It now raises more than half of its $500 million budget from individual listeners or private-sector underwriters.
In a special edition of Private Passions, listeners will be treated to a compilation of previous guests, all of whom selected works by Bach.
But it is discussed, with increasing anguish and urgency, in private conversations with listeners who can be trusted, and recently even in public.
Sessions at the Village Vanguard have always made for my favorite recordings, and the album seemed like one of the more private conversations a listener could have with Hersch.
When Conservative leader Arthur Balfour (later 1st earl of Balfour) refused to commit himself, Chamberlain resigned his cabinet post and from 1903 to 1906 conducted a forceful private campaign, exhorting his listeners to "think imperially".
When Conservative leader Arthur Balfour (later 1st earl of Balfour) refused to commit himself, Chamberlain resigned his cabinet post and from 1903 to 1906 conducted a forceful private campaign, exhorting his listeners to "think imperially". But protection was a political bombshell.
There's a magnificent insularity in Grizzly Bear's music on its fifth full-length album, "Painted Ruins". The band shows the concentration of craftsmen who delight in intricacy and a willingness to sling strictly private allusions, expecting that listeners will engage with layers of convolution.
That intense time in the concert hall is very difficult to recreate with a CD in a private house unless the listener has all the speakers and surround sound and whatever else.
Christian bands never deny their conviction but typically avoid preaching, and sometimes the matter is left unexpressed, leaving religion as a private issue of the listener.
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach lets listeners eavesdrop on private conversations with her patients in riveting 15-minute sessions.
The music, as well as reintroducing Florestan and Eusebius, contained secret messages for Clara which now sound like private messages for us, the listeners – as Thomas Beecham put it: "Subtle and secret phrases that each one of us feels to have been devised for his own particular understanding".
