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A post about teaching and learning! Humans are innovators who need divergent points of view. Sharing them makes for powerful "aha!' moments.


Project (Jan) 20 '25 Playlist
1.20.25 - MLK, Carter, Inauguration. Considering these intersections, I offer a music playlist to help navigate the complexities.


Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche celebrates a legendary prankster from fourteenth century Germany written by Richard Strauss.


Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Don Juan is a tone poem – a story told in music – for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888 when he was 24.


Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. He completed his only concerto for piano in 1868 at just 25 years old!Â

Florence Price: The Oak
Florence Price’s tone poem for orchestra, The Oak, is a deliciously dark and thoughtful expression.


Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Jessie Montgomery (1981- ) began sketching ideas for Strum as a string quintet in 2006 and revised it for string orchestra in 2012.


Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | Worship: A Concert Overture
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) was an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist who operated across multiple genres.


Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in Switzerland in 1934 and premiered it himself at the piano!


Ludwig van Beethoven: ​Symphony No. 5 in c minor
It’s hard to imagine a more generally well known composer or piece of classical music than Ludwig van Beethoven and his Symphony No. 5.
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