Mar. 11 2025

Tuesday 3/11/25 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Jessie Montgomery       Hymn for Everyone Riccardo Muti conductor 2023 (CSO Resound)   Alban Berg                   Violin Concerto Sir Georg Solti conductor Kyung-Wha Chung violin 1983 (London)   Shulamit Ran                Legends Daniel Barenboim conductor 1993 (Albany)   Antonín Dvořák            Silent Woods Daniel Barenboim conductor Jacqueline Du Pré cello 1970 (Angel)   […]

Mar. 10 2025

Heyward pays tribute to Ellington

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  In a one-off program at the Meyerhoff on Saturday, March 15 at 8:00 PM, BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward celebrates Duke Ellington‘s philosophy of music “beyond category,” intermingling America’s greatest native art form with classical symphonic traditions. It was a pleasure to speak with Jonathon by phone.  

Mar. 10 2025

Monday 03/10/25 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM Conductor:                              Alan Gilbert Soloists:                                  Carter Brey, cello   DVOŘÁK:                              Cello Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY:                  Symphony No. 5 J.S. BACH:                             Suites 1 & 2 for Unaccompanied Cello  

Mar. 08 2025

3-8-25 Face The Music Listings

This week our panelists were the late Ed Goldstein tuba player from the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble and Baltimore Jazz Orchestra, Ernie Green from the Annapolis Chorale and Chamber Orchestra and Face The Music Panelist Emeritus the late Dave Donovan.  I miss Dave and Ed so much.  They did wonderful work on Face the Music. We […]

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 […]

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