Sinopsis
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Episodios
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Romberg and Hammerstein: Desert Song
06/04/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a sandy love triangle…
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Purcell: The Tempest "Dry those eyes"
05/04/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: dry eyes in a rainstorm…
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Beethoven: "Tempest" sonata
04/04/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: drenched in Romantic perspiration…
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Mozart: Piano Concerto, no. 26
01/04/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A “crowning” achievement for the keyboard.
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Hector Berlioz: Damnation of Faust
31/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A deal with the devil goes south.
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Lennon and McCartney: Hey Jude
30/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Liverpool’s liveliest export.
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Johann Christian Bach: Symphony Concertante
29/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A much older brother of P.D.Q.
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Johann Strauss, Sr: Pizzicato Polka
28/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s just like two members of Santa’s sleigh team.
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Debussy: Nocturnes, Clouds
25/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Looks like rain today!
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Telemann: Violin Concerto in A major
24/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Studying subjects musically and scientifically.
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Girl Power!
23/03/2011The title of this piece is not the composer's only reference to the music of Aaron Copland, but also uses the same instrumentation as one of Copland’s fanfares, and quotes some of Copland’s music too. The composer's first manifestation of this fanfare was performed while serving as the composer-in-residence for the Saint Louis Symphony.
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Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
23/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: This composer combines diverse elements of sound
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Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus
22/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Mythology at the hands of a musical giant.
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Richard Strauss: Thus spoke Zarathustra
21/03/2011Here’s a hint: A masterpiece from long before Stanley Kubrick.
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Billy Idol: White Wedding
18/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a traditional wedding color…
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Stravinsky: Les Noces
17/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: let’s hope for a riot-less wedding!
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