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Our radio show "Inside Music" with George Marriner Maull. This episode is entitled "It's Cold Out There!" featuring Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons

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Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Le Quattro Stagioni – is perhaps one of the most recognizable and often performed compositions in all of classical music. While it’s not quite up…

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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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Inside Music radio show episode: Polovtsian Dances from Borodin's Opera Prince Igor

Take My Hand

The romantic music of Alexander Borodin is explored in this episode of Inside Music.  Maestro Maull will focus on the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor.  These dances were a favorite composition of…

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Inside Music: Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers with George Marriner Maull

A Holiday Barn Burner

Host George Marriner Maull, in keeping with the holiday spirit, explores Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Performed perhaps a thousand times worldwide at this time of year, this…

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Marvelous job, Maestro, as always! Thank you for doing such a splendid, insightful and careful deep-dive into the art and craftsmanship that Tchaikovsky, after much effort, put into creating this work. There really is no greater portrayal of young love in music than his Romeo and Juliet, and your thoughtfulness demonstrates it so admirably.

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