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Podcast about American orchestral music. Featuring interviews with guests including JoAnn Falletta and Gerard Schwarz.
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
English
United States
15 episodes
since Oct. 5, 2020
episodic
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Today’s guest on the American Muse Podcast is a dynamic person and fantastic conductor and musician. In addition to his position as Music Director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas (where my father has played under him for many years), he is Principal Pops Conductor with the New Haven Symphony. Ha…
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A precocious young composer, the teacher of Charles Ives, and a NON-nationalistic Scottish work undeniably influenced by Tchaikovsky (even though it may have been intended to do the exact opposite), are all headline descriptions of the topic for this episode of the American Muse podcast: Horatio Pa…
He is director of orchestral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he has been for over 20 years. He has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies all over the United States and the world, and has traveled just as far to teach master classes, conducting w…
-William Henry Fry, born a Philadelphian in 1813... or 1815... well it seems no one really knows for sure. But, either is close enough for us. Though it might seem a foreign concept to us, being able to hear great music in the 19th century was completely dependent on an orchestra or opera company a…
Named one of the top 30 musicians worldwide by Musical America, conductor Diane Wittry joins us on this episode to discuss David Diamond, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Lowell Lieberman.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donations
World renowned conductor, pedagogue, and author Markand Thakar joins me to discuss the possibility of sublime beauty in Western Art music.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donations
The great Maestro Gerard "Jerry" Schwarz joins me to discuss his never-ending drive and his relationships with Alan Hovhaness and David Diamond. You don't want to miss what he has to say!
www.gerardschwarz.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donatio…
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- Born 1894 in Rockland, Maine, and eventually the family moved to Boston.
- Early on, Piston considered becoming an artist instead of a musician. He actual finished his degree in painting at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He spoke of the transition quote
> “I went to art school …
So this is it, ladies and gents, the episode where we discuss the piece for which this podcast was named and the composer that wrote it: William Schuman and his Symphony No. 10 ‘American Muse’! The man literally got letters in the mail telling him either how awful his music was, OR how it had chan…
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- It seems especially difficult to summarize the life and career of William Grant Still. At the simplest, Still performed, conducted, composed, orchestrated, and arranged music, earning him the title “Dean of Afro-American Composers”. But what he was as a man is so much deeper and more comp…
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