Today I’d like to share with you a very short excerpt from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice, by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), arranged by Italian composer Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914). This ..
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Today I’d like to share with you a very short excerpt from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice, by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), arranged by Italian composer Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914). This ..
Today I would like to share with you Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Beethoven wrote this concerto in 1803, under the spell of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Beethoven paid tribute to Mozart’s ..
Today I’d like to share with you Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Brahms was born six years after Beethoven’s death and, just like the rest of the European musical establishment, has lived ..
I was ten years old; my oldest brother, Leo, was 20. He entertained girls at our house, and they listened to Joseph Haydn (Austrian composer, 1732-1809) and looked through books with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch ..
You can listen to this article on: iTunes | Google Podcasts | Online Six years ago, at her preschool graduation ceremony, my daughter Hannah was asked what she wanted to become when she grew up. She thought for a second, ..
I have shared Prelude in B Minor by JS Bach before. But today I would like you to go with me on a little journey. (I did this to my wife and kids yesterday, and they loved it). I’d like you to listen to this performance ..
Today I wanted to share with you “Violin Concerto No. 1” by the German composer Max Bruch. It is one of my favorite violin concertos. It starts out a bit slowly, but in a few short minutes it turns ..
I am writing this in October. Summer is behind us. The trees that turned yellow will soon turn grey. It is cold, wet, and snowing outside. It seems very appropriate that the music I will share with you today is “October,” ..
Before I get to my musical note, I want to share with you an incredible TED talk by Benjamin Zander, “The Transformative Power of Classical Music” (watch it here). Mr. Zander makes the point that “Everyone ..
I would like to share with you the “Prelude in B Minor” by J.S. Bach. My almost-10-year-old daughter, Hannah, calls it “our [her and my] song”. This piece is simple yet so beautiful. Hannah and I sampled ..