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Notes on Music, with Ray Moore






Ray Moore is Professor Emeritus of Music and former Director of Choral Studies at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.  Dr. Moore received his Bachelor's degree in music from Texas Tech University, and both his Master's and Doctorate from Columbia University.

Notes on Music is heard throughout the week on KLRE-FM, Classical 90.5.  Click the notes below to listen online...

 



 Concerning Those Who Wrote it Down



  Antonio Vivaldi's Birth - An Earth-Shaking Event

  Bach and Mendelssohn - Keys to the Music

  Berg - The Number 23

  Chopin in Paris - Exept His Heart

  Chopin's Funeral - and the Mozart Requiem

  Composer Sayings - Short and Pithy

  Cui - Russian Nationalist

  Debussy's Funeral - a Wartime Event

  Dvorak Cypresses - Songs of Love

  Edgard Varese - Composer and Silent Film Star

  Holst - What's in a Name?

  Joaquin Rodrigo - Guitar Music in Braille

  John Cage - Which is More Musical?

  Joplin - Ragtime Great

  Ketelbey - Light Music

  Luis Antonio Calvo - Columbian Composer Extraordinaire

  Mozart - Top of the Charts

  Mozart's Death - New Evidence

  Musicians - Cutting to the Chase

  Pere Lachaise - Famous Cemetery

  Ravel - An Accident in New York

  Ravel and Diaghilev - Duo or Duel?

  Ravel/Le Tombeau de Couperin - World War I Memorial

  Richard Rodgers - Oscar Winner

  Richard Strauss - Autobiographical Music

  Rossini - Quite a Prodigy!

  Stephen Sondheim - A Songwriting Lesson

  Tchaikovsky - An Emotional Teen

  Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Keeping Scores






 Notes to Make Music From



  Accursed Huntsman - Eternally Cursed

  Alessandro Striggio/Ecce beatam lucem - A Most Impressive Motet

  Ballad - A Musical Narrative

  Beethoven Piano Concertos - Who's On First?

  Britten - School Composer

  Bolero - A Sensual Setting

  Bolero - Also a Jacket

  Capriccio Italien - Italian Inspired

  Cole Porter - Ballet Composer

  Danny Boy - Not So Irish After All

  El Salon Mexico - Picture of a Place

  Exultation of Larks - or Gaggle of Geese?

  Florida Suite - Away from England

  Glee - A Drinking Song

  Harmonious Blacksmith - Most Requested

  Heldenleben - the Life of a Hero

  Helicopter Quartet - A Musical Flight

  HPSCHD - What a Show!

  Johnny Mercer/Jeepers Creepers - What Does It Mean?

  Langaus - Wild Waltz

  Madrigal Comedy - Not an Opera

  Morning Papers - A Printing Press Waltz

  Moulin Rouge - Red Windmill

  Mozart/The Goose of Cairo - Too Silly for Mozart

  Oh! Susanna - Gold Rush and More

  Ponchielli/La Giocanda - The Mona Lisa?

  Pop Goes the Weasel - Not a Rodent

  Prokofiev - Musical Mischief

  Ravel's Pavan - A Nostalgic Mood

  Rhapsody in Blue - On a Train

  Rosamunde - The Music Lives On

  Samba - Latino Rhythms

  Schumann Violin Concerto - Not to be Performed

  Sign of the Times - In Music

  Sleeping Beauty - Fairy Tale Opera

  Space Music - To Wake Up By

  Sprechgesang - "Speech Song"

  Take Me Out - To the Ball Game, of Course

  Tchaikovsky - Serbo-Russian March

  Tchaikovsky 2nd - Little Russia

  Villa Lobos/New York Skyline - New York in Music...Literally!

  Wine, Women, and Song - Famous Waltz






 People Who Wave Their Arms Around



  Conducting - Without a Score

  Gaetano Merola - His Final Action

  Herbert von Karajan - International Star

  Leopold Stokowski - Can't Read Music?

  Sir George Solti - Almost a Thousand

  Women Conductors - Very Few






 Critics, Soothsayers, and Charlatans



  Catherine Tofts - Soprano of Some Note

  George Bernard Shaw - Writer and Music Critic

  Jacques Barzun - Critic par excellence

  Music Criticism - An Iffy Business

  Of Thee I Sing - Musical Satire

  Opera Purists - Especially Operas in English

  Rudolf Bing - Never far from a Dispute

  Schnetzler - Organ Builder and Critic

  Stravinsky/The Rite of Spring - Not Always Appreciated






 Performers, or Those Who Try



  Alan Greenspan - Economist and...Clarinetist!

  Benny Goodman - Classical Clarinetist

  Christopher Plummer - Actor/Pianist

  Condoleezza Rice - Pianist...and Secretary of State

  Dave Brubeck - And the French Influence

  Duke Ellington - Would be Proud

  Handel As Organist - Masterful Playing

  Fats Waller - A Command Performance

  Franz Liszt - Lisztomania!

  Frederic Austerlitz - You Mean Fred Astair?

  Joan Baez - Socialist Activist

  Joshua Bell - An Experiment in the Subway

  Joyce Hatto Piano Recordings - The Jig is Up!

  Orchestra for Peace - All the Best

  Robert Johnson - Singing the Blues

  Rubinstein - Not the Composer

  Shanty - Sailor Musicians

  Leo Slezak, Wagnerian Tenor, and the Swan-Boat

  YouTube Symphony - A New Approach






 This, That, and Some of the Other



  Amusia - the Lack of Music

  Apollo Theater - A Harlem Landmark

  Applauding - But Not Between

  Aquaggaswack - A Most Unusual Instrument

  Asperger Syndrome - and Mozart?

  Bagatelle - a Trifle

  Candy Canes - Their Origins

  Car Music - More than Junk

  Choral Singing - A Popular Art

  Cooking and Music - Common Names

  Curse of the Nine - Symphonies, That Is

  Curtis Institute - A Musical Treasure

  Dulcimer - "Sweet Music"

  Earliest Organ Keys - As Played by Monks

  Encore - Again!

  Fitzgerald - Cousin of Key

  Helicon - Before the Sousaphone

  Hybrid Discs - Super Audio

  James Polk - Hail to the Chief

  Kennedy Center - An Arkansas Connection

  Lego Harpsichord - A Unique Instrument

  Limelight - the Place to Be

  Lincoln Center - More Than a Concert Hall

  Lithophone - Stalactite Rock Music

  Merengue - Latin Minuet

  Morris Dance - Dances with Swords!

  Music Boxes - Early Phonographs

  Music Therapy - Hath Charms

  Musical Chairs - An Acoustic Massage

  My Grandfather's Clock - A Memorable Event

  Octavo - Eight Leaves

  Opus - A Single Work

  Oratorio - Italian Restaurant

  Orchestration - Not Always One's Own

  Peterson - the Beer Bottle Organ

  Philistines - Not Artistic

  Pied Piper - a Good Tale

  Sir Charles Wheatstone - Inventor of What?

  Stradivari - Violin Maker

  Suite Mignon - A Delicate Flavor

  Tattoo - Fife & Drums

  Timpani - With an "I"

  Viennese Waltz - Most Sensuous

  Wittgenstein & Sons - A Musical Family

  Wood it be Music - Making a Violin

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