Exploring Music is an adventure — an expedition through the world of classical music. We pick a theme each week and follow the music wherever it leads us. Over the years we’ve explored Shakespeare and music, have followed the lives of many composers (a sort of five-part mini-series), and visited the music of various locales — Paris, Venice, Spain, Hungary, the Pacific Rim. Each five-episode program is a musical journey that focuses on a particular, genre, music festival, or classical theme. It’s a sort of Outward Bound for music, with Bill McGlaughlin as our guide to make sure we all get home safe and sound. Listeners' emailed suggestions have played a very important role in choosing themes. We’ve recorded over two hundred adventures, and the ideas keep turning up. We don’t think we’ll exhaust the possibilities. Exploring Music is familiar and welcoming, and is where you feel at home on your first visit and can’t wait to get back to sample what the series has come up with for its next five-episodes.
Next on
- Fri Oct 9, 7:00 pm EDT
- Fri Oct 16, 7:00 pm EDT
- Fri Oct 23, 7:00 pm EDT
- Fri Oct 30, 7:00 pm EDT
Recent songs
- Oct 2, 7:51 pm Thiago de Mello Gaudencio – Chants for the Chief, No.2: Uirapurú do Amazonas
- Oct 2, 7:45 pm Thiago de Mello Gaudencio – A Hug for Pixingha
- Oct 2, 7:41 pm Lauro, Antonio – Seis por Derecho
- Oct 2, 7:39 pm Almeida, Laurindo – Historia do Luar - Choro
- Oct 2, 7:33 pm Mark O’Connor/Traditional – Road to Appalachia” “Shine on” “Cotton Pickn Blues” “Texas Dance Hall Blues
- Oct 2, 7:26 pm traditional, arr. Barbosa Lima, Carlos – Wayfaring Strangers
- Oct 2, 7:21 pm Abril, Antón García – Habanera
- Oct 2, 7:16 pm Ramírez, Ariel – Alfonsina y el mar
- Oct 2, 7:12 pm Brouwer, Leo – Canción de cuna
- Oct 2, 7:09 pm Ponce, Manuel – Scherzino Mexicano
- Oct 2, 7:01 pm Villa-Lobo, Heitor – Preludes, W.419 (1940) - No.4 in E Minor. Lento No.3 in A Minor Andante