The Original Charvel Gang

MVD Entertainment Group

This is the story of Wayne Charvel. Eddie Van Halen buys some seconds guitar parts from him and built his iconic black and white striped guitar that changes the course of guitar playing, manufacturing and music. In the late 70's Grover Jackson takes ownership of Charvel Mfg. and makes a custom guitar for Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne). At this point Jackson/Charvel guitars were all you saw on MTV.

Form: Codas

The Discovery Orchestra

Codas are special endings that composers may write for the conclusion of a movement. In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull explores the codas used in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1.

Form: Variation Form

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull challenges you to think like a composer – by changing an original “sound” but keeping it so that sound is still recognizable – variation form!

Form: Revisiting Paragraphs

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat from Discovery Orchestra offers another lesson in ternary form. The orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston and Maestro George Marriner Maull’s wife, Marcia, perform the second movement of Brahms’ Sonata for Clarinet & Piano No.1, highlighting the ABA form, with the special surprise ending.

Melody: Counter Melodies

The Discovery Orchestra

Sometimes what makes a piece of music wonderful to listen to is not what we think it is! Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses how a melody combined with a counter melody creates depth in a piece, using Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D Minor to illustrate.

Melody: Ornaments

The Discovery Orchestra

A musical “ornament” is a way of decorating a very small part of the melody – usually just one note or pitch. In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses trills and mordents.

Melody: Repetition and Sequence

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull looks at the use of repetition and sequence in music.

Harmony: Pedal Point

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses the power of pedal point (a sustained tone usually in the bass that is held through changing harmonies) with the help of audio clips.

Mood in Music: Moods

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses mood in music — how composers translate emotion into notes and sounds.

Mood in Music: Musical Comfort Food

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull shares his thoughts about music that feels incredibly comforting using Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 to illustrate.

Mood in Music: Darkness to Lightness

The Discovery Orchestra

Music – like our emotional, feeling states – can change on a dime! This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull shows Mahler did this in his Symphony No. 1.

Rhythm: A Matter of Meter

The Discovery Orchestra

The beat, or pulse, of music is usually predictable. This learn how to sense the meter of the music! Featuring guest artist Dan Crisci.

Rhythm: Name That Meter

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull challenges you to try to name the meter in the pieces played without the help of the time signature.

Rhythm: Stealing Time (Tempo Rubato)

The Discovery Orchestra

Beat varies in speed in some compositions. This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull examines beat and tempo rubato (time stolen) along with cellist Brannon Cho and pianist Marcia Maull.

Texture in Music: Texture, Part 2

The Discovery Orchestra

Continuing the discussion of texture in music, Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses melody with chords of the same rhythm. He shows how compositions often feature texture changes mid-piece.

Texture in Music: Texture, Part 3

The Discovery Orchestra

The third in the series about texture in music, this video chat with Maestro George Marriner discusses Bach's use of a combination of separate and independent melodies to create texture in a piece, considerin contrapuntal or polyphonic texture.

Timbre: Name That Timbre, Part 2

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull teaches how to identify one of the less common instrument timbres out there, the sound of the English horn.

Timbre: Change of Timbre

The Discovery Orchestra

Listen as The Discovery Orchestra plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (2nd Movement) and Maestro George Marriner Maull explores a “change in timbre" as the composer introduces a new instrument into the composition.

TedEd: How to Read Music (Tim Hansen)

TED

Like an actor's script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few simple elements like notes, bars and clefs, you're ready to rock. Tim Hansen hits the instrumental basics you need to read music. [Directed by Thomas Parrinello, narrated by Tim Hansen].

American Experience: Voice of Freedom

PBS

Follow the story of singer Marian Anderson, whose talent broke down barriers around the world. Narrated by Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton), Voice of Freedom explores questions about talent, race, fame, democracy and the American soul.

Discover Dvorak's 'New World' - Full Symphony

The Discovery Orchestra

In this final episode, we offer listeners an uninterrupted opportunity to enjoy the Symphony No. 9 by Dvorák in its entirety. The on-screen ‘Listening Guide’ helps you and/or your students to remain focused in the music and recaps highlights explored in the previous four programs of this series.

Episode 1: Steep Canyon Rangers (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Host David Holt visits with the Steep Canyon Rangers on location at a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Brevard, NC.

Episode 7: Dom Flemons (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Host David Holt drops by a historic general store to visit with “American Songster” Dom Flemons, a founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Episode 8: Onstage! (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Recorded live onstage, the "David Holt's State of Music" season finale features crossover star Rhiannon Giddens with Dirk Powell and Jason Sypher, blue grass powerhouse Balsam Range, multi-instrumentalist Josh Goforth and gospel torch-bearers The Branchettes.

Melody: Ornaments Episode 2

The Discovery Orchestra

Using the opening of the Overature to Handel's Messiah for illustration, this video chat challenges viewers to count how many musical ornaments they hear, showing the musical score as the piece is playing.

TedEd: How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain (Anita Collins)

TED

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Educator Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout. (Directed by Sharon Colman Graham, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Peter Gosling)

Decks and the City

Filmhub

A documentary that explores the passion for electronic music within the nightlife scene and the obstacles that DJ's, producers, venue owners, and patrons face from lawmakers and a conservative society.

Discover Dvorak's 'New World' - Movement 2

The Discovery Orchestra

The pastoral Movement II - Largo, infused with Dvorák’s deep love of rural woodland settings, contains one of the best known, immediately recognizable and most beloved melodies ever written by anyone! Dvorák’s penchant for re-stating musical themes from previous movements first begins to assert itself.

Discover Dvorak's 'New World' - Movement 3

The Discovery Orchestra

The rousing Movement III - Scherzo, according to Dvorák, was inspired by his encounters with Native American music and dancing. Calming sections that actually contain imitations of birdcalls follow this boisterous musical expression before Dvorák finally returns to the pounding, forceful rhythms that began the movement.

Episode 4: Amythyst Kiah and Mipso (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Host David Holt visits with breakout artist Amythyst Kiah, who puts a fresh spin on old tunes, and interviews the young band Mipso, known for its close harmonies and original material.

Episode 5: The Kruger Brothers (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Host David Holtintroduces viewers to the virtuoso trio, The Kruger Brothers, Swiss masters of American traditional music transplanted to the mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina.

Episode 6: Doyle Lawson and St. John Unity Choir (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Host David Holt interviews bluegrass legend Doyle Lawson about his life in music and travels to Wilson, North Carolina to hear the St. John AME Zion Unity Choir.

Cigar Box Blues: The Making Of A Revolution

MVD Entertainment Group

Meet the passionate makers and players of cigar box guitars. These craftsmen and musicians have created a movement through making these unique three-stringed instruments. Born from the Blues, their simple, low cost, no-rules approach lets anyone have a go. This film reveals how just three chords, played on their unique DIY instruments, hand-made from recycled materials, has changed their lives.

Dynamics: Dynamics

The Discovery Orchestra

This video with Maestro George Marriner Maull explains crescendo and decrescendo and how sudden dynamic changes in music can be so exciting.

Harmony: Chord Progression

The Discovery Orchestra

Composers began to use chord progression during the Renaissance – one of the most common progressions is 1 4 1 5 1 – what exactly does that mean? Maestro George Marriner Maull explains in this video chat.

Mood in Music: Pain in Music

The Discovery Orchestra

Beethoven, who let us into his inner emotional life through his music, was not afraid to express his own pain. This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull hightlights wordless, abstract expressions or pain in music.

Mood in Music: Effective Surprise, Part 2

The Discovery Orchestra

Maestro George Marriner Maull explores another composer whose music seems, on the surface, incredibly simple yet is filled with wonderful effective surprises – Frederic Chopin. Maull and pianist Stephen Wu use Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp Minor to illustrate.

Rhythm: Noticing Tempo Change

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses tempo, or speed of the beat, and how it can change during a piece. He defines terminology and presents examples from Brahms G Minor Piano Quartet and Shostokovich's Symphony Number 5.

Texture in Music: A Texture Quiz

The Discovery Orchestra

Summarizing the series on texture in music, this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull offers a texture quiz.

I Got Rhythm: The Science of Song

Network Ireland Television

Who hasn’t felt the urge to sing in the shower, to chime in on the chorus of their favourite tune or belt out an anthem at a sporting event? Melodies ring out at every important human activity – from romancing mates to soothing babies, from worshipping to mourning, celebrating to protesting. What triggers this response in humans? Are we hardwired for music? Addicted to rhythm? What power does music have over our bodies and our brains? Scientists have only recently begun to seriously examine how and why music has such a profound impact on us.

Looking for Cole

EuroArts Music International

It might be an interesting project to find out just how many movie scores of the past decades feature at least one of Cole Porter’s songs. But, there might just be too many to count. The documentary Looking for Cole, which was recorded over the course of 3 years, gives you a unique insight into the artist’s most interesting life as a ‘supreme sophisticate.’ Narrator and performer Wilfried Van den Brande may well call himself an expert on Porter: he has completed a PhD on the topic, recorded the largest Porter anthology to date, and published concert recordings of 325 Porter songs online. In this video, Van den Brande journeys in the composer’s footsteps, discusses his work and life with numerous experts, and performs with musicians such as Kim Criswell, Wayne Marshall, the WDR Funkhaus Orchester, and the Brussels Philharmonic.

Dynamics: Noticing Dynamics

The Discovery Orchestra

One of the elements of music is dynamics, which is the use of loudness and softness for expressive, inflective purposes. In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull asks you to notice how many distinct dynamic events occur in Ernest Chausson’s Poeme for Violin and Orchestra.

Melody: Aspects of Melody

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull looks at basic aspects of melody: is it simple and singable or is it complex and hard to sing. He considers the role of melody in a musical composition.

Melody: What’s an Ostinato

The Discovery Orchestra

If a repetition just goes on and on and on – it might just be an ostinato! This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses this musical element where the phrase repeats and repeats and explains how it is used.

Harmony: Cadence

The Discovery Orchestra

What exactly is cadence in music? This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull explains cadence as punctuation in music.

Harmony: Deceptive Cadences

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses how composers use deceptive cadences to surprise the listener and enhance the piece.

Harmony: Change That Chord

The Discovery Orchestra

The importance of noticing re-harmonization in music is demonstrated utilizing the piano music of Bela Bartok and Claude Debussy. Host Maestro George Marriner Maull plays and speaks about a simple Slovakian folk song harmonized, then re-harmonized by Bartok.

Timbre: Name That Timbre, Part 3

The Discovery Orchestra

Continuing the discussion of different timbres created by different instruments, Maestro George Marriner Maull challenges viewers to identify the sound presented in this video, that of the bassoon.

I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story

Filmhub

Filmed over four years and spanning three generations, the lives of four women from across the globe are radically changed by their deep love of boy bands.

Stuck in the Groove

Filmhub

A documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring interviews with the experts, musicians and fans alike, 'Stuck in the groove' takes you on a journey of vinyl-mania, music and nostalgia.

Rhythm: Holiday Meters, Part 1

The Discovery Orchestra

How is the beat, or pulse, of a piece of music organized? Is it organized in groups of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s? In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull will help you detect the underlying beat in a portion of Handel’s Messiah. You’ll also learn what a “hemiola” is.

Resonance

Ruth Films

The program follows private lessons conducted by three prominent voice and singing teachers in Germany, depicting their relationship with one of their students throughout an entire semester. While working on the physical aspect of the voice, a relationship is being created between the teacher and the student. The film utilizes this environment in order to inspect the voice and the way it functions in communication between humans, how it affords a means of expression, and creates a connection which is beyond words – both physical and sensual. In German & English with English subtitles.

Masters of Country Blues

MVD Entertainment Group

Featuring performances recorded for broadcast on television in the early 1960's, Masters of the Country Blues: Bukka White and Son House features White showing off his fiery slide guitar work on "Mama Don't Allow", "Gibson Hill", "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues", and others. Son House divides his set between raw blues tunes as "Death Letter Blues" and "Preaching The Blues" and impassioned gospel "John the Revelator" and "I Want To Live So God Can Use Me". Taj Mahal serves as host.

Ben Webster & his Music 1968

MVD Entertainment Group

With his full-toned tenor saxophone, Ben Webster delivered a vibrant set of traditional ballads as well as the upbeat, swinging tune “Stompy Jones” from the Duke Ellington songbook accompanied by an orchestrated string and brass section. The live set was filmed in 1968 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Webster put on display his unmistakable and inimitable saxophone majesty with performances of “Danny Boy,” “Greensleeves,” and “Come Sunday” by Duke (whose orchestra he had once been a member of), as well as Cole Porter’s “You Be So Nice to Come Home To” with his band comprising pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Albert Tootie Heath.

Timme Rosenkrantz Memorial Concert 1969

MVD Entertainment Group

This 1969 concert in Copenhagen features Ben Webster performing a set of ballads as well as the upbeat, swinging tune “Perdido” from the Juan Tizol songbook. Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust”, “In a Mellow Tone” by Duke Ellington, Signorelli, Malneck and Kahn’s “I’ll Never be the Same” are quartet highlights with his band comprising pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Makaya Ntshoko, sublimed by Inez Cavanaugh’s incredible voice.

Big Ben 1971

MVD Entertainment Group

Shot for the Danish national television network in 1971, this documentary profiles an already well-accomplished Ben Webster. Old fashioned and sarcastic, but always well-mannered, we follow the tenor sax legend for a day, seeing him at home, in an interview, at a studio recording session and a live jam at Copenhagen’s legendary jazz venue, the Montmartre Jazzhus. Intertwining great performances of tracks like “Some Dirty Old Blues” with genuine, personal commentary from Webster himself, the documentary shines a light on this under-appreciated titan and his career in the jazz world.

Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is (American Masters)

PBS

Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is explores world-renowned American conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas. Thomas championed American music and established the New World Symphony to train the next generation of musicians.

Opus Cope: An Algorithmic Opera

Filmhub

Musical visions into machine creativity as algorithmic composer David Cope shares past, present, and future inventions.

Inspired: The 30 Second Song Movie

Filmhub

This documentary is about an indie band's campaign for fairer royalties from Spotify with their series of 30-second song albums. This protest is built on an observation by NYU professor Mike Errico that songwriters continue to write 3 minute songs, but they'd be better served adapting to the streaming media of today and releasing 30-second songs - the threshold to get a royalty payout.

Discover Dvorak's 'New World' - Movement 1

The Discovery Orchestra

Movement I - Adagio. Allegro molto, first examines Dvorák’s mysterious introduction and proceeds to the main body of the movement where we find a number of his beautiful melodies, based on American folk music. Lastly, the powerful ‘coda’, or concluding section, is brought to light in a manner that allows its dramatic qualities to be fully experienced.

Discover Dvorak's 'New World' - Movement 4

The Discovery Orchestra

The final Movement IV - Allegro con fuoco, begins with a very short but ominous introduction, probed by Maestro Maull for Dvorák’s use of the elements of music. Two new melodies, one heroic and the other nostalgic, are introduced. Dvorák later recalls musical themes from all the previous movements, weaving them into a commanding synthesis of everything that has come before. We might expect another intense coda or extra ending for this final movement, and Dvorák provides it, but not without some effective surprises!

