Messiah

Discovery Orchestra Chat 62 – Text Painting

Composers drive home the meaning of words by composing appropriate musical settings.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 59 – A Texture Quiz

How’s your life put together? Find out how music can be put together…take the texture quiz!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 55 – Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Thrill to Handel’s most well-known chorus as you follow our listening guide!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 54 – How fast can you sing?

Can you sing a fast melisma? Listen to The Discovery Orchestra Chorus breeze through the melismas of this chorus from Handel’s Messiah.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 40 – Aspects of Melody

Can this melody be sung…. or not?

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 24 – Deceptive Cadences

Do you like being deceived? Well, composers use deceptive cadences to surprise the music listener!

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Thank you so much for inviting us to attend the Saint-Saens “Organ Symphony” recording session. I have always enjoyed listening to this work. As is always the case, your tutorial was excellent! I cannot believe how much more I now know about the “Organ Symphony”. And with more understanding comes a better appreciation. The Discovery Orchestra is much bigger than I remember. Their performance was excellent and truly exciting! A really big pipe organ performed by Mark Miller further enhanced the entire listening experience.

— Earle Eaton, Recording Engineer of our predecessor entity the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey