Apr 15 Blog Exploring Music: St. Matthew Passion It’s only one of two surviving Passion settings by Bach (he may have written 4-5), first heard in 1727 and not heard again until over 100 years later when Felix Mendelssohn presented Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Berlin. This week Bill McGlaughlin dives into the St. Matthew Passion on Exploring Music (Weekdays at 7pm). in […] By Daniel Gilliam Apr 15 Blog Exploring Music: St. Matthew Passion By Daniel Gilliam
Aug 26 Video Exploring Music: Sounds of the City of Lights This week on Exploring Music, Bill McGlaughlin illuminates Paris and the musical minds it produced, from Debussy (see below) to Faure, Berlioz, Alkan and Bizet. Listen Monday through Friday at 7pm. By Daniel Gilliam Aug 26 Video Exploring Music: Sounds of the City of Lights By Daniel Gilliam
Aug 05 Blog Exploring Music: Get the Picture Inspiration can come in many forms, from literature, nature, world events and the visual arts. This week on Exploring Music, it’s the pictures that inspired the music from Renaissance masters to modernists. Below are some of the paintings that we’ll “hear” this week at 7pm. (Image above: Isle of the Dead, 1886, Arnold Böcklin) By Daniel Gilliam Aug 05 Blog Exploring Music: Get the Picture By Daniel Gilliam