Discovery Orchestra Chat 133 – Beethoven with a Wink and a Smile Part 4
Maestro Maull explores sonata allegro form in Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major with the Amphion String Quartet. Fourth in a series, this Chat is from…
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Discovery Orchestra Chat 132 – Beethoven with a Wink and a Smile Part 3
Maestro Maull explores sonata allegro form in Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major with the Amphion String Quartet. Third in a series, this Chat is from…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 131 – Beethoven with a Wink and a Smile Part 2
Maestro Maull explores sonata allegro form in Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major with the Amphion String Quartet. Second in a series, this Chat is from…
Oi Vey! Not Another One!
contributor Mark Vanhoenacker offered yet another in the unending series of obituaries for classical music on January 21, 2014, entitled Requiem – Classical Music in America is dead. Vanhoenacker quotes…
Musician Humor
A few blog posts ago I let some of you in on ‘conductor humor.’ I say ‘some of you’ because there are undoubtedly ‘others of you’ who may have already…
Art for Life’s Sake
On the evening of Monday, April 8, 2013 cellist Yo-Yo Ma delivered the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He called…
Today I watched an episode called “Discover Beethoven’s Fifth”, and it was marvelous! Maestro Maull and his talented orchestra gave me a one-hour thrill. I’ve always loved Beethoven, especially his Fifth Symphony. I studied piano for 7 years as a young person, and came to appreciate so many of the classical composers, but Beethoven’s Fifth has always thrilled me. I so appreciated the format of the program, and the Maestro involved all of us and taught us so much. Thank you for this fine program. And many thanks and praise to the orchestra! When the program ended, I clapped loudly and shouted “Bravo!! Bravo!!!”