Ragtime S2 #1: Is a Mushroom Cloud Beautiful?

Ragtime Series 2 Episode#1: Is a Mushroom Cloud Beautiful?  Featuring virtuoso violinist, deep thinker and maverick artist Kristian Winther.

0:00. Intro: On a mushroom cloud

0:45. Introducing Kristian Winther

1:08. EXCERPT: Vanessa Mae playing Bach

1:51. Art and mass consumerism

5:23. Celebrating uniqueness

10:50.  Bruckner versus Mahler

15:30. Stravinsky and commercialism

19:05. EXCERPT: Beethoven Violin Sonata#10

22:42. Music being institutionalised 

31:15.  Celebrating weirdos

31:52.  A problem with diversity

35:09. Can anyone be a Bach?

37:35.  Preserving or overthrowing tradition

52:14. EXCERPT: Terry Riley Half-Wolf

55:36. EXCERPT: Orson Welles on art

56:47.  Are you religious about art?

58:19. Self-censorship

1’03:33. Beethoven Razumovsky Quartets

1’05:39. Can art save the world?

1’08:51. EXCERPT: Scheherazade

1’11:56.  EXCERPT: Brahms Piano Quartet in A

1’13:30. More on self-censorship

1’18:32. Are you a rebel?

1’25:44.  Is a mushroom cloud beautiful?