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West Side Stories

Season 4 Episode 499

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Leonard Bernstein played piano from age 10, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University.  So he studied music theory before studying conducting and orchestration. In 1943, h…

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The Sinatra Method

Season 4 Episode 498

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Today, we’re going to begin in Hoboken, New Jersey, walk through the apprenticeship years, and then trace how partnerships, heartbreak, movies, and business instincts turned a talented …

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Multimedia Pioneer

Season 4 Episode 497

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Today's episode is the first in a look at several dozen musicians who lived after 1900, roughly in chronological order.  And let me emphasize this is a extremely subjective look - it se…

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Precision & Passion

Season 4 Episode 496

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Merci, Monsieur Bartley. I was born in 1875 in the little town of Ciboure, in the Basque country of southwestern France. My father was an inventive man, an engineer with a passion for m…

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Debussy’s Paris

Season 4 Episode 495

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Maestro, thank you for joining me. Before we dive into your music, I’d really like to hear about your beginnings. Could you tell us about your background?

Of course. I was born in 1862, …

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Cosmic Composer

Season 4 Episode 497

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Welcome, Maestro Gustav Mahler. You’ve been called a composer of contradictions—cosmic in scope, but also obsessively detailed. If you could describe yourself in just a few words, how w…

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Spooky Music!

Season 4 Episode 496

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Now in a nutshell, the history of Halloween and how it developed can be described in a few sentences.  You see, Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which m…

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From Morning to Mountain

Season 4 Episode 495

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I am most happy to be here today with you, Mr. Bartley.

And we are glad that you're here, Maestro Greig Could you tell us about your early life.

Ya, I was born in Bergen, Norway, on the 1…

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Bohemian Voice

Season 4 Episode 494

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Maestro, could you begin by telling us a bit about your background?

Ah, yes… I vas born in 1841, in a small village near Prague, in Bohemia. My father vas a butcher, my mother a simple, …

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Tenderness Interrupted

Season 4 Episode 493

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2 Ghost sound

I am most happy, to be here, and as a ghost, my heart carries the weight of a funeral march, even in moments of applause.

Interesting analogy, Maestro Tchaikovsky, but could…

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