All Pieces for Dale McGowan
The classical music world doesn't just happen to be so white. It worked hard to stay that way.
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 23:38
The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 17:05
In addition to being a great composer, Beethoven was a world-class pianist. But his last performance did not go at all well, as Dale McGowan explains.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 05:48
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
One tune tormented me since I was two. I finally figured out why.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 06:41
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
When I was a kid, I tormented my little brother, not physically, but... musically. What is it about that horrible little tune?
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 16:04
The no-clapping-between-movements rule in a classical concert was created for a bad reason. So we’re gonna kill it -- you and me and Emanuel Ax.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 23:26
Years after dismissing it in college, an aging white music professor discovers that hip hop is where the real creative genius is happening in music...
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 21:45
Eight hundred years ago, a group of defrocked priests left the church and found the world. This music created a powerful, hilarious, moving window ...
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 20:56
From a Bach fugue to Princess Diana's funeral to Truman's wall, this technique is the music of finality.
- Added: Nov 16, 2019
- Length: 12:05
Yes, Beethoven composed while he was deaf. But more astonishing is the fact that he changed the course of Western music in the process.
- Added: Nov 02, 2019
- Length: 24:10
