# Paula Tuttle Ideas about music and the classical music profession, by Paula Tuttle Page: Feed: --- ## [S. 2. 13. Stepping Into History: Jack Bazalgette’s Vision for Cheltenham Music Festival](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s-2-13-stepping-into-history-jack-af9) _2025-05-25 · Paula Tuttle_ For eight decades, the Cheltenham Music Festival has been a cornerstone of Britain’s classical music calendar, nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. This storied festival has built its reputation not only by presenting world-cla [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679869/4520d36da3446335903992431b35e437.mp3) ## [S. 2. 12. Mingxuan Xu: Classical Music Across The World](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s-2-12-mingxuan-xu-classical-music-292) _2025-04-27 · Paula Tuttle_ Ming, a Music and Philosophy student at the University of Pittsburgh, used our cello lesson time this week to videotape an interview for his “Music Culture and History” course. The class explores classical concerts in Pittsburgh and discusses [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679870/fae1e6dba9a6aa8ba973fa3abbe893aa.mp3) ## [S. 2. 11. Sonja Thoms: Stewarding the Legacy and Future of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s-2-11-sonja-thoms-stewarding-the-d71) _2024-11-03 · Paula Tuttle_ Sonja Thoms is expanding the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra’s community presence through an innovative outreach strategy. Building on her decades of experience with the League of American Orchestras, Thoms recently established the WSO Community Choir, [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679871/bbad1af9b5c83b16ff935f12c047e016.mp3) ## [S. 2. 10. Germany: Scholars Authenticate A Previously Unknown Mozart Serenade For Two Violins And Cello](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s-2-10-germany-scholars-authenticate-4bc) _2024-09-29 · Paula Tuttle_ A twelve minute composition in seven movements has been dubbed “Very Little Night Music” and added to the catalogue of Mozart’s work, it is now KV 648. Scholars believe it was a work of Mozart’s youth, maybe as young as ten years [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679872/36ca5798720ece9ffa2b1b9a7fe12f09.mp3) ## [S. 2. 9. Live Music: Business is Good/Candlelight Concerts with Juan Jaramillo](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s-2-9-live-music-business-is-goodcandlelight-6c6) _2024-09-15 · Paula Tuttle_ Live music is increasing in our post-covid world. Gen Z-ers are outpacing Millenials for the first time as ticket buyers. It’s an exciting time to be a professional musician, and Juan Jaramillo gives us a look at the Candlelight concerts featuring [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679873/d60e7e4b88b21bb0a9322afe9edbfe5f.mp3) ## [S2. 8. With the Beo Quartet's Sean Neukom: Beethoven's op. 132- Song of Thanksgiving](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-8-with-the-beo-quartets-sean-neukom-7d2) _2024-09-01 · Paula Tuttle_ Beethoven became gravely ill in the Spring of 1825. When he recovered he continued writing his fifteenth String Quartet. This third movement gives us special insight into Beethoven’s belief that he dodged death for at least a few years. Sean Neukom finds [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146425/0d6e8b84d7f0d7650b8baf8fbfc54f76.mp3) ## [S2. 7. Earworms (The Songs In Your Head)](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-7-earworms-the-songs-in-your-head-716) _2024-08-18 · Paula Tuttle_ The Germans had the word for centuries. In Ancient times, they even thought a bug ground up could treat ear diseases. Today it simply means the music that gets stuck in your head More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show\_notes/ The post [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679875/9c52eb76932e745fed3c4436ac6344d8.mp3) ## [S2. 6. Misophonia, ASMR and Bagpipes](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-6-misophonia-asmr-and-bagpipes-778) _2024-07-28 · Paula Tuttle_ People often get a repulsion to sounds. Chalk, dentist drills, even bagpipes. Is this the same as Misophonia? What about ASMR: is it a subset of Misophonia? Today we find out. More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show\_notes/ The post S2. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679876/afbb16eb244415a53524c6475a6c0d66.mp3) ## [S2. 5. The Auditory Complex; How We Hear](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-5-the-auditory-complex-how-we-b3b) _2024-07-14 · Paula Tuttle_ Over the course of your lifetime your auditory complex learns your preferences in terms of what you want to focus on in environment and music. We can make a lot of technical comparisons like the way AI learns our likes and dislikes: Music, Shopping, Food [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679877/4330d65a4264cf3b90add2c63622fbbe.mp3) ## [S2. 4. Timbre and Texture](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-4-timbre-and-texture-aac) _2024-06-30 · Paula Tuttle_ Perhaps the most distinctive element of music is the one that gives nuance to our daily lives. Our ears never really sleep. They interpret the world, keep us safe, and give ongoing descriptions as we make our way through the day. When you ask yourself wh [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185679878/708e67c509a7017dcc734d2da7a52c46.mp3) ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/n7fLyuGSMqjP) _2024-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [S2. 