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In today’s round table podcast we talk about Spotify, Turntable.fm and “listening to and/or downloading” Dolly Parton. Unfortunately, we had some technical issues at about 8 minutes remaining in the podcast and we lost Shane’s audio.

We would love to hear your thoughts about how you use Spotify and if you think it is a good tool for musicians. Do you think artists are being compensated in this new era of streaming? Please leave your comments below.

Elizabeth and Kurt talk with Brian McWhorter (Meridian Arts Ensemble, Beta Collide) and Molly Barth (eighth blackbird, Beta Collide) about chamber music and their own chamber music ensemble, Beta Collide.

If you’d like to download it, right click and select “Save As”. Enjoy the train wreck!
Episode 30

This week’s playlist has been replaced with TWiP’s request that you go buy Beta Collide’s new album.

TWiP List
Coming tomorrow! We’re going to see the Schola Cantorum de Venezula this evening!
We are also going to start posting extras and extended episodes that you will only be able to listen to/download only on this site. Look out for all of this tomorrow. We’ll post on Facebook and

A few days after our originally scheduled interview and with new MacBook charger in hand, I march over to the office of Dr. Anthony Brandt. With so many wonderful faculty at Rice University (well, that goes without saying), I contacted Dr. Brandt in hopes that we could talk about his new music ensemble Musiqa or his Sound Reasoning course. Instead, I was invited to get a behind-the-scenes look at one of my favorite albums (off the record- sorry!), to travel back in time to the moment when gender first came into being and to meet an amazing composer with a thrilling life story.

Anthony Brant is currently working on a piece for chamber orchestra and soprano. It was commissioned by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and the singer will be