Good Friday Thoughts |
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Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:21:00 GMT |
opera night again |
Tonight we have The Magic Flute, one of those operas that becomes your favorite opera while you're listening to it, even though when you're not you insist you prefer Moses und Aron or Samstag aus Lich...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:58:00 GMT |
no-frills playlist |
Some listeners have expressed the desire for a more straight-up playlist, so for tonight I offer one:Microtonal Raga - Cage Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta -- Bartok Etude Fantasy - Cori...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:56:00 GMT |
bassoon, bartok, beer, brahms |
Tonight we will celebrate Lincoln's birthday by playing ninety-six minutes of music for the bassoon. (Lincoln was born in a log cabin...the Italian word for bassoon is fagotto, which means a bundle of...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:49:00 GMT |
Lunar New Year |
I will make this brief. Tonight and tomorrow night WNYC celebrates the Lunar New Year with special programming curated by Alex Ambrose; go to http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/92407 for more inf...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:15:00 GMT |
Super Tuesday Ives Marathon |
In honor of Super Tuesday, we will be playing the music of Charles Ives all night long: his 3rd & 4th symphonies, his Concord sonata (in both its original version and in Henry Brant's orchestratio...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:50:00 GMT |
big works, chance to listen while awake |
Tonight we will have four big works: Lachrimae Caravaggio by Jordi Savall (yes, the viola da gamba virtuoso and conductor is also a composer); Symphony no. 4 by Anton Bruckner; Arcanum, a suite of ins...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:20:00 GMT |
horn & contest! |
Tonight: all about the horn. We offer you horn concertos by Mozart, Haydn, Richard Strauss, Oliver Knussen, Peter Lieberson, Luigi Cherubini, and Meyer Kupferman (whose concerto doubles as a tone poem...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:27:00 GMT |
Prague to New York to the next life to Caine |
We begin with the overture to Mozart's Don Giovanni (which had its New York premiere in 1826 two blocks from where I am right now -- at the Park Theater, which was located at 25 Park Row until it burn...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:41:00 GMT |
Opera night returns |
We're going to get into a rhythm now, I promise....tonight we have Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, starring Richard Stilwell and Frederica von Stade in the title roles, with the Berlin Philharmonic co...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:11:00 GMT |
