Race to the Finish Line!
Link to stream coming soon! 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…
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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…
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…
One Good Encore Deserves Another … The Opening Chord
November 2024 (Revised from the blog post The Opening Chord of June 2011) I’ve been writing posts for this blog for over fourteen years. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually…
Halloween Candy Encore
In the color photo on the left are choristers George Marriner Maull and his older brother, Frederick Howard Maull, on a June Sunday morning in 1960. They’re standing in the…
Here’s George!
The music of American composer George Gershwin remains as beloved as it was when it was written in the last century. Maestro Maull looks inside the 3rd Movement of the 1925…
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.