All Pieces for Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
To those who might think that string quartets lack the pizzazz of the orchestral repertoire and the larger orchestral setting, Emerson String Quart...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :26
Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).
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- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
A chaconne is series of melodic variations played over a repeated sequence of notes and harmonies. One of the most famous chaconnes is heard in th...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :24
Guitarist David Russell has a thing for French music. He likes the freedom. Use this 20 second clip to introduce guitarist David Russell playing ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :20
If you've ever lived next door to a musician, or lived under the same roof, you're more than familiar with the musician's practicing routine. That...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :25
When playing Bach, and especially when you play your own transcriptions of Bach, guitarist David Russell says it's important to color outside the l...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :23
There's a reason you hear some pieces of music everywhere - in elevators, hotel lobbies, while you're on hold with customer service and as the brid...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :25
Arnold Schoenberg pioneered a composition method and style known as "12-tone music". Melodies and harmonies were created from a predetermined sequ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Back in the early 1990's, a French researcher introduced a theory known as the "Mozart Effect." It advanced the idea that listening to Mozart's mu...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
There are two types of people; those who go on vacation and take their work; and those who leave their lap top at home. Composer Carl Nielsen wrot...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :29
Riccardo Muti is the new (named May 2008) Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Previously he led the Philadelphia Orchestra and (the)...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :31
Knowing the story or its inspiration is one way to get inside the music, but conductor Riccardo Muti says there's a more basic approach. Use this ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
There's often a story to the music you hear on your station. Conductor Riccardo Muti says you don't have to know the story to hear and feel what t...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :24
Carl Nielsen's music is filled with great sweetness and sweep, but the composer also liked to insert conflict and drama into the music by pitting i...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :25
When violinist Hilary Hahn recorded the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1, she went against a long standing tradition with the concerto. Most violini...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :28
In classical music, labels and categories can provide a helpful context and entry point to enjoying a composer or composition. But they can also b...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :29
From a bone chilling graveyard scene, to the sound of a heart beat that slows down and finally stops beating, Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata has j...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Sergei Prokofiev has no bigger fans than Gil and Orli Shaham. Though Prokofiev's place in musical history is guaranteed by a relatively small numb...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :24
When the soloist and orchestra are playing a concerto, who's in charge? Is it the soloist, the conductor - the orchestra? Someone has to make sur...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :20
When it comes to talking to members of your immediate family, can you be direct, or do you need to walk on egg shells? Brother and sister musician...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :18
