![]() ![]() I hope Philip’s Classical Music Lover’s Companion to Orchestral Music proves me wrong, because it deserves to succeed as a guide to the basic orchestral repertory. ![]() ![]() Or if they were, they simply read online and didn’t bother with books. No one, it seemed, was very much interested in classical music anymore. The behemoth, biannual Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music ceased publication in 2010. Before that, one has to reach back to Ted Libbey’s NPR Listener’s Encyclopedia of Classical Music from 2006, or to his NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection from 1994, to find works similar to Philip’s. That was the hard lesson I took away when my own 500-page book on 20th- and 21st-century music, Surprised by Beauty, went nearly extinct the same year it was published in 2016. I had thought books like this had gone the way of the dinosaur. This is good news for a number of reasons. “Casting Beyond Color Lines” Featured Guest, “Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio (February 2008).Yale University Press has published a nearly thousand-page book on classical orchestral music by Robert Philip, a British scholar, broadcaster, and musician. “Our Own Voices with Our Own Tongues: Shakespeare in Black and White,” Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast Series, Episode 19, Folger Shakespeare Library (January 2015). “Finding New Life in Othello ,” Featured Guest, “On Point,” WBUR (April 2016). " Othello and Blackface,” Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast Series, Episode 50, Folger Shakespeare Library (June 2016). “ Othello ,” Lend Me Your Ears Podcast, Episode 5, Slate Magazine (September 2018). “Shakespeare and Race,” Such Stuff: The Shakespeare’s Globe Podcast, Episode 4, Shakespeare’s Globe (September 2018). “Understanding Peter Sellars,” Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast Series, Episode 106, Folger Shakespeare Library (October 2018). “What Would Shakespeare Say?” Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa, Episode 2, Phi Beta Kappa (October 2018). “Shakespeare and Race” Such Stuff: The Shakespeare’s Globe Podcast, Season 5 Episode 6, Shakespeare’s Globe (May 2020). “Othello with Ayanna Thompson” Bloomsbury Academic Podcast, Bloomsbury Academic (June 2020). “Richard II” Free Shakespeare on the Radio, WYNC and The Public Theater (July 2020). “Black Pete” Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYU Radio (December 2020). “Blackface - Mistrelsy,” Thinking Allowed, BBC Sounds (May 2021). “Blackface: a brief history,” History Extra Podcast, BBC History Magazine (May 2021). ![]() “Ayanna Thompson - Blackface,” Thoughts from a Page Podcast (May 2021) “Are you suffering from historical amnesia?” Our Opinions Are Correct Podcast (July, 2021) Orson Welles (1952), re-stored and re-mastered by The Criterion Collection (June 2017). “ Julius Caesar with Brian Cox,” Shakespeare Uncovered, Season 3, Episode 4, PBS (October 2018). “Great Performances: Much Ado About Nothing.” PBS: WNET New York Public Media (November 2019). “Introduction to Titus Andronicus.” Shakespeare 2020 Project (February 2020). “ Shakespeare and Colonialism” Why Shakespeare?, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (July 2020). “ Teaching Antiracism through Shakespeare” Shakespeare Teachers Conversations, University of Leicester (July 2020). “Teaching in the Wake of Racial Violence: A Conversation with Carol Anderson, Ayanna Thompson, and Mako Ward,” The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University (August 2020). “Exploring Othello in 2020,” Salon Seminar Series, Red Bull Theater (October 2020). “A Thousand Dreadful Things: Shakespeare and the Fear of Black Vengeance,” Public Shakespeare Initiative, The Public Theatre and the Brooklyn Public Library (November, 2020). ![]()
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