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Dr. Jeremy Duck
Pianist, Organist, Singer, Composer, Educator
I have my DMA in piano performance and love all things classical music, but particularly piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Violinist Antonio Maria Montanari (1676 - 1737) experimented with enharmonic micro-intervals. His works have yet to be studied in depth.

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November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Carl Frühling was born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine. Many of his works are lost. Cellist Steven Isserlis discovered and championed Frühling’s music. He died in Vienna in poverty.

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November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Prelude No. 1 in E-Flat Major - Live
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September 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Played for a beautiful senior flute recital yesterday at Union Adventist University.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #SeniorRecital #Flute #Piano #CollaborativePiano #JSBach #Bach #KatherineHoover #PhillipeGaubert #Schubert #FranzSchubert #Arpeggione
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Wind Songs: I (The Wind at Peace) by Samuel Adler
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April 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Last month’s Guess the Composer was Ethel Smyth! Enjoy listening to her “Moods of the Sea.”

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April 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Final clue!

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March 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

#GuessTheComposer #JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #Opera #EnglishOpera #Purcell #HenryPurcell #Britten #BenjaminBritten #ClassicalMusic
March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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March 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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“Urbisluxgender” by #MJosephWillette, performed by #MargotPorter (voice)., #BridgettHill (flute), and #JeremyDuck/me (piano)

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Joey Willette Performance Spotlight
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March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#GuessTheComposer: Each week, I’m sharing a clue about a composer. On April 1, I’ll reveal who this month’s composer is! Reply with your guess.

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March 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The shirt I wore today featuring Ukrainian composers.

#Ukraine #UkrainianMusic #UkranianComposers #Gliere #Bortniansky #Gomelskaya #Fillipenko #Klebanov #WarInUkraine #IStandWithUkraine #HipsterBrahms #JeremyDuck #DrDuck
March 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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El Majo Timido (Granados) Accompaniment Track (B-flat Major)
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March 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#GuessTheComposer: This month, I’ll be sharing weekly clues about a composer. Take a guess who the composer is, and I’ll reveal the answer on April 1.

#HipsterBrahms #JeremyDuck #DrDuck #Hymn #Hymns #Contest
March 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1908, Hubert Parry earned the distinction of being the only composer ever elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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February 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Arcangelo Corelli is credited as the earliest composer to fully apply tonality as the basis for his music.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Corelli #ArcangeloCorelli #Baroque #BaroqueMusic #BaroqueEra #Tonality #Modality
February 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: At 2 years old, Jean #Langlais III became blind due to #glaucoma and attended the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to study #organ, #composition, and #improvisation at the #ParisConservatoire.

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February 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s “Esmeralda” is based on Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” and “Rusalka” features several similarities to Dvořák’s opera of the same name.

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February 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Jørgen Bentzon’s Op. 1 is a set of variations on Chopin’s Mazurka in F Major Op. 68, No. 3. He also wrote an opera titled “Saturnalia.”

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February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Leopold Godowsky’s “Studies on #Chopin Études” are some of the most difficult works for the piano. Several are for left hand alone, are transposed to a more difficult key, or combine multiple Chopin etudes in 1.

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February 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Adele aus der Ohe was friends with Tchaikovsky and played his Piano Concerto No. 1 at Carnegie Hall’s inaugural concert, which was conducted by Tchaikovsky on May 7, 1891.

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February 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Abel Decaux is best known for his piano suite “Clairs de Lune,” one of the earliest known dodecaphonic pieces. He is often referred to as the “French Schoenberg.”

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Decaux #ClairsDeLune #Serialism #Dodecaphony #Schoenberg
February 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Billy Goldenberg studied physics and mathematics; but after an ulcer led to him to quit his job as a computer programmer, he worked as a pianist, arranger, and film composer.

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February 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Albert Ellmenreich, composer of the well-known teaching piece “The Spinning Song,” was an actor who traveled throughout Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and Latvia.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Ellmenreich #TheSpinningSong #Theater #Theatre #Acting
February 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1999, Alfred Desenclos's Requiem Mass was plagiarized note for note by Tristan Foison. The work had its "American premiere" in 2001, after which the piece’s duplication was discovered.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Desenclos #Foison #Plagiarism
February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM