What’s this program about?
Student players in the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony join the professionals of the Dallas Wind Symphony for a “side by side” concert, featuring music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Paul Hindemith, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Where you can find:
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
What’s this program about?
Beethoven sliced and diced his themes, using musical rhetoric that rebelled against the natural melodic style of Mozart and that charted a path into 19th-century Romanticism. Professor Carol uses the Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31, to show how he did it.
Works Discussed: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31
Where you can find:
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 31
What’s this program about?
A youthful Brahms finds his signature style early in the Opus 10 Ballades based on the Scottish Ballad “Eduard” by Herder.
Works Discussed: Brahms: Four Ballades, Op. 10
Where you can find:
Brahms Op. 10 Ballades
What’s this program about?
Slavic composers Smetana, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninov cared deeply about their national roots and national identity, and each knew how to seduce the ear of listeners with gorgeous melody, ravishing orchestration, and a heart-racing sense of the dramatic.
Works Discussed: Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Smetana’s The Moldau, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade
Where you can find:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Smetana: The Moldau
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
What’s this program about?
Slavic composers Smetana, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninov cared deeply about their national roots and national identity, and each knew how to seduce the ear of listeners with gorgeous melody, ravishing orchestration, and a heart-racing sense of the dramatic.
Works Discussed: Smetana’s The Moldau, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2
Where you can find:
Smetana: The Moldau
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
My Musical Life by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
What’s this program about?
The tone poem of the late romantic era painted pictures and portrayed stories with a rich orchestral style that became the model for film music. In Part 2, Professor Carol explains features of John Williams’ famous film scores and how we hear music differently when it accompanies drama.
Works Discussed: John Williams, E.T., Schindler’s List, Jaws, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Harry Potter
Where you can find:
Holst “The Planets”
Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores
What’s this program about?
The tone poem of the late romantic era painted pictures and portrayed stories with a rich orchestral style that became the model for film music. In Part 1, Professor Carol explains Gustav Holst’s The Planets and some of the techniques that lead to the style of John Williams.
Works Discussed: Gustav Holst, The Planets; John Williams, Olympic Theme and Fanfare
Where you can find:
Holst “The Planets”
Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores
What’s this program about?
The final segment of Glenn Mitchell’s interview of Carol on KERA Radio turns to the Library of Congress’s American Memory Project, Bill Monroe, John Fogerty, Harry Partch, and Scott Joplin.
Where you can find:
The Harry Partch Collection (Vol. 1)
Ricky Skaggs & Friends Sing the Songs of Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky
Piano Rags
What’s this program about?
Glenn Mitchell’s interview of Carol on KERA Radio continues in Part 2 with a discussion of the Sacred Harp (shape-note singing), Stephen Foster, American film music, Louis Armstrong, Broadway, and Ernest Tubb.
Where you can find:
American Folk Hymns from the Sacred Harp Collection
Tubb: Waltz Across Texas
King Oliver with Louis Armstrong
Songs of Stephen Foster
What’s this program about?
Carol pays tribute to the late Glenn Mitchell with a reprise of her appearance in September 2000 on his radio program, reproduced here as a three-part podcast courtesy of KERA Radio. Carol and Glenn begin their discussion of America’s highly varied musical heritage with reference to William Billings, Jimmie Rodgers, Charles Ives, and Frank Zappa.
Where you can find:
Ives: An American Journey
Zappa: Trance-Fusion
The Essential Jimmie Rodgers
KERA Radio
Glenn Mitchell
Harry Partch
American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
Jimmie Rodgers
Shape-Note Singing
