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If you are interested in hearing some of the world's greatest musical masterpieces and a complimentary emotional experience, please tune away. That, according to maestro David Randolph, is not what you will get here. This program does not aim high. Light music, yet not trivial or salon music but perhaps, ...

David Randolph considers composers and the grim reaper beginning (or ending as is the case) with Bach's The Art of Fugue at his death. The conclusion is played here on the organ by E. Power Biggs. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's rather difficult life is recounted, but apparently he had a much ...

An overview of the work of Edgard Varese and the ever-increasing acceptance of electronic music in mid-twentieth-century popular culture

Canby invites the listening audience to experience "a strange and compelling world of sonic surprises" in the work of composer Edgard Varese.

In this program David considers a concerto written for two or more solo instruments rather than a single soloist. To musically illustrate his points he plays the following recordings:

Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat opus 84 by Franz Joseph Haydn, from the Vox LP recording of the Pro ...

PEABODY AWARD WINNER 1956 Little Orchestra Society Childrens Concerts The Emperor's Nightingale by Igor Stravinsky based on the story by Han Christian Anderson. The performance ...

Profile of the Statue of Liberty.

A brief history of the Electronic Sound Synthesizer, the first programmable machine for the production of electronic music, created in 1955 at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

David talks about how he alienates friends by playing new LPs so that they can identify what's being played. He tries this with his listening audience and then reveals he had played Arnold Schoenberg's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra based on a Concerto Grosso by Handel. The recording was ...

David Randolph uses theme from the song, "How Dry I Am" to see the ways in which composers have used this melodic idea. He does not want to suggest, however, they had that specific song in mind when they composed the following works:

Slow movement of the ...

Canby examines "Songs and Dances of Death" — a song cycle for voice and piano by Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

In this program David Randolph considers the Siena Piano and its ability to sound like a guitar, harp, harpsichord, organ and the piano. To illustrate this, David plays the following recordings of pieces on a Siena Piano:

Malagueña by Isaac Albéniz.
Sonata for Harpsichord by Scarlatti ...

David Randolph begins with the finale of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto performed by Reginald Kell. The clarinet as a solo instrument and in various combinations is the subject of the program. He features the following work:

Mozart's Quintet in E-flat for Winds and Piano. K 452. - (Clarinet, ...

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David Randolph reveals the types of logic that holds music together. And, just what that logic is. He opens with the familiar Turkish March from ...

David Randolph says this will be a relaxing program and he might otherwise call this show, 'Fun With Music'. He draws from the following works:

Two final movements of Ballet Suite #1 composed by Shostakovitch. They appear here on a Vanguard LP by the State Orchestra of ...

WNYC's Martin Waldman reporting from Eisenhower headquarters on election night.

David devotes this program to 'just pleasant music' without trying to illustrate any particular musical point. Plays the following:

Concerto for Orchestra, Opus 3 No. 3 in G-major by Handel. It is recorded for the Bach Guild (Recording) by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra under the direction ...

David Randolph calls to order a meeting of the SPUI, the Society for the Preservation of Unusual Instruments. The purpose of the organization is to listen, every so often, to instruments other than the violin and piano. That is, instruments heard in concertos in a solo capacity. The following works ...

David Randolph talks about rhythm in music. He begins by asking his listeners to conduct as he plays a recording of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony so that they become more sensitive the the rhythms and rhythmic changes in a work of music. He continues with the importance of the beat and ...

David opens with Scherzo movement from the Trio in A Major - a trio for violin, piano and cello by Brahms. The manuscript was discovered in 1924 without a title page but experts have figured it is an early Brahms work. It is performed here for Westminster Records by William ...