Soothing and stimulating at the same time this podcast is so refreshing. I just started piano lessons at 40 and learning about the lives of famous classical composers I’m learning to play feels so approachable. Jade Simmons has an expert but inviting way of telling these stories. I love it!

I absolutely love this podcast and wish there were more episodes! Every episode is expertly researched and the storytelling is captivating. Please make more episodes!

As a pianist, studying music educator, and creative, I found this podcast excellent, exciting, and exquisite!

I have a Bachelors degree in Music Education and I absolutely LOVE this vignettes back to my old Music History days from college. Thank you so much for these snippets of music history! It feeds my inner music nerd!

Heard the episode of Clara Schumann and fell in love with this podcast immediately. Please come back with new season.

On a recommendation, I found this podcast and have been mesmerized by the content, music and captivating narrative. I see other reviewers have made requests for more of the same and I’m hoping that future episodes are in the works. Thank you for such an educational and entertaining podcast. I’ve loved it! Please keep them coming!

We miss you Jade

fun, informational, wonderfully narrated podcast about classical music….please dump some money off at jade simmons’ doorstep so we can have more of it

I LOVE this podcast! I found it last year (2020). Will there be more of these? The depth of research and personalization of the music and composers is extraordinary!

You have no idea how interesting is this content,please please you need to keep going 🙏🥰I LOVEEEE IT

Please continue producing this informative and enjoyable series.

My only complaint about this show is there isn’t enough of it. Jade Simmons is a masterful storyteller who brings classical music history to life. I challenge anyone not to be riveted!

I’m thoroughly enjoying this podcast. The storytelling is excitingly done, bringing you right into the tale. I wish I’d had this resource back in the day when I was homeschooling my kids. I see that I am not alone in wishing for MORE MORE MORE of this amazing series. When can we expect season2?

I have been waiting a long time for more Jade Simmons! There is no other podcast like this and no other host like her. I still can’t really figure out what kind of trick she played with time to allow her to pack so much beauty and insight into each episode and how to narrate them in a way that was so mesmerizing.—please, listen to it and tell people about this treasure. What a marvelous show!

Was riveting, inspiring, and produced much reflection. Black composers of all tiers of performance from streets and churches to opera houses are not sufficiently honored for the dynamic musicality of America, which they most assuredly created and / or greatly influenced. I loved hearing the history of how it came to be staged, and knowing Gershwin actually researched the sound to make it authentic. I loved this show, which I just happened to be among the many choices of my Your Classical on Black History sent via email. While I am not synced to the modern podcast audience nor am I African American, I need programming like this to enlarge my view, and the views of others, to all the beauty and diversity in our world. Thank you. Now, off to hear your other podcasts....

This is a welcome alternative to news podcasts, with a really interesting storyline and really high quality production values! I would love to hear more episodes, and hope that Season 2 is in the works!

Just a brilliant series! Please make more episodes!!!

Please tell me there is a second season coming?!

Omg this is amazing but too few. I came back and I was like, wait that’s it? More please. Where are you guys? we miss you!

Amazing, informative, and interesting. Each segment as interesting as the last! I am excited to hear more!

Jade is such a great and smooth narrator and story teller! This made me love Classical music and I love the combination of good music and stories!

Listened to every episode and loved them! Please please come back and make more!

Interesting, insightful, entertaining, and well produced. Weather you like classical music or not, this podcast is worth listening too!

Decomposed

Wonderful pod. Please come back! Debussy next 😄

Will there be a second season? I absolutely loved the episodes. The composers were brought to life so beautifully. The storytelling and information was top notch. I will never think of Tchaikovsky the same but I enjoyed all the episodes. This is an exceptional podcast.

Thank you for this loving homage to classical music! This sweet and interesting podcast illuminates the humanity and universal passions of classical music, and gives loving treatment to composers, their compositions, and the historical and personal events that spawned them. As per Schiller via “Beethoven’s Ninth,” “Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! (Be embraced, Millions! This kiss for the whole world!)”. Edifying Inspiring, and illuminating!

I can’t imagine anyone who has any interest in classical music whatsoever not enjoying this podcast. Great writing, awesome integration of the music, all round an excellent production.

This podcast is as educational as it is entertaining! The music is perfectly blended with Jade’s infectious narration and the crisp writing. Well done! I’m starving for more episodes.

Every episode I learned the history behind all my favorite classical music pieces. My favorite episode was about Clara Schumann and Tchaikovsky. This definitely helps me understand how to interpret their music and contributions more. Composers that I would love to hear more about: Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninoff... please continue this podcast!

Having gone through years of typical music history classes in undergrad, this is how western music history should be taught. I was learning new things the whole time I was listening! So poignently written, the first episode brought me to tears. It was the only time I have ever heard a teacher say that a woman was not just a footnote in the history books, but one of the great composers. Finally! This podcast pulls back the veneer of the whitewashed male dominated western cannon and brings out the real stories of classical music. As a music teacher, I’m going to be incorporating this into all of my classes whenever possible. These are the classical history lessons we need right now. Aa a violist, my favorite composer is Rebecca Clark. It would be amazing if you could find time to make an episode of her! Thank you so much!

I am so grateful to have found this podcast it is informative, soothing, and helps me branch out my knowledge in musical history !

Just discovered this and listened to every episode in one day. Jade’s energy and enthusiasm are contagious—- hope there’s another season or ten in the future!

Sooooo entertaining! More please!!! Would love an episode on Rachmaninov

Please create another season! We love your podcast. So interesting and so entertaining.

We need for episodes of this wonderful podcast. My kids loved it and I did too. I learned a lot and enjoyed every second. Please more!

Amazing!! I wish there were more episodes!!

As a professional orchestral bassoonist, chamber musician and music educator, your work here brings so many of these historical giants in the field to such a new and vivid life. I’d love to hear a podcast intertwining Stravinsky, Diaghilev and Nijinsky or on anything from the musical world of late 19th century-pre WW1 Paris or even on Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Berlin between the wars. Bravo and I look forward to more podcasts!

As a music educator, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. A non-music colleague told me about it, and I passed it on to another musician friend. All different kinds of people have found value in your work. Thank you!

I absolutely love hearing about the history surrounding great composers and it’s greatest masterpieces! If you’re still taking requests on composers I’d love an episode about Leonard Bernstein. Thanks for your work guys!

Highly recommend a listen! I was hooked after the first episode. If you’re even remotely interested in the history behind the music— give it a try!

I love this show! So fun to learn about composers - and Jade tells theirs stories in such an engaging way. It’s inspiring to learn of all the challenges they faced - war, fascism, homophobia, and more - and how they rose above. I’m very grateful for this series during this time of panic and isolation- thank you for making Decomposed!

...about our favorite composers and compositions by someone with intimate knowledge of music and an infectious passion for her subjects and their works. Bravo!

I was secretly crying at the end of Tchaikovsky episode

Beautifully done looks at worthy pieces, carefully explained. I didn’t think I could love this music more, until these lectures.

I love this podcast more than any other podcast! Please make more!

Are y’all gonna make more orrrr

I binged the first season in a couple of days. Jade Simmonn’s voice and storytelling abilities are superb! I cannot get enough of this podcast, please make more!

This is a fabulous podcast with wonderful in depth look into the many aspects of classical music, including composers, musicians, and much much more. Please more episodes.

This podcast is incredible and so well done. Jade Simmons is awesome and I can’t wait for the next season!