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Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
How can a work so full of vivacity arise from an occasion of such sadness? This will be our first question when our next Milestones of Music takes us into the world of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Responding to the early death of admired friend and gifted architect Viktor Hartmann, Musorgsky designed a musical tour through Hartmann’s whimsical, historically informed watercolors.
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Puccini’s comic one-act opera Gianni Schicchi features one of his most beloved arias “O mio babbino caro.”
On the surface, it is a formulaic work in the style of an 18th-century opera buffa, much as Mozart would have written. Laced into it, however, is Puccini’s luscious sense of melody, harmony, and dramatic timing.
Kern & Hammerstein: Show Boat
Showboat (1927) is regarded as the first real Broadway Musical. It remains a blockbuster until today, both for the power of its story and for its fabulous hit tunes like “Ol’ Man River” and “Make Believe.” Showboat would be followed by many innovative American musicals, including a string of spectacular shows that Hammerstein would write with composer Richard Rogers. But the root of it all was Showboat.
Searchable Index of All Webinars with Links
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
Beethoven: Eroica Symphony
Pirates of Penzance
Dvorak: Rusalka
Handel's Messiah: Part I
Handel's Messiah: Part II
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- Wagner: Lohengrin
- Beethoven: Fidelio
- Donizetti: The Daughter of the Regiment
- Mozart: Don Giovanni
- Rossini: The Barber of Seville
- Opera Bootcamp
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Music of Spring
Tour the Arts: Budapest
What's So Great About Beethoven?
The Benefits of Enduring Music for Young Children
Classical Music: Feeding Our Souls, Spirit, and Intellect
From Peter the Great to Dostoevsky
The Story of Our Early Christian Music
Beyond the Frame: Strategies for Teaching Art History
The Classical Consortium Conference
- The College Mess: What Should My Child Do? (free)
- Where Do I Start with Classical Music? (free)
- Surviving Difficult Times: What the Arts Teach Us (free)
Recorded Webinars in the Circle of Scholars
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Individual webinars available for free viewing where indicated.
- A Sprint Through the Late Romantic Era
- A Sprint Through the Early Romantic Era
- A Sprint Through 18th-Century Classicism and the Enlightenment
- A Sprint Through the Baroque Era (free)
- A Sprint Through Russian History
- Spirituals
- What’s So Great About the Hymnal? (free)
- The Great English Hymn Tradition
- Noel
- A Mighty Fortress: Hymns from the Era of Bach and Handel
- Blessed Assurance: 19th-Century American Hymns
- Related: The Story of Our Early Christian Music (free)
- Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
- Ravel’s Boléro
Storytelling / Jim Weiss
- Going West in the U.S.A. (free)
- Greek Myths (free)
- Favorite Fairy Tales (free)
- American Music from Tin Pan Alley to Oz (free)
- Learning Cyrillic
- Four Classical Works to Jumpstart Your Year
- Learning Literature Through Music (free)
- Learning To Read Music 101
- Beyond the Frame: Strategies for Teaching Art History (free)
- Strategies for Teaching Music in Homeschool (Grades 1-6) (free)
- Strategies for Teaching the Arts (Grades 7-12) (free)
- The Benefits of Enduring Music for Young Children (free)
- Classical Music: Feeding Our Soul, Spirit, and Intellect (free)
- Cultivating Beauty: Getting Started with Music Appreciation (free)
- Music of Spring (free)
- Music of Summer
- Music of Autumn (free)
- Music of Winter
- What’s So Great About [Real] Singers?
- What’s So Great About Russian Fairy Tales?
- What’s So Great About an Orchestra?
- What’s So Great About the Piano?
- What’s So Great About Mozart? (free)
- What’s So Great About Beethoven? (free)
- What’s So Great About the Pipe Organ?
- Bizet: The Pearl Fishers (free)
- Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance (free)
- Dvorak: Rusalka (free)
- Handel: Messiah Parts II-III (free)
- Handel: Messiah Part I (free)
- Donizetti: The Elixir of Love (free)
- Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (free)
- Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (free)
- Wagner: Die Walküre (free)
- Verdi: A Masked Ball (free)
- Wagner: Lohengrin (free)
- Beethoven: Fidelio (free)
- Donizetti: The Daughter of the Regiment (free)
- Mozart: Don Giovanni
- Rossini: The Barber of Seville
- Opera Boot Camp (free)
- Rodgers & Hammerstein: Carousel
- Verdi: La Traviata
- Haydn: The Creation (Oratorio)
- Bizet: Carmen
- Mozart: The Magic Flute
- Monteverdi: L’Orfeo
- Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Verdi: Otello
- Wagner: Das Rheingold
- Humpderdinck: Hansel and Gretel
- Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
- Puccini: La Bohème
- Rossini: La Cenerentola
- Budapest (free)
- Prague