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Southern California's classical radio station. A listener-supported service of @USC . 91.5FM Los Angeles. Free to Listen Online or on our Mobile App.

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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
10 years
I found a sultry @JoshGroban Elf in my work mailbox. Elf-on-the-Shelf had better watch out!! http://t.co/cphySg4hgT
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Classical KUSC
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Heart-shaped score to "Belle, Bonne, Sage" by 15th cent. composer Baude Cordier. http://t.co/bhJ7dBCdNb
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
2 years
Tune in tonight at 7PM for Jim Svejda’s final show after 43 years at Classical KUSC. Jim has crafted a special show you won’t want to miss.
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
4 years
Did you miss Jim Svejda’s interview last night with John Williams or any of his conversations with this year’s Oscar-nominated composers? Listen anytime on-demand at this link. 🔈🔗 #FilmMusic #FilmComposer #JohnWilliams @TheAcademy
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Classical KUSC
4 years
Could there be a better finale for #KUSCattheMovies ? #JohnWilliams is on The Evening Program with #JimSvejda at 9PM.
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
4 years
Our hosts are experimenting with their new "home studios", but hopefully KUSC will sound like it always does. We're honored to be here for you with uplifting music and your friends on the radio 24/7.
@lauritzen_brian
Brian Lauritzen: Bluesky + Threads @brianlauritzen
4 years
KUSC-in-a-Box update: spent a bunch of yesterday moving my setup around the house looking for the quietest space. Made recordings from multiple spots + sent to our engineers. We determined the best sound was in the master bedroom closet. So, starting Monday, that’s where I’ll be.
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4 years
Ditto ❤️!
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
6 years
We're introducing a new KUSC series called #OpenEars . It's all about composers, musicians and conductors who deserve more recognition, starting with singer Marian Anderson and conductor Calvin Simmons. Read more here:
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
7 years
Happy birthday, Aaron Copland! Have some 🍦🍦🍦 like a common man.
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Classical KUSC
7 years
Happy 25th anniversary at KUSC, Alan Chapman! You entertain and enlighten us every single day. KUSC wouldn't be the same without you.
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
4 years
We're putting the finishing touches on the first show and you're not going to want to miss it! At Home with Gustavo starts tomorrow at 6PM.
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New show coming to KUSC Tues 6PM & it's an exciting one! The @LAPhil 's @GustavoDudamel & @lauritzen_brian team up for "At Home with Gustavo" -- musical selections for this moment & Gustavo talking about why they're important listening in a time of social isolation.
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Classical KUSC
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Happy Birthday Wolfie!🥳🎁 Join us as we celebrate Mozart's 265th Birthday with music from the great composer every hour!
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“I’m very honoured to be the first,” she admitted, “but I’m also rather shocked that we can be in this year, in this century, and there can still be ‘firsts’ for women.”
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
5 years
Happy 64th birthday to cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who has spent his career bringing diverse cultures together through music and, in the process, celebrating our shared humanity.
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@ClassicalKUSC
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4 years
While our hosts broadcast from their closets, so many listeners have gotten in touch to say the music lifts their spirits & familiar voices make them feel less isolated. Thanks for letting us into yr lives at this distressing time! We love hearing from you. #ArtsHeal #MusicUnites
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8 years
Happy 61st birthday to a man who really knows his way around classical music! 💙🎶💙
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8 years
It's a lost art, really.
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4 years
KUSC:
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
3 years
When the captain himself gives you a shout out 🥰
@SirPatStew
Patrick Stewart
3 years
Sitting in my trailer yesterday listening to @ClassicalKUSC , the presenter said he had a quiz question. Name this famous TV series that the following music is from. It was Star Trek TNG, no doubt. 1/2
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We thought we'd use our 10,000th tweet to reiterate that #ClassicalMusic is alive and thriving. http://t.co/lnhE7WjM7A
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Classical KUSC
6 years
Not the @LAPhil ! The 18-19 season presents 62 living composers including 54 commissions, 58 premieries, music by 22 women composers, and 27 composers of color. Here them on KUSC this Sunday at 7PM on SoCal Sunday Night.
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
5 years
That’s 👏 a 👏 wrap 👏 on our live broadcast of @LAOpera ’s “La Boheme” 🎉🎉 Thanks for tuning in!
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
4 years
Ennio Morricone wrote some of the most memorable film scores in a wide variety of genres. He will be missed.
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Classical KUSC
8 years
He listens to all the recordings, so you don't have to. Happy birthday, Jim Svejda, from all of us at KUSC!
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@ClassicalKUSC
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5 years
We’re happy to accept responsibility. 🔊🎶💙
@djalfonso
𝕯𝕵 𝕬𝖑𝖋𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖔 🎧
5 years
I caught my 12 y.o. daughter listening to Bach... by herself in her bedroom! I blame you @ClassicalKUSC 😆
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Classical KUSC
3 years
Nina Simone's talent was boundless! Watch her break out into a Bach-style fugue in the middle of singing "Love Me or Leave Me."
