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Episodios
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Shostakovich: March from "Love for 3 Oranges"
02/12/2010Here’s a hint: hypochondriacs can use a good laugh…
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Musical Football
01/12/2010The composer wrote this piece for the Chicago Grand Opera company in 1919, and it stands as one of his more immediate successes. However, New York critics decried its extremely high budget. The original librettist wrote this mock fairy tale as a reaction to the criticism he received from his contemporaries that said his stories lacked originality.
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Ives: Holiday Symphony
26/11/2010Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: a composer with “four fathers”?
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Copland: Variations on a Shaker Hymn
25/11/2010Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: Shaking out some thanks.
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Mozart: Abduction from the Seraglio Overture
24/11/2010Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: An entirely different kind of Turkey.
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Catching some Zzz's
24/11/2010Can you name this tune? Put on your dancing shoes and let your imagination run wild…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6: Shepherd's Thanks
23/11/2010Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: We can see clearly now, the rain has gone…
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J. S. Bach: A Musical Offering
22/11/2010Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: thanks or no-thanks?
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Sibelius: "Introduction” from Kullervo
17/11/2010Here’s a hint: This composer was inspired by the folklore of his native land.
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Haydn: The Heavens are Telling
16/11/2010Here’s a hint: The greatest story ever told. . . and set to music!
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Bernstein: Candide Overture
15/11/2010Here’s a hint: We’re taking a madcap journey around the globe!
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