There's no Haydn the "Miracle" of Orff's Fortuna! Haydn's Symphony No. 96 "Miracle" and Orff's Carmina Burana rock the concert hall🔥🤘.

Rossini's William Tell Overture, Hidas' Oboe Concerto, and Beethoven's 7th Symphony make for an amazing orchestral thrill ride!

Music of the Americas from the mid 1900s is a genre defying cross pollinator's dream. Chávez, Bernstein, Contreras, and Copland dish it!!

Participating and bearing witness to joyful creative acts is an imperative as much as it is a blessing during times like these.

Fairy tales, folk dance, and french horn!

A post about teaching and learning! Humans are innovators who need divergent points of view. Sharing them makes for powerful "aha!' moments.

1.20.25 - MLK, Carter, Inauguration. Considering these intersections, I offer a music playlist to help navigate the complexities.

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche celebrates a legendary prankster from fourteenth century Germany written by Richard Strauss.

Don Juan is a tone poem – a story told in music – for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888 when he was 24.

Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway.  He completed his only concerto for piano in 1868 at just 25 years old!