Music for Life
Music for Life is a music-appreciation and music-history based program that explores the purpose and value of music to humanity’s enrichment. Hosted by Ryan Malone, it features interviews with artists performing at the Armstrong Auditorium sponsored by the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation.
Fathers and Sons
In this episode, we explore composers whose fathers or sons were also composers—plus a Classroom Corner about what the less-musical or non-musical parents can listen for when their children are practicing.
Passing the Bar
In this episode, we sample vast array of composers whose original career paths were to become lawyers.
Pre-Concert Talk: The Step Crew
In this episode, we explore The Step Crew — the dancers and the band — and the program for their upcoming performance at Armstrong Auditorium.
The Shakespearean Influence
In this episode, we explore the impact William Shakespeare had on the output of standard music history.
Hallelujah
In this episode, we explore one of the most common lyrics in all sacred music: Hallelujah — and how that word has been treated in compositions throughout music history.
Music For Night
In this episode, we explore compositions written specifically to depict elements of evening or nighttime.
Ep. 37 Interlude
In this episode, the first after our summer break, we explore the idea of the musical breaks: interludes, intermezzi and entr’actes.
Pre-Concert Talk: Song of Solomon
In this episode, host Ryan Malone discusses his oratorio Song of Songs (a new setting of the entire Song of Solomon) in the lead up to its April 7, 2016, debut at Armstrong Auditorium.
Ep. 35 Watery Music: Part 2
In this episode, we explore compositions meant to depict the various aspects of water—from gentle rain to thunderstorms, and from the flow streams to the swells of the sea.
Ep. 35 Watery Music: Part 1
In this episode, we explore compositions meant to depict the various aspects of water—from gentle rain to thunderstorms, and from the flow streams to the swells of the sea.
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