Exploring Music
Airs weeknights at 11PM on 105.9 FM
Throughout this journey, Bill McGlaughlin guides the listener deep into the music with care and enthusiasm by giving historical context, illustrations at the piano and providing a special insight that only a top-notch musician, conductor, broadcaster, and composer could. Whether 90 or 9, professional musician or simply a music lover, Bill McGlaughlin truly makes exploring music fun.
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Upcoming Episodes
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Monday, February 13
It Was a Lover and His Lass
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Monday, February 20
The Violin Concerto
Latest Episodes and Articles
Too Darn Big
Monday, January 30, 2012
This week Exploring Music is ascending some of the most colossal musical mountains in existence: works such as Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony , which are (usually) too big to program on the show.
Mozart: Bright Lights, Big City
Monday, January 23, 2012
Mozart gets the boot from the Archbishop as a Salzburg court musician and moves to the city.
The Curse of the Ninth
Monday, January 16, 2012
Why did so many of music’s great symphonists die after completing their ninth symphony? We’ll sample five landmark compositions: the ninth symphonies of Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvorák and Mahler.
An Invitation to the Dance, Part I
Monday, January 09, 2012
Which came first, the composer or the dance? It’s hard to say, but this week we’ll follow the dance through solo works, the opera and the symphony. Highlights include music by Bach, Beethoven and Shostakovich.
The Life of Maurice Ravel
Monday, January 02, 2012
A five-part biography series dedicated to French composer Maurice Ravel.
Bach Christmas Oratorio
Monday, December 26, 2011
An exploration of the six cantatas, premiered at Leipzig’s St. Thomas and St. Nicholas Churches in 1734, that mark the period from Christmas to Epiphany.
