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Mar. 07 2025

Hiram Larew’s This Much Very on BookNotes

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    Hiram Larew, who generously underwrites BookNotes through his Cynipid Fund, is out with his seventh poetry collection, This Much Very, published by Alien Buddha Press. I spoke with Hiram by phone.      

Mar. 07 2025

Winter Member Drive wrap-up!

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Wowza!! What a great drive! We decided to be a bit experimental and try a drive without monetary goals, just appealing to new and rejoining members to help beef up the membership numbers. We started out with a conservative goal of 200 members, and started out the month-long drive with short messaging here and there […]

Mar. 07 2025

Toccata listing for 3/9/25

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On tonight’s program, organ music by Mendelssohn, Hummel on a “military piano,” and a concerto for 2 pianos by Bartok.  Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 47388 Felix Mendelssohn Organ Sonata in d Op 65/6 Argo 414420 SOLO Peter Hurford, organ 14:29 C 1 8-10 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:18 PM 51079 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Three Amusements […]

Mar. 06 2025

Thursday 03/06/25 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM BRAHMS: Violin Concerto SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2   Lorenzo Viotti, conductor; Ray Chen, violin

Mar. 06 2025

Ian Bostridge sings Shakespeare and Donne

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    Tenor Ian Bostridge and his longtime collaborator, the pianist Julius Drake, are presenting a Jacobean-era recital for the Shriver Hall Concert Series on Sunday, March 9. It was my pleasure to speak to Ian by phone.  

Mar. 05 2025

Wednesday 03/05/25 The Cleveland Orchestra

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11:00 PM CONDUCTOR:            Franz Welser-Möst ARTISTS:                    Christoph Sietzen, percussion*   Mozart :  Symphony No. 29 in A K 201   Johannes Maria Staud:  Whereas the Reality Trembles [World Premiere, TCO Co-Commission]*   Hubert von Goisern:     Improvisation on the song ‘Jodler für Willi’ (encore)   Peter Tchaikovsky:       Symphony No. 2 in C minor Op 17 […]

Mar. 04 2025

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Augustin Hadelich

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    BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward collaborates with Augustin Hadelich for Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto in a program that also includes Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Bohuslav Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice, which quotes from Beethoven’s great work. It was a pleasure to speak with Jonathon by phone.    

Mar. 04 2025

Tuesday 3/04/25 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Gaetano Donizetti         Overture to Don Pasquale   Giuseppe Verdi             The Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani   Emmanuel Chabrier      España   Osvaldo Golijov           Megalopolis Suite   Maurice de Falla           Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat Ricardo Muti conductor   Modest Mussorgsky/     Pictures at an Exhibition Maurice […]

Mar. 03 2025

Monday 03/03/25 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM Conductor:                              Thomas Wilkins Soloist:                                    Seth Parker Woods, cello   Afromodernism:                      Music of the African Diaspora   SIMON:                                  Four Black American Dances   JOACHIM:                             Had To Be (New York Premiere–NY Phil Co-Commission with Spoleto     Festival USA, Orchestre Métropolitain, and Chautauqua Institution)   BAKER:                                   Kosbro

Mar. 01 2025

3-1-25 Face The Music Listings!

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This week we liked the Schumann and loved the Mendelssohn and Dvorak!  The Bach Not so much…well not at all!  Our panelists were FTM Panelist Emeritus  Dave Donovan and composer and ace panelist John Bowen.  Here are the listings! PLAY DATE: Sat, 03/11/2025 5:00 PM            183 Robert Schumann               Symphony No.  1 in B-Flat  Op 38 […]

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