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        <description><![CDATA["Entering Music" is a weekly BTPM Classical radio program and podcast that celebrates the joy of musical discovery across generations, genres, and lived experience. Co-hosted by beloved BTPM Classical hosts Stratton Rawson and Richie English — respectively, a 76-year-old lifelong music enthusiast and a 36-year-old working musician. The program bridges two distinct perspectives united by their deep love of music and the desire to share it with their listeners.Each episode invites listeners to explore classical music and beyond through thoughtful conversation, storytelling, and carefully curated pieces. New episodes air Fridays at 10 am on BTPM Classical, with many full-length episodes available on-demand wherever you get your podcasts.]]></description>
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    <title>Instrumental Monsters</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There came a day not too long ago when Richie asked Stratton if he would listen to one of the greatest Rock albums ever recorded. How could Stratton refuse? The album turned out to be “Loveless” by the band, My Bloody Valentine. After Stratton had listened to “Loveless” Richie asked Stratton what he thought. Stratton replied, “I now know what it was like for listeners who were used to hearing Haydn’s Symphonies when they first heard Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'. Nothing would ever sound the same again.”]]></description>
    
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There came a day not too long ago when Richie asked Stratton if he would listen to one of the greatest Rock albums ever recorded. How could Stratton refuse? The album turned out to be “Loveless” by the band, My Bloody Valentine. After Stratton had listened to “Loveless” Richie asked Stratton what he thought. Stratton replied, “I now know what it was like for listeners who were used to hearing Haydn’s Symphonies when they first heard Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'. Nothing would ever sound the same again.”]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[There came a day not too long ago when Richie asked Stratton if he would listen…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
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<itunes:episode>30</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Oscar Levant at the piano</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton didn’t think he had heard Richie right. Richie had dropped the name of a long-forgotten pianist who was once the best-known and highest-paid pianist in the United States. Radio made him a star. His name was Oscar Levant. So, Stratton said, let’s talk about him.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton didn’t think he had heard Richie right. Richie had dropped the name of a long-forgotten pianist who was once the best-known and highest-paid pianist in the United States. Radio made him a star. His name was Oscar Levant. So, Stratton said, let’s talk about him.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton didn’t think he had heard Richie right. Richie had dropped the name of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>933</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Verdi vs. Wagner</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton has often been asked if he and Richie ever disagree. His answer has been that, in musical matters, he can’t think of any disagreement, putting the emphasis on the adjective “musical”. Well, that was true enough until they decided to talk about opera by discussing the two greatest opera composers of the 19th century, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Verdi vs. Wagner</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton has often been asked if he and Richie ever disagree. His answer has been that, in musical matters, he can’t think of any disagreement, putting the emphasis on the adjective “musical”. Well, that was true enough until they decided to talk about opera by discussing the two greatest opera composers of the 19th century, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton has often been asked if he and Richie ever disagree. His answer has…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
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<itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode>
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    <title>In Their Own Words | Ray Davies &amp; Hector Berlioz</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Both Stratton and Richie have read biographies of their favorite musicians and feel that those biographies often miss the true character of what it means to the composer to write a piece of music, only to abandon it to performance and publication, then to write another that must match or supersede the one before it. All their efforts are bent forward by the personal responsibility to do it better next time. Composers are rarely happy people. How do we know this? Because a few composers have told us this in their memoirs. Two of the best are the Memoirs of Hector Berlioz and X-Ray, an unauthorized autobiography by Ray Davies.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Both Stratton and Richie have read biographies of their favorite musicians and feel that those biographies often miss the true character of what it means to the composer to write a piece of music, only to abandon it to performance and publication, then to write another that must match or supersede the one before it. All their efforts are bent forward by the personal responsibility to do it better next time. Composers are rarely happy people. How do we know this? Because a few composers have told us this in their memoirs. Two of the best are the Memoirs of Hector Berlioz and X-Ray, an unauthorized autobiography by Ray Davies.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Both Stratton and Richie have read biographies of their favorite musicians and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
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<itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Neo Romantics</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton often tells Richie how lucky they are because they have available to their ears over one thousand years of music-making and the opportunity to bring into their daily lives the joy of music once enjoyed, say, by Viennese Princes, Elizabethan poets, or American beatniks. That’s why Stratton encourages Richie to introduce him to the popular music he pointedly refused to take notice of while he was virtually buried in the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, and hundreds of others. And so, yep, much of the time that means communing with the legacy of dead, white men. The ghost at hand at this moment is David Bowie.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton often tells Richie how lucky they are because they have available to their ears over one thousand years of music-making and the opportunity to bring into their daily lives the joy of music once enjoyed, say, by Viennese Princes, Elizabethan poets, or American beatniks. That’s why Stratton encourages Richie to introduce him to the popular music he pointedly refused to take notice of while he was virtually buried in the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, and hundreds of others. And so, yep, much of the time that means communing with the legacy of dead, white men. The ghost at hand at this moment is David Bowie.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton often tells Richie how lucky they are because they have available to…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>1035</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>26</itunes:episode>
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    <title>Frank Zappa &amp; Van Dyke Parks</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Richie can’t really believe that Stratton has spent so much of his time listening to classical music that he has no notion of who Frank Zappa is or who Van Dyke Parks might be. But Richie knows that Stratton, who has a soft spot for Olivier Messiaen and Michael Tippett, is just the kind of guy who’d like the wild music-making of Zappa and Parks.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Richie can’t really believe that Stratton has spent so much of his time listening to classical music that he has no notion of who Frank Zappa is or who Van Dyke Parks might be. But Richie knows that Stratton, who has a soft spot for Olivier Messiaen and Michael Tippett, is just the kind of guy who’d like the wild music-making of Zappa and Parks.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Richie can’t really believe that Stratton has spent so much of his time…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>1039</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>25</itunes:episode>
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    <description><![CDATA[When a listener begins to concentrate on a single composer’s works, they often listen for the piece in which the composer has found his or her own voice, a voice that from then on will mark the music they write as their own. 

