Month: November 2024

Maestro's Monthly Blog - One Good Encore Deserves Another...The Opening Chord. Picture of a choir boy reading music, sitting in a pew.

One Good Encore Deserves Another … The Opening Chord

November 2024  (Revised from the blog post The Opening Chord of June 2011) I’ve been writing posts for this blog for over fourteen years. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually…

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I was delighted to hear George Marriner Maull’s “Inside Music” when he discussed how to listen to and enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the 4th movement. To have the words of the choral Ode to Joy translated and explained (word for word) was enlightening and inspiring as well. And to learn all the intricacies of the music itself was fascinating.

— Inside Music radio listener