Aaron Copland was a 20th century American composer from Brooklyn, New York. Copland is known for writing very American music, but he actually studied in France. His teacher, Nadia Boulanger, […]
What composer wrote music for an all-female choir and orchestra?
Brahms, Bach, and Beethoven are known as the „Three B’s“ of classical music. Brahms always knew that he wanted to be a composer — by the time he was six, […]
Brahms composed music in almost all musical forms except: concerto piano sonata
There are many women composers these days, and this program introduces some of them: Caroline Shaw, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Lera Auerbach, Kaija Saariaho, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, Libby […]
Leyendas, An Andean Walkabout: Coqueteos Vespers for a New Dark Age: “Come On All
Giuseppe Verdi composed Aida for a new opera house in Cairo, Egypt that opened around the time as the opening of the Suez Canal. Aida is the story of an […]
terra addio Aida: Gia i sacerdoti Aida: Pur ti riveggo Aida: O Patria Mia Aida: All
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first opera when he was twelve, and opera continued to fascinate him throughout his life. Mozart had such genius for combining music and theater that […]
No other composer from Mozart’s day still has so many operas performed all over the
In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have Christmas carols in them.
opens with a French carol called The March of the Kings Silent Night O Come All
Both Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams loved using folk music in their music. They were inspired by a „folk song revival“ started by an English musician named Cecil Sharp […]
Cecil Sharp Ralph Vaughn Williams George Butterworth Frederick Delius All
Lt. Kijé is the story of an imaginary soldier, created when the Russian Tsar misread a smudged name on a list of his men. Everyone around the Tsar was too […]
He gets married and become a hero — all on paper.
In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have Christmas carols in them.
opens with a French carol called The March of the Kings Silent Night O Come All
There are many pieces of classical music — besides „The Flight of the Bumblebee“ — that are about bees, birds, and other winged creatures. Composers use various instruments to imitate […]
Composers use various instruments to imitate insects, and to create all kinds of
