Jarrod Richey's Musical Meanderings on music education, church music, hymnody, and more. <br/><br/><a href="https://jarrodrichey.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jarrodrichey.substack.com</a>
Musically Speaking
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Jarrod Richey's Musical Meanderings on music education, church music, hymnody, and more. <br/><br/><a href="https://jarrodrichey.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jarrodrichey.substack.com</a>
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July 3, 2026
Friday FIVE: July 3 - Solfege on Parade
<p>In March of 2017, I sat on the second row of the closing concert of the OAKE National Conference in Philadelphia with my friend and mentor Lamar Robertson. The American Boychoir, under director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, closed the program with Stars and Stripes Forever, sung entirely on solfege, piccolo line and all. In this episode I reflect on what that moment revealed about music literacy, the Kodály approach, and what it looks like when solfege stops being an exercise and becomes a language. I will put a link to the OAKE Facebook video in the show notes. You can spot my red hair and Lamar's gray hair on the second row.</p><p>The Friday FIVE is a weekly five-minute podcast series from Musically Speaking that features five minutes of music commentary, examples, and recommendations from Jarrod Richey.Here’s the video on Facebook. You can see Lamar and me on the second row: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199884020109840">https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1199884020109840</a></p><p>Here’s the professional, non-solfege recording on YouTube: </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/q1I8BSwmgTA">https://youtu.be/q1I8BSwmgTA</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jarrodrichey.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jarrodrichey.substack.com</a>
June 26, 2026
Friday FIVE: June 26 - Real Harmony
<p>This week's episode comes from Atlanta, Georgia, where I am attending the Repairing the Ruins conference, the annual gathering of the Association of Classical Christian Schools. After nine years of leading morning singing in the Grand Ballroom for over a thousand classical Christian educators, I reflect on the workshop I gave yesterday — Real Harmony: Recovering Communal Singing in a Disembodied Age. Music surrounds us like never before. And yet the formative power of singing together is quietly disappearing from our schools, churches, and homes. The work of recovering it is not as elusive as it seems.</p><p>The Friday FIVE is a weekly five-minute podcast series from Musically Speaking that features five minutes of music commentary, examples, and recommendations from Jarrod Richey.Here’s a clip from two years ago in the atrium of this same hotel. We sang some psalms and hymns together: <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/qw4tyqvzrdw">https://youtu.be/qw4tyqvzrdw</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jarrodrichey.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jarrodrichey.substack.com</a>
June 19, 2026
Friday FIVE: June 19 - Bethena, A Concert Waltz
<p>Scott Joplin gave America the Maple Leaf Rag and the Entertainer. But in 1905, grieving the death of his wife of ten weeks, he wrote something entirely different. Bethena is a concert waltz, marked cantabile, wistful and searching in ways ragtime was never supposed to be. In this episode, I reflect on the backstory behind this neglected composition, a quiet parallel to Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor, and what Bethena reveals about who Joplin really was beyond the title of King of Ragtime.</p><p>The Friday FIVE is a weekly five-minute podcast series from Musically Speaking that features five minutes of music commentary, examples, and recommendations from Jarrod Richey.</p><p>Here’s a recording of Bethena: <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/FzckSxYw7fg">https://youtu.be/FzckSxYw7fg</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jarrodrichey.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jarrodrichey.substack.com</a>
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