Discovery Orchestra Chat

New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Classical Overtures presents Midori & Festival Strings Lucerne on Sunday, November 5, 2023.

Midori with Festival Strings Lucerne

Featuring violinist Midori with Festival Strings Lucerne
Sunday, November 5, 2023
2:00pm Overture with Maestro Maull/ 3:00pm Concert
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ

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Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell Event on Saturday, March, 30, 2023 at the Prudential hall Betty Wold Johnson's stage

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Featuring the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with violinist Joshua Bell
Saturday, March 30, 2024
2:00pm Overture with Maestro Maull / 3:00pm Concert
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 182 – Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy”, Part 3 with Maestro Maull

This Chat begins with Maestro Maull exploring how a pair of ascending sequences can build emotional intensity, followed by the release of that tension. This emotional tension is a result…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 181 – Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy”, Part 2 with Maestro Maull

Part 2 of Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy” begins with the “Capulets & Montagues Conflict” theme as tension builds with the rising pairs of violin/woodwind imitations. This part continues with…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 178 – Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 “Juba Dance”, Part 1

It was in 1933 when the first African-American woman would have her music performed by a major U.S symphony orchestra. Maestro Maull explores Florence Price’s Symphony No.1 which fuses Price’s…

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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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Marvelous job, Maestro, as always! Thank you for doing such a splendid, insightful and careful deep-dive into the art and craftsmanship that Tchaikovsky, after much effort, put into creating this work. There really is no greater portrayal of young love in music than his Romeo and Juliet, and your thoughtfulness demonstrates it so admirably.

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