It’s Cold Out There!
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 there with the…
Orchestra
Haydn the Jokester
Many people perhaps view Franz Joseph Haydn as “Papa Haydn,” a well-deserved accolade in view of his reputation as the father of the symphony as a large musical genre. But…
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…
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…
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…
A Holiday Barn Burner
In this episode, host George Marriner Maull keeps the holiday spirit going with Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Performed perhaps a thousand times worldwide at this time of…
“Wow, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful program. Maestro Maull is a true master of oral presentation and explanation. Clear and engaging, friendly but challenging. He drew in the on-site crowd – and me – to think and listen. I resonated with the way he “taught” the crowd through normal conversational speech … thanks again for expanding my consciousness!”
– “Discover Saint-Saens’ ‘Organ’ Symphony” television show viewer