Rhythm

Discovery Orchestra Chat 159 – Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 Mvt 1 Part 1

The first of 16 Discovery Orchestra Chats on Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”. This is the first of 4 Chats that will explore Movement 1.

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Secrets of Conducting

We know what you’re thinking! Who is “we?” We conductors know what many audience members are thinking when you attend our performances. From your perspective, it looks like a lion…

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A Visit To The Chorus School

Two years ago – almost to the day – I blogged about visiting the Newark Boys Chorus School in New Jersey. As a former choirboy, these visits are always special…

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How Can We Understand Classical Music?

Laura Phillips Ward, who maintains The Discovery Orchestra’s twitter account @AhaClassical, recently forwarded me a tweet from Sweden! “How can I understand classical music I guess is the question.” This…

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Chats!

Just wondering. . .have you taken a look at our Discovery Orchestra Chats? This YouTube project began several years ago out of a desire at The Discovery Orchestra to provide…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 144 – Tease

Do you enjoy being teased? Composers enjoy teasing listeners – Maestro Maull shows you how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat using Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings to illustrate.

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Stumbled upon this quite by accident on our Maryland PBS station. What a joy! Firebird is my favorite piece of music and your wonderful program just enhanced my appreciation of Stravinsky’s genius. Thank you and keep up your great work of feeding our souls!

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