Month: November 2020

Discovery Orchestra Receives Investors Foundation Grant

SUMMIT, New Jersey – The Discovery Orchestra (“the Orchestra”) recently received a $2,500 grant from the Investors Foundation. The grant will help further the Orchestra’s mission of teaching music listening…

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Northern New Jersey Community Foundation

Discovery Orchestra Receives Northern New Jersey Community Foundation Grant

This month, The Discovery Orchestra was pleased to receive a grant in the amount of $1,000 from the COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund , administered by the Northern New Jersey Community…

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Full Circle

Guest blogger Stephen Browne, filling in for Maestro Maull! When I was six years old, a couple months shy of seven, my parents decided to take me to one of…

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The More We Perceive…The More We Receive

What happens when you give something your undivided attention? A chance to perceive more!  How did a visit to Africa illustrate this? Notes from Under the Piano is available on your…

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Inside Music: Bach's Antidote, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Movement 3

Bach’s Antidote

Movement III of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, knits together the built-in reassurance of fugue and ternary form with Bach’s ultimate optimism. Host George Marriner Maull will explore…

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Inside Music: Johannes Brahms Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op.90, The Deeper Side of Brahms

The Deeper Side of Brahms

Perhaps as well as any composer and frankly better than most, Johannes Brahms was able to convey the feeling of loss… the death of a close friend, an irretrievable loss of…

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I cannot thank you enough for such a wonderful afternoon. We LOVED the concert/presentation. It was exceptional and meaningful for both of us. I especially loved the piano. I had no idea it was piano that I heard when listening to the piece. I always thought it was a harp for some reason. It reminded me of water…..I cried just a little hearing that beautiful music. Thank you for giving us some culture and life after Covid!

— Attendees of the taping of Discover Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony