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Welcome to The Art of Listening, a Podcast about classical music, conducting, composition, the business of music, and how to listen to it all. Each week, conductor, composer, and violinist Gabriel Gordon and a host of featured guests discuss the Art of Listening.

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Welcome to The Art of Listening, a Podcast about classical music, conducting, composition, the business of music, and how to listen to it all. Each week, conductor, composer, and violinist Gabriel Gordon and a host of featured guests discuss the Art of Listening.

In this episode of “The Art of Listening” Gabriel Gordon and Jeff Bradbury, we are going to give you 5 great strategies for social networking to get the big gigs you're looking for.

• Making “being at the right place at the right time” happen
• Strategy 1 – Setting the stage
• Strategy 2 – Seize the day
• Strategy 3 – Prepare, prepare, prepare
• Strategy 4 – Publicize
• Strategy 5 – Follow-through
• Being authentic

If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share with our audience, please contact the podcast. We would love to have you join the show.

By joining the Art of Listening Newsletter you will receive:

·      Bi-monthly updates from Gabriel Gordon about what is new on the Art of Listening YouTube Channel

·      Special “Behind the Scenes” access to recording sessions, rehearsals, and more!

·      Be the first to access new content produced by Gabriel Gordon each month.

·      Apple Podcasts

·      Spotify

·      Google Podcasts

·      Amazon Music

·      Website: https://www.GabrielGordon.net

·      Twitter: https://www.GabrielGordon.net/Twitter

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·      Gabriel Gordon | @GabrielKGordon

·      Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury

In this episode of The Art of Listening, Jeff Bradbury and Gabriel Gordon sit down to discuss the harsh realities of professional auditions and provide tips and tricks for you to pass your next musical audition.

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In this episode of The Art of Listening, Jeff Bradbury and Gabriel Gordon sit down with Music Director and Musicologist George Mathew to discuss how music can be transformative and motivational to the human spirit.

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In this episode of The Art of Listening, Jeff Bradbury and Gabriel Gordon discuss the importance that live concerts and musical performances have had in the history of the world to bring people across the world together.

No matter if it's Leonard Bernstein performing Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Berlin Wall or the great George Matthew performing a requiem in Carnegie Hall to bring awareness to a global tragedy, the act of healing through sound is something that has bound musicians and classical music lovers together for centuries.

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Have you ever found yourself humming a tune in your head? What was it about this tune? Was it simple or complex? Did you hear a single melody or multiple instruments?

In this episode of the Art of Listening, Gabriel Gordon and Jeff Bradbury break down the Art of Memorizing and discuss why some musicians first learn to read music completely from memory and others begin the traditional way through note reading.

Jeff and Gabriel break down their favorite memorizing techniques both as performers and conductors and share some outrageous stories about standing on a podium in front of musicians completely without a score to support them.

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Have you ever listened to a piece of music and wondered to yourself how the composer came up with such beautiful melodies and harmonies?

In this episode of The Art of Listening, host Gabriel Gordon sits down with composer Alfonso Tenreiro to discuss The Art of Composition.

Learn how to train yourself to not only hear music, but to hear tones, chords, colors, and how to gather your thoughts down on paper for others to perform.

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In today's episode, we take a look at one of the most important topics for any musician... playing in tune.

But what does it mean to be in tune?

To answer today's question, we first need to understand notes, notation, and key signatures and where these concepts come from.

We then break down the concept of Perfect Pitch and share stories of how you can develop a musical ear no matter if you play an instrument or not.

Finally, we break down various aspects of intonation, tunings, and how you can teach yourself to play in tune if you are an aspiring musician.

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Until next time ... enjoy the music!

GG

Have you ever listened to a piece of music, closed your eyes, and imagined yourself in another place, in another time, or as another being? 

It can easily be said that music has an acute ability to literally lift you from your shoes and transform you into anyplace you want to be. But… was that always the case?

In the early part of the Classical Era, composer Franz Joseph Hyden created a way to merge the characters and events of what was then known as Comic Opera and through no words at all, build the foundations of what would become Sonata Allegro form and in doing so, completely change the world of classical music by influencing practically every composer who came after him.

In this episode of The Art of Listening, Jeff Bradbury and Gabriel Gordon discuss the history of Sonata Form and share examples of how an idea that started on the stages of opera morphed over 100 years through the introduction of the Tone Poem into what we hear today on movie screens and our favorite video streaming services.

In today's episode, we take a look at three of the most famous symphonies in all of music; Mozart 40, Beethoven 5, and Dvorak 9 "From the New World"

All three of these masterpieces have one thing in common ... they moved the symphonic genre forward in a way that no other symphony before it ever did.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his 40th Symphony in g minor in the same summer that he composed both his 39th and 41st symphonies. The instrumentation isn't much different from previous pieces. The minor key signature isn't what gives this piece its long-lasting attraction. What is it?

In contrast, the powerful 5th Symphony from Ludwig Van Beethoven, probably one of the most popular symphonies of all time has been a constant crowd-pleaser since its debut in 1808.

To put a coda to this podcast, we take a look at the soulful and very American "New World Symphony" from Antoni Dvorak.  

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Until next time ... enjoy the music!

GG