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Celebrating Women’s Equality Day with Poetry
To mark the annual celebration of Women’s Equality Day—commemorating the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote—I spoke with Teri Ellen Cross Davis, award-winning poet and Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
WETATI GALA
I had the chance to talk to Vivian Ebesike and Saba Nafees about the Ann Reece Carswell Scholarship Gala recently. For more information check http://www.WETATI.org/convention
Music From Movies 08-22-21
7:00 PM Bernard Herrmann: Citizen Kane: Overture Silva 1051 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:04 PM Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo: Suite CBS/Sony 62700 COND Esa-Pekka Salonen ORCH Los Angeles Philharmonic Winds 7:17 PM Bernard Herrmann: The Snows of Kilimanjaro Naxos 570186 COND William T. Stromberg ORCH Moscow Symphony Orchestra […]
Vocalise 08/21/21
8:00 PM Antonin Dvorak: Rusalka: “O Lovely Moon” London 460568 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH Czech Philharmonic Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano 8:08 PM Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Nimbus 5084 COND Wyn Morris ORCH London Philharmonic Orchestra SOLO Dame Janet Baker,mezzo-soprano SOLO Sir Geraint Evans, baritone 8:57 PM Richard Rodgers: Carousel: If I loved […]
8-21-21 Music In Maryland Candlelight Concert Society…Doric Quartet
This week we have a live concert featuring the Doric String Quartet playing music by Haydn, Britten and Mendelssohn. The Doric opens its program with Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, No. 4, Op. 33. Reviews of Doric’s discs and performances are unanimous in acknowledging the quartet’s aptitude for the Austrian master. According to the […]
Toccata listings for 8/22/21
On tonight’s program, music by Stravinsky, Parker, and Bartok. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 8912 Igor Stravinsky Petrushka: Three Movements DG/Archiv 14108 SOLO Yuja Wang, piano 15:23 C 1 1-3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:18 PM 50353 Horatio Parker Four Pieces Op 36 Arsis 122 SOLO William Aylesworth, organ 15:35 C 1 4-8 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:33 […]
Music From Movies 08-15-21
8:00 PM Kenneth J. Alford- Bridge on the River Kwai: Colonel Bogey CBS/Sony 46747 COND John Williams ORCH Boston Pops Orchestra 7:04 PM Maurice Jarre- Ryan’s Daughter: Suite from the Film Silva 1047 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:14 PM Nino Rota- Felini Suite Da Vinci 98 […]
Dr. Leana Wen’s journey in the fight for public health
Dr. Leana Wen, former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore, has just published a book called “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health.” To her way of thinking, public health is not limited only to the medical field.
Vocalise 08/14/21
8:00 PM Ola Gjeilo: The Rose London 327 COND Rupert Gough ORCH 12 Ensemble SOLO Royal Holloway Choir 8:05 PM Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Argo 430356 COND Kenneth Alwyn ORCH Welsh National Opera Orchestra SOLO Welsh National Opera Chorus SOLO Arthur Davies, tenor 8:41 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music Telarc 80676 COND […]
Toccata listings for 8/15/21
On tonight’s program, we note the birthday of one of the great organists of our time, Marie-Claire Alain, and we will hear a piano concerto by American composer William Schuman. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 4603 Charles-Marie Widor Organ Symphony No. 6 in g Op 42 Erato 88111 SOLO Marie-Claire Alain, organ […]
