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His earliest musical influence was his Dad, also an opera singer. At Eastman, Russell Miller and Carol Weber influenced him profoundly with their…

Kearstin Piper Brown never expected to be in front of a microphone—or in the spotlight on stage. She started out as a music history major in undergrad,…

Symphony No. 40 in g minor, K 550One of three symphonies composed by Mozart in 1788, No. 40 was written at a dark time in Mozart’s life, when the…

Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, EroicaIn Italian it means,”Heroic.” Beethoven was serious. It was the longest, most sweeping and confrontational symphony of its…

Prelude to the Afternoon of a FaunPremiered in Paris in December of 1894, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was inspired by L'Apres-midi d'un…

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas TallisBritish composer Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the Fantasia in 1910 on the melody of the hymn, "When, rising from…

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, Symphony of Sorrowful SongsPolish composer Henryk Górecki composed his 3rd symphony between October and December of 1976. The…

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565One of the most famous works in the reperoire of the organ, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, of J.S. Bach…

A German Requiem, Op. 45Unlike the typical Latin text of the Roman Catholic requiems, or masses for the dead, Johannes Brahms chose verses from the German…

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, PastoralCompleted in 1808, the 6th symphony is one of the few works in Beethoven's output that has explicit references…