Snooch’s Silly Symphony

“Come, Ye Sons of Art, come away. Tune all your voices, and instruments play, To celebrate this triumphant day!” The last three years were no-brainers for me and my classical…

I definitely am familiar with this piece, but haven’t ever really studied it. 

I had hoped that during December I might be able to come up with at least a few pieces that would be about winter or Christmas, but I’m not doing…

So few weeks left in the year, and I felt like doing something tailored to the week. This is Thanksgiving week here in the United States, so I opted for…

This past week, there was a Carnegie Hall broadcast which inspired me to really learn Bach’s Orchestral Suites. These are pieces which even a non-musician has probably heard snippets of…

I can’t quite tell if I feel like I’m out of ideas, or on a real good streak here. Several weeks of the last few months I have worked on…

Tapiola was a piece that the New England Philharmonic performed in 2007, when I was there general manager for a three-year spell. As such, I figured that when I gave…

Here’s a piece that I know very little about, aside from the title. It must have come up in a music history class at one point, because my wife and…

This week’s piece is Edvard Grieg’s tribute to the Danish -Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, composed in 1884 for the 200th anniversary of his birth. From Holberg’s Time was originally written as…

This is a piece that I uncovered for myself while browsing through some online concerts by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It should be fun to learn some more Rachmaninov.