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The Great Composers

Colorado Public Radio

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The Great Composers dives deep into the lives behind some of the greatest music ever written. Host Karla Walker and conductor Scott O'Neil look at the world through the eyes of these gifted artists. Learn about obstacles they overcame, and their loves, losses, successes and failures. You'll feel you know Mozart, Rachmaninov and others as friends.
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Busy Kids Love Music is a podcast for the whole family, brought to you by Carly Seifert, the creator of Busy Kids Do Piano. Join Carly as she explores musical styles, composers and terms. You'll listen to loads of great music on the way!
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Composers Datebook

American Public Media

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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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If you already understand Russian but find it difficult to use it in conversation, Russian in Context is just what you need! Listening is key! This podcast simplifies things by discussing various topics in Russian. Repetitions, synonyms, explanations, and a slow pace make understanding easier. Explore our website at www.russianincontext.com for transcripts, free courses, exercises, quizzes, and pronunciation exercises. Connect with us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, iTalki, iTunes, and Goog ...
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Pianist Henrik Kilhamn takes you on a journey through the great piano repertoire. By showing and commenting on what's really going on in the music, this podcast helps unlock the world of classical music for every listener and music lover.
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Welcome to Journey Through Classical Piano, the podcast dedicated to helping people of all musical tastes and backgrounds discover the beauty of classical music. This bi-weekly podcast features concert-like musical experiences and in-depth exploration of classical compositions. Your host, classical pianist Jeeyoon Kim, brings the splendor of the classical music experience right to your living room or on the go in 15-minute segments. Let’s embark in the journey together!
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Hear comments by those who make the arts so vibrant in Hampton Roads - conductors, musicians, singers, actors, teachers, visual artists. Learn about performances and get insight into the creative process from the artists themselves.
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Synopsis In 1906, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff had his heart set on turning popular Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Monna Vanna into an opera. Unfortunately, Rachmaninoff began work on Monna Vanna before he had secured the rights to do so. Rachmaninoff had already finished parts of a piano score for his opera when in …
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Welcome to Busy Kids Love Music, the podcast for busy families and kids who love music and want to learn more about their favorite composers, instruments, and styles of music. I'm your host, Carly Seifert, the creator of Busy Kids Do Piano, and today we are kicking off a special 3-part series on the life and music of the great composer, Gustav Hols…
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AUDIOBOOK "Дама с cобачкой» Антон Чехов⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👉 https://shorturl.at/dqsG2⁠⁠⁠⁠EBOOK "Дама с cобачкой» Антон Чехов⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👉 https://shorturl.at/dmuS7⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcription + QUIZ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This podcast is designed for Russian learners at the A2/lower intermediate level and above. My aim is to immerse you in the Russian language through engaging, enjoyable, …
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2020, the University of Maryland launched PriceFest — an annual festival devoted to American composer Florence Price. The plan was to stage performances of works in the context of lectures and panels devoted to this long-neglected African-American composer. The COVID-19 outbreak forced the first PriceFest to be an online…
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Synopsis Most of us — if we’re lucky — chug along more or less contentedly in an uneventful day-by-day routine, a little like the opening of this chamber work by American composer John Howell Morrison. But sometimes, in some lives, something happens that suddenly disrupts the uneventful, comfortable routine, something that knocks all routine and no…
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Synopsis The 1985 Salzburg Festival boasted a quite unusual premiere: a 17th century Venetian opera by Italian Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi entitled Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, or The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland, as arranged and orchestrated by the contemporary German composer Hans Werner Henze. The surviving music for Monteverdi’s …
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Synopsis When asked to name some important musical works associated with World War II, music lovers are apt to think of the sonatas and symphonies Prokofiev and Shostakovich wrote during those years. But three symphonies by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger form another compelling war triptych. Honegger spent the war years in occupied France, and his …
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Synopsis It might seem odd that during his long career, Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály wrote only nine works for orchestra. When someone asked him about this, he replied, “I was busy with more important work: I had to educate a public.” Kodály and his countryman Béla Bartók were pioneers in the collection and study of Hungarian folk music, and, o…
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Synopsis In the 1930s, American composer Ferde Grofé was on a roll. During the previous decade, as staff arranger for the Paul Whiteman orchestra, Grofé had orchestrated all the music that popular ensemble had premiered, including George Gershwin’s 1924 jazz classic Rhapsody in Blue. But by the late 1920s, Grofé was composing his own original score…
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Synopsis Young composers who came of age in the 1960s found themselves faced with a question: should they adopt the intellectually fashionable post-serial, atonal style of composition developed by Arnold Schoenberg’s followers, or return to a more accessible and tonal musical language, neo-Romantic, neo-Classical, or Minimalist in nature? For Ameri…
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Welcome to the final episode of our Around the World with Busy Kids Love Music series! Travel with me today as we explore the vibrant and historical folk music of Greece. This summer, we’ve traveled through Zambia, Fiji, Finland, and Argentina, learning about their rich musical traditions. If you missed any episodes, don’t worry – I’ve linked them …
