A Little Romance Part 2
Host George Marriner Maull concludes his look into the music of Johann Strauss, Jr. revisiting Wiener Blut and other Strauss mega-hits that tug on the heart strings of countless waltzers and non-waltzers…
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A Little Romance
The music of Johann Strauss, Jr. has cast a dreamlike spell on listeners and dancers alike for over one-hundred years. Maestro Maull recalls hearing an attendee at one of the…
Mother and Child
In 1943, when composer William Grant Still wrote his Suite for Violin and Piano, he took inspiration from three African American works of art, including Sargent Johnson’s “Mother & Child”,…
To Him I Bow the Knee
Don’t miss the Encore Presentation of this episode on Saturday, June 10th at 7:30 PM ET on WWFM – The Classical Network: https://www.wwfm.org/#stream/0. When asked who was the greatest composer…
Every Once In A While
Maestro Maull explores the unsettling feeling we experience every once in a while when listening to music… when suddenly we think: “Wait a minute, didn’t someone else write that?” Examples…
This, Too, Is For You!
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,…
What a great idea to do this. It looks and sounds fantastic. I LOVED the music, the animated lettering and the design for Notes from Under the Piano…It takes a special gift to transform the written word into the spoken word…And the length is perfect, left me wanting more…