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I'm working with the Vaughan Williams oboe concerto. Its a beautiful piece. There is one part that sounds like it could be a quote but I'm not sure where its taken from. Please help all ye quote hunters of MagleForums. Thank you! The quote begins in this youtube video of the third movement at...

In my American Music History class we have been discussing the second new england school of composers (Edward MacDowell, Amy Beach, George Chadwick etc.). The earlier two wrote some good music, but in a mostly European style. George Chadwick on the other hand was a real genius whose music really...

So I have been listening to a few recordings of Mahler's 9th symphony. This recording though http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=102070 has an especially interesting interpretation of the final movement. I have never heard any other recording like it. The final adagio, the...

I'm not talking about how hard it is physically, like tuba etc, but just technical skill required to play at the highest regarded levels for an instrument.

Who do you guys think are the most overrated and underrated composers? For overrated I'd say- Beethoven I love a lot of his music, but he is way too glorified. I think his contributions to expanding music were amazing, and some of his stuff is sublime. But a lot of his stuff I feel like I'm...