Sinopsis
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Episodios
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The Best Medicine
16/03/2011This composer managed to escape the serious government attacks that had endangered the careers and perhaps even the lives of several of his peers. His distance from the more extreme forms of modernism made him less troublesome to the authorities, as did his passionate support for socially pragmatic music.
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Wagner: Lohengrin Bridal Chorus
15/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: here comes the Teutonic bride…
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Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture
14/03/2011Here’s a hint: shave and a haircut…gets hitched! or limber-voiced nuptials…
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Armstrong: When the Saints go marching in
11/03/2011Here's a hint: It's a classic of New Orleans Jazz!
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
09/03/2011Here's a hint: It's Easter celebrated the Russian way.
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Orff: Carmina Burana, In taberna
08/03/2011Here's a hint: Medieval priests take partying to the extreme!
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, A Ball
07/03/2011Here's a hint: It's a perfect example of art imitating life.
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Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
04/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the “March King”…
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Ives: They Are There
03/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: “insured” against musical weirdness…
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Need for Speed
02/03/2011This composer was also a talented virtuoso performer. His works include both showpieces for his own performance and chamber music for publication. Later in his career, he took up the viola as an alternate instrument. He also had a serious interest in the guitar, writing over a hundred works for solo guitar and guitar quartet.
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Copland: Old American Songs
02/03/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the best songs may be the ones you don’t write…
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Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2
24/02/2011Here’s a hint: beautiful music from England’s darkest hours…
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Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76
21/02/2011Here’s a hint: a birthday present valued “more than all else”…