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Via Wikipedia and IMDB A Christmas Carol: The Musical is a 2004 American musical television film based on the 1843 novella of the same name by Charles Dickens , which also inspired a 1994 stage musical by Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens . The story features an old bitter miser who is given a chance for redemption when ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve. The movie was directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman...

For this episode, we will interview a new guest, Kevin Mazzarella. Kevin is an experienced and passionate music educator and clinician. Kevin has presented a “Building Your Trumpet Toolkit” session at the Connecticut Music Educator Association (CMEA) in-service conference. Mazzarella completed his graduate work at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in trumpet performance and at Teachers College...

Via Wikipedia: Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.[1] The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to...

Via Wikipedia: Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.[1] The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to...

Via Wikipedia: Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association . [1] Considered by John Bird, the author of Grainger's biography, to be his masterpiece, the 16-minute-long work has six movements, each adapted from folk songs that Grainger had collected on a 1905–1906 trip to Lincolnshire , England. [2] [...

In this episode, Shaun tests Hunter on Music Theory Knowledge via Classical FM.

Via Wikipedia In general the symphony is sunny and cheerful, with light instrumentation that for some listeners recalls the symphonies of Joseph Haydn , with whom Beethoven had studied a decade before. [13] In a commentary on the symphony Grove comments that Haydn – who was still alive when the new symphony was first performed – might have found the work too strong for his taste. [2] The Fourth Sy...

Grace Rimkunas is a Connecticut native. She attended the University of Connecticut in pursual of an undergraduate degree in Music Education and a master’s in Curriculum Design and Instruction. Post graduation, Grace taught elementary general music and front ensemble for approximately four years. While teaching, she came to realize that she hoped to impact a larger audience of young people through...

Grace Rimkunas is a Connecticut native. She attended the University of Connecticut in pursual of an undergraduate degree in Music Education and a master’s in Curriculum Design and Instruction. Post graduation, Grace taught elementary general music and front ensemble for approximately four years. While teaching, she came to realize that she hoped to impact a larger audience of young people through...

Grace Rimkunas is a Connecticut native. She attended the University of Connecticut in pursuant of an undergraduate degree in Music Education and a master’s in Curriculum Design and Instruction. Post graduation, Grace taught elementary general music and front ensemble for approximately four years. While teaching, she came to realize that she hoped to impact a larger audience of young people through...

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In this Episode, Hunter and Shaun discuss Ahren and Flaherty's musical, Anastasia Act 2. (Via Playbill) With music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally, and inspired by a 75 year old legend and subsequent beloved films, Anastasia transports audiences from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets...

In this episode, Hunter and Shaun discuss Ahren and Flaherty's Anastasia, Act I. (Via Playbill) With music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally, and inspired by a 75 year old legend and subsequent beloved films, Anastasia transports audiences from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to d...

In this episode, Hunter Sigona discovers Hanif Lawrence's Top 12 Playlist. Lonely House (Christian Hoff) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkXNXIvkP8 Cum Laude Ego Canto Richard Burchard (The Southern Chorale) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bJXEpY_8Q

In this episode, Hunter Sigona discovers Hanif Lawrence's Top 12 Playlist. In That Great Getting Up Morning (Kathleen Battle & Jessye Norman) https://youtu.be/2ZzCB6fEph Walk Together Children (Moses Hogan Chorale) https://youtu.be/0AlSYZpPBPg Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Combined Choirs of BYU) https://youtu.be/nq-Q22Pf1W Blow, Gabriel, Blow (New Cast Recording w/ Patti LuPone - 198...

In this episode, Hunter Sigona discovers Hanif Lawrence's Top 12 Playlist. Check Out These Songs! Independent Woman Part 1 (Destiny’s Child)   https://youtu.be/0lPQZni7I18 Circle of Life (Original Broadway Cast) https://youtu.be/5oAe_jy5BUg God Be Praised (Bishop TD Jakes) https://youtu.be/RPVZ0FqF-TA Seasons of Love (Movie Cast) https://youtu.be/9A_2WFx8FEU Olympic Fanfare - NBC Theme (John W...

In this episode, Mary, Hunter, and Shaun analyze Beethoven's Third Symphony in Eb.

“Cause the Sun is Engaged with the sky and my best friend has found a new guy” = Laufey Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, known by the mononym Laufey, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who became popular in the early 2020s. She describes her musical style, a mixture of jazz pop and bedroom pop, as modern jazz. Laufey participated in The Voice Iceland in 2015. She released her debut...

“Cause the Sun is Engaged with the sky and my best friend has found a new guy” = Laufey Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, known by the mononym Laufey, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who became popular in the early 2020s. She describes her musical style, a mixture of jazz pop and bedroom pop, as modern jazz. Laufey participated in The Voice Iceland in 2015. She released her debut...

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Harriau to discuss Linkin Park second album "Meteora" for which it is the 20th anniversary.

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Harriau to discuss Linkin Park second album "Meteora" for which it is the 20th anniversary.

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Harriau to discuss Linkin Park second album "Meteora" for which it is the 20th anniversary.