May. 02 2024

Thursday 5/02/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM TCHAIKOVSKY: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin SIBELIUS: Finlandia VON SUPPE: Overture to Light Cavalry RAVEL: “The Enchanted Garden” from the Mother Goose Suite HIGDON: Fanfare Ritmico SAINT-GEORGES: Violin Concerto No. 2 WILLIAMS: “Nice to Be Around” from Cinderella Liberty STRAUSS: Final Waltz from the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier   Manfred Honeck, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, […]

May. 01 2024

Wednesday 5/01/24 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

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11:00 PM CONDUCTOR:             Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOIST:                    Bertrand Chamayou, piano*   Modest Mussorgsky (ed. Kikor, G; rev. Mcalister, Clark):    A Night on Bald Mountain Franz Liszt:                  Totentanz* Hector Berlioz:             Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14  

Apr. 30 2024

Tuesday 4/30/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Conductor:                               Pierre Boulez*; Jakub Hrůša   Gustav Mahler:                         Totenfeier* Bedřich Smetana:                      Vysehrad, No. 1 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana:                      The Moldau, No. 2 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana:                      Sárka, No. 3 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana:                      From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves, No. 4 from Má vlast Bedřich Smetana: […]

Apr. 29 2024

A swansong for Mark Cudek

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    Having founded the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble thirty-six years ago in 1988, Mark Cudek will conduct the group for the last time in a concert called “Music for Joan the Mad,” inspired by Marjorie Sandor’s book “The Secret Music at Tordesillas,” at Peabody and St. David’s Roland Park. Please click on the link below […]

Apr. 29 2024

Crossing borders and breaking boundaries with Spooky Action Theater

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Spooky Action Theater’s artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova, joined me by phone to unpack some of the humor, humanity, and heart at play in the latest production from this inventive DC-based theater compnay. She spoke with extra authority and insight having known the playwright, Philip Howze, since overlapping at drama school; having selected and programmed the […]

Apr. 29 2024

Monday 4/29/24 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM Conductor:                   Alan Gilbert Soloists: Christine Brewer, soprano Jane Henschel, soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Eric Owens, bass-baritone New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director*   Ludwig van Beethoven:         Overture to Egmont Paul Hindemith:           Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Ludwig van Beethoven:        Missa solemnis, Op. 123*  

Apr. 28 2024

Music From Movies 4-28-24

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7:00 PM Dave Grusin On Golden Pond, Main Theme Telarc 80243 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra SOLO William Tritt, piano   7:06 PM Dave Grusin The Firm: Mitch and Abby Zoho 2007 SOLO Dave Grusin, piano     7:10 PM John Barry Deadfall: Romance for Guitar & Orchestra Silva 1055 COND Nic Raine […]

Apr. 27 2024

Vocalise 4-27-24

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8:00 PM Leonard Bernstein One Hand, One Heart Warner Clas 33485 COND Patrick Summers ORCH BBC Symphony Orchestra SOLO Ailyn Perez, Soprano SOLO Stephen Costello, tenor 8:06 PM Richard Strauss Four Last Songs London 4834883 COND Esa-Pekka Salonen ORCH Philharmonia Orchestra SOLO Lise Davidsen, soprano 8:31 PM Sir Arnold Bax Enchanted Summer from “Prometheus Unbound […]

Apr. 26 2024

Toccata listings for 4/28/24

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On tonight’s program, two works written for the pedal piano–one played on the pedal piano, the other on the organ, plus a piano concerto by an American composer.  Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy!   6:01 PM 47966 Robert Schumann Fugue on B-A-C-H for pedal piano in B-Fl ArsProd 38011 SOLO Martin Schmeding, pedal […]

Apr. 25 2024

CINDY OF ARC jousts with the patriarchy at Theatre Project

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I had the pleasure of chatting all the way across the Atlantic with writer/performer/creator Cynthia Kaplan about her new play Cindy of Arc, coming to Baltimore Theatre Project May 2nd-4th after a raucously successful stop at Intiman Theatre in Seattle. The journey of this piece has been a lengthy and arguably convoluted one, from extremely topical […]

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