That’s My Son!
Maestro Maull’s father was totally unafraid to talk to perfect strangers – how did this play out during a concert at the New Jersey Statehouse? Notes from Under the Piano is…
Diane
The Good News
At Abraham Lincoln High School, which Maestro Maull attended in the 1960’s, not a peep of student noise came from the classroom of Dr. Saul Feinberg’s “Perceptive Listening Class”. How…
Mother and Child
In 1943, when composer William Grant Still wrote his Suite for Violin and Piano, he took inspiration from three African American works of art, including Sargent Johnson’s “Mother & Child”,…
Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
Saturday, November 14, 2020. NJPAC Virtual Lecture. Free on Zoom. Featuring Maestro George Marriner Maull.
The Playful Side of Brahms
People often think: “Brahms… mmm, serious.” And Brahms did in fact write lots of weighty, introspective music – all worthy of our attention. But he also had a playful side…
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.