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Turn of the 20th Century English Composers
Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Saturday, December 18, 2010

All in the Musical Family
Schumann: Album for the Young
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Self-Taught Composers
Telemann: "Gigue" from the Suite in D
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Composer Teachers and their Students
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Famous Pianist-Composers
Chopin: "Military" Polonaise
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Scandinavian Composers
Grieg: "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Child Prodigy Composers
Mozart: "Turkish Rondo" from Piano Sonata in A, K. 331
Saturday, January 29, 2005

About Piotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Saturday, February 13, 1999

Child Prodigy Composers
Mendelssohn: "Scherzo" from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday, September 22, 2012

About Johannes Brahms
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Saturday, April 07, 2012

Women Composers
Mendelssohn: "Scherzo" from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Black Composers of Classical Music
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Saturday, February 23, 2013

American Composers with a Boston Connection
Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Music by Royalty and Nobility
Handel: "Hornpipe" from Water Music
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Black Composers of Classical Music
Still: Afro-American Symphony: Third Movement
Saturday, February 25, 2012

About Gioachino Rossini
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Saturday, February 06, 2010

About Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn: "Scherzo" from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday, September 01, 2012

About Antonin Dvorak
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 7
Saturday, August 06, 2011

About George Frederick Handel
Handel: "Hornpipe" from Water Music
Saturday, June 04, 2011

About Dmitri Kabalevsky
Kabalevsky: "Galop" from The Comedians
Saturday, March 03, 2012

About Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8: Second Movement
Saturday, January 01, 2011

About Charles Ives
Ives: Country Band March
Saturday, August 07, 2010

About Modest Mussorgsky
Mussorgsky: "Gnome" from Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, October 01, 2011

About Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"
Saturday, November 03, 2012

About Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Saturday, December 01, 2012

About Franz Schubert
Schubert: Marche Militaire
Saturday, January 07, 2012

About Scott Joplin
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Saturday, February 02, 2013

About Claude Debussy
Debussy: "Golliwog's Cakewalk" from Children's Corner
Saturday, May 05, 2012

About Georg Philipp Telemann
Telemann: "Gigue" from the Suite in D
Saturday, January 05, 2013

About Johann Strauss, Jr.
Strauss, Jr.: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Saturday, May 04, 2013

About Benjamin Britten
Britten: "Playful Pizzicato" from the Simple Symphony
Saturday, July 03, 2010

About Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky: "Infernal Dance" from The Firebird
Saturday, October 02, 2010

About Robert Schumann
Schumann: Album for the Young
Saturday, November 06, 2010

About Ralph Vaughan Williams
Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Saturday, December 04, 2010

About Sergei Prokofiev
Prokofiev: "Troika" from the Lt. Kijé Suite
Saturday, February 05, 2011

About Zoltán Kodály
Kodaly: "Viennese Musical Clock" from Hary Janos
Saturday, August 04, 2012

About Franz Joseph Haydn
Haydn: Minuet from Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"
Saturday, March 02, 2013

About Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi: "Triumphal March" from Aida
Saturday, May 08, 2010

About George Gershwin
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Saturday, November 05, 2011

The Sons of Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto # 2
Saturday, September 10, 2011

About Georges Bizet
Bizet: "Farandole" from the L'Arlésienne Suite #2
Saturday, December 03, 2011

About Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart: "Turkish Rondo" from Piano Sonata in A, K. 331
Saturday, March 05, 2011

Composers Who Visited America
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 7
Saturday, August 13, 2011

About John Philip Sousa
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Saturday, June 30, 2012

About Frédéric Chopin
Chopin: "Military" Polonaise
Saturday, April 06, 2013

About William Grant Still
Still: Afro-American Symphony: Third Movement
Saturday, February 04, 2012

About Aaron Copland
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Saturday, July 09, 2011

Other Members of the Strauss Family
Strauss, Jr.: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Clara Schumann
Schumann: Album for the Young
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Jewish Composers (for Chanukah)
Bizet: "Farandole" from the L'Arlésienne Suite #2
Saturday, December 17, 2011

About Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi: "Spring" from The Four Seasons
Saturday, May 07, 2011

About Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Saturday, April 02, 2011

About Edvard Grieg
Grieg: "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt
Saturday, October 06, 2012

About Aaron Copland
Copland: "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo
Saturday, May 03, 2008

About Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto # 2
Saturday, September 03, 2011

The Mighty Handful
Mussorgsky: "Gnome" from Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, October 08, 2011

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