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Brahms Symphony No. 4
Sep 08, 2022Welcome to Season 9 of Sticky Notes! We're starting with a bang this season with Brahms' incomparable 4th symphony. This symphony takes the listener on a journey that unexpectedly ends in a legendaril...
Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
Aug 04, 2022"I think Mozart just really loved people." - Jan Swafford. For the Season 8 Finale, I had the great pleasure of welcoming back Jan Swafford, the great writer on music, who has written a spectacular n...
The Life and Music of George Gershwin
Jul 28, 2022George Gershwin's story is like the story of so many American immigrants. His mother and father, Moishe and Rose Gershowitz, were Russian Jews who came to New York City in the 1890s looking for a be...
Haydn Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"
Jul 21, 2022If you want to understand how a symphony works, look no further than the works of the Father of the symphony, Joseph Haydn. In 1790, a concert promoter and impresario named Johann Peter Solomon showe...
Derrick Skye: "Prisms, Cycles, and Leaps" w/ Derrick Skye
Jul 14, 2022Derrick Skye is one of the most creative, innovative, and brilliant composers of our time. His orchestral work, Prisms, Cycles, and Leaps is a musical thrill ride spanning influences from literally al...
The Music of Olivier Messiaen
Jul 07, 2022There is one composer who I've never devoted a full show to that fills me with the same devotion and ecstasy as the people who claim that Wagner almost immediately dissolves them into tears. His music...
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
Jun 30, 2022Bucolic. Sunny. Cheerful. Joyous. Folksy. Ebullient. Thrilling. These are all words that I found while researching Dvorak's 8th symphony. Dvorak's gift for writing the most gorgeous of melodies is on ...
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, "Italian"
Jun 23, 2022How does a composer capture the spirit of a country, especially if it's not his native land? Mendelssohn, in his Italian Symphony, gives us one of the best examples of someone doing just that, giving...
Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor (+Schoenberg!)
Jun 16, 2022Today I'm going to be talking about one piece, but in two different ways. I'm going to start today with an in-depth look at Brahms' Piano Quartet in G Minor, an early piece of his that reveals an inc...
Berio Folk Songs
Jun 09, 2022In 1964, the popular 20th century composer Luciano Berio was commissioned by Mills College in California to write a piece for voice and chamber orchestra. What Berio came up with is one of his most re...