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Synopsis The year 1960 marked the centenary of the birth of composer Gustav Mahler, and British musicologist Deryck Cooke hit upon the idea of preparing a performing edition of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, a work left unfinished at the time of Mahler’s death in 1911. This was a daunting task for two reasons. First, Mahler’s widow, Alma, had resisted e…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1845, the sleepy little German town of Bonn played host to 5000 visitors. These ranged from curious natives and opportunistic pickpockets to famous composers, performers, and music lovers from many countries, including British monarch Queen Victoria and King Wilhelm the IV of Prussia. The occasion? The unveiling of a bro…
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AUDIOBOOK "Дама с cобачкой» Антон Чехов⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👉 https://shorturl.at/dqsG2⁠⁠⁠⁠EBOOK "Дама с cобачкой» Антон Чехов⁠⁠⁠⁠ 👉 https://shorturl.at/dmuS7⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcription + QUIZ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This podcast is designed for Russian learners at the A2/lower intermediate level and above. My aim is to immerse you in the Russian language through engaging, enjoyable, …
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Synopsis August may seem an unlikely time for Advent music, liturgically speaking, but it was on today’s date in 1992 that a remarkable work entitled Veni, Veni, Emmanuel received its premiere at Royal Albert Hall in London. This was during the 1992 Proms at a concert by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra showcasing the talents of virtuoso Scottish per…
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Synopsis Today’s we tackle a vexing P.C. issue — not “political correctness,” mind you, but “pronunciation correctness,” a passionate matter for classical radio announcers, of course. Now there was a French composer who lived from 1912 to 1997 whose first name was Jean and whose last name was spelled “F-R-A-N- C cedilla-A-I-X.” Most people pronounc…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1976, the American composer David Del Tredici conducted the San Francisco Symphony in the first performance of Illustrated Alice, Two Scenes from Wonderland. These two scenes would eventually form bookend movements of a much longer Alice Symphony, which premiered 15 years later in August of 1991 at the Tanglewood Festiva…
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Synopsis Summer music camps offer young talent a chance to rub shoulders with seasoned professional musicians and to perform both old and new musical works. On today’s date in 1977, American composer, conductor and educator Howard Hanson led the premiere of his Symphony No. 7 at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Hanson subtitled his…
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Synopsis Few 19th-century composers chose their parents as wisely as Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Papa was a wealthy banker in Berlin who held Sunday afternoon chamber concerts for his musically gifted children at their home. The kids could perform their own pieces, and if young Felix had composed a little symphony for strings, Papa would just hire…
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Synopsis In the summer of 1764, eight-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Mozart was in England, accompanied by his 13-year-old sister, Nanerl, and their father, Leopold. The Mozarts had arrived in London wearing what back home in Salzburg would have passed as fashionable French-style clothing back home in Salzburg. But since England had just ended the…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2006, at the open-air Tanglewood Festival in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, the Boston Symphony and cellist Yo-Yo Ma premiered Azul (“blue” in Spanish), a new cello concerto by Osvaldo Golijov. Golijov was born and grew up in Argentina, but his background — like his music — is cosmopolitan: his parents wer…
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Synopsis In the summer of 1941, the winds of war hadn’t yet blown to Pearl Harbor, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, and all was pretty much right with the world. The Dodgers were doing well — so well that they would eventually win the pennant, only to lose the World Series to the hated Yankees that October. But in August of 1941, that ignominiou…
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Synopsis When grandma turns 90, you can bet by her age she’s gotten just about everything imaginable as a birthday gift. That was the quandary facing the Prince of Wales in 1990, when his granny, Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth of England (the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) — or “The Queen Mum” as just about everybody called her — was about to cel…
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Synopsis For many professional musicians, summertime is spent away from home at one or more music camps and festivals. And if the camp or festival just happens to be in a gorgeous mountain or lakeside setting, well, so much the better. Since 1987, musicians have made the climb to scenic Vail, Colorado, at this time of year for the Bravo! Music Fest…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1938, at the New York Philharmonic’s summertime concert home at Lewissohn Stadium, a 24-year-old American composer named Morton Gould conducted the first performance of his American Symphonette No. 2. The new piece was in three movements, and the second, Pavanne, proved especially popular. It fused elements of jazz in sw…
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Welcome to Episode 128 of Busy Kids Love Music! I’m thrilled to bring you the 4th stop of our Around the World series, where we journey to different countries to explore their unique folk music traditions. Today, we immerse ourselves in the vibrant sounds of Argentina! In This Episode: Chacarera: Discover this lively folk style from rural Argentina…
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Synopsis In the summer of 1829, German composer Felix Mendelssohn was touring Scotland in the company of a friend from Berlin who held a post in London. He saw all the sights: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Inverness, Loch Lomond, and the Hebrides Islands. He was not impressed by the food or friendliness of the somewhat surly natives, but he loved the …
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Synopsis As a young man in his 20s, just starting out on his musical career, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák had a rough time making ends meet. He played viola in a theater orchestra, worked as a church organist, and took on music students. But by the time he hit his 30s, things started to click. His own music, composed in his rare, free moments, was…
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