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Abbagayle gives the story behind the carol and Airport Eagle's Chorus from Airport High School performs What Child is This.
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Rebecca and Lauren give the story behind the carol and Mid Carolina High School Chorus performs O Holy Night.
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Jilly gives the story behind the carol and The Mid Carolina High School Chorus sings Joy to the World.
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This program features South Carolina school choirs performing holiday favorites and providing the history of these well-known carols. The program includes choruses from Dutch Fork Middle School, Irmo...
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Rachael gives the story behind the carol and The Honors Chorus of Dutch Fork Middle School sing Go Tell It On The Mountain.
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Already during their lifetimes, Antonin Dvorák and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky were among the most famous composers in the world. Their music is extremely sophisticated, the product of highly skilled...
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Chamber music rehearsals are very different from orchestra rehearsals. In an orchestra rehearsal, it’s the conductor’s job to make the overall musical decisions and to ensure that the members of the...
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Francis Poulenc didn’t have to depend on composition for his living—he was the heir to the fortune of the Rhône-Poulenc pharmaceutical company—but he nonetheless turned out an enormous body of work in...
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A word of advice today for non-musicians reading program notes in concert programs: If the program notes are heavy on technical analysis and are loaded with terms like modulation, inversion...
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Atonal music is music that isn’t written in a key, music that doesn’t follow the traditional rules of harmony. But although the term “atonal” tells us what a piece isn’t, it doesn’t tell us what it is...
