Chris and Sridhar discuss their favorite Victor Borge bits, the ins and outs of concert attire, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's acquisition of the record label Pentatone.

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Victor Borge documentary

Victor Borge performs at the White House

White House Steinway

Victor Borge & Anton Contra play Monti's Czardas

Victor Borge as Franz Liszt

Victor Borge & Michala Petri play Czardas

Victor Borge - Inflationary Language

Victor Borge - Happy Birthdays

Netflix to Stop Greenlighting Vanity Projects

Criterion Channel

First Woman Joins Vienna Philharmonic in 1997

Claudio Abbado's suit

Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk - NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Joshua Bell & Yuja Wang play Beethoven Violin Sonata no. 9

Mischa Maisky plays Bruch's Kol Nidrei

A New Model for a Music Conservatory by Ted Gioia

The Honest Broker - Ted Gioia's substack

Pentatone Music

Reprise Records - wikipedia

Samuel Lipman - The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions

Natalia Osipova dances Giselle

Erich Leinsdorf - The Composer's Advocate: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians

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