Two Visits in Four Days
Maestro Maull with some of the campers and staff from Camp YDP, Paterson, New Jersey On Steve Hoffman Music Forums there’s an interesting conversation going on around the topic:…
Dynamics
Discovery Orchestra Chat 96 – How Would You Depict
Maestro Maull would like you to exercise your creative imagination and think like a composer in this Discovery Orchestra Chat!
Discovery Orchestra Chat 95 – Beethoven’s Sense of Humor
Despite the fact that Beethoven was so depressed about his hearing loss, he managed to hang on to his sense of humor. Follow along with our Listening Guide and see how…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 94 – Name that Tune?
Another look at variation form in this Chat – but backwards! Have a listen to some variations and see if you can figure out what the theme is in this…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 93 – What in the World
Maestro Maull plays a game in this Discovery Orchestra Chat. He challenges you to guess what story the composer is trying to express in different musical pieces. Listen along!
Discovery Orchestra Chat 91 – The Point
Sergei Rachmaninoff believed that each movement of music has a point to make. One might define this “point” as the moment of greatest emotional intensity. How this is accomplished varies…
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!