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4 years
And the Best Costume Award goes to violinist Hilary Hahn as the ghost of J.S. Bach! 👻🎻
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes & curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou #RIP http://t.co/qpNVt9bKKP
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8 years
When you've had enough of this silly election.
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6 years
Hello, beautiful. (The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. A concert hall and art exhibition space, designed by Zaha Hadid, and opened in 2012.)
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Tonight marks the start of #JimSvejda 's 40th year on KUSC! So we put together some remembrances from the past four decades (you won't want to miss these photos!).
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Classical KUSC
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Did you know today was the US radio premiere of the Starfield Suite by @inonzur and @londonsymphony on KUSC? We are very excited to be able to share this great piece with our listeners! #bethesdagames #starfieldgame
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Tonight's the night! 🚨🚨🚨 Vin Scully + @GustavoDudamel + @LAPhil 🚨🚨🚨 7p PDT on KUSC. Listen at .
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6 years
Don't miss #JimSvejda talking to John Williams about Star Wars: The Last Jedi tonight at 9PM.
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4 years
Tomorrow at noon, spend a couple of hours with KUSC & Yo-Yo Ma for a musical memorial to those we’ve recently lost & tribute to those on the front lines. Let the beauty of the Bach Cello Suites performed live help us reflect on the moment and prepare for more normal days to come.
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"When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument." #ThankYouMLK50 #MLKDay #MartinLutherKing #MLKJr
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3 years
Happy New Year to you and yours, from all of us at KUSC!
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10 years
#NationalCatDay , eh? Here's Igor Stravinsky & friend. More composer/cat photos throughout the day. http://t.co/78SdKpxyLt
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7 years
Someone said something about Bel Canto? 🍻😂🍻
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7 years
How cool is this?! @Fender is making custom guitars out of wood from the original benches at the @HollywoodBowl .
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Classical KUSC
9 years
Promised #LittleLudwig we could go to In-N-Out after tonight's @LAPhil concert. New #SecretMenu item: Eroica-Style. http://t.co/7fWqozphtt
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Classical KUSC
6 years
Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr day by playing music by African American composers, conductors and musicians throughout the day.
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Happy Father's Day! Celebrate with KUSC as we highlight music from some great father and son/daughter combos. Tune in at . (🎥: )
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3 years
Can Alan explain the whole tone scale in 60 seconds or less? It's the Chapman Challenge!
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5 years
Happy birthday to a composer with really strong parasol game, Claude Debussy. ☂️🎩🌊
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4 years
“What people are looking for even more than music to comfort them is connection, and that’s what they get from the voices and the personalities they know.” KUSC's Pres. Judy McAlpine in the @latimes
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Claude #Debussy on stamps and money and the beach...and he's on the radio throughout the day today, his 154th bday!
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6 years
UPDATE: the cello has been located and returned to John Walz in "perfect condition." 🙌🙌🙌
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4 years
Can Alan explain musical scores in 60 seconds or less? It's the Chapman Challenge!
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Classical KUSC
10 years
Considering how much #ClassicalMusic shows up in @NBCHannibal , this feels appropriate. cc: @neoprod @BryanFuller http://t.co/tvOGYAnfq7
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Next week, our new At Home With... series continues with musical selections to bring us calm, comfort, and inspiration from composer, conductor, and creative thinker John Adams!
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
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Travel with us to the @HollywoodBowl for a new #KUSCSoCalSundayNight concert with @LAPhil . Broadcast starts at 7PM.
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"Music has been the thing that brings people together, even when we are apart. It’s important maybe now more than ever that we find ways to connect & find comfort & inspiration." At Home with @GustavoDudamel & hosted by @lauritzen_brian starts at 6PM this evening!
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🚨🚨🚨NEW SHOSTAKOVICH ALERT🚨🚨🚨
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Classical KUSC
3 years
Join us now as we Celebrate Beethoven on his 250th Birthday. We’re playing all-Beethoven all day including all nine of his symphonies at the beginning of each hour from 9AM to 5PM.
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What better way to celebrate Holst's bday than with our stream of @GustavoDudamel + @LAPhil 's perf of The Planets?
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
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Thanks to you & your fellow listeners for tuning in & supporting KUSC during 2017. We have lots of fun stuff planned for 2018, like a live broadcast from the @LAPhil , a movie music celebration in February, our second annual KUSC Kids' Discovery Day and much more. Happy New Year!!
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
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A very Merry Christmas from all of us at Classical KUSC!
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@primarylupine
🏳️‍🌈Fluffy Wuffy🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
@ocremix I hear a lot of video game soundtracks on @ClassicalKUSC every day. They're hip to the new style.
