Dec. 13 2024

Toccata listings for 12/15/25

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On tonight’s program, some holiday harpsichord music, and an Italian piano concerto.  thanks for listening, and enjoy!   6:01 PM 50135 Edwin McLean, arranger A Baroque Christmas Alienor 1207 SOLO Elaine Funaro, harpsichord 20:26 C 1 4-14 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:24 PM 21081 Giuseppe Martucci Piano Concerto No. 1 in d Naxos 570931 COND Francesco La Vecchia […]

Dec. 12 2024

Thursday 12/12/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM MARTINU: Thunderbolt P-47 PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition   Petr Popelka, conductor; Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Dec. 11 2024

Holiday chills & thrills at Everyman

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As a savory option to contrast the barrage of typical holiday sweets, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is presenting another in their ongoing tradition of murder mysteries to liven up our winter playgoing. This time, it’s a classic locked-room whodunit by the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None–as originally adapted for the […]

Dec. 11 2024

Wednesday 12/11/24 European Broadcasting Union!

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11:00 PM Tchaikovsky in Berlin: Stravinsky, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky Maria Dueñas shines in Béla Bartók’s darkly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2 with conductor Elim Chan. The Berlin Radio Symphony rounds out the program with works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.   ORCHESTRA              Berlin Radio Symphony CONDUCTOR             Elim Chan SOLOIST                     Maria Dueñas, violin […]

Dec. 10 2024

Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt at Shakespeare Theatre

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  Tom Stoppard’s deeply personal play Leopoldstadt is on at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. until December 29th. I spoke with the director Carey Perloff from her home in San Francisco.        

Dec. 10 2024

Tuesday 12/10/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Harding Conducts The Planets Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus.   Robert Schumann         Overture to Manfred, […]

Dec. 09 2024

Monday 12/09/24 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM Conductor:                  Alan Gilbert   Lyadov:                       The Enchanted Lake   Tchaikovksy:              Selections from Swan Lake   Shostakovich:             Symphony No. 10  

Dec. 06 2024

Emotion as Industry on BookNotes

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        Tracy Dimond is following up the publication of four chapbooks of poetry with her first full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry. She’s my guest on BookNotes this month.                

Dec. 06 2024

A world premier by Michael Hersch at St. David’s

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Music at St. David’s, in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center Psychiatry and the Art Program, is presenting a concert at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, December 10th called Night Falls Fast. I invited Music Director Douglas Buchanan and composer Michael Hersch into the studio.  

Dec. 06 2024

Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts 2024-2025 season

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THE ROBERT K. JOHNSON FOUNDATION–METROPOLITAN OPERA INTERNATIONAL RADIO NETWORK 2024-25 SATURDAY MATINEE BROADCAST SEASON All broadcasts at 1 PM Eastern Time except as noted December 7 Strauss: DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever (Empress), Lise Lindstrom (Dyer’s Wife), Nina Stemme (Nurse), Michael Volle (Barak), Russell Thomas (Emperor), Ryan Speedo Green (Spirit Messenger) […]

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