Rachmaninoff

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New Jersey Youth Symphony’s Symphonic Dances! Concert

New Jersey Youth Symphony’s upcoming concert Symphonic Dances! will be held at the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton on Sunday, October 30 at 4:00 p.m. and features…

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Inside Music Radio Show Episode:Another Side of Rachminoff

Another Side of Rachmaninoff

Host George Marriner Maull, as a 9-year-old boy soprano, discovered another side of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.  He had listened to his mother play a number of his solo piano works…

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30.

Saturday, January 30, 2021 7-8pm. NJPAC Virtual Lecture. Free on Zoom. Featuring Maestro George Marriner Maull.

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Inside Music: A Belated Valentine

A Belated Valentine

The creation of emotional tension and the release of it is a common aesthetic goal among all composers of wordless, abstract music. The moment of greatest emotional intensity in a…

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Inside Music: Not a Bang but a Gentle Goodbye

Gentle Goodbyes

The first and final movements of many symphonies and concertos end with a bang! “Send them home on a high note!” But that is not universally the case. George Marriner…

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The Point

Host George Marriner Maull uses Claude Debussy’s La Mer, Movement 2, to illustrate a favorite concept of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff believed that every movement of music had a moment…

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What a great idea to do this. It looks and sounds fantastic. I LOVED the music, the animated lettering and the design for Notes from Under the Piano…It takes a special gift to transform the written word into the spoken word…And the length is perfect, left me wanting more…

— ‘Notes from Under the Piano’ viewer