We’ve been working on a little in-house project with the Ring of the Nibelung programs, which we made several years ago for Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes account of those programs: The Ring isn’t exactly sacred, but it is a topic we approached with enormous care. The Ring of the Nibelung more…
Archive for August, 2009
Violin Partita #2 in d minor, BWV 1004 by Bach
Thursday, August 27, 2009 by Louise Frank
In the 3 o’clock hour today. WFMT broadcasts Christoph Poppen’s rendition of the Chaconne movement from the Violin Partita #2 in d minor, BWV 1004 by Bach. Here is another version featuring Nathan Milstein in a vintage television program.
Pepe Romero discusses Rodrigo’s “Concierto para una Fiesta”
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by Louise Frank
In the 2 o’clock hour today, Kerry Frumkin will play a recording of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto madrigal in a performance by the fraternal guitar duo, Pepe & Angel Romero along with St Martin’s Academy under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner. Although Rodrigo composed the work in 1966 for the husband-and-wife duo guitarists, Alexandre Lagoya more…
Week 8 on the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and www.wfmt.com/santafe
Saturday, August 22, 2009 by Louise Frank
”I felt … that one day there must suddenly emerge the one who would be chosen to express the most exalted spirit of the times in an ideal manner, one who would not bring us mastery in gradual stages but who, like Minerva, would spring fully armed from the head of Jove. And he has more…
Music in Maine
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 by Carolyn Paulin
It’s still vacation time as far as I’m concerned – mainly because I haven’t gone on one yet. But that longing will end soon, when my husband and I go to our favorite vacation location, the beautiful state of Maine. In addition to the sea, the lakes, the mountains, the pine trees, the lobster (!), more…
GRANT PARK ENDS ITS SEASON WITH FLAIR
Monday, August 17, 2009 by Carolyn Paulin
This past Friday and Saturday the Grant Park Music Festival ended its 75th anniversary season in style – two performances of Beethoven’s Symphony #9. Conductor Carlos Kalmar led an exciting reading on Friday night, in front of an absolutely HUGE crowd in Millennium Park. When I stepped out on stage to introduce the concert I more…
This week on the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and wfmt.com/santafe…
Thursday, August 13, 2009 by Louise Frank
You might say Week 7 of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series explores the theme of elegies. We have one by Gabriel Fauré for nobody in particular, one by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco for a very remarkable donkey, and also a work by Erwin Schulhof who died of tuberculosis in 1942 while interned in a more…
Something about the Savage Beast
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 by Noel Morris
On Friday, my younger son took up the cello. I suggested today that my older son, who plays violin, play side-by-side with him. Younger brother exploded. One was outraged; the other rejected. I tried to diffuse the scuffle by redirecting each to another task. With some trepidation, I went to Walgreens. When I got back, more…
La Triviata 2.0 available for you!
Thursday, August 6, 2009 by Carolyn Paulin
I hope that you were listening last Saturday morning at 10 to La Triviata 2.0, broadcast live from WFMT’s Levin Performance Studio. Even if I say so myself, it was a big success. George Preston was again a great host, our six panelists – three music professionals and three very knowledgeable listeners – were terrific, more…
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