Classics Explained
We are creating fun educational videos on classical music.
Have you ever had this thing? You’re at a classical music concert. There’s a big-deal orchestra,
under a big-deal conductor, playing big-deal pieces. The programme is crammed full of boring academic articles and advertising... No wonder so many people are intimidated by classical music.
We are making classical music more accessible! ClassEx is a sort of visual Wikipedia which you can consult before going to a concert or simply to learn something new. Our shorts are fast-paced, witty, and entertaining. They explain the stories and creative processes behind the music.
Subscribe and Enjoy!
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Some screen grabs from our next episode.
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Salvation is at hand! Put aside some time this weekend to watch our new episode explaining Copland's iconic Appalachian Spring. Releasing Saturday 10am EST.
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A new episode approaches!
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Hello subscribers!
We are currently looking for alternative ways to fund our episodes, and are considering doing a Kickstarter campaign.However it’s a lot of work putting together a Kickstarter, so we want to make sure we choose a piece that our viewers might be inspired to help fund.
We’ve put together a list of some of our more requested pieces below, as well as a few that we already have in the works. Please vote for these in order of preference and, depending on the reaction, we’ll consider creating a funding campaign for it.
The candidates:
Mahler’s 2nd
Handel’s Water Music and Music for Royal Fireworks
Sibelius’ Finlandia
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas
The Bartered Bride, Bartok
The Trout Quintet, Schubert
Handel’s Messiah
Please vote for these in order of preference so we can get a clearer picture of interest across the board.
And, if you buy something from our store, include your votes in the additional information and we’ll count your votes twice - Just like a real democracy, it’s slightly corrupt!
Store: classicsexplained.com/collections/great-mugs-of-cl…
Thanks everyone,
The Classics Explained Team
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Hello to our wonderful subscribers!
We have been receiving a few questions about the channel and thought it would be a good opportunity to address them all in the same place and let you in on our future plans.
Over the last year Classics Explained has done a reboot of sorts, with a new and consistent animation style that would allow us to get episodes out there with greater frequency.
This was planned for ten episodes starting at the Edward Elgar episode and ending with our most recent episode on Respighi’s Pines of Rome. But don’t worry we are not stopping there!
We are taking a short hiatus to give Ben time to research and write another five episodes.
This means there will be a longer than usual gap between Pines of Rome and the next installment. When we have a better idea of exact dates on the release, we’ll let you know.
In the meantime, we’ve been experimenting with quizzes as something to release between episodes. We have been trying to strike the right balance making them challenging but still fun. We’d love to get your feedback on the quizzes so far.
We’re also looking for ways to fund new episodes such as sponsorship or even crowdfunding.
The CE team, Ben and another, fund this endeavour as a labour of love – much love and sweet labour- but the episodes are not inexpensive to produce.
So, we need your assistance to help with this labour by showering us with some financial love. Would you mind seeing sponsorship in our episodes, if so how much? And would you consider participating in a Kickstarter?
And finally, are you seeing our episodes turn up on your feed? We’ve had a lot of comments and messages from people that had no idea Pines of Rome had been posted. Bolero too
Thank you for reading, and offering any feedback you have for us. And a huge thank you for not only helping us grow to 80k subscribers but also being such a charming bunch of people. (We are quietly chuffed that our comments sections seem to be more positive and intelligent than the average YouTube comment section.)
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One of the locations from our next episode. More clues over on Instagram.
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An image from the animatic for our next episode. More to see over on our Instagram
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Ben recently dropped into the Thouroughly Good Classical Music Podcast to talk about the channel, and classical music in general. Have a listen! - open.spotify.com/episode/4xnwx1jNVM6IKD9mD4x5fg?si…
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A frame from the animatic for our next episode. This one will be a banger.
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Our most popular episode by far is our video on Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. With the episode about to reach 500k views, we'd love to get our subscriber's thoughts on why this one in particular has resonated with people (or *cue spooky music* The Algorithm)?
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