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I cannot deny it. I am personally getting incredibly excited about our upcoming 6th production for American Public Television on September 18th. Sounds like a long way from now, but…
In this episode, host George Marriner Maull continues to focus on the incredible music to be found in the fourth movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Taking up where he…
Tchaikovsky composed his 6th symphony between February and August of 1893 and conducted the premiere on October 28th – just nine days before he died. That Tchaikovsky’s life had a…
Many people know Franz Joseph Haydn as “Papa Haydn”, a well-deserved nick-name in view of his reputation as the father of the symphony. But you may not know that he…
Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite has been with me a long time. Back in the 1960’s, one of Philadelphia’s grocery store chains, the Penn Fruit Company, began offering classical 33 1/3…
The 2nd movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 remains beloved more than 200 years after its premiere at which those attending demanded an immediate encore…right on the spot,…
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!