Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Perhaps some of you, listening with your mind’s ear, can hear Judy Garland singing these lyrics: “Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to…
The Maestro’s Blog
A funny thing happened on the way to the…
The “short” version: Fall 1987. With the help of many individuals – notably our spouses Rena and Marcia, and persuasive community influencers Betse Gump and Mary Horn – Brian Frederick…
Guest Blogger Interviews Maestro Maull
Interview With Discovery Orchestra Conductor George Marriner Maull: A Four-and-a-Half-Year-Old Fell In Love With a Symphony Recording. Seventy Years Later, He Hasn’t Changed. By Isabelle Qi At age 75, George…
More Than Success
I’ve written before about Dr. Jee-Hoon Krska and the wonderful non-profit organization she founded in 2016, Keys 2 Success, in her words: “to teach classical piano to kids growing up…
Guest Blogger: John Wargacki
How To Be a Lover of Poetry Via Music Without Really Trying Music is then the knowledge of that which relates to love in harmony and system. — Plato Having…
One of the Most Amazing Persons I Know
I first met Virginia Johnston when she was a teenager. In the early 1980’s, Ginny became principal clarinetist of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which I was then serving as…
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.