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@bader_diedrich
Diedrich Bader
5 years
Some days i feel so helpless with the state of the world I’m listening to @ClassicalKUSC right now and want to disappear into Mozart’s EXULTATE, jubilate K 175 A reminder of the salvation art in its purest form can bring
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3 years
Watch world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma give an impromptu concert after receiving his second dose of the COVID vaccine. 🥰
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@ClassicalKUSC
Classical KUSC
8 years
Good afternoon from your non-partisan, pundit-free, full-time #classicalmusic radio friend. We're here anytime you need us. 📻🎼🎶💙☮️😊
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@ClassicalKUSC
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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Classical California KUSC! ❤️ Turn up your favorite tunes and eat lots with your loved ones! 🥰 We’re so thankful for our amazing listeners! We wouldn’t be able to bring you the music you love without YOU! 🫶
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Big shout out to our resilient team!💪🥰 @lauritzen_brian , @JenMillerRadio , @stravinskyite
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Tonight’s Classical Californian in the studio is composer @InonZur – who has written for film and television, but is best known for the scores he has written for video games! 🎮🎶 Tune in at 7PM:
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7 years
*runs for cover* 🎺
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Beginning Monday, February 21st, KUSC Resident Artist Lara Downes will host KUSC Weeknights 8PM – Midnight while we search for a permanent host. You'll also enjoy an extra hour with Brian Lauritzen as he extends his shift to 3PM – 8PM. Learn more:
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Classical KUSC
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Which of these metal bands - err, composers do you want featured in the Classical California Ultimate Playlist? 🤘😝 Reply now with composer names and pieces. Then vote every day through September 17th to make sure your favorite music makes the list!
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Happy Birthday John Williams! Hear him talk about #StarWars : The Last Jedi with #JimSvejda next Thursday at 9PM.
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There's something really special about the octobass.
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. @EricWhitacre 's “Sing Gently” features a virtual choir of 17,572 singers from 129 countries, and was inspired by COVID-19's devastating impact on choirs. Will it make the Classical California Ultimate Playlist? Comment "SING GENTLY" if it has your vote.
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Happy 119th! Stay classy (and jazzy), George Gershwin.
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This Sunday at noon on KUSC, cellist Yo-Yo Ma will play Bach's Cello Suites live as a musical memorial to those we’ve lost in recent months & a tribute to those on the front lines saving others.
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Can Alan break down these clever musical variations in 60 seconds or less? It's the Chapman Challenge!
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10 years
Musical Physics. http://t.co/989euiP9MA
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6 years
Raccoons playing bassoons! #mprraccoon
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As we gear up for KUSC's 75th Anniversary this Sunday, how about a sneak peek of KUSC through the years!
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Tough crowd.
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And we're back! This Saturday May 15th, the @LAPhil performs in front of an audience of first responders for their first live concert in over 400 days! 1/2
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We're remembering the one and only Vin Scully's 2017 appearance with Gustavo Dudamel and the Hollywood Bowl...
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#MyBeethoven week flew by, but #LittleLudwig had a great time traveling around SoCal. We'll miss the little guy. http://t.co/d93AXZtVar
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Tchaikovsky was working on "The Nutcracker" when he discover this magical new instrument. He quickly wrote home "no one there must know about it. I am afraid Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov might hear of it and make use of the new effect before I could.”
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Almost time for the second episode of #AtHomeWithGustavo . Last night we tapped our toes to music from #Mozart , John Adams ( @HellTweet ), #JohnWilliams , #Ravel and #ArturoMarquez . What will we hear tonight? Starts at 6PM!
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"It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world." -Nelson Mandela #MandelaDay
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We've all been there. You really want to compose your own Gregorian Chant, but never could seem to find the time... well, you're in luck.
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One cure is listening to KUSC. No political ads. Ever. #ClassicalMusic #ElectionDay #VoteTuesday #ElectionEve
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FACT: you have better odds with KUSC. #IfIWonPowerball
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Can Alan introduce us to non-Western classical music in 60 seconds or less? Its the Chapman Challenge!
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🚨LIVE LA Phil BROADCAST TONIGHT AT 8:00🚨 On the program: Brahms' Sym No. 1, Stravinsky's Fireworks, and the world premiere of Threshold, a percussion concerto by LA Phil principal timpanist. Among the many instruments in the concerto are almglocken...aka...
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Yo-Yo Ma performing Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso. ❤️🙏
@YoYo_Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
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I'll never forget the way Ennio Morricone described music as “energy, space, and time.” It is, perhaps, the most concise and accurate description I’ve ever heard. We'll truly miss him. This is the Love Theme from "Cinema Paradiso." #EnnioMorricone
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It’s KUSC at the Movies where we're celebrating music from the silver screen every hour. Can you name the film that features this beautiful tune?
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Today is the birthday (1853) of Vincent van Gogh. Here is one of his music-themed paintings: Marguerite Gachet at the Piano.
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This podcast is like a master class in film composition - John Williams talks to #JimSvejda .
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For many, autumn is the most beautiful season. In fact, it's inspired a wide range of composers to write works celebrating the season's warm colors and tones, chilly weather, and perhaps a dash of melancholy.
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