#ClassicsaDay #Classical1925 Week 1

For January 2025 the Classics a Day team challenges you to look back a century. The "modern" era of music was well underway in 1925. Some of the works composed still shock audiences today.

Ralph Graves 4/21/23 Ralph Graves 4/21/23

#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalQuartet Week 3

April is the fourth month of the year. And so the Classics a Day team decided to make it quartet month. This April the challenge is to post classical works that require four musicians. String quartets are the most common grouping of four -- but there are others.

Ralph Graves 9/10/21 Ralph Graves 9/10/21

#ClassicsaDay #SymYesNo Week 1

What does the title "symphony" mean? Can a composition be a symphony in everything but name? Or could a work titled "symphony" be a different type of composition in disguise?

Ralph Graves 4/30/21 Ralph Graves 4/30/21

#ClassicsaDay #Stokowski Week 4

Stokowski’s recording legacy spans over 60 years. And whether he was conducting a premier orchestra or a group of studio musicians, the sound was unmistakable.

Ralph Graves 11/4/09 Ralph Graves 11/4/09

Music and Context: Webern in Mayberry

Those folks who say they don't listen to works by the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, et al) hear quite a lot of music inspired by it -- and quite often. Because while concert-goers may have been slow to embrace the sonic possibilities of 12-tone music, many musicians and composers have -- especially film composers.

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