How Musical Revolutions Were Created, Part 1 - w/Jan Swafford

Jan Swafford was such a fantastic guest last time that I thought
we had to have him back on. This week(and next week), we
discussed how so much of the revolutionary music in the history
of classical music was influenced by storytelling, whether it was
Monteverdi, Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Debussy, Ives,
Stravinsky, or Schoenberg. This week, on Part 1, we discuss the
first 4 composers on the list, trying to understand the chicken
or the egg question of which came first? The story? Or the
revolution?