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Under Pressure: What is an Oboe with Nick Stovall, NSO's Principal Oboe

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… 00:04:49 Nick Stovall: Well, actually, it crops up in terms of actually planning, I think. You have to plan your … in this Baroque period, we get a little more refined in terms of the oboe as to what it is with that reed. Then, we … years before people started writing like he was writing in terms of difficulty. 00:09:26 Nick Stovall: Great. Yeah, it …
The life and music of Cecile Chaminade: Genius has no gender

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… works for solo piano or works for voice and piano. And in terms of the sheer number of compositions that she creates … clear why. It's a huge commitment, of course, to make in terms of expense and the press and so forth. And those are … 40s. She does get married, doesn't she? But it is on her terms, too, if I can pronounce it correctly, Louis- Mathieu …
Native American Heritage Month Programming on WETA World

… is now fighting to revitalize the language and come to terms with their native heritage in the context of the modern …
Mahler's Symphony No. 1: A rewarding symphonic journey!

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… about this opening is there's this diffuse quality in terms of the (inaudible) , but there's also a diffuse quality in terms of the key. You don't have a lot of triads, you don't … kicks in, it's the longest movement of the piece, both in terms of time and in terms of the sheer number of measures. …
Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand: A masterpiece of musical illusions and creativity!

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… a master orchestrator and such a brilliant innovator in terms of harmony and a musical structure and so forth like … and Ravel studied those. But those were always, I think in terms of there was an injury to someone's hand or a … transition's over. What he's doing is it all matches up in terms of the tamper and the color. He has to know how one …
Joan Tower's Concerto for Orchestra, an adventure in color, illusion, and rhythm!

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… Tower's Concerto for Orchestra is markedly different in terms of how it's structured and in terms of the way the orchestra is used. 00:05:29 John …
The Four Seasons, how Vivaldi depicts the world in sound

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… with bows, they were still fairly new instruments in terms of being able to do this sort of thing. And up to then … on here is how the turtledove represents in literary terms a kind of idea of longing. of longing in love, and an … it in a way maybe less literally, but more seriously in terms of the gestalt of what Vivaldi was trying to do. …
By Listener Request: 3 deep dives into works by Pachelbel, Liszt, and Vaughan Williams

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By Listener Request: 3 deep dives into works by Pachelbel, Liszt, and Vaughan Williams…
Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"; a monumental masterpiece!

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… on Bruckner's music, which is fascinating to me, both in terms of the similarities and the great differences, the … Romantic Symphony. Is it more in the Romantic spirit in terms of the aesthetic of Romanticism than other Bruckner … of Bruckner, they're huge in their scope, both in terms of the number of instruments and the number of minutes …