3. Music after Digital Recording](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-3-music-after-digital-recording-af1) _2024-06-16 · Paula Tuttle_ The Camera can’t be equated with the Phonograph if you consider artists were capturing images and likenesses for centuries. The phonograph is more like the first canvas that can hold a performance or a moment in perpetuity. It came sixty years after the c [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146430/ab536de7a3c96ba18dc4f916614ce30f.mp3) ## [S2. 2. Authenticity](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-2-authenticity-f71) _2024-06-02 · Paula Tuttle_ This week’s episode makes a wide arc from classical musicians and how they determine authenticity in an orchestral audition scenario, to how non musicians listen to music and determine which artists earn the badge of “authentic” in a variety of genres. Mo [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146431/9d410828ea36aef0ca29d6d682dc16bc.mp3) ## [S2. 1. Taking Back Art And Culture](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/s2-1-taking-back-art-and-culture-426) _2024-05-12 · Paula Tuttle_ Its for sale: our time and attention. And it’s time to turn off the doomscroll and get back to real culture. More in the show notes at https://accelerandocast.com/show\_notes/ [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146432/4d7607ae2d5366fd950334907df6b056.mp3) ## [100. Pittsburgh's Own Henry Mancini Would Be 100 Years Old This Week](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/100-pittsburghs-own-henry-mancini-f5d) _2024-04-21 · Paula Tuttle_ What better way to mark 100 episodes in the Accelerando Podcast than to feature Pittsburgh’s son Henry Mancini. I also talked to another great musician who hails from Aliquippa- George Perilli, when he performed for Chambersite’s Diamante Jazz Quartet thi [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146433/2c5d8ed8d357da6d392ec26f7d123432.mp3) ## [99. Sprezzatura](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/99-sprezzatura-d2c) _2024-04-14 · Paula Tuttle_ The Italian word, sprezzatura, was invented in the sixteenth century by Castiglione, a writer. His book: The Book of the Courtier describes the perfect courtier, and uses the word to define and group the qualities that exemplify him. The word is popular t [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146434/cbd2eec1914d01701d1e2bcdb5791017.mp3) ## [98. Encore: The Trouble With Auditions](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/98-encore-the-trouble-with-auditions-e1a) _2024-04-07 · Paula Tuttle_ Daniel Kahnemann wrote about how we make decisions, and he won s Nobel Prize for his work on Behavioral Economics. With his passing last week we are thinking about his impact, and contribution to the world. When I began this podcast in April 2022 it was K [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146435/0a9bd927b29a0ef92155b3f3e99bfca1.mp3) ## [97. One Note](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/97-one-note-2d4) _2024-03-31 · Paula Tuttle_ Composers often use a single repeated note in a piece of music, and it usually tends to get the attention of the audience in a particular manner. Sometimes it’s soft, other times loud, but it’s always persistent. Today we talk about some well known pieces [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146436/660bde61ca717ae9802dbce54f5c0f7e.mp3) ## [96. The Brandenburg Concertos](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/96-the-brandenburg-concertos-47a) _2024-03-24 · Paula Tuttle_ It seems appropriate to post a podcast about the masterpieces Bach dedicated on the same date (March 24) a little over three hundred years ago, 1721 to be exact. They were first published in 1850, one hundred years after Bach’s death. The original scores [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146437/6d1176bed641c944cab1975819fa6cd7.mp3) ## [95. Muzio Clementi, The Composers' Composer](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/95-muzio-clementi-the-composers-composer-fc8) _2024-03-17 · Paula Tuttle_ Muzio Clementi was respected and praised by most of his contemporaries, especially Beethoven. Mozart paid respects by quoting or borrowing some of his themes, as composers did often in the classical era. Mozart may have been envious of Clementi’s techniqu [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146438/d48fa7ee53488b03efb8351627245c5e.mp3) ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iGlk7J1P2Hpj) _2024-03-17 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [94. A Guy Walks Into Three Violin Shops In Cremona](https://accelerandopodcast.substack.com/p/94-a-guy-walks-into-three-violin-560) _2024-03-10 · Paula Tuttle_ The three violin makers that shaped the violin we know today lived in Cremona in the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century. Amati, Stradavari and Guarneri Del Gesu may have influenced each other and their influence reaches violin makers today. Da [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186146439/3e9ebdd5461d890d876e7108585dd32d.mp3)