Music for Life

In this episode, we explore composers whose fathers or sons were also composers—plus a Classroom Corner about what the less-musical or non-musical parents can listen for when their children are practicing.

In this episode, we sample vast array of composers whose original career paths were to become lawyers.

In this episode, we explore The Step Crew — the dancers and the band — and the program for their upcoming performance at Armstrong Auditorium.

In this episode, we explore the impact William Shakespeare had on the output of standard music history.

In this episode, we explore one of the most common lyrics in all sacred music: Hallelujah — and how that word has been treated in compositions throughout music history.

In this episode, we explore compositions written specifically to depict elements of evening or nighttime.

In this episode, the first after our summer break, we explore the idea of the musical breaks: interludes, intermezzi and entr’actes.

In this episode, host Ryan Malone discusses his oratorio Song of Songs (a new setting of the entire Song of Solomon) in the lead up to its April 7, 2016, debut at Armstrong Auditorium.

In this episode, we explore compositions meant to depict the various aspects of water—from gentle rain to thunderstorms, and from the flow streams to the swells of the sea.

In this episode, we explore compositions meant to depict the various aspects of water—from gentle rain to thunderstorms, and from the flow streams to the swells of the sea.