PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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It’s a lot more than just pianos. We’ll follow the story of the musical keyboard, from the ancient Greeks all the way to synthesizers, examining mu...
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Featuring music inspired by bucolic nature scenes, including Pastoral symphonies by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and Richard Strauss’ Alpine Sym...
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"The greatest genius that ever lived," proclaimed WH Auden, while Rossini said that Wagner had "beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour." L...
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We've borrowed our title from the 1941 jazz standard, but what is a rhapsody? In music, Grove defines a rhapsody is "an episodic instrumental compo...
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Continuing our massive series in examining the symphony, widely considered one of the most important forms of classical music. Our exploration this...
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We’ll sample from the wealth of music inspired by the Bard’s verse, including a suite from Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and excerpts f...
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We’ll sample from the wealth of music inspired by the Bard’s verse, including a suite from Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and excerpts f...
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With communications and travel offering cultural exchange like never before, today’s composer draws from an enormous palette, giving voice to the a...
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With communications and travel offering cultural exchange like never before, today’s composer draws from an enormous palette, giving voice to the a...
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With communications and travel offering cultural exchange like never before, today’s composer draws from an enormous palette, giving voice to the a...
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With communications and travel offering cultural exchange like never before, today’s composer draws from an enormous palette, giving voice to the a...
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This week we will explore the sections of the modern orchestra, instruments that are hit, plucked, blown through, fingered, and bowed. Bill will po...
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This week's focus is musical buffoonery! Music is a language, and like all others it has its jokes, witticisms, and puns. For composers, clowning ...
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This week's focus is musical buffoonery! Music is a language, and like all others it has its jokes, witticisms, and puns. For composers, clowning ...
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This week's focus is musical buffoonery! Music is a language, and like all others it has its jokes, witticisms, and puns. For composers, clowning ...
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Slipped Through the Cracks is the eleventh episode in our ongoing series of symphonic voyages. In over a decade of exploring the symphonic form we'...
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Bill's exploration of the music of African-American composers continues this week. We will hear Bill conduct a work by Anthony Davis, plus music co...
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Bill's exploration of the music of African-American composers continues this week. We will hear Bill conduct a work by Anthony Davis, plus music co...
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We start every hour of this week with a "hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino" from the incidental music in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Bill rounds ou...
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We start every hour of this week with a "hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino" from the incidental music in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Bill rounds ou...
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We start every hour of this week with a "hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino" from the incidental music in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Bill rounds ou...
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This week we open to one of the most delightful and storied chapters of the string quartet's history, centering around the works of Mendelssohn, Sc...
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This week we open to one of the most delightful and storied chapters of the string quartet's history, centering around the works of Mendelssohn, Sc...
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What a scene in Vienna: business owners, intellectuals and scholars offering a home for a concert, a meal, a place to sleep or a room with a piano...
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What a scene in Vienna: business owners, intellectuals and scholars offering a home for a concert, a meal, a place to sleep or a room with a piano...
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