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Animoji piano performances by music teacher Magdalene Rolka

To get her students excited about playing piano, and to help combat their lack of motivation for remote lessons, pianist and New York City piano teacher Magdalene Rolka created a few videos ‘wearing’...

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Waltz of the Snowflakes performed at an old naval station

San Francisco-based Post:Ballet and the Berkeley Ballet Theater teamed up to perform “Waltz of the Snowflakes” in an empty parking lot at the historic Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda, California....

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The Mistake Waltz (with an Anatomy of a Dance)

What happens when you’re very into the music that you’re dancing to? And maybe that’s put you in your own world… even while you’re performing? This movement of mistakes, purposeful mistakes set to...

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Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on his International Touring Organ

American organist and composer Cameron Carpenter‘s International Touring Organ is a pipe organ without any pipes. It’s digital, a one-of-a-kind portable instrument that “contains samples from 34 great...

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The Kanneh-Masons perform Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals – Aquarium

Recorded at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios, the Kanneh-Mason Family performs Camille Saint-Saëns‘ Aquarium, the seventh movement from Le Carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals). The piece...

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The secrets of Beethoven’s 5th, the world’s most famous symphony

“Eight ferocious notes open one of the most explosive pieces of music ever composed. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony Number Five premiered in 1808, and quickly won acclaim. Its central motif and raw...

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DoodleChaos recreates the Mountain King Line Rider in 3D

In 2017, DoodleChaos synchronized Edvard Grieg‘s In the Hall of the Mountain King to a line rider track that took over a month. You can watch that here. In 2021, DoodleChaos recreated that track in 3D....

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Miniatur Wunderland’s Guinness World Record musical train

In a delightful and highly coordinated team effort to capture the Guinness World Record for Longest Melody Played by a Model Train, Miniatur Wunderland set up water glasses along a specially built toy...

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Music is full of numbers, a Classical MPR animation featuring Numbers by...

“Numbers help us measure and count things like distance and time. Numbers help us build things and organize things. Numbers can tell us how many how long, how far, and how big. “Throughout history,...

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How to read a musical score with Classical MPR

How do musicians read music? What do all of those symbols on a musical score mean? From Classical Minnesota Public Radio‘s Class Notes series, take A Look Inside the Score, an animated overview of the...

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In The Gale, a Birdsong Project collaboration by Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Clyne

The composition In The Gale by Grammy-nominated English composer Anna Clyne pairs celebrated American cellist Yo-Yo Ma with birdsong. The piece was recorded for Volume II of “For the Birds: The...

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Silly Squirrels: “Flipping, zipping, rolling, and going nuts for no good reason”

In 2014, squirrel enthusiast Carl Wilkinson shared a video compilation of some very playful (and possibly itchy) squirrels in his backyard, a fitting piece of content for his site...

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Angel’s Trumpet, an animated short inspired by the tropical plant

Estonian animation director Martinus Klemet pairs a variety of tubas with some very large hummingbirds in this whimsical animated short: Angel’s Trumpet. He writes: “Inspiration for the film came to me...

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