Notes on Music
Notes on Music is heard throughout the week on KLRE, Classical 90.5, and is written and voiced by Ray Moore.
Ray Moore is Professor Emeritus of Music and former Director of Choral Studies at the University of Arkansas at 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.
Moore has published a book, High Notes and Low, based on his Notes on Music spots. You can purchase the book at amadeuspress.com. And you can learn more about his book in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nYPjYuCkAwU
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World-famous violinist, Hilary Hahn, while appreciating the existing music usually played as encores, has expanded the repertoire in what she calls “27…
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The “Polovtsian Dances” from the opera Prince Igor by Rimsky-Korsakov are the most often-performed portion of the opera and often all that is remembered…
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Believe it or not, TV's The Jerry Springer Show spawned a British musical in 2003, Jerry Springer: The Opera, written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee.It…
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These are some of the amazing statements accumulated by music teachers in Missouri: “I can’t reach the brakes on the piano.” “A virtuoso is a musician… -
A national survey reported in The Classical Music Consumer Segmentation Study 2002, indicates that 40% of adults who have attended graduate school, and… -
One doesn’t immediately associate classical-music composers with television theme songs, but it happens! Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 is used for Firing… -
Twentieth-century composer John Cage broke many music traditions, not the least of which was to designate his 1987 composition for organ, ASLAP, to be… -
While horseback riding in 1937, Cole Porter’s horse fell, throwing him to the ground, and then rolled over his legs, badly crushing them. The doctors… -
The Dream of Gerontius, composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, is an oratorio which relates the journey of a pious man’s soul from his deathbed to his… -
In music, a medley consists of a number of different melodies presented one after the other within the same continuous piece of music. An example of this…
