The Invisibility of Music
Think about this. Music is invisible. Yes, it may be there as a background to visual images on television or the movie screen. And yes, music may cause you to…
Month: February 2013
Discovery Orchestra Chat 92 – Change of Timbre
Listen as The Discovery Orchestra plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (2nd Movement) and Maestro Maull explores a “Change in Timbre” in this chat.
The Power of Love
We all know what it is like to feel incredibly close to someone – even if we have never been able to express these feelings to that special someone. This…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 91 – The Point
Sergei Rachmaninoff believed that each movement of music has a point to make. One might define this “point” as the moment of greatest emotional intensity. How this is accomplished varies…
This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!