Curated Video
Subjectively Overwhelmed
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the subjective element that all musicians bring to music-making.
Curated Video
Subjective Distortions
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin relates the results of the fascinating double-blind tests to determine if expert musicians could tell new violins from old, and muses on how it's really hard to remove subjective...
Two Minute Music Theory
Concerto - Musical Definitions In About 15 Seconds
Who has time to watch a two minute video?! Now get all of your musical definitions in about 15 seconds!
Odd Quartet
Music History - Listening Guide To Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Spring
Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer of the Baroque era and was very well known during his time as a performer and a teacher. One of the types of music that he like to compose was called “concerto”. A concerto is a type of composition...
Amphio
An Operatic Mind
Suzy Klein talks about how Vivaldi uses Operatic devices to convey drama and visuals in his music.
Odd Quartet
Music History - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Listener's Guide Music History
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 is one of his most well known pieces, but did you know that Rachmaninoff struggled with depression and writer's block before being able to write this lovely piece of music? We look at the history...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: The Passions of Bach
Audio discussion of Bach as a young man with musical excerpts from some of his most passionate music.