For the young students (4 – 8)

 “The Blue Danube” waltz by Johann Strauss II
https://youtu.be/D6t318FgFdc

Mozart The Magic Flute

Modest Mussorgsky Night On Bald Mountain – really scary stuff

 

Edvard Grieg In the hall of the mountain king

Camille Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals

Beethoven Rage Over a Lost Penny

 

 

Listen to Major and Minor tonalities changing and creating this fun atmosphere.

Dmitri Kabalevsky

The Clowns

 

https://youtu.be/jnk0Sw2wmr8

 

For the not so young students (9 – 109)

12/15/2018

Bach Little Prelude D Major BWV 936 – Glenn Gould

The same prelude – Andrea Bacchetti

12/8/2018

Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin. Ballade in G minor. Will anyone have questions about his hands?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuet

Beautiful sample of Minuet dance: tempo, character, elegance, rhythm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzio_Clementi

10/7/2018

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin speaks about conducting:

 

10/27/2018

Some Lizst:

 

11/3/2018

Ukrainian Dance – Hopak

Khachaturian – Andantino

 

Khachaturian Spartacus Adagio

https://youtu.be/gVX0BoXc_Jk?list=RDgVX0BoXc_Jk

 

11/6/2018

Orchestra instruments.

Low range

Timpani

Trombone

Double Bass