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Discovery Orchestra Chat 87 – Things To Practice Noticing Part 3

In this third chat in the series, Maestro Maull shows us how to notice more detail in the music we listen to. Watch and listen to Chat 85, Part 1…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 86 – Things to Practice Noticing Part 2

In this second chat in the series, Maestro Maull shows us how to notice more detail in the music we listen to. Watch and listen to Chat 85, Part 1…

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What Makes Scary Music Scary?

We’ve all been there. The music that composers create as soundtracks for suspense and horror films definitely does the job. It amplifies the feelings we are experiencing from the visual…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 85 – Things to Practice Noticing Part 1

Maestro Maull does what he does best – showing us how to notice more musical detail in this Discovery Orchestra Chat. Watch and listen to Chat 86, Part 2 Watch…

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Fifty Shades of Grey: the Classical Album, Music selected by author E L James

Take Help When. . .And Where You Can Get It!

“Listening to music is an indispensable element in civil life, though it is often neglected. I am convinced that there is not only an aesthetic value in music: its intrinsic…

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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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Thank you so much for inviting us to attend the Saint-Saens “Organ Symphony” recording session. I have always enjoyed listening to this work. As is always the case, your tutorial was excellent! I cannot believe how much more I now know about the “Organ Symphony”. And with more understanding comes a better appreciation. The Discovery Orchestra is much bigger than I remember. Their performance was excellent and truly exciting! A really big pipe organ performed by Mark Miller further enhanced the entire listening experience.

— Earle Eaton, Recording Engineer of our predecessor entity the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey