Ensemble. Collective Talent - Mike Wheeler marvels at The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Midnight Ice Cream - Maria Nockin tells the story of a bus driver who lands a job working for an opera company
A Chorus of Dissent - Ros Bethan illustrates her own musical poem
The Life of Antonio Vivaldi - Susan Budig's short poem about Venice's 'Red Priest', composed in the form of a classical rondeau
A Vision of Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 - A poem by J Jean Mayfield
Lust in A Major - Marsha Cappy's tale takes place in Prague in 1905 ...
Nota Bene - K C Devereaux tells the story of the second best piano student in the class
Movements - Not quite a review - but ... with Kelly Ferjutz
Beethoven's Ninth Solstice - A poem by Debra A Hoffmann
The Piano - A short story by Kelly Ferjutz
To everything there is a season - A short story by Jenna Orkin of wtceo.org
Ensemble. Mystic chanting - Elica Lupus-Popescu journeys to hear the lost pipers of Iasi
Music - a short story by Elizabeth Dobbs
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 33. A Royal Composer
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 32. Stravinsky's Final Period Works
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 31. Bartok's Original 4th String Quartet
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 30. Strauss's Tone Poem 'Der Hund von die Baskervilles'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 29. Elgar: The Missing 'Enigma Variations'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 28. Fibich's 'Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 27. Schumann's 'Blumenkinderstücke'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 26. Chopin's 'Cantate de Noël'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 25. Purcell's 'Welcome Ode on Pepys's Recovery from the Bladderstone'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 24. John Taverner's 44-part motet, 'The Cryes of London'
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 23. Gustav Holst's 'Pluto', from The Planets (rev.)
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 22. Esrum Hellerup: An Unknown Composer
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 21. Rubbra's Comedy Overture
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 20. Respighi's trittico The Bistros of Rome
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 19. Charles Ives's Grand Metropolitan Hotel, New York City
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 18. Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Satie
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 17. Fauré's Saxophone Concertino
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 16. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, Billy Budd
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 15. Berlioz's Études for Piano
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 13. Beethoven's English Folk-Song Arrangements
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 11. Tippett's Easy Duets for Children
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 10. John Cage's Mushroom Music
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 9. Malcolm Arnold's Requiem for Olivier Messiaen
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 8. Debussy's Prelude and Fugue for organ
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 7. Delius's Evening Canticles
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 6. Bruckner's Cabaret Songs
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 5. Schoenberg's Rhapsody on Greensleeves
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 4. The A.E. Housman settings of Elgar, Smyth and Boulez
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 3. Messiaen's ballet-music The Wind in the Willows
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 2. Wagner's String Trio
Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - Trevor Hold has dragged from oblivion some music you will not know. 1. Brahms's opera Tom Jones
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