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Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Space has long captured the imagination of the general public, and of course, composers as well. Despite not being able to hear music in space, it hasn't stopped composers from trying to create something that evidently sounds...like space! Much of what we hear today in popular culture originated with the 1914-1917 composition The Planets by English composer Gustav Holst - an orchestral suite based on the astrological gods whom the planets were named after. But who influenced Holst? How does a composer decide what sounds "space-like"? How does the music illustrate these astrological figures? Together, we'll learn about Holst, listening to the entire suite and unpacking and discussing the work movement by movement, setting us up for the following week as we explore how John Williams used Holst's work as his inspiration for composing Star Wars - music we'll be hearing next March as part of our Festival Orchestra week!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Music of Space, part 2 is our first exploration into this year's Festival Orchestra repertoire!  While director George Lucas originally wanted to include some segments of Holst's The Planets in his Star Wars epoch, composer John Williams insisted he write something new and original - inspired by Holst's orchestral suite. It was not only Holst that Williams was inspired by, but several composers ranging from Romantic opera, to early 20th century modernism, to Golden Age Hollywood film scores and sci-fi television shows. As a follow-up to what we listened to the previous week, we'll now compare, contrast, and discuss what Williams borrowed from Holst, to create an new, incredible world of musical pictures, and also explore what ideas make Williams distinctly unique!  Together, we'll have a better understanding of just how many influences came together to make Star Wars not only one of the greatest film scores of all time, but perhaps one of the greatest orchestral compositions of the 20th (and 21st) centuries!

Join your fellow music lovers us as we kick off our 2024-2025 season with food, games, and live music featuring Josh and Lexy Condon! Come and go as you please, and be prepared to make new friends! 2:00 pm - Food/social time 2:30 pm - Name That Tune (from Music Alive! 2023-2024) - with special prizes!! 3:15 pm - Music by Josh & Lexy

Join us for an 8-week class on the fundamentals of music theory with ASU professor Jacob Adler. If you've ever been curious about this aspect of music, but unsure of where to start, this class is for you! Music Theory 101 introduces basic concepts of music notation, theory and aural recognition. No prior musical experience is necessary. Topics include note names, building major and minor scales, identifying intervals, key signatures, building triads and 7th chords, rhythm, meter, and aural recognition of basic intervals. By the end of the class students will be able to identify keys on the piano, identify notes on the treble and bass clefs, understand rhythmic notation and metrical organization, identify intervals, build major and minor scales, recognize basic intervals by ear, and construct and identify triads and 7th chords.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Join us as our Festival Orchestra Music Director, Bob Moody, sits down for an exclusive interview with Josh Condon, to discuss all things music, orchestras, and...what difference does a conductor make, anyway?

A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of who and what they were before, silencing the past in order to live. Music is their lifeline. After five decades of secrets, Janet finally unravels her Holocaust heritage when she stumbles upon a clue. After the war, George performed morale-boosting programs throughout Bavaria in a twenty-member orchestra of concentration camp survivors. Although Janet also becomes a cellist, her father never discloses that two of the programs, in 1948, were led by the legendary American maestro, Leonard Bernstein. Janet's father was more fortunate than others. When he was rounded up for hard labor, narrowly missing deportation to the death camps of Auschwitz, a music-loving Nazi guard gave him gloves to protect his cello-playing hands. Janet's memoir of the Holocaust is deeply personal and illuminating. Through humor and colorful story-telling, she weaves her parents' life into her own and captures the intensity of their life experiences. The lingering scars are healed through the sustenance and power of music, and their music-making unites people from generation to generation.

Dr. Dan Puccio takes an in-depth look at the lives and careers of the singer-songwriters whose catalogs are featured in this year's concert season! We’ll get to hear some of the inside stories and legends surrounding Neil Diamond, America, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Lyle Lovett, along with guided listening example to some of their greatest songs. Along the way, we’ll try to answer some of the great Rock & Roll mysteries like “Why didn’t they name the horse?”, “Was Billy Joel really that angry as a young man?”, and “Can you really ride a pony on a boat?” (Honestly, it depends on the size of the boat, and how rough the seas are.) Along with a legendary career as a performer, Neil Diamond has an incredible list of songwriting credits. In this session, we will discover how an NYU student majoring in Pre-med earned a fencing scholarship, and then turned to writing such hits as “Solitary Man”, “Cherry, Cherry”, “Cracklin’ Rosie”, and, of course “Sweet Caroline”. Along with his own hits, Diamond has written classics like “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” and “I’m A Believer” (made famous by the Monkees—or the film Shrek, depending on the audience). We will also examine his forays into film, with his scores to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and The Jazz Singer, and see if his Golden Globe nomination, and Razzie Award win were justified. Join us on October 25, and see why “Good times never seemed so good!”

