Since there was no new program last Saturday due to our spring membership drive, this evening we bring you a rebroadcast of a relatively recent program featuring the members of the Sugar Strings, a trio of first cousins who have performed for the Ravinia Festival, for Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago, with the Milwaukee and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and much more.
They’ve prepared for us an eclectic program of music this hour by American black composers and eastern european composers plus some new arrangements of familiar jazz and popular tunes.
13 year old violist and violinist Mira Williams of the Kenwood Academy
13 year old homeschooled violinist Adé Williams
and 18 year old cellist Ayanna Williams who started last semester at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Listen to the complete program online by clicking here.
Introductions is made possible by the generous support of The Negaunee Foundation, The Sage Foundation, The Field Foundation of Illinois, Susan and Richard Kiphart, Jim and Kay Mabie, The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation, Chet Gougis & Shelley Ochab, an anonymous donor and the listener supporters of the WFMT Fine Arts Circle.
Introductions is an original production of 98.7WFMT and is hosted and produced by David Polk. The executive producer is Steve Robinson.
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