Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:00-9:30pm The Park Savoy 236 Ridgedale Ave Florham Park, NJ 07932 Discover the spirited playfulness of Beethoven at The Discovery Orchestra’s annual Patrons’ Dinner on Wednesday, October 27,…
The Largo of the Concerto for Two Violins is a powerful profession of love. We know the two great loves of Johann Sebastian Bach. His wife Maria Barbara and he were married in 1707,…
Host George Marriner Maull will take you on a guided tour of one his favorite overtures! In atypical fashion, Bedřich Smetana composed this overture before writing barely any of the music for the rest…
It was in 1933 when the first African-American woman would have her music performed by a major U.S symphony orchestra. Maestro Maull explores Florence Price’s Symphony No.1 which fuses Price’s…
These programs were amazing, truly life-changing. The first few almost overwhelmed me – there was so much that I couldn’t take it all in. When I listened to the last one and was able to follow through to the end, I realized how much I had learned! As I mentioned, I’ve always loved listening to music – my parents (with no musical background) played classical music constantly in the house and bought me records along the lines of “A child’s introduction to classic music” and “listen to the violins” (records that I still have and passed down to my children when they were younger). I continued their tradition of playing “guess the composer” while playing classical music at dinnertime with my children and now they are doing the same with their children.