Remember how we talked about Messiah by Handel and The Ballad of the Brown King by Bonds? How did Handel tell a musical story about Jesus’ life and Bonds’ tell […]
Dett’s The Ordering of Moses may have started as a class project, but the details
A. Kori Hill Repetition is a funny thing–it can be boring or exciting. It can make you feel like you’re going nowhere or rediscovering something familiar. You can feel all […]
It may be a while before you notice that more instruments have come into the texture
A. Kori Hill Some folks joke that Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) wrote the same concerto 200 times. He didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though […]
didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though not all of them have
Even if you don’t know it, you’ve probably heard it. I’m talking about “Hallelujahâ€� from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio, Messiah. Celebrating the triumph of the Christian savior, Jesus Christ, over […]
entire oratorio, you’ll definitely program “Hallelujah.� But I’m sure you have
A. Kori Hill Unsuk Chin is a composer based in Berlin, Germany. She was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea, where she studied piano and initially wanted to be […]
But her family didn’t have enough money to get her piano, let alone keep paying
You’ve heard it before. Behave, or some monster’s going to get you! NEVER take candy from random adults on the streets! It’s what our folks tell us to teach us […]
there is a lesson in A Fiddler’s Tale, it’s that happiness can be elusive, and you have
A. Kori Hill If you study classical music, you’ve probably been told to take the edge out of your sound and make it pretty. There is so much classical music […]
Each musician has at least four other things they have to play.
A. Kori Hill Do you know about the bamboula? It’s a music-dance form whose name comes from the bamboula drum. It developed in Africa and was brought to the United […]
Would you have known Louis was using the bamboula just by listening to?
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Music In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have
In my last blog, I wrote about the musical legacy of the 369th Infantry or the Harlem Hellfighters. I referenced the fact that while we think of this as an […]
But we still have so much to learn.
