Doug Adams
Co-Host of The Next Track
Doug Adams is an AppleScript developer and, since 2001, the proprietor of Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. Doug is an audio and voice-over producer by trade and formerly worked in radio broadcasting as—at various times—disc jockey, announcer, production director, and program director. Doug is a musician, a life-long music lover, and all-around audio geek.
Doug Adams has hosted 281 Episodes.
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Episode #185 - Use Plex to Manage Your Media Library
June 10th, 2020 | 20 mins 6 secs
Plex is a great way to manage your media library. Doug and Kirk discuss how they use it. Note: we recorded this episode before the lockdown began, but held off publishing it because we had a number of interviews with musicians in lockdown.
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Episode #184 - TJ Connelly, Boston Sports DJ
May 29th, 2020 | 49 mins 22 secs
TJ Connelly is a sports DJ: he provides "scores" for live sporting events, such as baseball, football, and hockey games. Since the lockdown, he's been out of work, and he has been focusing his attention on Uncertain Times, a daily streaming radio show. We talk with him about what it means to score live sports, and how his streaming show is reconnecting him with real radio.
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Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home
May 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
Timo Andres is a young composer and pianist, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. We discuss his music, and how he missed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall du to the coronavirus lockdown, and decided to make home videos of all the works to present his program to the public. (Apologies for the audio; we made some mistakes when recording.)
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Episode #182 - Oliver Craske on His Biography of Ravi Shankar, Indian Sun
May 15th, 2020 | 35 mins 36 secs
Oliver Craske has just published the first biography of the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Craske knew and worked with Shankar near the end of his life, and carried out extensive research to tell the tale of the man who brought Indian music to the west. (Apologies for the poor Skype audio quality.)
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Episode #181 - Classical Music Critic Anne Midgette
May 8th, 2020 | 43 mins 23 secs
Anne Midgette resigned as classical music critic for the Washington Post a few months ago, but she is well placed to discuss the dangers facing live performances of classical music in The After. And she tells us about the historical novel she's writing about the woman who built pianos for Beethoven.
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Episode #180 - Harpsichordist and Conductor Richard Egarr
May 1st, 2020 | 39 mins 33 secs
We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music.
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Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin
April 24th, 2020 | 43 mins 22 secs
We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman.
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Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
April 17th, 2020 | 40 mins 3 secs
We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.
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Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series
April 14th, 2020 | 34 mins 55 secs
Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series.
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Episode #176 - How to Stream Music From Your Home
April 10th, 2020 | 33 mins 52 secs
A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, and gives tips on how best to set up cameras, lights, and microphones.
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Episode #175 - Violinist Alina Ibragimova
April 7th, 2020 | 29 mins 32 secs
We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London.
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Episode #174 - Pianist, Composer, and Author Stephen Hough
April 3rd, 2020 | 34 mins 7 secs
In this episode, we talk with the pianist and author Stephen Hough, about how the lockdown is affecting him, how he has "the backside of a rhinoceros," and we discuss how classical concerts could change in the future.
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Episode #173 - Pianist Angela Hewitt
March 31st, 2020 | 35 mins 21 secs
In the first of a number of out-of-band episodes that we're planning to release in the coming weeks, we talk with pianist Angela Hewitt, best known for her extraordinary recordings of all of Bach's keyboard works.
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Episode #172 - Social Isolation and Music
March 25th, 2020 | 30 mins 37 secs
These are difficult times for many people, who are now required to stay at home. Music can help us get through this. In this "two guys not in a pub" episode, Doug and Kirk reflect on social isolation and music.
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Episode #171 - Vintage Audio Gear
March 11th, 2020 | 27 mins 41 secs
While there are lots of reasons to opt for minimal audio equipment, for some people there is an enduring allure for vintage stereo amps and receivers from the hi-fi heydays of the 1970s. The time when audio gear had knobs and dials and VU meters, like the fins and grilles on 1950s cars. We discuss our lust for those baroque audio devices of yore.
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Episode #170 - Miles Davis's Landmark Album Kind of Blue
February 26th, 2020 | 35 mins 43 secs
Ashley Kahn wrote the book on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, the jazz album everyone owns if they one at least one jazz album. We talk with Ashley about the recording of Kind of Blue, and about its legacy. (Apologies for the audio issues.)