Maurice Ravel’s contribution was a single-movement piece for violin and cello. Ravel then expanded this music into a four-movement sonata he titled Duo — perhaps thinking of the Duo for the same instruments by Zoltán Kodály. …

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Lou Harrison conducts an Ives premiere 2:00

23d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1946, composer Lou Harrison conducted the premiere performance of an orchestral work written 45 years earlier. It was Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3, composed between 1901 and 1904. Early in 1911, Ives had sent the score for his symphony for consideration to the major New York orchestras of his day, Walter Damrosch’s New Y…

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AFROBEAT BEST MIX (24, 23, 22, 21) - NAIJA AFROBEAT | AFROBEATS | AMAPIANO | BNXN RUGER | TYLA 2:00:00

22d ago2:00:00

2:00:00

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Of success and sorrow: Gorecki's Third 2:00

24d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis On today’s date in 1977, Polish composer Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 was performed for the first time in Royan, France, by the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. Gorecki’s symphony has a subtitle — Symphony of Sorrowful Songs — and sets three texts set for solo soprano voice: a 15th century lamentation from a Polish monastery, a prayer …

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AFROBEAT ALL TIME BIGGEST SONGS (24, 23, 22) - (AMAPIANO | NAIJA | GHANA | KENYA |EGWU CHIKE MOHBAD) 54:56

23d ago54:56

54:56

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Marvin Hatley goes cuckoo 2:00

25d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis The composer of “Dance of the Cuckoos” was born on this date in 1905. Thomas Marvin Hatley worked for the Hal Roach film studio that produced the famous Laurel and Hardy comedies, for which he wrote memorable music. His “Cuckoo” theme was originally used as a time cue for a radio station located on the Hal Roach studio lot, but when Stan L…

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Politically correct Bruckner, circa 1937 2:00

26d ago2:00

2:00

Synopsis An invitation-only audience attended a historic Bruckner concert in Munich on today’s date in 1932. On the first half of the program, Siegmund von Hausegger conducted Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, using the posthumous edition prepared by Bruckner’s pupil, Ferdinand Löwe, which contained many edits and alterations. For the second half, Bruckne…

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