Sinopsis
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Episodios
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Bizet: Carmen, Chorus of Cigarette Girls
16/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em…
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Drink Up!
16/11/2011The composer's first symphony was a flop. Critics and audiences were universal in their disdain: the young composer was crushed, and did not compose until nearly three years later. The causes of the failed premiere were several: the style of this composer was different, and it didn't help that the conductor of the premiere was drunk on the podium..
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J. S. Bach: “Coffee” Cantata, Mvt. 4
15/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a Baroque “buzz”…
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, “Chocolate”
14/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a Christmas favorite keeps us coming back for more…
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Loesser: Baby, it’s Cold Outside
11/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: daughter of the above…
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Holst: The Planets, Neptune
10/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “mystic” outsider…
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Messiaen: Catalogue of Birds, The Reed Warbler
09/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a bird of a different color…
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Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann, The Birds in the Tower
08/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the amazing wind-up soprano…
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Beethoven: Symphony no. 5, Mvt. 1
07/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: who’s that knocking?
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Britten: War Requiem, Sanctus
04/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A composer lashes out at the terrors of war…
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Donizetti: Daughter of the Regiment, Overture
03/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Slapstick on the battlefield…
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Monteverdi: Madrigals of War and Love, “I burn, I rage”
02/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Fiery passions burn in Italy…
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Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory, Victory Symphony
01/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s one of the first orchestral showstoppers
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Gounod: Faust, Soldier’s Chorus
31/10/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Marching to a very operatic beat
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Rodgers and Hart: You Are Too Beautiful
28/10/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: you ain’t remembered nothin’ yet…
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Ives: The Circus Band
27/10/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the Memory Circus is coming to town…
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Gottschalk: Memories of Havana
26/10/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: New world recollections…
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Headless Harmonies
26/10/2011This composer, or rather, the fictional “artist,” reflects upon love, losing, and murdering of a “beloved” who is depicted by a recurring musical theme. In this movement, the artist has taken opium and, in his drug-induced dream, has killed his beloved. He is then a witness to his own execution as he marches up the scaffold steps to be beheaded.
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Liszt: Reminiscences of Don Juan
25/10/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: remembering opera on the keyboard…