Episodes

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams 5: Winter in Music

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 5: Winter in Music
    Dec 31 2022
    It's December, and winter has officially begun. This is a program of music with wintery themes.
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams 4: Christmas Carols in Classical Music

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 4: Christmas Carols in Classical Music
    Dec 24 2022
    In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have Christmas carols in them.
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams 3: Turn of the 20th Century English Composers

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 3: Turn of the 20th Century English Composers
    Dec 17 2022
    Ralph Vaughan Williams arrived on the scene just as a definite English classical music sound was being established. His three main teachers at the Royal Academy of Music were Arthur Sullivan, Hubert Parry, and Charles Stanford. Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst also had an influence on Vaughan Williams.
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams 2: Musical Fantasies

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 2: Musical Fantasies
    Dec 10 2022
    Originally, a musical fantasy was a piece that instrumentalists made up as they went along. Eventually, fantasies evolved into pieces that composers built out of various melodies they liked -- like the Scottish folk tunes that Max Bruch put into his Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra.
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams 1: About Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams 1: About Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Dec 3 2022
    Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important 20th century English composers. He spent years traveling the country collecting English folk songs, writing them down, and publishing them. Many of those melodies wound up in his music.
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  • Charles Ives 4: American Hymns in Classical Music

    Charles Ives 4: American Hymns in Classical Music
    Nov 26 2022
    Charles Ives loved to put hymns into his music. Several other composers borrowed hymn tunes; here are several examples from 20th Century American compositions.
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  • Charles Ives 3: Folk Tunes in Classical Music

    Charles Ives 3: Folk Tunes in Classical Music
    Nov 19 2022
    The Country Band March has 12 recognizable popular and folk tunes in it. But Ives was not the only composer to put borrowed tunes in his music. Many classical composers -- including Ludwig van Beethoven, Mily Balakirev, and Percy Grainger -- used folk music in the pieces they wrote.
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  • Charles Ives 2: Marching Through the Country Band March

    Charles Ives 2: Marching Through the Country Band March
    Nov 12 2022
    Charles Ives wrote the Country Band March about amateur musicians -- people who make music for the love of it. In the Country Band March Ives combines a tune that he wrote with bits and pieces of many other popular and folk tunes. See how many of them you can recognize.
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