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Alan Menken ‘Overture’ from Beauty and the Beast: Tale As Old As Time
Alan Menken: Overture from Beauty and the Beast Context When originally released in 1991, Alan Menken’s score for Beauty and the Beast was regarded as Read more…
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Ruth Crawford Seeger ‘Rissolty, Rossolty’: Polyphonic Folk
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Rissolty, Rossolty Context Ruth Crawford Seeger’s unique and academic style of writing stood her music apart from many of her contemporaries. After Read more…
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George Gershwin ‘I Got Rhythm Variations’: Where Next?
George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Variations Context Composed largely during a three-week holiday in Palm Beach, George Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm Variations was premiered in Read more…
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Dmitri Shostakovich ‘Symphony No. 10 in E minor’: A Portrait of Russia
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 Context Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg on September 25th 1906, and by the age of nine he began Read more…
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Colin McPhee ‘Tabuh-Tabuhan’: Nuclear Gamelan
Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan Context Composed whilst Colin McPhee was visiting Mexico in 1936, Tabuh-Tabuhan is an orchestral toccata that features two solo pianos. Straight after Read more…
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Alan Menken ‘Main Titles from The Little Mermaid’: Welcome to Atlantica
Alan Menken: Main Titles from The Little Mermaid Context Alan Menken teamed up with Howard Ashman to work on the score for the 1989 Disney Read more…
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Johannes Brahms ‘Symphony No. 3’: A Musical Memory
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3 Context Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 was composed in the summer of 1883 in Wiesbaden, which was about 6-7 years after he had Read more…
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Endre Szervánszky ‘Wind Quintet No.1’: Warm Woodwind
Endre Szervánszky: Wind Quintet No.1 Context Hungarian composer Endre Szervánszky composed his popular first Wind Quintet in 1953. Around the same time as composing this Read more…
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David Del Tredici ‘Farewell’: Serene Grief
David Del Tredici: Farewell Context American composer David Del Tredici has composed a number of works in a range of different genres, from symphonic to Read more…
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Interview with Genevieve Arkle
Interview with Genevieve Arkle Genevieve Arkle is currently a final-year PhD researcher at The University of Surrey, where she is writing her thesis on the Read more…