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. In celebration of our fabulous trumpet players appearing this season at Musicfest, this session of Listen Up! will take a look at the evolution of jazz trumpet playing--from its earliest days in the brass bands of New Orleans to the present day. Through our playlist, we'll explore why artists like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Chris Botti are known not just for their "chops" but how these trumpet players opened up new worlds for jazz...and music as a whole!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Continuing our sessions on music for with this year's Festival Orchestra, we explore American composer Samuel Barber's 1960 composition Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra. The piece was originally commissioned by Mary Curtis Zimbalist for the inauguration of the new organ installed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia--the largest movable organ at the time of its creation. Zimbalist was one of Samuel Barber's earliest patrons and organist herself, and Barber had graduated from her namesake's Curtis Institute of Music; entering into the young artist's program when the school was founded in 1924. The premiere was performed in 1960 at the Academy of Music with organist Paul Callaway, conductor Eugene Ormandy, the Philadelphia Orchestra. A significant contribution to the organ repertoire, the piece as a small concerto demonstrates incredible virtuosity, complete with a cadenza for pedals played by just the performer's feet! The sweeping, exciting work demonstrates Barber and his lush, colorful textures, combining neo-"romanticism" harkening back to traditional symphonic music and combining it with modernist "American" harmony. Classical music as a whole was looking to break new boundaries in the 1960s, and Barber sought to appeal to the broader public while still pushing the boundaries of what new music could be. Instead of the organ being a pure soloist with an orchestra supporting, the whole orchestra is written to "become" an extension of the organ itself!

Dr. Dan Puccio takes an in-depth look at the lives and careers of the singer-songwriters whose catalogs are featured in this year's concert season! We’ll get to hear some of the inside stories and legends surrounding Neil Diamond, America, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Lyle Lovett, along with guided listening example to some of their greatest songs. Along the way, we’ll try to answer some of the great Rock & Roll mysteries like “Why didn’t they name the horse?”, “Was Billy Joel really that angry as a young man?”, and “Can you really ride a pony on a boat?” (Honestly, it depends on the size of the boat, and how rough the seas are.) Often mistaken for Neil Young, America quickly became part of the musical landscape of the 1970’s with hits like “A Horse With No Name”, “Ventura Highway” and “Sister Golden Hair”. In this session, we will see how a trio of Armed Forces kids formed the band with the iconic West-coast sound on an Air Force base in London, and try to answer some of the burning questions that they raised: Why did they choose this particular name? What did Oz give to the Tin Man? And, most importantly, why didn’t they name the horse?

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session will be a combination of music history, active listening, analysis, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity through the universal language of music!  Coffee and refreshments provided. In honor of our concert performance of "Neil Berg's The 60's," and as a follow-up to last season's Beach Boys seminar, we begin where we left off: this time focusing exclusively on the music of Brian Wilson! Beginning with songs like "Good Vibrations," we see an artist whose musical sensibilities went beyond just the typical pop song. Despite a much-publicized mental health struggle, Wilson continued to create and shape new sounds that mixed popular song forms with the Avant-garde. Thus, we might ask ourselves if the press's assessment of "Brian Wilson is a genius" is more than just hyperbole? Join us as we survey the music of Brian Wilson, both with the Beach Boys and his long career following. You'll likely discover songs you never knew existed, and face the work of an artist whose creativity challenged even the most open-minded listener!

Our Musical Theatre Matinee series features guest lectures from some of the Valley's foremost experts in musical theatre, which include live performances by outstanding local singers and dancers! In celebration of the release of the new movie Wicked hitting the theatres on Nov. 22, we begin our Musical Theatre Matinee series with a celebration of the music of Stephen Schwartz! Hosted by AZMF Resident Artist Josh Condon and featuring some of the valley's top musical theatre performers, Josh will take us through the life and career of Schwartz, performing familiar favorites and hidden gems from each of Schwartz's major works. Get ready to laugh, cry, and experience the exquisite storytelling that has made Stephen Schwartz one of the most critically-acclaimed composers for musical theatre for the last half century! Featuring: Kaitlynn Bluth, soprano Alyssa Flores, soprano Šime Kosta, tenor

The musical term "pizzicato" instructs a string player to pluck a string instead of using a bow. For our new Pizza-cato Chamber Music Series, we've "plucked" some of the Valley's best classical musicians and will present them in special intimate lunchtime concerts. Join us for great classical music and some delicious pizza!  

