The Romantic era was one of wearing emotions on sleeves. The music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Hector Berlioz sets those sleeves on fire!

Price, Brahms, and Beethoven - 3 different composers with very different challenges.

Music for considering space, time, and place according to Valerie Coleman, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, and Gustav Holst!

There's no Haydn the "Miracle" of Orff's Fortuna! Haydn's Symphony No. 96 "Miracle" and Orff's Carmina Burana rock the concert hall🔥🤘.

Rossini's William Tell Overture, Hidas' Oboe Concerto, and Beethoven's 7th Symphony make for an amazing orchestral thrill ride!

Music of the Americas from the mid 1900s is a genre defying cross pollinator's dream. Chávez, Bernstein, Contreras, and Copland dish it!!

Participating and bearing witness to joyful creative acts is an imperative as much as it is a blessing during times like these.

Fairy tales, folk dance, and french horn!

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

1.20.25 - MLK, Carter, Inauguration. Considering these intersections, I offer a music playlist to help navigate the complexities.