Summary: Podcast host Mark Travis introduces Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, a work that wasn’t premiered until nearly four decades after the composer’s death, and Director of Education Theodore Wiprud discusses Schubert’s melodic approach to the composition of symphonies. Through an archival recording, Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein recollects meeting the “reserved” and “shy” Shostakovich when the Philharmonic was on tour in Russia in 1959. Mark Travis and Theodore Wiprud also explore Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar — an impassioned “song cycle” or “choral symphony” that was a major political risk for the composer.
