What Robert Franz has said about Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026

Robert Franz, Late conductor and music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada, has been quoted on Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Franz contends that Tchaikovsky wrote more beautiful melodies than perhaps anyone else in history.

    “there was probably nobody in the history of all melody writing who wrote more beautiful melodies than the Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky”

    TED Radio Hour: How we experience time (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 35:09

Episodes

  • How we experience time

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 23, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi explores how humans experience time with artist Katie Paterson, neuroscientist Irena Arslanova, conductor Robert Franz, and psychologist Philip Zimbardo.

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