Episode 2: Glencoe Mill - Alice Gerrard, Rayna Gellert and Laurelyn Dossett (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

David Holt, the host of David Holt's State of Music,visits North Carolina's historic Glencoe Mill. There he chats and plays mill songs with bluegrass legend Alice Gerrard, singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett and fiddle virtuoso Rayna Gellert.

Episode 3: Wayne Henderson and Jeff Little (David Holt's State of Music, Season 2)

PBS

Wayne Henderson shares some secrets of guitar-making, and Jeff Little shows that the piano can be an outstanding bluegrass instrument.

Ella Fitzgerald

Espresso TV

This program features two hours of previously unreleased BBC concerts by Ella Fitzgerald. Performances include the classics Take The ‘A’ Train, The Lady Is A Tramp, Mack The Knife, and It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).

The Devil’s Horn

EuroArts Music International

The saxophone has always been either ridiculed or considered Satan‘s very own instrument. Banned by the Nazis and the communists, there seems to be a curse surrounding this instrument. From Charlie Parker to Jimmy Heath, many of the great players seem to have lost their souls to its charm and some even claim that playing the sax is like dancing with the devil. This video traces the history of the saxophone from its beginnings in the workshop of the eccentric inventor Adolphe Sax to the giants of Bebop and to contemporary innovative approaches. We even meet Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan, who had long been considered lost and who also suffered from the curse of the saxophone.

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love

EuroArts Music International

Composer, conductor, genius, mensch, Marvin Hamlisch was as close to a modern day DaVinci as it gets. Hit after hit…”The Way We Were,” “Nobody Does It Better,” “The Sting,” “A Chorus Line,” Marvin was irrepressible and prolific. Winner of four Grammys, an Emmy, three Oscars, and a Tony, all by the time he was 31-years old, Marvin’s streak was staggering, vast, unprecedented, and glorious. Interviews with a cavalcade of Marvin’s colleagues, schoolmates, and renowned collaborators help to tell a deeply personal, candid insider study of one of the greatest artists of our time.

Stage Light, Stage Fright

EuroArts Music International

The life of an orchestra musician is marvelous. Mozart, Schubert, and Strauss surround you. All day long you hear beautiful music. What other people pay a lot of money for, you get paid to do. You are gifted, you bring joy into people’s lives, everybody loves you. And chances are high, you are an alcoholic, lonely, and burnt out. Musicians have the third most stressful profession worldwide topped only by air traffic controllers and emergency room doctors. Their working hours are antisocial, their lives lonesome. And work demands from them constant negotiating with something some of them need in order to perform and others have to fight in order to perform. Interviewing performing artists, this film examines the challenge of being a musician and the struggles to overcome stage fright and the difficulties of their lifestyle.

Form: Great Intros

The Discovery Orchestra

Have you ever been to an event where someone introduced the featured speaker? That introduction can make or break how the audience reacts to the speaker. So it is with a musical composition! Composers are very aware that if they compose an introduction it has to be “just right” to set up what follows. Maestro George Marriner Maull uses Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 to illustrate in this video chat.

Form: Another Look at Variation Form

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, harpist Merynda Adams joins Maestro George Marriner Maull as they revisit variation form as found in Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

Form: Variation Form 3

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull and guitarist Celil Refik Kaya explore Celil’s own composition entitled Theme & Variations on Pass et medio.

Form: Musical Paragraphs

The Discovery Orchestra

Composers write the equivalent of sentences in music which we call “phrases”. Groups of phrases are put together to form “paragraphs” in music. In this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull, viewers learn how to hear these paragraphs, which give the listener an idea of the composer’s intentions.

Melody: Follow That Subject

The Discovery Orchestra

A fugue’s main melody is called its “subject”. Maestro George Marriner Maull explores different subjects using Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 performed by The Discovery Orchestra and Bach’s Unaccompanied Sonata No. 1 performed by violinist Katie Liu.

