Discovery Orchestra Chat 55 – Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Thrill to Handel’s most well-known chorus as you follow our listening guide!
Do you like being deceived? Well, composers use deceptive cadences to surprise the music listener!
Maestro Maull explains crescendo and decrescendo and how sudden dynamic changes can be so exciting.
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.