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This Week’s Featured Music
This Week On 91Classical: Featured Music Feb. 17-21
Make Your Picks In Our Second Annual ‘March Music Madness’
For this year’s March Music Madness tournament, we’ve decided to strike up the band. All 32 pieces in the bracket are repertoire for wind ensemble. Each quadrant of the bracket is themed, and all of the first-round pairings have something in common. But it’s up to you, the listener, to decide which piece of music will be this year’s champion. Voting begins March 2.
Live In Studio C: Another Century, Another Clarinet Trio
After last week’s clarinet trio by Johannes Brahms we traded the cello for the violin when the Stones River Chamber Players visited Studio C with music by Alexander Arutiunian.
The Little Dancers That Could: Adaptations Enable Students To Participate In Ballet
For a class at Nashville Ballet, wheelchairs don’t stop kids from dancing — they’re part of the movement. This adaptive dance program is performing this weekend, in partnership with the Rejoice School of Ballet, and bringing to life a beloved children’s story of heroic perseverance.
The Good Grief Of Beethoven On Schroeder’s Toy Piano In ‘Peanuts’
For five decades, a familiar sight greeted readers of the comics section of the newspaper: Schroeder at his toy baby grand piano, with Lucy leaning backward against it. Overhead, sheet music played an active role in the story. With overwhelming majority, the music was by one composer: Ludwig van Beethoven.
Classically Speaking: Clara Schumann At 200, Part 1
To celebrate the bicentennial of one of the most important musicians of the Romantic Era, 91Classical held a two-week festival of concerts, broadcasts and storytelling in her honor. Join Vanderbilt history professor Jim Lovensheimer to learn all about the remarkable life of Clara Schumann in a special two-part episode of Classically Speaking.