Snooch’s Silly Symphony

This week I have begun to study Les préludes by Franz Liszt, a very popular orchestral work which, once again, has somehow managed to escape my eye for many years.…

It was a bit of a circuitous route choosing this week’s piece. I’ve enjoyed when it’s possible to theme a piece around a current event or anniversary, and so I…

It’s always exciting to come across a piece that’s instantly approachable, especially when it is one that I’m not previously aware of. That is the case with Billy the Kid by Aaron…

This week, I’ve chosen a piece which I was first introduced to last fall when Andris Nelsons came to conduct his first concert at Symphony Hall after being named the…

It’s been an unusual past few weeks, and I haven’t written a Snooch’s Silly Symphony post in about a month. Hopefully, I will get back on track with the current…

This week, I’ve chosen Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, a piece with which I know I have some previous familiarity, but which I chose for two particular reasons. The first is…

This week, I’ll focus on Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye Suite, which is an entirely new piece to me. It was written for four-hand piano, and later orchestrated by Ravel himself…

This week I’ll be experiencing a piece I’ve never even heard of until this morning. There seems to be a lack of information about the piece online, and I have not…

This week, I will look at Brahms’ Tragic Overture in D minor, op. 81. I had assumed that it would sound more familiar to me that it did upon my…

As I start off a week in Newport, Rhode Island, I chose Debussy’s La Mer as my piece to learn. I thought it would be an interesting and fun choice as…