The Discovery Orchestra

Discovery Orchestra Chat 4 – Did You Say Modal?

What exactly does modal refer to? Find out in this Discovery Orchestra Chat!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 3 – Musical Paragraphs

Composers write the equivalent of sentences in music which we call “phrases”. Groups of phrases are put together to form “paragraphs” in music. Learning how to notice these paragraphs gives…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 2 – Change That Chord

Chords provide us with a way of enriching a melody – see how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat!  

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 1 – Ornaments Part 1

New and improved! We have re-edited our first Chats – same great content, but all spic and span now. Have a look at Chat #1 ! What is a musical…

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Opening Chord

When people talk or write about classical music they often resort to very descriptive, flowery adjective-filled prose. And we perhaps can get from this a sense of how a given…

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Discover Beethoven’s 5th on Public TV

The Orchestra’s second public television production, Discover Beethoven’s 5th©, features a one-hour exploration of the memorable first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

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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!

— Attendee of NJPAC Classical Conversations with Maestro Maull