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Discovery Orchestra Chat 142 – The String Thing

Find out about Maestro Maull’s “passionate feeling of connection” to strings in this Chat where he uses Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 141 – Musical Comfort Food

Maestro Maull shares his thoughts about music that feels incredibly comforting using Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 to illustrate.

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 140 – Noticing Dynamics

One of the elements of music is dynamics, which is the use of loudness and softness for expressive, inflective purposes. In this Chat, Maestro Maull asks you to notice how…

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Birthday Blog

Birthday girl, birthday boy, birthday cake. . .I thought why not birthday blog! It’s true. October is my birthday month, and I know that many other people share it including…

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The Opening Chord Revisited

I’ve been blogging now for a little over three years. I sometimes wonder if anyone out there has actually been reading them. To recapitulate, as we’d say in sonata form,…

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Ear Worms

This revolting term actually has a specific musical meaning! Wikipedia states: “An ear worm, sometimes also known as a brain worm, (that sounds even worse to me) is a catchy…

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This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!

— Attendee of NJPAC Classical Conversations with Maestro Maull

 

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