Mar.
10
2025
Monday 03/10/25 New York Philharmonic
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
