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Join the National Arts Centre Orchestra's Marjolaine Fournier and one Canada's foremost music journalists, Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer, as they explore the symphonic form from Haydn to Shostakovich

Tue Sep 30 07:22:36 EDT 2008

The NAC Orchestra presents its second season of "Explore the Symphony", a series of musical podcasts hosted by the Nationa... more

Fri Jun 06 23:05:20 EDT 2008

Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier explore the music of Bruckner and the man behind the music. more

Tue May 13 10:40:28 EDT 2008

Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier explore the life and times of Johannes Brahms and his 4th Symphony. more

Mon Jan 07 16:01:06 EST 2008

Discover Shostakovich's "anti-war" symphony. His 9th Symphony is one of the composer's shorter symphonies, a totally non-s... more

Wed Nov 28 21:00:39 EST 2007

Discover one of classical music's best-loved symphonies, Dvořàk's 9th Symphony, in the context of the composer's life and ... more

Mon Oct 01 17:31:08 EDT 2007

Discover Beethoven's symphonic monument -- his 9th symphony -- in its social, historical, and musical context as well as i... more

Tue Sep 18 16:50:40 EDT 2007

In this introductory episode, Marjoloaine Laroche discusses the symphonic form and demystifies terms such as sonata, caden... more