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Discovery Orchestra Chat 81 – How Can You Resist the Harp?

Harpist Merynda Adams explores usual and unusual timbres and effects on the harp.

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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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Discovery Orchestra Chat 79 – Clarinet Timbres

We are pleased to highlight the talents of the orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston as she demonstrates the different members of the clarinet family. See if you can identify some…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 76 – Countdown to Vivaldi Part 3!

The last of three chats about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons! Watch and listen to Chat 74, Part 1 Watch and listen to Chat 75, Part 2 Sign up here to receive…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 71 – All That Jazz Part 2

Guest artists jazz pianist Dan Crisci, drummer Steve Holloway, and Bob Funesti on bass join George Marriner Maull in this second of four jazzy chats! Watch and listen to Chat…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 70 – All That Jazz Part 1

Guest artists jazz pianist Dan Crisci, drummer Steve Holloway, and Bob Funesti on bass join George Marriner Maull in this first of four jazzy chats! Watch and listen to Chat…

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This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!

— Attendee of NJPAC Classical Conversations with Maestro Maull