Professor Carol

Professor Carol

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Professor Carol episodes

  • Programming the Recital
    Chopin would have been surprised at the idea of a solo piano recital in a concert hall. Professor Carol talks about the programming of recitals and works of Bach-Busoni, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy. Works Discussed: Bach-Busoni Chorale Preludes; Beethoven Sonata No. 21, Opus 53 ("Waldstein"); Chopin Sonata No. 2; Debussy "Children's Corner"
    14 min
  • Schumann's Papillon and Fantasy
    Professor Carol gives a biography of Schumann's early years, comparing Schumann's youthful work Papillons with his later Fantasy in C Major against the backdrop of his courtship of the young pianist Clara Wieck and the emerging Romantic image of the artist.Works Discussed: Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2; Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
    15 min
  • They All Came to Hollywood
    Hollywood is heir to the European musical traditions. The classic films were scored by composers trained in Europe and schooled in the classical traditions and by immigrant composers who escaped Germany after their work was denounced by the Nazis as "degenerate music" (Entartete Musik). Works Discussed: Bernard Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo; Erich Korngold: Robin Hood; Aaron Copland: Red Pony; Virgil Thompson: The Plow that Broke the Plains
    16 min
  • Bands of the Battle
    Military music inspires the troops, facilitates maneuver, intimidates the enemy, sends signals, marks daily events of camp life, entertains the troops in their leisure time, and comprises an important part of the pageantry and tradition of military life.

    Works Discussed: Scotland the Brave, Yankee Doodle, Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Bugle Calls, The Army Song

    14 min
  • Big Band Swing
    Carol interviews Dean Bouras, arranger for the Dallas Wind Symphony Big Band concerts, and John Trapani, leader of the John Trapani Big Band about the era, the music, and its popularity today. Works Discussed: Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Norman Leyden
    20 min
  • Tales of the Young Brahms
    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
    14 min
  • One Generation to Another
    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.
    20 min
  • Beethoven the Musical Wordsmith

    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

    13 min
  • Slavic, Exotic, Romantic 2
    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
    9 min
  • Slavic, Exotic, Romantic 1
    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

    15 min

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Professor Carol mixes humor with history to bring you this entertaining series about music. From concerts, opera, and composers, to folk song collectors and singing parrots, Professor Carol tells it…