Have you ever been to an event where someone introduced the featured speaker? That introduction can make or break how the audience reacts to the speaker.So it is with a musical composition! Composers are very aware that if they compose an introduction it has to be "just right" to set up what follows. Maestro George Marriner Maull uses Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 to illustrate in this video chat.

Originally released by The Discovery Orchestra, 2015. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 03, 2023.