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HPR's 10 Essential Composers

For Hawai?i Public Radio’s 2017 Fall Fund Drive, listeners were asked to vote on who they thought were the most essential composers of classical music.   The results were compiled and our classical music hosts, Gene Schiller, John Kalani Zak, Craig De Silva, Judy Anderson and Howard Dicus, wrote brief audio articles on the life and music of the Top Ten.  We’ve listed them here in the order they were revealed on HPR-2.

10.  Aaron Copland 

 

Copland_Craig.mp3

9.  Maurice Ravel

 

 

Ravel_Zak.mp3
Ravel_Gene.mp3

8.  George Gershwin

 

Gershwin_Judy.mp3
Gershwin_Gene.mp3

7. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Vivaldi_1_Gene.mp3
Vivaldi_2_Gene.mp3

6. Frédéric Chopin

Chopin_Craig.mp3
Chopin_Howard.mp3

5. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

Tchaikovsky_Howard.mp3
Tchaikovsky_Judy.mp3

4.  Johannes Brahms

Brahms_Craig.mp3
Brahms_Zak.mp3

3. Ludwig Van Beethoven

Beethoven_Gene.mp3
Beethoven-Judy.mp3

2.  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

 

Mozart_Gene.mp3
Mozart_Judy.mp3

1. Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Bach_Gene.mp3
Bach_Howard.mp3

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