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Last month’s Guess the Composer was Ethel Smyth! Enjoy listening to her “Moods of the Sea.”

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April 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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March 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Played for a beautiful senior flute recital yesterday at Union Adventist University.

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May 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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I’m a little late 😅, but this hymn was sung at my church for Transgender Remembrance Day. #HipsterBrahms #JeremyDuck #DrDuck #TransgenderRemembranceDay
November 22, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Carl Frühling was born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine. Many of his works are lost. Cellist Steven Isserlis discovered and championed Frühling’s music. He died in Vienna in poverty.

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November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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El Majo Timido (Granados) Accompaniment Track (B-flat Major)
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March 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A bit Chopin’s C Minor Prelude as used by Rachmaninoff in his set of variations.

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February 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Around 1896, Anton Verheij supported Branco van Dantzig, a voice teacher who worked with children with speech difficulties.

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February 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Arcangelo Corelli is credited as the earliest composer to fully apply tonality as the basis for his music.

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February 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Canadian composer Ann Southam was praised by the Globe and Mail for “blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field.”

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February 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Biagio Marini’s innovations to violin music include an increased range, the slur, double and triple stops, and the first explicitly notated tremolo. Additionally, he wrote a sonata without a single cadence.

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February 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Yamaoka Akira originally wanted to be an interior designer; he is best-known for writing video game and film music for the Silent Hill.

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February 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Billy Goldenberg studied physics and mathematics; but after an ulcer led to him to quit his job as a computer programmer, he worked as a pianist, arranger, and film composer.

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February 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: At 2 years old, Jean #Langlais III became blind due to #glaucoma and attended the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to study #organ, #composition, and #improvisation at the #ParisConservatoire.

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February 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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The shirt I wore today featuring Ukrainian composers.

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March 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Key change and reharmonization

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December 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Wind Songs: I (The Wind at Peace) by Samuel Adler
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April 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: During the last 15 years of Benjamin Frankel’s life, he developed a style of 12-tone music that retained hints of tonality.

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January 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Violinist Antonio Maria Montanari (1676 - 1737) experimented with enharmonic micro-intervals. His works have yet to be studied in depth.

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November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alessandro Melani’s opera “L’empio punito” was the first opera on the subject of Don Juan.

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February 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Carl Reissiger’s “Danse Brillante” Op. 26, No. 5, misattributed as Weber’s “Last Waltz,” is Roderick’s favorite piece in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

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January 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1908, Hubert Parry earned the distinction of being the only composer ever elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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February 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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#GuessTheComposer: This month, I’ll be sharing weekly clues about a composer. Take a guess who the composer is, and I’ll reveal the answer on April 1.

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March 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM