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David Martosko

Washington, D.C.

@WETAClassical host. Founder, @DailyMail DC bureau. Emmy 🏆, Shared Edward R. Murrow 🏆for writing. Tweets ≠ employers' views. Upcoming airtimes in link below.

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  • May 6, 2024 | weta.org | David Martosko

    On music history’s broad timeline, Ludwig van Beethoven and Igor Stravinsky have very little in common. They were born 112 years and 2,300 miles apart. (A trek from Bonn to St. Petersburg is roughly the same distance as New York City to Phoenix.) Their music occupied vastly different places along the trip from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s folksy and intuitive classicism to Arnold Schoenberg’s math-inspired and often listener-unfriendly “twelve tone” or “serial” music.

  • Dec 13, 2023 | weta.org | David Martosko

    “Whaddya mean it’s not a Christmas opera? The first two acts happen on Christmas Eve!”These fighting words poured out of the Peabody Conservatory’s opera studio in Baltimore one day, many moons ago, as I walked past an open door. It was John Lehmeyer, the high-spirited (and legendary) costume designer who Peabody had convinced to direct the staging of entire productions. He was jawing with a conducting student — a man who today has a sprawling international career.

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David Martosko
David Martosko @dmartosko
7 May 24

My latest for the @WETAClassical blog, about different styles of choral music. For someone who hated Beethoven so much, Stravinsky sure did lean on him a lot. https://t.co/lvGjVubbhT #choral #classical

David Martosko
David Martosko @dmartosko
4 May 24

I'll be hosting @WETAClassical tonight and tomorrow night from 6pm to midnight. Come join me on Washington's longest-running music appreciation class! I promise we won't platy anything by John Cage.

David Martosko
David Martosko @dmartosko
14 Apr 24

I'm hosting @WETAClassical until noon today. Come join me at the best oasis from all the things that make Washington Washington. DC's longest-running music appreciation class, is in session 24/7. https://t.co/dPSNW9nfOW (90.9 Washington / 89.1 Hagerstown) #ClassicalMusic