But what if a composer refuses to settle into their own manner of speaking but keeps exploring other “influences” that are no longer merely instructional but a continuing inspiration to the composer? Or if the composer becomes engaged with another unique voice that becomes a kind of creative collaborator? 

Michael Tippett is a composer Richie likes to call “kaleidoscopic”; a new work by Tippett never sounds like the work that preceded it. Then there is David Del Tredici, who became obsessed with another work of art… so much so that he has spent much of his career reimagining it musically.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a listener begins to concentrate on a single composer’s works, they often listen for the piece in which the composer has found his or her own voice, a voice that from then on will mark the music they write as their own. 

But what if a composer refuses to settle into their own manner of speaking but keeps exploring other “influences” that are no longer merely instructional but a continuing inspiration to the composer? Or if the composer becomes engaged with another unique voice that becomes a kind of creative collaborator? 

Michael Tippett is a composer Richie likes to call “kaleidoscopic”; a new work by Tippett never sounds like the work that preceded it. Then there is David Del Tredici, who became obsessed with another work of art… so much so that he has spent much of his career reimagining it musically.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When a listener begins to concentrate on a single composer’s works, they often…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>875</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>24</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Clara &amp; Fanny</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The tale of the careers of two of the most famous women in the 19th century is now portrayed as a narrative of suppression and even oppression. But Stratton believes that Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel did not lead lives they regarded as unfulfilled, and they didn’t regret marrying the men they married. “If that’s the case,” Richie suggested, “then let’s celebrate their accomplishments and quit lamenting their lost opportunities.” ]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The tale of the careers of two of the most famous women in the 19th century is now portrayed as a narrative of suppression and even oppression. But Stratton believes that Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel did not lead lives they regarded as unfulfilled, and they didn’t regret marrying the men they married. “If that’s the case,” Richie suggested, “then let’s celebrate their accomplishments and quit lamenting their lost opportunities.” ]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The tale of the careers of two of the most famous women in the 19th century is…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>990</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <description><![CDATA[Richie invites Stratton to listen to something he has actively avoided for 50 years – PUNK. There’s no telling how he’ll react…]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Richie invites Stratton to listen to something he has actively avoided for 50 years – PUNK. There’s no telling how he’ll react…]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Richie invites Stratton to listen to something he has actively avoided for 50…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>946</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Murder</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie become aware that even sweet, joyful music making can hide a suspicious, even outraged, personality. Sometimes the chemistry of musical genius can become corrupted over time until finally, it leads not to a masterwork but to murder.  ]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Murder</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie become aware that even sweet, joyful music making can hide a suspicious, even outraged, personality. Sometimes the chemistry of musical genius can become corrupted over time until finally, it leads not to a masterwork but to murder.  ]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie become aware that even sweet, joyful music making can hide…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>864</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Virtuoso</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Oxford Dictionary of Music claims that the term "virtuoso " is from Italian and means “exceptional performer.” According to the dictionary, the term originally referred to several types of musicians: performers, composers, and even theorists. By the late 18th century, it changed, and thereby hangs a tale Richie really wants to tell.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Oxford Dictionary of Music claims that the term "virtuoso " is from Italian and means “exceptional performer.” According to the dictionary, the term originally referred to several types of musicians: performers, composers, and even theorists. By the late 18th century, it changed, and thereby hangs a tale Richie really wants to tell.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The Oxford Dictionary of Music claims that the term "virtuoso " is from Italian…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Marty Wimmer, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>839</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Genius Destroyed</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[At the turn of the 20th Century celebrity was invented as a substitute for genius, while the steady rise of the middle class meant the beginning of mass marketing and the establishment of “popular” music. Who were the geniuses, the men or women, who displayed the talent, the musical intelligence and the vision necessary to become leading figures in the creation of a North American Music? And how did they fare? To begin to answer those questions, Stratton and Richie examine the careers two pianist- composers,  African- American Scott Joplin and French Canadian Andre Mathieu. ]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:31:57 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At the turn of the 20th Century celebrity was invented as a substitute for genius, while the steady rise of the middle class meant the beginning of mass marketing and the establishment of “popular” music. Who were the geniuses, the men or women, who displayed the talent, the musical intelligence and the vision necessary to become leading figures in the creation of a North American Music? And how did they fare? To begin to answer those questions, Stratton and Richie examine the careers two pianist- composers,  African- American Scott Joplin and French Canadian Andre Mathieu. ]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[At the turn of the 20th Century celebrity was invented as a substitute for…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>800</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Arnold Schoenberg</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Early on, Stratton asked Richie if he was ready to talk about the most vilified musician living in the 20thcentury. Richie asked Stratton if he meant Michael Jackson. “No,” Stratton replied, “although we should talk about Michael Jackson in the future.” Stratton meant Arnold Schoenberg. “Oh,” said Richie, “you mean the man who changed everything we thought we knew about music”.