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    Level 100 Garry Schyman and Classical Music

    unnamed Level 100: Garry Schyman and Classical MusicWe’ve had some great times with some wonderful composers through the years. One of my favorites was meeting Garry Schyman in person for the first time and talking about classical music for two hours.

    So that’s pretty much what we did for our 100th episode; we called up Garry Schyman (BioShock, Dante’s Inferno, Torn) and asked him to share some of his favorite classical works and composers with us.

    The playlist is a bit nuts for this one. It’s overly complicated because of the simplicity of the piece titles, like “Symphony No. 82 in G Major” or “Sonata, Op. 22 No. 5” and whatnot.

    But if you really enjoy the performance of a piece, then it follows that you’d want to know who performed it, so then you get into lengthy ensemble or performer names and conductors, ad nauseam.

    I totally get it though. When it comes to the nine Beethoven symphonies, it’s my belief that the John Eliot Gardiner recordings with the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra (or the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique) are the absolute best. I like that Gardiner was one of the early adopters of playing music on instruments from the time the music was written, and this orchestra does that, and I feel they sound tremendous.

    Digression aside, as always, if you have questions or comments, join us on the Discord server.

    PLAYLIST:
    Pièces de Clavecin: Les Cyclopes by Jean-Philippe Rameau (Trevor Pinnock: harpsichord)

    English Suite No. 1 in A Major: Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach (Glenn Gould: piano)

    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Leopold Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting)

    Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Andreas Staier: fortepiano)

    Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Krystian Zimerman: piano)

    Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Andreas Staier: fortepiano)

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, C-sharp Major Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach (Glenn Gould, piano)

    Etude No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3, “Tristesse” by Frederic Chopin (Maurizio Pollini, piano)

    Symphony No. 5 in D Minor by Dmitri Shostakovich (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic)

    Romanian Folk Dances, 1. “Jocul cu bata” by Bela Bartok (Konzerthausorchester Berlin)

    Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 by Bela Bartok, 4th movement (Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

    Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 by Bela Bartok, 5th movement (Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 3rd movement (Esa Pekka Salonen, LA Philharmonic)

    Three Hungarian Folk Songs from Csik, “The Peacock” by Bela Bartok (Jeno Jando, piano)

    Dance Suite, 3rd movement Allegro vivace by Bela Bartok (Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

    Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, 3rd movement by Gustav Mahler (Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic)

    Salome, Scene 4 “Ah! Herrlich! Wundervoll, wundervoll!” by Richard Strauss (Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic)

    Salome, Scene 4 “Dance of the Seven Veils” by Richard Strauss (Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra)

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major, 2nd movement by Gustav Mahler (Christoph von Dohnanyi, The Cleveland Orchestra)

    Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, 3rd movement by Ludwig van Beethoven (John Eliot Gardiner, Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra)

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Fugue 4 in C-sharp Minor (Arthur Villar)

    Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” by Gustav Mahler (Klaus Tennstedt, London Philharmonic Orchestra)

    Symphony No. 4 in G Major by Gustav Mahler (Christoph von Dohnanyi, The Cleveland Orchestra)

    Symphony No. 6 in F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven (John Eliot Gardiner, Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra)

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    The Consuming Fire The Interdependency

    91M7RqJUHjL 674x1024 The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency)

    The Interdependency?humanity’s interstellar empire?is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded.

    Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth?or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power.

    While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are prepare for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields.

    The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, as are her enemies. Nothing about this will be easy… and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire.

    The Interdependency Series
    1. The Collapsing Empire
    2. The Consuming Fire

    I keep thinking to myself “Ah, this is it, finally John Scalzi has written something that I’m not 100% in love with!” but then about halfway through the book, I find myself deeply interested in what’s going on and who’s doing what. Every book in this series (all two of them!) has had some serious twists and turns that have kept me hooked onto every chapter.

    The worst I can say about the series so far is that everyone is snarky and cynical, but that pretty much sums up Scalzi’s work for the last decade. Dependably snarky. I’m excited to see where he goes next in the story.