Melody: Question and Answer

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses aspects of melody.

Harmony: Change That Chord Again

The Discovery Orchestra

Jazz musicians love to introduce new harmonies under the melodies they play. Guest artist Dan Crisci, jazz pianist, helps Maestro George Marriner Maull illustrate in this video chat.

Harmony: Suspension and Resolution

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull discusses the concepts and use of suspension and resolution in music to create tension and then release.

Mood in Music: Lightness to Darkness

The Discovery Orchestra

Beethoven moves from light-heartedness to despair in a matter of seconds. Maestro George Marriner Maull helps viewers navigate this incredible change.

Mood in Music: Utter Simplicity and Effective Surprise

The Discovery Orchestra

Sometimes the utter simplicity of Schubert’s music masks the fact that he was brilliant at creating effective surprise for the listener. This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull and guest artist pianist Stephen Wu looks at surprises in music with examples from Schubert.

Mood in Music: Another Effective Surprise

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull and pianist Lawrence Huang examines another examples of surprise in music with Rachmaninoff’s Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1.

Rhythm: Noticing Tempo Change #2

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull challenges you to count the number of tempo changes in Brahms’ Hungarian Dance #6.

Rhythm: Syncopation

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull explains what syncopation is and demonstrates this aspect of the element of rhythm.

Texture in Music: Texture, Part 1

The Discovery Orchestra

This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull examines the types of texture that exist in music. He explains what texture in music is and presents examples of melody alone and melody with chords of a different rhythm.

Timbre: Name That Timbre

The Discovery Orchestra

Timbre is the sound source in music and is the character or quality of a musical sound, such as the sound of a violin, piccolo, trombone, etc. This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull considers what gives different instruments their timbres, such as the material it is made of, its size, and how the sound is made.

TEDTalks: Dallas Taylor - What Silence Can Teach You about Sound

TED

What can you hear in silence? In this exploration of sound, host of the podcast "Twenty Thousand Hertz" Dallas Taylor tells the story of arguably the most debated musical composition in recent history -- composer John Cage's iconic piece 4'33" -- and invites you to take notice of the soundscape around you. Watch to the end to experience a performance of 4'33".

The Lyric Project: How to Say Goodbye

Filmhub

The Lyric Project celebrates how and why songs can have such a lasting impact on us. An anthological documentary, these themes are explored through submissions from the general public - recordings of people reading the lyrics from their favorite songs and reflecting on why the song had such a strong impact on them.

Harmony: The Land of 6th’s and Octaves

The Discovery Orchestra

When composers want to add harmony to a melody, there are a number of ways they can do it. In this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maul, high-school musicians Katie Liu (violin) and Lawrence Huang (piano) demonstrate the use of 6ths and octaves in music.

Rhythm: Holiday Meters, Part 2

The Discovery Orchestra

Continuing the study of meter, this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull explains how to find the underlying pulse, or beat, in a piece of music using Handel’s Pifa (Pastorale) from Messiah to illustrate.

Rhythm: Holiday Meters, Part 3

The Discovery Orchestra

In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull will help you detect the underlying beat in For Unto Us a Child is Born from Handel’s Messiah.

Ben Webster 1965

MVD Entertainment Group

From the Danish TV archives, this is the concert performed by Ben Webster in 1965 in Copenhagen. It is his first concert in Denmark, and shows why he chose to settle down there.

The Kingston Trio Celebration

MVD Entertainment Group

All-star concert w/The Kingston Trio; iconic founder Bob Shane; The Limeliters; Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire; New Christy Minstrels; The Beach Boys' Al Jardine; The Eagles' Timothy B. Schmit; Trini Lopez & Modern Folk Quartet's Henry Diltz; taped at the Avalon Hollywood (former Hollywood Palace) for a PBS TV Special directed by award-winning filmmaker Chip Miller for Desert C.A.M. Studios.