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“I took a course with E. Ray Sprenkle at Peabody about 15 years ago, and that man taught me to listen to Brahms and Dvorak with my soul, to understand…
Yes, it was disappointing not to win the Emmy. At The Discovery Orchestra we at times lulled ourselves into magically thinking that the proverbial ‘third time would be a charm.’…
We are thrilled that Discover Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has won 3 2013 Telly Awards – one in cultural programming, one in educational programming, and a People’s Telly! With nearly 11,000…
“I also remember lying under the grand piano, sometimes for a long time, listening and feeling the vibrations of the huge instrument as my father played.” When I saw those…
The last of three chats about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!
In this first of 3 chats about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, George talks about the “verbal descriptions” written over the score of “Spring”.
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!