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Tune in on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM ET at WWFM.org! Frédéric Chopin’s Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op.53, nicknamed the “Heroic” is––without question––one of the composer’s most well-known…
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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…
Discover the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Maestro Maull and American String Quartet members Peter Winograd, Laurie Carney, Daniel Avshalomov and Wolfram Koessel explore the effervescent first movement of String Quartet No. 5 by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A contemporary…
Are We Feeling Three or Two?
Maestro Maull takes us into the ambivalent world of compound meter in which composers like Antonín Dvořák play with our senses as they toggle back and forth between organizing sounds…
Going Home Part 2
Maestro Maull continues the journey into the beautiful second movement of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World. After a quick review of the 3 themes found in…
Going Home Part 1
Antonín Dvořák’s most beloved and well-known melody is to be found in the second movement of his Symphony No. 9, From the New World. And while its devastating beauty cannot…
Today I watched an episode called “Discover Beethoven’s Fifth”, and it was marvelous! Maestro Maull and his talented orchestra gave me a one-hour thrill. I’ve always loved Beethoven, especially his Fifth Symphony. I studied piano for 7 years as a young person, and came to appreciate so many of the classical composers, but Beethoven’s Fifth has always thrilled me. I so appreciated the format of the program, and the Maestro involved all of us and taught us so much. Thank you for this fine program. And many thanks and praise to the orchestra! When the program ended, I clapped loudly and shouted “Bravo!! Bravo!!!”