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. We continue our journey through this year's Festival Orchestra repertoire with another piece written to highlight a particular instrument. French composer Jacque Ibert composed this Flute Concerto in 1932 for the flute virtuoso Marcel Moyse, who has been hailed as one of the greatest flautists in all of the 20th century. The piece was premiered two years later in Paris with the Orchestra of the Society of Conservatory Concerts, an orchestra run by the Paris Conservatory and featuring faculty and students together. Ibert was known as "an eclectic" who musical style epitomized that of 1930s France: a mixture of fun, frivolity, and deep expression reminiscent of the traditional romantic concertos, with a language that was harmonically and rhythmically very contemporary--some might even say "jazzy!" Despite composing seven operas, five ballets, works for solo piano, choral works, chamber music, and scores for twenty-one films (which included collaborations with Gene Kelly and Orson Welles), Ibert's work is lesser known - with the majority of his career spent as a conductor and music administrator for the French Academy in Rome and later the Paris Opera and Opera Comique. Join as we explore and discuss this virtuosic work, which explore the range and depth of this special instrument!

Our Club Musicfest series brings you special evening performances combining wine and cheese with some of the Valley's best jazz musicians. Mix the playful creativity and integrity found at the heart of jazz with Latin rhythms, blues, swing and good solid grooves and the result is Jazz Con Alma, Jazz with Soul!   This band will be featuring repertoire from the Great American songbook mixed in with some of the songs which are destined to become new classics. Beth Lederman is a keyboardist and bandleader who has developed an eclectic and sophisticated sound based in melody, and infused with joy and passion. A Phoenix native, Beth is one of Phoenix's most in-demand players.Her family owned Lederman Music Co, an important part of the Phoenix music scene in past decades. She has recordings under both her own name and with her Brazilian jazz group Novo Mundo. Beth fuses her love of latin and Brazilian music combined with her classical roots to bring fresh arrangements with solid grooves to both traditional and new music. One of the smoothest singers you may ever hear, Steven Powell never fails to move audiences with his heartfelt vocals .A navy veteran, Steven is famous for singing the National Anthem around the country, but his talents for improvisation and bringing standards and R & B classics to life are his true passion, and he always delivers his songs with integrity. It is no surprise that Diana Lee plays almost every instrument you can imagine, since her parents owned and operated a prominent music store in Glendale, AZ called Arizona Music Center. At the age of 17, she became a professional singer/ musician and started touring the country. She has performed and toured with superstars all over the world such as Sister Sledge, Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Deborah Harry, Randy Crawford, George Benson, Gloria Gaynor, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, Diana Ross, Neil Sedaka Rounding ...

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Here at Music Alive! we spend lots of time exploring the music of the past - and for good reason! But what about the present? Despite what the contemporary pop stations would have you believe, there is A LOT of exciting, musically interesting and creative work being made out there! Not just in America, but around the world. Join us for our first venture into BREAKING BOUNDARIES, a mini-series that's part of LISTEN UP! We'll explore new artists that you've most likely never heard of, but are sure to become a new favorite. These artists are pioneering new avenues for music creation in the 21st century, building upon the work of the past, and unleashing new creative energies for the future. As our musical world becomes more and more global through the internet, we'll explore how this dynamic has changed the music industry forever, and discuss what new musical genres are being birthed now in 2024!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session will be a combination of music history, active listening, analysis, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity through the universal language of music!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Arizona Musicfest celebrates the return of the Festival Chorus this year during our Festival Orchestra week, performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor. Our Listen Up series will take a deep dive in the life of Mozart, why he matters, and the fascinating history behind this piece that was left unfinished at the time of Mozart's death at age 35 in 1791. In part 1, we'll begin with the story of his genesis. A Requiem Mass, or Mass for the dead, is the liturgical worship service of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul of a deceased person, more often today called a "Funeral Mass". Mozart received a commission to compose a Requiem from Count Franz von Walsegg (a German aristocrat), whose 20-year-old wife had recently died. Working from a prescribed set of religious texts from the Catholic rite, Mozart fell ill and proclaimed he was writing this Requiem for himself. Upon his death and leaving his wife Constanze in a difficult financial predicament, Constanze's solution was to hire Austrian composer Franz Xaver Süssmayr to complete the work, passing the piece off as authentically Mozart's to the Count in order to receive his full payment. Join us as we explore more about the significance of the Mass, and how Mozart (and eventually Süssmayr) interpreted these texts through musical  composition by beginning our journey listening through of the most beloved choral works of all time.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Arizona Musicfest celebrates the return of the Festival Chorus this year during our Festival Orchestra week, performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor. Our Listen Up series will take a deep dive in the life of Mozart, why he matters, and the fascinating history behind this piece that was left unfinished at the time of Mozart's death at age 35 in 1791. In part 2, we'll continue our journey listening through this magnificent masterwork. While this piece is typically performed in concert, we'll look at it as a liturgical piece as well - how each movement functions within the Mass itself. As Mozart technically never finished the work, we'll also explore some notable contemporary versions of this piece that have been created since the original posthumous publication of the Requiem! Whatever version you end up preferring, you will no doubt gain a deeper appreciation of one of the greatest choral works ever written!

