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Discovery Orchestra Chat 100 – Piano Transcriptions Part 1

Maestro Maull and pianist Stephen Wu use Christoph Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirit to investigate piano transcription.  Be sure to continue with Part 2.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 99 – Effective Surprise

George explores another composer whose music seems, on the surface, incredibly simple yet is filled with wonderful effective surprises – Frederic Chopin! He uses Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 98 – Utter Simplicity and Effective Surprise

Sometimes the utter simplicity of Schubert’s music masks the fact that he was brilliant at creating effective surprise for the listener. See how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat with guest…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 97 – Noticing Tempo Change #2

In this Chat, Maestro Maull challenges you to count the number of tempo changes in Brahms’ Hungarian Dance #6 – are you up to the challenge?

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 96 – How Would You Depict

Maestro Maull would like you to exercise your creative imagination and think like a composer in this Discovery Orchestra Chat!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 95 – Beethoven’s Sense of Humor

Despite the fact that Beethoven was so depressed about his hearing loss, he managed to hang on to his sense of humor. Follow along with our Listening Guide and see how…

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— Paul Chapin, Head of Newark Boys Chorus School