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    A Peanut Dish to Remember
    Fifty-two year ago I went on a high school “educational” tour to Europe. In Amsterdam, we stayed on a government training ship for their naval recruits --…
  • Orchestra Metals
    Today, I thought we’d take a metallurgical tour of the orchestra. The bars, for example, of glockenspiels and celestas are made of steel. So are some of…
  • Bad Conductor
    Yesterday, we talked about good conductors. Today, let's talk about bad conductors. Some bad conductors or unimaginative, or uninteresting. And others are…
  • Overture 2
    Miles Hoffman continues his discussion about the birth and evolution of the overture.A Minute with Miles - a Production of South Carolina Public Radio,…
  • Sonata Form 2
    "Sonata” and “sonata form” are not the same thing, and that—in any kind of piece, not just sonatas—a movement composed in sonata form consists of three…
  • Interesting Facts 4: Bloch
    The composer Ernest Bloch was born in Switzerland, and after spending time in America, he was thinking of returning to Europe. But a visit in 1922 to the…
  • Handel's Messiah
    Well, it’s that time of year again. Choral groups all over the country are gearing up for performances of Handel’s Messiah. Or is it “Haen-del’s” Messiah?…
  • What to Say After a Concert
    Has this ever happened to you? You go to a concert, and the concert is... awful. But the performer is someone you know, and you see that person afterward,…
  • Pitch
    Pitch is the measure of the highness or lowness of a sound or musical tone. Miles Hoffman discusses our understanding of the term pitch.A Minute with…
  • Perfect Pitch
    Perfect pitch, often know as absolute pitch, is the ability to hear a note or sound and identify its precise pitch, that is the name of the note, without…
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