I think people, some of the music I listen to when I start out listening to classical music was the sad music. The very slow, extraordinary end of Marla's Ninth Symphony is like 15 minutes of extremely sad music that then disappears. But I'm teenagers drawn to that as well as to kind of joyful, energetic, or just teenagers to substitute humans. So I would say maybe the people who say that, maybe they're just all really depressed. Talk to happier people.
Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enlightening listens. For this episode we revisit 2018 and our event with James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci reflecting on the Transformative Power of Music. The chair was broadcaster, author and leading voice on all things musical, Clemency Burton-Hill.
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