1: The Great Problematic Fave

In this début episode of the Classical Gabfest, hosts Kensho Watanabe, Tiffany Lu, and William White play a round of "Game of Pairs" featuring Haydn and Mozart, and then tackle three topics:Gabby Gifford's Appearance Playing Horn at the DNC ConventionGifford's DNC videoThe Internet Controversy Over the "Double Beat" Metronome TheoryWim Winters' "It is not 'Half Tempo'"A response from "Piano Pat"Does a Beethoven Celebration Have a Place in the Year 2020?Andrea Moore's commentary in the Chicago TribuneWill's planned 2020-21 Beethoven season, cancelled due to Covidand we finish up with our Classical Mixtape:Tiffany: Vaughan Williams, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus—bonus: the "Dives and Lazarus" folk songWill: Beethoven, Contredanses WoO 14Kensho: Hindemith, The Flying Dutchman Overture as Sightread by a Bad Spa Orchestra at 7 am by the WellEmail the gabfest at [email protected]