Music Appreciation For The Rest Of Us: Andrew Constantine Podcasts On Great Symphonic Masterworks

A Multimedia Symphony? You hear a lot about multimedia music presentation these days, but that is nothing new. If you saw the great 1940 Disney movie Fantasia, you will no doubt remember the thrilling sequence featuring Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky. Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a formidable opera composer who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, to become one of the best-loved Hollywood music composers of the Golden Age of Film. You will hear echoes from many of great scores by Korngold in his 1953 Violin Concerto. One of the great fiddlers of our time, Mark O Connor, has recently composed his first full-length symphony. The RSO will perform the East Coast premiere of this work. Learn more about the musician and his career. Andrew Constantine is joined in this discussion by Dave Kline of WEEU. The works discussed on this podcast will be performed by the RSO on Saturday, February 16th 2007.