Musical Elements

Discovery Orchestra Chat 82 – Another Look at Variation Form

Harpist Merynda Adams joins Maestro Maull as they revisit variation form as found in Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 81 – How Can You Resist the Harp?

Harpist Merynda Adams explores usual and unusual timbres and effects on the harp.

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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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Discovery Orchestra Chat 79 – Clarinet Timbres

We are pleased to highlight the talents of the orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston as she demonstrates the different members of the clarinet family. See if you can identify some…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 78 – Every Time I Feel The Spirit

The Newark Boys Chorus joins Maestro Maull in this Chat!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 76 – Countdown to Vivaldi Part 3!

The last of three chats about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons! Watch and listen to Chat 74, Part 1 Watch and listen to Chat 75, Part 2 Sign up here to receive…

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Wow, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful program. Maestro Maull is a true master of oral presentation and explanation. Clear and engaging, friendly but challenging. He drew in the on-site crowd – and me – to think and listen. I resonated with the way he “taught” the crowd through normal conversational speech … thanks again for expanding my consciousness!

– “Discover Saint-Saens’ ‘Organ’ Symphony” television show viewer