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Discovery Orchestra Chat 163 – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 Mvt 2 Part 1

The 5th of 16 Discovery Orchestra Chats on Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”. This is the first of 4 Chats that will explore Movement 2.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 162 – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 Mvt 1 Part 4

The fourth of 16 Discovery Orchestra Chats on Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”. In this Chat you’ll listen to Movement I along with seeing our Listening Guide on screen.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 160 – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 Mvt 1 Part 2

The second of 16 Discovery Orchestra Chats on Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”. This is the second of 4 Chats that will explore Movement 1.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 159 – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 Mvt 1 Part 1

The first of 16 Discovery Orchestra Chats on Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”. This is the first of 4 Chats that will explore Movement 1.

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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…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 80 – Revisiting Paragraphs

Discovery Orchestra Chats continue with another lesson in ternary form. Follow along as the orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston and Maestro Maull’s wife, Marcia, perform the second movement of Brahms’…

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Your “listening guide” amazes me, in that it is a means of illustrating the role of various instrumental sections in communicating and “telling” a story. My background is science and technology so the 1 -1 ½ hours listening to a symphony with your presentation was an exciting learning experience I was not expecting.You are an exceptional talent and personality to be able to introduce someone like myself to the very complicated language of a symphony.

— Outreach Program Attendee