Borge conducts "Comedians"
Music funny man Victor Borge conducts the brilliant dance from Smetana's comic opera.
Random Act of Culture
Hundreds of area choristers, including the Opera Company of Philadelphia, wow a crowd of shoppers at Macy's with "Hallelujah."
Joplin, the Ragtime King
Scott Joplin, American composer, helped invent ragtime. Links to some wonderful music!
How to Read Music (Reading) 4
Learn how to read a staff and discover the C-Major scale in a great piece of music.
How to Read Music (Reading) 3
Find out about the bass clef and the grand staff in this short lesson.
Duke Ellington on music and swing
Ellington thought Shakespeare easily could have been a jazz fan
Swingles sing and swing Bach
Hear some beautiful music of Bach performed as a tidy, jazzy vocal ensemble.
Amazing young voices, "pie Jesus"
Republished and expanded from 8/24/2013. Gorgeous, young tenor voices, beautiful sense of transcendence and joy.
How to Read Music (Basics) 5
The three families of meter--simple, compound, and complex--are in this lesson. (The "free" family is not treated yet today.)
Prayer of Saint Francis (Pote)
Performed a cappella with an intrusive church bell near the end.