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Episodios
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Schumann: Kinderszenen Selections
18/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A composer begins to go off the deep end
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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
17/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A product of the horrors of war.
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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
16/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Graduation can be so rowdy!
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Rodgers: Shall We Dance?
15/02/2011Here’s a hint: A young woman adjusts to life on the other side of the world.
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Gershwin: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
11/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: It's a hit from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite
10/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: It's love at first sight on the opera stage.
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Willson: The Music Man
09/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: It's a selection from a musical theater classic.
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Robert Schumann: Widmung
08/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: It's a pianistic rendition of another composer's work.
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Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte Overture
07/02/2011Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: It's a story about flirting taken to the operatic extreme!
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Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper
04/02/2011Here’s a hint: not to be confused with the Örange Cräb Society…
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Adams: I was Looking at the Ceiling
03/02/2011Here’s a hint: it’s not the apocalypse, it’s just LA …
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Great Performers
02/02/2011In this film about music, the star of the show is a violin, whose three-hundred-year story traverses multiple performers. Some of these fictional performers have their roots in reality, and a real-life violin superstar also had a hand in both recording the sound for the violin solos and acting as a “hand double” for the on-screen performers.
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Brahms: Symphony No. 1
01/02/2011Here’s a hint: Beethovenophobia? or a famous first by one of the three “B’s.”
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Gene Autry: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
28/01/2011Here’s a hint: ‘round the campfire and onto the airwaves…
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Billings: Brookfield
26/01/2011Here’s a hint: "the wild… East?" or "always willing to pick up the “Bill”…"
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Literary Inspirations
26/01/2011One of the most famous characters in German literature is a doctor who sells his soul to the Devil in order to gain all the knowledge the world. This selection is one of the most popular hits from a famous French adaptation of this German classic.