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Now Hear This “Becoming Mozart”

Travel with host Scott Yoo and pianist Stewart Goodyear as they visit Yoo’s Festival Mozaic where Goodyear learns to direct an orchestra from the piano while improvising the solos of Mozart’s twentieth piano concerto.

Now Hear This Series 2 Preview

3m 13s

Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in Now Hear This Series 2, a four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, travel and culture, as Yoo chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.

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  • Becoming Mozart Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Becoming Mozart Preview

    S48 E4 - 30s

    Travel with host Scott Yoo and pianist Stewart Goodyear as they visit Yoo’s Festival Mozaic where Goodyear learns to direct an orchestra from the piano while improvising the solos of Mozart’s twentieth piano concerto.

  • Scott Yoo Plays Mozart’s Violin Sonata, K. 305: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Scott Yoo Plays Mozart’s Violin Sonata, K. 305

    S48 E4 - 3m 39s

    "Now Hear This" host Scott Yoo performs an excerpt from Mozart's Violin Sonata, K. 305 with pianist Natalia Bolshakova from the Sinquefield Music Center at the University of Missouri. David Meyers is engineer and Joel Rodriguez is assistant engineer.

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