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Jonathan is WBJC's Program Director and host of many WBJC programs. His full bio can be read here.

Apr. 15 2023

4-15-2023 Music in Maryland: Annapolis Symphony – Celebrating America!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 4-15-2023 Music in Maryland: Annapolis Symphony – Celebrating America!

This week the Annapolis Symphony is on Music in Maryland with a concert entitled Celebrating America that was recorded on September 30 and October 1, 2022.  On the Program Copland’s El Salon Mexico, Barber’s Knoxville Summer 1915, The Walls of Zion from Copland’s Old American Songs, This Little Light of Mine from Hale Smith’s Four […]

Apr. 08 2023

4-8-2023 Music In Maryland. Jewish Music for Passover!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 4-8-2023 Music In Maryland. Jewish Music for Passover!

Chag Sameakh! I compiled some of my favorite Jewish Music for Passover…back to Music in Maryland Next Week!   6:00 PM 9280 Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34 Harm Mundi 901419 ORCH Ensemble Walter Boeykens 8:35 C 1 1-1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:09 PM 6782 Julius Chajes Israeli Melodies Centaur 2140 COND Alan Heatherington ORCH […]

Apr. 08 2023

4-8-23 Face The Music Listings!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Face the Music, Host Blogs | Comments Off on 4-8-23 Face The Music Listings!

This week we re-visit a really fine show which features the late Tuba Player Ed Goldstein in amazing form.   Our other panelists were Phil Greenfield from the American Record Guide and writer/pianist Kris Faatz.  It a great show worth hearing again. PLAY DATE: Sat, 04/8/2023 Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata No. 46 in A-Flat HOB 16 […]

Apr. 01 2023

4-1-23 Music in Maryland. Happy Birthday Sergei Rachmaninoff

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 4-1-23 Music in Maryland. Happy Birthday Sergei Rachmaninoff

On this day we celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff.  The Baltimore Symphony did some excellent recordings of his music with David Zinman back in the day.  The Symphonic Dances is particularly spectacular…and there is nothing wrong with Leon Fleisher playing the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with George Szell and the Cleveland […]

Apr. 01 2023

4-1-23 Face The Music Listings

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Face the Music, Host Blogs | Comments Off on 4-1-23 Face The Music Listings

This week we have an all new show with two panelists from the Hopkins Symphony.  Rafaella Dreisin the General Manager of the Hopkins Symphony and Jed Gaylin the Music Director of the Hopkins Symphony.  WBJC’s Kati Harrison was kind enough to be our third panelist.  It was a great show celebrating the birthday of Josef […]

Mar. 24 2023

3-25-23 Music In Maryland: Angela Hewitt Comes to Candlelight!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-25-23 Music In Maryland: Angela Hewitt Comes to Candlelight!

Pianist Angela Hewitt is coming to Columbia on April the first for a recital featuring music by Scarlatti, Bach and Brahms.  I spoke with Irina Kaplan Lande about this amazing musical event.  Also on the program some music soon to be played by the Baltimore Symphony. PLAY DATE: Sat, 03/25/2023 6:00 PM 4094 Johann Sebastian […]

Mar. 18 2023

3-18-23 Music in Maryland. Annapolis Symphony Plays Hunt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-18-23 Music in Maryland. Annapolis Symphony Plays Hunt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

The Annapolis Symphony conducted by Music Director Maestro Jose Luis Novo is featured on Music in Maryland with a concert recorded on May 8, 2022 at the Music Center at Strathmore.  On the program the world premiere of Jessica Hunt’s Resonance | Rush | Ride, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.  1 featuring pianist Olga Kern.  She […]

Mar. 10 2023

3-11-23 Music in Maryland….Annapolis Symphony concerts 3/31 and 4/1 Preview!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-11-23 Music in Maryland….Annapolis Symphony concerts 3/31 and 4/1 Preview!

  This past week I taped a wonderful video interview with Jose Luis Novo of the Annapolis Symphony about their concert featuring Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto # 1 and Brahms Second Symphony.  Why wait to hear these amazing pieces if we can hear them now!  I threw in the Elgar with the BSO for good measure…It’s […]

Mar. 10 2023

3-11-23 Face The Music Listings!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Face the Music, Host Blogs | Comments Off on 3-11-23 Face The Music Listings!

This week we have an all new show with WBJC’S Kati Harrison, Phil Greenfield from The American Record Guide and also clarinetist Robert DiLutis from the University of MD College Park and also the Annapolis Symphony.  We had lots of fun! PLAY DATE: Sat, 03/11/2023 5:00 PM 1435 Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in […]

Mar. 04 2023

3-4-23 Music in Maryland Robert DiLutis, The Mellifera String Quartet and Amit Peled!

By Jonathan Palevsky | Posted in Host Blogs, Music In Maryland | Comments Off on 3-4-23 Music in Maryland Robert DiLutis, The Mellifera String Quartet and Amit Peled!

We have the pleasure of two Quintets (Brahms and Verhey) performed by clarinetist Robert DiLutis and the Mellifera String Quartet and also Cellist Amit Peled and the Peabody Cello Gang play a new arrangement of the sixth cello suite by Bach for four cellos!  Also Amit Peled was kind enough to do a quick zoom […]

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