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Podcast: Classical Music Discoveries
Episode: 17059 Mutual Aid Music
Description: Trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley releases Mutual Aid Music, a double-CD of eight ensemble concertos.
Mutual aid points to the concept of community action and the human drive to provide succor to our fellow humans. Mutual aid is the primary ethic of an anarchistic utopia in which each knows what they have, is honest about what they need, and is prepared to give and receive accordingly. Every human want is met by a commensurate surplus and all are lifted equally above suffering. Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music asks the musicians to take stock of their gifts and to ask themselves, in...