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Classical BBQ Playlist

Grilling out this summer? Need music to go with it? This Classical BBQ playlist is perfect for accompanying your cookout, bonfire, or family dinner.

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Classical Summer Vacation Playlist

Summer means vacation! Enjoy this classical playlist of ocean-themed music and music depicting exotic locales. Listen in your car on your road trip, while you are tanning at the beach, or at home while dreaming of your next trip!

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Classical Music Indy now brings you free weekly listening playlists through Spotify. (Cover photo by Gavin Whitner: at https://musicoomph.com/)

The Great American Songbook Playlist

From Cole Porter, to Ella Fitzgerald, to “ol’ blue eyes,” Classical Music Indy is stepping out of its comfort zone to bring you a playlist of some of the quintessential composers and performers from the Great American Songbook tradition.

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Happy Birthday Gustav Mahler Playlist

Gustav Mahler, the renowned conductor, visionary composer, and uncompromising idealist in all things musical, was born on July 7, 1860. “A symphony should be like the world,” he preached to a fellow composer, and he provided plenty of real-world examples to show what he meant.

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Classical Music Indy Founder’s Day Playlist

We’re taking a moment to honor the founders of the Fine Arts Society (now Classical Music Indy), who teamed up exactly 49 years ago to bring classical music to everyone via radio. This list was prepared with Norbert Neuss, F. Bruce Peck, and their supporters in mind.

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World Music Day Playlist

June 21 is not just the summer solstice. It’s also World Music Day, an annual celebration of the one truly international language. On this year’s solstice, we invite you to revel in abundance–not just of nourishing light, but also of beautiful sounds.

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Father’s Day Playlist

In honor of Father’s Day, we put together a playlist of famous opera arias and broadway songs sung by or about fathers.

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Wedding Playlist

The beginning of summer means it’s the season for something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Classical Music Indy has compiled the perfect mood music for any classical music lover’s special day!

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Memorial Day Playlist

Enjoy a combination of patriotic songs for the holiday along with more traditional classical music influenced by the loss of friends and loved ones that composers remember through their music.

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Jewish American Heritage Month Playlist

This playlist features compositions by Jewish American musicians. Help us celebrate Jewish American Heritage by listening to this collection of music by some of America’s finest composers!

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Mother’s Day Playlist

Where would any of us be, were it not for our mothers? Composers have addressed that question in different ways, over the centuries. We celebrate Mother’s Day with a few of their most heartfelt answers.

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Happy Birthday Brahms and Tchaikovsky Playlist

The thought of Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky blowing out birthday candles on the same day is enough to make some people’s heads explode. If you love classical music, it’s hard to imagine them doing anything together.
Yet these two composers had a great deal in common–starting, believe it or not, with their reverence for music of an earlier time. Brahms demonstrated that in the finale of his Symphony No. 4, which is based on a Bach chorale. The counterpart to that is Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 4, his loving tribute to Mozart, which concludes with a theme that Mozart himself borrowed from Gluck. The unrequited love that Tatiana pours out in her Letter Scene, from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, is balanced nicely by the conflicted feelings in Von Ewiger Liebe, Brahms’s setting of an expression of love in the face of potential shame.
Tchaikovsky and Brahms were also dismissed, now and then, for a certain less-than-adventurous, perhaps even academic, approach to music. Yet the Academic Festival Overture, by Brahms, concludes with a drinking song. And the Slavonic March, by Tchaikovsky, quotes Slavic folk music.
There are more surprising parallels to discover in the lives and works of these composers. All you have to do is listen–and enjoy!

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Starting this week, Classical Music Indy is bringing you free weekly listening playlists through Spotify. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo this week with classical music from Mexican composers!

Cinco de Mayo Playlist

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