Adagio in G Minor
The Adagio in G Minor—sometimes attributed to the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)—was actually written by Remo Giazotto, a 20th century musicologist, scholar and biographer of Albinoni. Giazotto made no…
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The Peaceful Bach
In this episode of Inside Music, host George Marriner Maull explores Movement II of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. Many people know this music as the Air on the…
Halloween Candy Encore
In the color photo on the left are choristers George Marriner Maull and his older brother, Frederick Howard Maull, on a June Sunday morning in 1960. They’re standing in the…
Tension and Release
From the unseen pulsation of alternating electrical current to the readily identifiable sensation we feel when emotional tension increases and then dissipates … Tension and Release is a common phenomenon….
George Marriner Maull Meets Maestro Bernstein…A Recollection
In light of the recent release of the film Maestro about Leonard Bernstein, I would like to share a few recollections of meeting him in 1976. While residing in Louisville…
The Café Brahms
In this episode of Inside Music, host George Marriner Maull explores the effect that one of Brahms’s most significant influencers, Hungarian violinist Ede Remény, had on him. Asked by Remény in…
Your “listening guide” amazes me, in that it is a means of illustrating the role of various instrumental sections in communicating and “telling” a story. My background is science and technology so the 1 -1 ½ hours listening to a symphony with your presentation was an exciting learning experience I was not expecting.You are an exceptional talent and personality to be able to introduce someone like myself to the very complicated language of a symphony.