Composers

Discovery Orchestra Chat 178 – Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 “Juba Dance”, Part 1

It was in 1933 when the first African-American woman would have her music performed by a major U.S symphony orchestra. Maestro Maull explores Florence Price’s Symphony No.1 which fuses Price’s…

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Inside Music radio show episode: Escape from Pandemia

Escape from Pandemia

We all need a mental break from the Covid-19 Pandemic!  Picture in your mind or Google a photo of where the prairie meets the Rocky Mountains or the Steppes of…

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Picture of Seong-Jin Cho, South Korean pianist

NJPAC Classical Overture with Maestro Maull

Sunday, March 6, 2022  at 2:00pm: The Classical Overture hosted by Maestro Maullfollowed by Seong-Jin Cho concert performance Location: NJPAC Prudential Hall Join Maestro Maull for a pre-concert music listening…

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Haydn The Jokester

Haydn the Jokester

Many people know Franz Joseph Haydn as “Papa Haydn”, a well-deserved nick-name in view of his reputation as the father of the symphony. But you may not know that he…

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Inside Music: Let's Get Serious or How Brahms makes us lose rhythmic balance

Let’s Get Serious

Johannes Brahms’s ability to distort our sense of rhythm is always lying in wait.  Turn the corner… and we suddenly lose our rhythmic balance, and Maestro Maull is certain that…

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Radio Show Inside Music featuring Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

A Trading Places Musical Quiz

When film composer Elmer Bernstein scored the 1983 comedy hit Trading Places, he chose Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro to be the musical centerpiece of the film.  However, he also intentionally paraphrased other orchestral works.  Let’s…

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