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…
Classical
Incredible Gas Mileage
Johann Sebastian Bach could create an entire movement of music from the smallest fragment of melody. If he were alive today, he might well receive a special ecological award for…
Lights, Camera, Action!
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…
Another Side of Rachmaninoff
Host George Marriner Maull, as a 9-year-old boy soprano, discovered another side of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He had listened to his mother play a number of his solo piano works…
Dancing on the Danube
At The Beautiful Blue Danube by Johann Strauss, Jr. is easily the most famous piece by the celebrated “Waltz King ” and one of the most familiar pieces of music…
A Cry Of Despair Part 2
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…
Your “listening guide” amazes me, in that it is a means of illustrating the role of various instrumental sections in communicating and “telling” a story. My background is science and technology so the 1 -1 ½ hours listening to a symphony with your presentation was an exciting learning experience I was not expecting.You are an exceptional talent and personality to be able to introduce someone like myself to the very complicated language of a symphony.