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Early on, Stratton asked Richie if he was ready to talk about the most vilified musician living in the 20thcentury. Richie asked Stratton if he meant Michael Jackson. “No,” Stratton replied, “although we should talk about Michael Jackson in the future.” Stratton meant Arnold Schoenberg. “Oh,” said Richie, “you mean the man who changed everything we thought we knew about music”.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Early on, Stratton asked Richie if he was ready to talk about the most vilified…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>737</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>The Progressives</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie don’t generally talk about politics, but when Richie said he wanted to talk about “progressives,” Stratton, the old history major, got excited. He thought about “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Joe Hill, and Theodore Roosevelt, who invited cellist Pablo Casals and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, the black Anglo-African composer, to the White House. Is that what Richie meant? Not quite.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>The Progressives</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie don’t generally talk about politics, but when Richie said he wanted to talk about “progressives,” Stratton, the old history major, got excited. He thought about “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Joe Hill, and Theodore Roosevelt, who invited cellist Pablo Casals and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, the black Anglo-African composer, to the White House. Is that what Richie meant? Not quite.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton and Richie don’t generally talk about politics, but when Richie said…]]></itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:duration>942</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Arvo Pärt</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[After talking about Shostakovich who often lived and worked as though there was a gun to his head, Richie and I wanted to talk about another composer who, having been born in a country oppressed by Soviet rule and endured the limitations placed upon his musical career, went silent for a time. Only to re-emerge as a composer whose music embodied the concept of hope. And so, Arvo Pärt’s quiet, devotional music became an international sensation.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.btpm.org/2026-05-29/arvo-part</link>
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    <itunes:title>Arvo Pärt</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After talking about Shostakovich who often lived and worked as though there was a gun to his head, Richie and I wanted to talk about another composer who, having been born in a country oppressed by Soviet rule and endured the limitations placed upon his musical career, went silent for a time. Only to re-emerge as a composer whose music embodied the concept of hope. And so, Arvo Pärt’s quiet, devotional music became an international sensation.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[After talking about Shostakovich who often lived and worked as though there was…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>929</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Invitation to Dance</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Watching an old film, Roberta, a 1934 musical comedy starring Irene Dunn and Joel McCrea with music by Jerome Kern, Stratton heard a great tune called “I Won’t Dance” with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. While he sang it, a young Fred Astaire danced of course. Watching Astaire’s fancy footwork, a question formed in Stratton’s mind, “Can you be dancing when you’re not actually dancing?” Does all music convey an invitation to dance? Best to ask Richie what he thinks.  ]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Invitation to Dance</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Watching an old film, Roberta, a 1934 musical comedy starring Irene Dunn and Joel McCrea with music by Jerome Kern, Stratton heard a great tune called “I Won’t Dance” with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. While he sang it, a young Fred Astaire danced of course. Watching Astaire’s fancy footwork, a question formed in Stratton’s mind, “Can you be dancing when you’re not actually dancing?” Does all music convey an invitation to dance? Best to ask Richie what he thinks.  ]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Watching an old film, Roberta, a 1934 musical comedy starring Irene Dunn and…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>925</itunes:duration>
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<itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Mistakes</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton has a continuing problem. After a lifetime of listening to recordings of great pieces of music that have been made note-perfect, when Stratton is seated at a concert, and he hears a mistake, it really bothers him. In reading the various tributes to pianist Andre Watts after his death, Stratton noticed that each writer mentioned Watts’ appearance on “Mister Rogers Neighborhood.” He was invited to the “neighborhood” specifically to talk about mistakes. Stratton wondered why a pianist would be the person to talk about mistakes. He decided to ask Richie.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Mistakes</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton has a continuing problem. After a lifetime of listening to recordings of great pieces of music that have been made note-perfect, when Stratton is seated at a concert, and he hears a mistake, it really bothers him. In reading the various tributes to pianist Andre Watts after his death, Stratton noticed that each writer mentioned Watts’ appearance on “Mister Rogers Neighborhood.” He was invited to the “neighborhood” specifically to talk about mistakes. Stratton wondered why a pianist would be the person to talk about mistakes. He decided to ask Richie.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton has a continuing problem. After a lifetime of listening to recordings…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>705</itunes:duration>



<itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Leonard Bernstein</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Stratton finally caught the movie Maestro, about the life of Leonard Bernstein. He was appalled. The film was about Bernstein’s marriage and his efforts to be a both a loving husband and a doting father while having love affairs with other men. Who watching that film, Stratton wondered, would ever learn that Leonard Bernstein was America’s pre-eminent musical genius? He had to check in with Richie about this.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Leonard Bernstein</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stratton finally caught the movie Maestro, about the life of Leonard Bernstein. He was appalled. The film was about Bernstein’s marriage and his efforts to be a both a loving husband and a doting father while having love affairs with other men. Who watching that film, Stratton wondered, would ever learn that Leonard Bernstein was America’s pre-eminent musical genius? He had to check in with Richie about this.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Stratton finally caught the movie Maestro, about the life of Leonard Bernstein.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>853</itunes:duration>



<itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>The Ear Worm</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Richie has a problem; he’s got a tune stuck in his head. And it’s not his tune. Can Stratton help?]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.btpm.org/2026-05-01/the-ear-worm</link>
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    <itunes:title>The Ear Worm</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Richie has a problem; he’s got a tune stuck in his head. And it’s not his tune. Can Stratton help?]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Richie has a problem; he’s got a tune stuck in his head. And it’s not his tune.…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>967</itunes:duration>



<itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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    <title>Amazing Ms. Maestro</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Online Stratton was asked to name the 10 best conductors leading orchestras today. He took what he thought was a bold step; he included JoAnn Falletta’s name. When he saw the 25 or so lists submitted from correspondents around the world, 19 listed among their 10 choices JoAnn Falletta. Could it be? Then just a few weeks ago Richie announced that we should do an episode about JoAnn, “because, you know, she’s a great conductor.”]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.btpm.org/2026-04-24/amazing-ms-maestro</link>
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    <itunes:title>Amazing Ms. Maestro</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Online Stratton was asked to name the 10 best conductors leading orchestras today. He took what he thought was a bold step; he included JoAnn Falletta’s name. When he saw the 25 or so lists submitted from correspondents around the world, 19 listed among their 10 choices JoAnn Falletta. Could it be? Then just a few weeks ago Richie announced that we should do an episode about JoAnn, “because, you know, she’s a great conductor.”]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Online Stratton was asked to name the 10 best conductors leading orchestras…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Stratton Rawson, Richie English</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>975</itunes:duration>



<itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
<itunes:season>1</itunes:season>

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