I'm pleased to welcome to the show Rebecca Smithorn, cover conductor and lecturer with the National Philharmonic. Rebecca is host of the NatPhil's YouTube series "Composers in Crisis" which takes a look at composers whose lives and art were transformed by times of global crisis. In our interview we talk about several composers in crisis: Beethoven, Ravel, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, John Corigliano, Undine Smith Moore, and a good ol' good one, Louis Armstrong, who Duke Ellington said was "Born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone in between."

"Composers in Crisis"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agUbwO72pA&list=PLtZH2-QfYm4ypSuSDPAyl13znMQZPv24S

https://rebeccasmithorn.com

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Works heard in this episode:

Ravel - "Le Tombeau de Couperin"

mvt. 1, Prelude, played by Janet Seitzer

https://musopen.org/music/4728-le-tombeau-de-couperin/

mvt. 6, Toccata