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New episode of Inside Music entitled Spring Has Arrived featuring Vivaldi's Spring is now available to stream. Link is in this post.

Now Available to Stream

Inside Music host George Marriner Maull explores one of the most well-known classical music compositions ever written—Spring, from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. Highlighting and demonstrating Vivaldi’s verbal descriptions in this prime example…

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Image of our core values which can be found on our website's homepage in the footer - there is a link to the Core Values document

Maestro’s Monthly Blog

More than a decade ago—in 2011—The Discovery Orchestra adopted a set of Core Values. It’s a topic that sounds like it could be boring. Far from it, here is what…

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Radio Show Inside Music episode entitled Race to the Finish Line, featuring Movement IV of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

Race to the Finish Line

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is famous for many things––not the least of which was his ability to write incredibly exciting moments of symphonic music. In this episode of Inside Music, Maestro…

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New episode of Inside Music Title is "The Peaceful Bach" featuring Movement II of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major

The Peaceful Bach

In this episode of Inside Music, host George Marriner Maull explores Movement II of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. Many people know this music as the Air on the…

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Maestro's blog for January 2025 called "New Jersey Youth Symphony and Violins of Hope" with pictures of Helen Cha-Pyo, Amnon Weinstein and Maestro Maull with Paul Kling.

Violins of Hope: A Profound Musical Journey

I wish that everyone I know in New Jersey and in New York City could have attended the lecture and performance that my wife Marcia and I were present for…

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Maestro's Monthly Blog entitled "Have You Seen This Man" which refers to two side-by-side pictures. In the one picture is Maestro Maull and his brother Howard as children with Santa. The other picture is Maestro Maull as an adult dressed as Santa.

Have You Seen This Man?

Of course, you have! On the left, you have me with Santa Claus in 1952, with my older brother Howard as my backup, making sure that Santa got my list…

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I was delighted to hear George Marriner Maull’s “Inside Music” when he discussed how to listen to and enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the 4th movement. To have the words of the choral Ode to Joy translated and explained (word for word) was enlightening and inspiring as well. And to learn all the intricacies of the music itself was fascinating.

— Inside Music radio listener