Discover The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite has been with me a long time. Back in the 1960’s, one of Philadelphia’s grocery store chains, the Penn Fruit Company, began offering classical 33 1/3…
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Discover The Firebird
Discover The Firebird, winner of 2 Telly Awards, begins with a complete performance of Kastchei’s Infernal Dance by 85 members of The Discovery Orchestra and Maestro George Marriner Maull, and…
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F Minor
Friday, April 9, 2021 7:00-8:00 pmClassical Conversations with George Marriner MaullNJPAC Virtual – Free on Zoom Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor is a monumental work that explores various sides of…
Dimitri And Uncle Joe
Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 provides the subject matter for Maestro Maull’s look at the composer’s challenging life under Josef Stalin’s reign of terror. Shostakovich’s satirical Movement II demonstrates one…
Captain Nemo Meets Igor Stravinsky
First – mea culpa! I wish to apologize for my two-month hiatus from posting. Preparations during July and August for the production we just recorded for American Public Television – right up…
Game of Tones Parties
14.7 million US citizens watched the first episode of the last season of Game of Thrones. . .according to Reuters news. That’s about 5.25% of our total population. According to…
This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!