Scott Yoo

Scott Yoo is a wonderful guide to the music and the influences of some of the great composers of western classical music. [Now Hear This](https://www.thirteen.org/search-results/?q=Now+Hear+This#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Now%20Hear%20This&gsc.ref=more%3Afullepisodes&gsc.sort=)is in its second season—it’s a four-part mini-series from Great Performances. Yoo describes it as influenced by Anthony Bourdain but “substitute music for food.”  But it is a feast for the ears and for the eyes. Yoo travels to the places where composers like Vivaldi, Haydn, and Schubert lived and worked; digs into the cultures that shaped them, the food they ate, the music they heard, and of course, the glorious music that they created.  In a Covid-altered universe where performing art and traveling is out of reach, Now Hear This_ is a series that goes far in filling the breach for the classical music lover, the frustrated traveler, and the curious-minded.