New Radio Show Episode!
In this episode of Inside Music, host George Marriner Maull presents another side of composer Johannes Brahms. Brahms wrote his Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 over a…
Radio Show: “Inside Music with George Marriner Maull”
You’ve Heard It A Million Times
You’ve Heard It A Million Times – But Have You Really Listened? Inside Music host George Marriner Maull looks into Pachelbel’s frequently encountered “Canon”. This work combines the musical…
The Decision
African American composer Margaret Bonds sadly did not live to hear her symphonic work, The Montgomery Variations, performed by a symphony orchestra. Today this work is being programmed by major…
“Meet the Archduke” on our Radio Show
Beethoven dedicated a number of works to his friend, student, and (perhaps most importantly) patron Archduke Rudolph of Austria, who was 18 years younger than the composer. In fact,due to…
Now That’s a Coda!
Codas are those extra endings with which composers often conclude one of the movements they have written – be that movement from a symphony, concerto, sonata, string quartet, solo piano…
Are We Feeling Three or Two?
Maestro Maull takes us into the ambivalent world of compound meter in which composers like Antonín Dvořák play with our senses as they toggle back and forth between organizing sounds…
I was delighted to hear George Marriner Maull’s “Inside Music” when he discussed how to listen to and enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the 4th movement. To have the words of the choral Ode to Joy translated and explained (word for word) was enlightening and inspiring as well. And to learn all the intricacies of the music itself was fascinating.