Discovery Orchestra Chat 99 – Effective Surprise
George explores another composer whose music seems, on the surface, incredibly simple yet is filled with wonderful effective surprises – Frederic Chopin! He uses Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C…
George explores another composer whose music seems, on the surface, incredibly simple yet is filled with wonderful effective surprises – Frederic Chopin! He uses Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C…
Sometimes the utter simplicity of Schubert’s music masks the fact that he was brilliant at creating effective surprise for the listener. See how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat with guest…
Maestro Maull with some of the campers and staff from Camp YDP, Paterson, New Jersey On Steve Hoffman Music Forums there’s an interesting conversation going on around the topic:…
Another look at variation form in this Chat – but backwards! Have a listen to some variations and see if you can figure out what the theme is in this…
Sergei Rachmaninoff believed that each movement of music has a point to make. One might define this “point” as the moment of greatest emotional intensity. How this is accomplished varies…
Beethoven, who let us into his inner emotional life through his music, was not afraid to express his own pain. Listening to his wordless, abstract expressions, we may find his…
I was thrilled when I finished listening to your second episode of my favorite piece of music. I always got emotional when I ‘heard’ the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh [Symphony], but this time I was deeply touched as I could do much more than just ‘hearing’, I could finally ‘listen’ to Beethoven!