Featuring kids just like you, these videos are a wonderful way to learn about some of history’s greatest composers!
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Marian Anderson, a remarkable contralto singer, overcame racial adversity and discrimination in the early 20th century, using her powerful voice to challenge injustice and break barriers.
World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is famous for his mastery of
the cello and the astonishing recovery of his once-stolen and beloved
instrument.
Dmitri Shostakovich initially found his musical voice improving scores for silent films, laying the foundation for his illustrious career as a renowned composer in the world of classical music.
Learn the amazing story of Joseph Bologne a.k.a. Chevalier de Saint-George(s)!
A Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Winner, Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman has won over 16 Grammy Awards and conducted all over the world!
Take an ordinary glass of water and make it sing!
More musical than the device in your hand!
Was Holst right about Pluto this whole time!?
In the 1870s, when African American composer Scott Joplin was a kid, there was no radio or television, so if you wanted to listen to music in your house, you had to play it yourself.
Daniel, the assistant conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops, explains how conductors communicate with musicians using gestures to control tempo, volume, and cue entrances.
When you go to a concert, and you’re still settling into your seat and talking to your friends, the first organized sound you will hear is the oboe playing the note “A,” followed by all the other instruments of the orchestra tuning up to the oboe’s “A.” This is the universal signal that the conductor is about to take the podium and the concert is about to begin.
The percussionists are the drummers of the orchestra, but they play more than just drums. The percussion family of instruments includes anything that’s played by being hit, shaken, or rubbed like the xylophone, chimes and gong.
Many generations of concertgoers have heard Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. But one person who never did hear it was Beethoven himself.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musical genius who was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. He composed his first piece of music when he was just five years old, and during his lifetime he wrote more than 600 works, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and operas. But one of the most amazing stories about Mozart’s musical genius concerns a piece of music that was not composed by him.
What if we told you that in the 1800s, there was an artist so big that they started their own medical condition? That people from city to city would lose their minds at just the sight of this concert pianist?
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