Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
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Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
Form, Function, and Flourish: The Classical Sonata
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Form, Function, and Flourish: The Classical Sonata
Send us a text Description Form, Function, and Flourish: The Classical Sonata in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata wasn’t named by him at all—the nickname came years later, when a critic compared its first movement to moonlight on Lake Lucerne. Beethoven might have rolled his eyes, but the title stuck, and today it’s one of the most famous (and misinterpreted) sonatas ever written. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & actor ...
The Classical Music Minute
Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
