How many keyboard instruments can you name? Exploring Music can name at least 15 different types to start with! Tune in to learn and listen to stories and music on 2/3, Monday 7:00 PM
Week of February 3, 2020 - A Keyboard Smorgasbord - It’s a lot more than just pianos! We’ll follow the story of the musical keyboard, from the ancient Greeks all the way to synthesizers, examining music for many different types— clavichords, harpsichords, fortepianos, organs, harmoniums, accordions, dulcimers, cimbaloms, melodicas, and mallet instruments from Java to jazz. This is a large and interesting family!
Week of February 10, 2020 - It Was a Lover and His Lass - We start every hour of this week with a "hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino" from the incidental music in Shakespeare’s' As You Like It. Bill rounds out each day with many different composers' works influenced by all aspects of love.
Week of February 17, 2020 - American Masters, Part I The first week in our series exploring great but lesser-known American composers: all born in the last decade of the 19th century. These are composers whose names are not Ellington, Gershwin, Copland, Barber, or Bernstein — Howard Hanson from Wahoo, Nebraska; Walter Piston from Rockland, Maine; William Grant Still born in Woodville, Mississippi; and Ruth Crawford Seeger born in East Liverpool, Ohio. This week of Exploring Music is full of many beautiful works that you will enjoy.
Week of February 24, 2020 - Tone Poems - In a literal case of art imitating life, symphonic music is freed from its traditional structures and takes a programmatic turn. Generally one movement, tone poems use music to evoke the essence of a poem, a painting or other non-musical source. Bill invites us to sit with him as he describes and listens to this image evoking dramatic music.