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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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Hosted by Joe Vulpis, AKA "Ugh It's Joe" and "The Joe", Lightweights Podcast dives into the most exciting parts of the guests unique story. Guests range from world renowned wildlife biologists and BRIT Award winning rockstars to the largest Tik Tokkers in the world and NYT Number One Best Sellers. Joe achieved internet notoriety with his unique witty Vlog style and passion for food. Amassing a total of more than 2,000,000 followers across social platforms and over 300,000,000 Youtube views a ...
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Hosted by a former white-collar federal criminal investigator, this bi-weekly podcast seeks to find the best tools, practices, opportunities, and people to answer your questions about fraud and forensic accounting. Every episode is a conversation with an expert in the fraud or forensic accounting industry who has a story to tell, ideas and wisdom to share, successes to inspire, and failures to confess. Where can you find the right credentials for your career? Where can you find the right tra ...
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Brian Baumgartner on "The Office" Spinoff Rumors & Secrets of the Show!
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Brian Baumgartner AKA Kevin Malone of The Office joins Lightweights Podcast! As a MASSIVE Office fan, this will forever be one of my favorites! Not only does Brian look incredible but he has a new Barbecue Cookbook out! Brian spills the chili on scenes and secrets I never heard anyone speak about prior! We talk chili, CPR training, Prison Mike, boa…
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Synopsis It’s ironic that Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns was more appreciated in England and the United States than in his native France. And so, it’s perhaps not surprising that his Symphony No. 3 (Organ), premiered not in Paris, but at St. James’ Church in London on today’s date in 1886, with the composer conducting as well as performing a…
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Synopsis Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Pablo Picasso walk into a bar. No, it’s not the start of some high-brow joke; that really happened in Paris on today’s date in 1922. Well, not exactly: it was a hotel, not a bar, but certainly drinks were served when Sydney and Violet Schiff, two wealthy British patrons of the arts staying at the Hotel Majest…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1969, Leonard Bernstein conducted his last concert as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Bernstein had assumed that post in November 1957, becoming the first American-born and trained conductor to do so. For sports fans, these were Bernstein’s stats as of May 17, 1969: He had conducted 939 concerts, more than a…
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Synopsis Today’s date in 1879 marks the birthdate of composer and pianist Régine Wieniawski, born in Brussels, the daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Although a Franco-Belgian composer in style, she published her music under the Slavic-sounding pen name Poldowski. She was admired by many of the most famous musicians of…
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Synopsis Crossword puzzle solvers know the three-letter answer to the clue “Composer Brian” is: E-N-O. But even fans of this British composer, performer and producer might not know his full name, which is Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno. Brian Eno was born in Suffolk, England on today’s date in 1948. He studied painting and …
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Matt King Addresses Drama With His Podcasts..
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Matt King of Good Influences, Hoot and a Half, and Unfiltered Podcast with Zane and Heath joins Lightweights Podcast with Joe Vulpis to discuss his recent trip to South Korea, getting botox, Tom Brady Roast, and the recent drama with his podcast involving a star comedian. Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring today's video, use my link https://bet…
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Synopsis In the 1980s, the Finnish Broadcasting Company had come up with the idea of commissioning a whole evening’s worth of orchestral pieces by native composer Einojuhanni Rautavaara, which, when taken together, would form a conventional concert program of overture, concerto and symphony. These three works have come to be called the Angel Trilog…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1995, an opera by American composer Amy Beach received its first professional production at Lincoln Center in New York City — 63 years after Beach completed it in the summer of 1932. Beach was 65 years old in 1932 and for years had wanted to write an opera on an American theme. She settled on a play by Nan Bagby Stephens…
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Synopsis In the 1960s, American composer Steve Reich prepared some electronic pieces consisting of gradually shifting tape loops of the same prerecorded — and enigmatic — spoken phrases excerpted from someone telling a story. Reich quickly realized he could produce the same effect with conventional instruments and live musicians. These repetitive p…
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Synopsis Primitive man probably imitated animal sounds for both practical and religious reasons. More recently, the Baroque-era composer Heinrich Franz von Biber imitated one particular animal for comic effect in his Sonata Representing Animals, and, in early 20th century slang, it’s simply “the cat’s meow.” Now speaking of cats, they’re supposed t…
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Synopsis Is the customer always right? Apparently Giuseppe Verdi thought so — to a degree, at least. On today’s date in 1872, Verdi sent a note to his publisher with an attached letter he had received from a disgruntled customer, a certain Prospero Bertani, who had attended not one, but two performances of Verdi’s new opera, Aida. Bertani said, “I …
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Synopsis Some classical music snobs look down their nose at film scores, considering them less “serious” than “art” music written for the concert hall. Aaron Copland, for one, deplored this attitude. He admired the work of composers like Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, David Raksin and Elmer Bernstein, whose successful Hollywood careers earned them f…
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JOHNNIE GUILBERT SPILLS IT ALL! Jake Webber & Tara, Full Band, New Music!
