And The Annual Piano Prize Goes To….
Maestro Maull briefly recounts the story of his receiving The Annual Piano Prize as a seventh grader at St. Peter’s Choir School in Philadelphia. He delves into the LP recording…
Month: December 2019
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F Minor
Friday, April 9, 2021 7:00-8:00 pmClassical Conversations with George Marriner MaullNJPAC Virtual – Free on Zoom Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor is a monumental work that explores various sides of…
What Happened!
People have been asking, and believe me, no one was more surprised than the members of The Discovery Orchestra when, after last seeing me in the spring, I walked into…
Annual Thanks – Encore 2019
In re-reading Thanksgiving blog posts from the past I sometimes think: “Mm, this would be good to repeat.” The one I wrote in 2014 struck me, and so I offer…
How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm
(After They’ve Seen Paree?)…as the 1919 WWI song written by lyricist Joe Young and composers Sam M. Lewis and Walter Donaldson so ably asks. The problem, however, for classical music…
Dimitri And Uncle Joe
Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 provides the subject matter for Maestro Maull’s look at the composer’s challenging life under Josef Stalin’s reign of terror. Shostakovich’s satirical Movement II demonstrates one…
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