Join your fellow music lovers us as we celebrate the holidays with food, games, and live music featuring Josh and Lexy Condon! Come and go as you please, and be prepared to make new friends!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. Each year, we hear the same old songs again and again on the radio. Some we love, and some, well, we don't! But in the search for creating new material for the holidays, musical composers' and artists' imaginations have surely run wild at times. Join us as venture through a playlist of THE most hysterical, outrageous, and off-the-wall songs to ever give yuletide joy!  You can also contribute your ideas for the playlist by emailing YouTube links to Josh Condon at josh@azmusicfest.org.

Our Club Musicfest series brings you special evening performances combining wine and cheese with some of the Valley’s best jazz musicians.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Our Musical Theatre Matinee series features guest lectures from some of the Valley’s foremost experts in musical theatre, and include live performances by outstanding local singers and dancers!

Dr. Dan Puccio takes an in-depth look at the lives and careers of the singer-songwriters whose catalogs are featured in this year's concert season! We’ll get to hear some of the inside stories and legends surrounding Neil Diamond, America, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Lyle Lovett, along with guided listening example to some of their greatest songs. Along the way, we’ll try to answer some of the great Rock & Roll mysteries like “Why didn’t they name the horse?”, “Was Billy Joel really that angry as a young man?”, and “Can you really ride a pony on a boat?” (Honestly, it depends on the size of the boat, and how rough the seas are.) One of the greatest pianists in Rock history, Billy Joel’s career as a singer songwriter has spanned nearly seven decades—starting in the mid 1960’s. Few artists have had the longevity and consistency of hits, ranging from his most famous hits of the 1970’s like “She’s Always A Woman”, “Only the Good Die Young”, “My Life”, and the legendary title track from his 1973 album Piano Man, to his blockbuster songs of the 1980’s including “The Longest Time”, “You May Be Right”. “Tell Her About It”, and “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. We’ll discuss his record number of performances at Madison Square Garden—a friendly competition that he has going with the band Phish, and the financial challenges that he faced during the mid 1980’s, too. Since it’s early, you can hold off on your bottle of red, or bottle of white, but join in the fun to find out just who is the “Uptown Girl”, and if his “Famous Last Words” were indeed the last words he would ever write.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided. A solitary, reflective wanderer, arrives at the city at nightfall, where a carnival is in full swing. All around, one hears the blare of instruments mingled with shouts of joy and unbridled merriment. The wanderer is drawn into the intoxicating spectacle, and his heart is swept up in joyful exhilaration.

The musical term "pizzicato" instructs a string player to pluck a string instead of using a bow. For our new Pizza-cato Chamber Music Series, we've "plucked" some of the Valley's best classical musicians and will present them in special intimate lunchtime concerts. Join us for great classical music and some delicious pizza!  

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Our Musical Theatre Matinee series features guest lectures from some of the Valley’s foremost experts in musical theatre, and include live performances by outstanding local singers and dancers!

The musical term "pizzicato" instructs a string player to pluck a string instead of using a bow. For our new Pizza-cato Chamber Music Series, we've "plucked" some of the Valley's best classical musicians and will present them in special intimate lunchtime concerts. Join us for great classical music and some delicious pizza!  

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Our Musical Theatre Matinee series features guest lectures from some of the Valley’s foremost experts in musical theatre, and include live performances by outstanding local singers and dancers!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Our Musical Theatre Matinee series features guest lectures from some of the Valley’s foremost experts in musical theatre, and include live performances by outstanding local singers and dancers!

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.

Listen Up: Seminars on Music is a weekly gathering of music lovers every Wednesday morning, hosted by AZMF’s Resident Artist, Josh Condon.  Each session combines music history, analysis, active listening, and discussion, designed to enhance your listening experience and overall music appreciation.  Listen Up covers all genres, emphasizing our common humanity across all musical styles!  Coffee and refreshments provided.