Latest Episodes
Jo Hicks and Mollie Carlyle, ‘Towards an Atlas of Victorian Song’
Jo Hicks (University of Aberdeen) speaks to Mollie Carlyle (Maritime Musicologist) about all things musical mapping. Jo is a Lecturer in Music at the...
Pauline Fairclough, Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’
Prof. Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol) talks to the RMA Podcast about her new book, an Oxford Keynote volume on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of...
RMA Podcast: Iain Burnside, Claire Lees & Adam Sullivan: ‘Gary, can you bring in your wetsuit? Evolution of a New Context for Song’
Conservatoire training for singers and pianists tends to revolve around core skills and core repertoire. Changes in the music industry, however, demand a fresh...
RMA Podcast: Ian Bent, William Drabkin & Georg Burgstaller: Heinrich Schenker and Viennese Musical Culture
https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/RMA-Podcast-Schenker-Documents-Online-002.mp3 Schenker Documents Online has played a significant role in animating interest in many aspects of analyst Heinrich Schenker’s life. The project was founded...
RMA Podcast: Jo Cormac, Composer biopics: interfaces between research and popular culture
https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RMA-Podcast-Jo-Cormac.mp3 How much does academic research come to influence the making of films about classical composers? Drawing on archival material from the USC Cinema...
RMA Podcast: Laudan Nooshin, Sounding the city: Tehran’s contemporary soundscapes
https://www.rma.ac.uk/rmawp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RMA-Podcast-Laudan-Nooshin-003.mp3 ‘Standing on a flat rooftop in north Tehran on a summer’s evening I am immersed in sound: the strains of the call to...