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Johnnie Guilbert on Lightweights speaks on relationship with Jake Webber and Tara Yummy, new touring plans, live shows, live streaming, Warped Tour, & being an awesome dude. WATCH THE VIDEO PODCAST HERE: https://youtu.be/Ky8_crUvx20 Leave a review saying "wow joe this was incredible youre talented" if you enjoyed this audio and if you want more :) …
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Synopsis Stephen Sondheim was 32 years old when his musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on today’s date in 1962. The best seats would have cost you $8.60, but decent tickets were available for three bucks in those days — and, much to Sondheim’s relief, New Yorkers snapped them up in short order. The trial run o…
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NICKELODEON STAR TELLS ALL! Jack Griffo on THUNDERMANS RETURN & KIRA KOSARIN!
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Jack Griffo from Nickelodeon's THUNDERMANS chats about the new movie, the iconic television show, truths about him and hi co star Kira Kosarin, being a nickelodeon child star, and more! WATCH THE VIDEO PODCAST HERE: https://youtu.be/1y0didE_eFE Leave a review saying "wow joe this was incredible youre talented" if you enjoyed this audio and if you w…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1825, Italian composer Antonio Salieri breathed his last in Vienna. Gossip circulated that in his final dementia, Salieri blabbed something about poisoning Mozart. Whether he meant it figuratively or literally, or even said anything of the sort, didn’t seem to matter and the gossip became a Romantic legend. Modern food d…
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Synopsis Today’s date in 1913 marks the birthday of the American composer and musicologist George Perle, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1986. In a 1985 interview, Perle vividly recalled his first musical experience, an encounter with Chopin’s etude in F minor, played by an aunt. “It literally paralyzed me,” said Perle. “I was extraordinari…
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Synopsis “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Well, the usual reply is, “by practicing!” But back in 1891, Peter Tchaikovsky would have probably answered, “by ship” — since he had, in fact, sailed from Europe to conduct several of his pieces at the hall’s gala opening concerts. The first concert in Carnegie Hall, or as they called it back then, “The …
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Synopsis At Queen’s Hall in London, on today’s date in 1920, conductor Albert Coates led the premiere of the revised version of A London Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams. A longer version of this symphony had premiered six years earlier, and Vaughan Williams would continue to tinker with this work, on and off, for decades. “The London Symphony is…
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AEW, TNA, LUCHA UNDERGROUND, and BRIAN CAGE! (MELISSA SANTOS)
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Melissa Santos is a professional wrestler, ring announcer, model, and actress. Originally on LUCHA UNDERGROUND and making her way to TNA IMPACT, Melissa has been making an incredible name for herself in pro wrestling. She talks all things wrestling, some exciting news coming up, her marriage with AEW pro-wrestling star Brian Cage, acting, and the c…
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Synopsis Pleyel and Company was a French piano firm founded in 1807 by composer Ignace Pleyel. The firm provided pianos for Chopin, and ran an intimate Parisian 300-seat concert hall called the Salle Pleyel — the “Pleyel room” in English, where Chopin once performed. In the 20th century, a roomier Salle Pleyel comprising some 3,000 seats was built,…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1692, London audiences were treated to lavish theatrical entertainment with The Fairy Queen. This show was loosely based on Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play already 100 years old in 1692. To make it more in line with contemporary taste, characters were added or cut, and scenes shifted around to such…
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Synopsis Today’s date marks two anniversaries in the life of American composer, teacher and organist Leo Sowerby, who lived from 1895 to 1968. Sowerby was born May 1 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and on his 32nd birthday in 1927, was hired as the permanent organist and choirmaster at St. James’ Church in Chicago, where he remained for the next 35 year…
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Synopsis Today we have a tale of jealousy to tell — the tale of Claude and Mary and Maurice and Georgette — related to the premiere, on today’s date in 1902, of Pelléas et Mélisande. This new opera by Claude Debussy was based on a play about jealousy by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Debussy had worked on his opera for years with no ob…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1899, Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington, D.C. The son of a former White House butler, Elllington was born into a comfortable middle-class African American household. After piano lessons from the aptly named Miss Klinkscales, Ellington composed his first original piece, The Soda Fountain Rag. Two important m…
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Synopsis For the 1965-1966 season of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein planned a series of concerts titled “Symphonic Forms in the 20th Century,” programming works by Mahler, Sibelius and other great European masters. Bernstein also included American symphonies, including, on today’s date in 1966, the belated premiere performance of Davi…
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Synopsis Few of us today really know — or care — very much about the War of Austrian Succession, a conflict that troubled Europe in the 18th century. For music lovers, it’s enough to know that to celebrate the end of that war, George Frederic Handel was commissioned to compose music for a fireworks concert in London’s Green Park, an event that took…
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