Composers

Handel's Hallelujah from Messiah Some Holiday Levity - blog title

Hallelujah… Some Holiday Levity

Have you ever sung Messiah – a portion of it, or just Hallelujah?  I remember the first time I did.  I was scared out of my mind.  The choir of…

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Discover Handel’s Hallelujah: Free Listening Guide

A Listening Guide is a visual ‘roadmap’ of classical pieces for ‘do-it-yourself’ listening lessons, using YouTube recordings recommended by Maestro Maull. The guide highlights specific musical details to notice as…

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Free Event! NJPAC Virtual Classical Conversations: Hallelujah

December 17, 2021 at 7:00pm ET. Join us and NJPAC for a deep-dive into the story behind Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus with George Marriner Maull, artistic director of The Discovery Orchestra…

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Inside Music radio show episode: March to the Scaffold, the fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony; stream it anywhere

March to the Scaffold!

Host George Marriner Maull will dive into what some historians believe to be a hallucinogenic musical excursion from the mind of French composer Louis-Hector Berlioz.  March To The Scaffold, the fourth…

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Inside Music radio show episode: Anyone for a Drink?

Anyone for a Drink?

The raucous movement When We Are In The Tavern from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is the focus of this episode. Maestro Maull explores both the text and music of this…

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Inside Music radio show episode: The World of Unison; listen from anywhere on WWFM The Classical Network

The World of Unison

We’ve all experienced those uncanny and sometimes humorous moments in life when two people answer the same question with the exact same answer at exactly the same time. When this…

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What a great idea to do this. It looks and sounds fantastic. I LOVED the music, the animated lettering and the design for Notes from Under the Piano…It takes a special gift to transform the written word into the spoken word…And the length is perfect, left me wanting more…

— ‘Notes from Under the Piano’ viewer