Aug 6, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Conductor Robert Moody talks about leading WYSO featuring acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming in "Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene."
Robert MoodyGuest
Isabelle LeeHost
It sounds like there's a mix of works that might be familiar to audiences and those that are newer.
Well, and this is one thing I think where I would say both Renee and I are in full agreement that music is music is music.
I think only mostly non-musicians worry about genre, whether it's classical or pop or Broadway or jazz or what have you.
It opens with a tune from Appalachia that's really sort of just a very plaintive, plain sung Appalachian work.
It goes right from that into a work by Handel, then into this very 21st century work by Nico Muley, and then in the connected to that, there's also a work by Viet Lobos.
There's, uh, a movement, uh, comes from the Lord of the Rings because Renee actually sang on the Lord of the Ring, of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
And, uh, At the very end, there's an amazing piece by Kevin Putz that sort of wraps up this conversation about nature.
And after that, there's sort of an epilogue called Red Mountains Sometimes Cry.
And I love the fact that Handel and Muley and Cantaloupe and Villalobos and Bacharach are all in one setting.
And it's amazing how well it works, even though you might think that sounds like disparate music.
It sounds like there's a mix of works that might be familiar to audiences and those that are newer.
Well, and this is one thing I think where I would say both Renee and I are in full agreement that music is music is music.
I think only mostly non-musicians worry about genre, whether it's classical or pop or Broadway or jazz or what have you.
It opens with a tune from Appalachia that's really sort of just a very plaintive, plain sung Appalachian work.
It goes right from that into a work by Handel, then into this very 21st century work by Nico Muley, and then in the connected to that, there's also a work by Viet Lobos.
There's, uh, a movement, uh, comes from the Lord of the Rings because Renee actually sang on the Lord of the Ring, of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
And, uh, At the very end, there's an amazing piece by Kevin Putz that sort of wraps up this conversation about nature.
And after that, there's sort of an epilogue called Red Mountains Sometimes Cry.
And I love the fact that Handel and Muley and Cantaloupe and Villalobos and Bacharach are all in one setting.
And it's amazing how well it works, even though you might think that sounds like disparate music.
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