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…
Radio Show: “Inside Music with George Marriner Maull”
The Decision
One of the first Black composers to gain recognition in the United States, Margaret Bonds sadly did not live to hear her 1962 symphonic work, The Montgomery Variations, performed in its entirety…
“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!
Stream it on WWFM this Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 7:30PM! Codas are those extra endings with which composers often conclude one of the movements they have written—be that movement…
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…
The Playful Tchaikovsky
When we mentionTchaikovsky, “playful and humorous” are not the first two words that usually come to mind. We have his tragic Symphony No. 6, Pathétique,the final work he bequeathed us,…
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.