Archive for October, 2020
10-3-20 Face The Music Listings!
This week our panel was pianist Lisa Weiss from Goucher College, Tuba player Ed Goldstein from the Baltimore Jazz Orchestra and Phil Greenfield from the American Record Guide. The Janacek was a mixed review everything else was pretty shiny. PLAY DATE: Sat, 10/3/2020 5:00 PM 22698 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 17 (or 18) […]
10-3-2020 Music In Maryland. BSO Recordings!
This week some classic BSO recordings with three of their great conductors! Play Report PLAY DATE: Sat, 10/03/2020 6:00 PM 289 Mikhail Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture Telarc 80378 COND David Zinman David ZIHN mihn ORCH Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 4:51 C 1 1-1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:06 PM 6904 Sir William Walton Violin Concerto in b London […]
Vocalise 10/03/20
8:00 PM Giuseppe Verdi Nabucco: “Va, pensiero” Angel/EMI 49828 COND Riccardo Muti ORCH Philharmonia Orchestra SOLO Ambrosian Opera Chorus ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:05 PM Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio: Prisoner’s Chorus DG/Archiv 453811 COND John Eliot Gardiner ORCH Orch Revolutionnaire et Romant SOLO Monteverdi Choir ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8:13 PM Scott Joplin Treemonisha: A Real Slow Drag DG/Archiv 435709 COND […]
The Philosophy of an Estate Planning Client Care Program – Intentionalism
By: Stephen R. Elville, Managing Principal, Elville and Associates, P.C. You are searching for a client care program (whether you know it or not). Yes, you are. Whether you are consciously aware of this is the purpose of this article. You do want your estate plan – your Last Will and Testament; or your will […]
Credit Cards and cancelled Drive
All of us here at WBJC appreciate and value your ongoing support of your classical music station. But, we have to apologize to you. WBJC lost the ability to process all credit cards on 9/30. The State of Maryland changed banks/credit card processors and our license holder, Baltimore City Community College, didn’t inform us early […]
A National Book Awards 2020 nominee on Booknotes
Amongst the 2020 National Book Awards nominations is the English-language fiction debut, High as the Waters Rise, by German poet Anja Kampmann. The book was translated from the German by Maryland native, Anne Posten, who spoke to me from her home in Berlin.
Playlist: Oct/03/20
8:29 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No.9: 4th Mvt. “Ode to Joy” Opus: 125Conductor: Leonard BernsteinEnsemble: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraDame Gwyneth Jones,sopranoHanna Schwarz, contraltoRene Kollo,tenorKurt Moll, bassVienna State Opera ChorusDG/Archiv, 474929 8:23 PM Amy Marcy Cheney Beach — I Will Give Thanks Conductor: Betty BuchananEnsemble: Capitol Hill Choral SocietyAlbany, 295 8:18 PM Amy Marcy Cheney […]
Playlist: Oct/02/20
11:27 PM Bela Bartok — Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta Conductor: Marin AlsopEnsemble: Baltimore Symphony OrchestraNaxos, 572486 11:15 PM Lori Laitman — Men with Small Heads Stephen Powell, baritoneLori Laitman, pianoAcis, 689 10:35 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 Key: FOpus: 68Conductor: Claudio AbbadoEnsemble: Berlin PhilharmonicDG/Archiv, 469003 10:26 PM Imogen Holst — The […]
Jennifer Higdon On The Creation Of Her Pulitzer Prize Winning Violin Concerto.
During the 10-week BSO Encore series there were compositions by several living composers. The last concert of the series featured Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize winning Violin Concerto. Ms. Higdon generously gave me an interview about the creation of her concerto for violinist Hilary Hahn.
Michael Daugherty Takes Us On A Trip Through “UFO.”
During the 10-week BSO Encore series It was such a pleasure to talk with all the living composers whose works were featured on the concerts. Grammy Award winning American composer, Michael Daugherty described the process of writing UFO for percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie.
