Discovery Orchestra Chat 7 – Cadence
What exactly is cadence in music? Find out in this Chat!
Composers
Discovery Orchestra Chat 6 – Texture Part 2
Learn more about musical texture in this Chat! Watch and listen to Chat 5, Part 1. Watch and listen to Chat 8, Part 3. Sign up here to receive our…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 5 – Texture Part 1
All music has texture – find out what the different kinds are in this Discovery Orchestra Chat! Watch and listen to Chat 6, Part 2. Watch and listen to Chat…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 1 – Ornaments Part 1
New and improved! We have re-edited our first Chats – same great content, but all spic and span now. Have a look at Chat #1 ! What is a musical…
Opening Chord
When people talk or write about classical music they often resort to very descriptive, flowery adjective-filled prose. And we perhaps can get from this a sense of how a given…
Discover Beethoven’s 5th
The Orchestra’s second public television production, Discover Beethoven’s 5th©, features a one-hour exploration of the memorable first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
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.