To go with this month’s music from Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, some more music by composers who were playing with fire.
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When Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn put on Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream to entertain their family, the two of them played all the characters! Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer […]
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Kodály’s opera Háry János is about a real person who told real whoppers – big, fat lies. If you listened to him, you'd think he defeated Napoleon's army all by […]
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„In The Hall of the Mountain King“ is part of the incidental music Edvard Grieg wrote for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. Hear the story of the play as you […]
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Guiseppe Verdi — „Joe Green,“ in Italian — was a great opera composer and Italian patriot. His music became part of the Italian fight for independence and unity.
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Prokofiev was not the only classical composer to paint a musical portrait of a sleigh ride on a snowy day. Listen as we take you through several other examples of […]
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Russian composer Igor Stravinsky had a big hit with his first ballet, The Firebird. Stravinksy kept on writing ballets, followed by operas, and orchestral and choral music.
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Georg Philipp Telemann composed during the Baroque period, which ran from about 1600 to 1750. Suzanne Bona, host of the National Public Radio program Sunday Baroque, talks with Naomi Lewin […]
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Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at the beginning of a play, opera or ballet in order to set the mood. But there are also other kinds […]
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Even though classical music is sometimes referred to as „serious music,“ a lot of times it just isn’t. Serious, that is — classical composers wrote some very funny music.
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