Episodes
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Welcome to the third episode in our Symphony Series! This week, Rebeca talks about the use of indigenous songs by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos by analyzing his 10th symphony. As always: stay safe, wear a mask, and get vaccinated!
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Welcome to the second episode in our Symphony Series! This week, Erin talks about how politics have a profound effect in music, specifically tracking Shostakovich's seventh symphony and how its composition is a direct reflection of the political turmoil due to WWII. As always: stay safe, wear a mask, and get vaccinated!
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This is our first episode of our Symphony Series that we are doing as part of a research project for our history seminar! This week is presented by Victoria and she talks about societal factors that have contributed to women being erased from the musical canon; from educational tradition to stereotypical gender beliefs. Tune in the next two weeks to hear Rebeca and Erin's episodes! As always stay safe, wear a mask, and get vaccinated!
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No. 29 is a really fun episode! Erin quizzes Victoria and Rebeca on viola trivia, Victoria has some fun pieces for Guess the Piece/Composer that throw Erin and Rebeca for a loop, and Rebeca is successful at throwing Victoria and Erin off with her Musical Layers! Be sure to play along at home! In the second half, Erin and Victoria check in with Rebeca about how she's feeling about her upcoming recital. As always stay safe, wear a mask, and get vaccinated!
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On this episode we share the lives of two Swedish female musicians and composers: Amanda Röntgen-Maier and Alice Tegner! None of us had ever heard of these incredible women before researching for this podcast; they contributed greatly to the music history and identity of Sweden. In the second half, Erin and Victoria share their experiences and reactions to having completed their masters recitals! As always: stay safe, wear a mask, and get vaccinated!
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Welcome to No. 27! We've made it to the 27 club...hopefully we'll make it out alive. (Please tell us someone understands this reference!) In this episode we introduce ourselves to black musician and composer, Harry Burleigh, who was instrumental (no pun intended) in developing characteristically American music. Burleigh also introduced Antonin Dvorak to Black American music. How have we never heard of him before?? In the second half, we discuss the idea of perfectionism and how we've dealt with it in our studies. As always, wear a mask and stay safe!
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Today we talk about the life of female composer and violist, Rebecca Clarke! Erin was very excited since this is the first violist we've talked about on the podcast, why has it taken us this long?? Normalize the viola! In the second half, we talk about our upcoming recitals this month and all of the anxieties surrounding our preparation. As always, stay safe and wear a mask!
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Our 25th podcast is a chill episode where we play some fun mini games to help us relax and have some fun! Then we chat about our lives and talk about our upcoming graduation. As always, wear a mask and stay safe!
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On this episode: Victoria's mom, Rebecca Senko, joins us! She shares with us what life is like as a music educator in the life of Covid-19 and how she tries to normalize musicians of underrepresented communities to young children. We then share some of our favorite music education memories from when we were kids. As always, stay safe and wear a mask!
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It's International Women's Day everyday on the Out of Tune Podcast. On this episode, we share the incredible life of musician, writer, editor, translator, and political activist: Zitkala-Sa. In the second half, we each share one more female composer/musician in the spirit of celebrating women! Through it all, we talk about astrological signs and try to make out what they mean. As always, stay safe and wear a mask!
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This week we were fortunate enough to chat with our dear friend, Letícia Andrade! She fills us in on what life is like as a professional musician during Covid, life after graduation from a masters degree, and the differences between the US and Brazil. We love her so much! As always, stay safe and wear a mask!
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Out of Tune podcast is officially 21! In this episode we each picked a current black voice in music to share about: Chi-chi Nwanoku, James B. Wilson, and Roderick Cox. In the second half we share our past childhood violin/viola dreams. As always, stay safe and wear a mask!
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We have made it to our 20th episode! In this episode, we continue our Black History Month series as we discuss the lives and careers of historical black composers: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and William Grant Still, Jr. Then, we share our concerns about our current semester situation. As always, wear a mask and be safe!
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It's the second week of Black History Month and we want to share stories centered around current black stories/voices. So in this episode, we talk about the musically talented Kanneh-Mason family and all of their wonderful, musical accomplishments. In the second half, Rebeca shares some current virtual events centered around Black History Month and we discuss as a group the current situation we're experiencing at UMass. As always, stay safe and WEAR A MASK!
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It's February which means it's Black History Month! We've decided to dedicate each episode this month to focus on black musicians/composers! Victoria gets us set up for our first episode about the life and career of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. We hope you enjoy and remember to wear a mask!
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Wow, No. 17!! Crazy to think we only started our podcast a short time ago. In this episode we talk about how much artists make per stream on Spotify and some of the criticism that surrounds it. Is capitalism wiping out the middle class of artists/musicians? Then, in the second half we play some mini music games and have a lot of fun guessing composers and pieces. We hope you play along at home! Remember to wear your mask and stay safe!
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On this episode we talk about female composer, Dame Ethel Smyth! She's an incredible woman and we discover things we never knew about her. Then, we share some summer music/festival horror stories and gossip! We hope you laugh and enjoy. Stay safe and wear a mask!
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We're so excited to have our dear friend, Marie, to talk with us about her thesis and research on the effects of capitalism on women in music. We then share our favorite memories together pre-Covid, we've missed her so much! As always, we hope you've been safe and healthy. Wear a mask!
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We're back from our holiday break and ready to get back to podcasting! In this episode we talk about some updates in our lives and with the podcast, then we talk about some experiences we've had in quartets and how we got through them. We've missed you and hope you enjoy! Stay safe and wear a mask!
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We hope you enjoy our last episode of the year! We talk about the incredible Sphinx Organization and how it's serving Black and Latinx music communities. In the second half we recount some crazy holiday concert and gig experiences we've had.
We hope you have a safe end to 2020 and remember to wear your masks! Look out for our podcast in 2021!
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