To launch the 2010-2011 season, Professor Carol talks “clarinet” with one of the original members of the Dallas Wind Symphony: Regents Professor James Gillespie of The University of North Texas. A virtuoso performer, master teacher, competition judge, and long-time editor of The Clarinet Journal, Dr. … Read more
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British conductor Timothy Reynish is a great promoter of wind bands and a commissioner of new music for wind bands. He has conducted many esteemed orchestras, and taught conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Maestro Reynish talks to Professor Carol about guest conducting … Read more
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What’s this program about? Major Jim Keene took his musical training and talents into the Army, becoming conductor of the premier Army musical ensembles and now commanding the U.S. Army School of Music in Little Creek, Virginia.Professor Carol spoke with her former graduate student when … Read more
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Weimar. This former East German city (that seems so pastoral and peaceful) is actually a bubbling caldron for the arts and culture! Designated in 1999 as UNESCO’s Cultural Capital of Europe, Weimar is a small but unbelievably beautiful and famous city where virtually every movement … Read more
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Conductor and oboist Vladimir Lande talks with Professor Carol about the legacy of Evgeny Mravinsky and Soviet composers Shostakovich and Khachaturian, as well as the influence of folklore and the bells of the Orthodox Church on Russian composers. He discusses performances of music by John … Read more
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What’s this program about? In today’s classical music world, there are not many composers who can stir up the excitement that might have accompanied the premiere of a new work by Brahms. But John Mackey is a composer who can. He has a popular following … Read more
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Professor Carol interviews New York Times veteran reporter James Barron, author of Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand (New York: Times Books, 2006), which tells the story of a single piano (K0862) and its eleven-month journey from its beginnings as raw lumber to … Read more
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Mahler expanded the orchestra to huge proportions, going beyond the already inflated forces of Wagner. But Mahler simultaneously achieved a striking delicacy and transparency by using solo instruments to create “chamber music” in the midst of his massive musical canvases. He drew his inspiration from … Read more
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What’s this program about? John Gibson’s choral work “Mockingbird Sings” utilizes Native American texts of the Yuma, Zuni, Laguna, and Apache tribes. The title refers to the individual charged with remembering events and traditions and his recounting of this oral history in songs and stories. … Read more
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What’s this program about? Professor Carol talks with Mary Preston, the resident organist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, about the Lay Family Concert Organ. The organ built by C.B. Fisk for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is one of the finest instruments ever built. … Read more
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