Summer Quarter 2015
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Summer Quarter 2015
Network Notebook Summer Quarter 2015 (July – September) 1 A World of Services for Our Affiliates We make great radio as affordable as possible: • • • Our production costs are primarily covered by our arts partners and outside funding, not from our affiliates, marketing or sales. Affiliation fees only apply when a station takes three or more programs. The actual affiliation fee is based on a station’s market share. Affiliates are not charged fees for the selection of WFMT Radio Network programs on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). Our Beethoven and Jazz Network overnight services cost is based on a sliding scale, depending on the number of hours you use (the more hours you use, the lower the hourly rate). We also offer reduced Beethoven and Jazz Network rates for HD broadcast. Through PRX, you can schedule any hour of the Beethoven or Jazz Network throughout the day and the files are delivered a week in advance for maximum flexibility. We provide highly skilled technical support: • Programs are available through PRX or on compact disc. PRX delivers files to you days in advance so you can schedule them for broadcast at your convenience. We provide technical support in conjunction with PRX to answer all your distribution questions. We keep you informed about our shows and help you promote them to your listeners: • Affiliates receive our quarterly Network Notebook with all our program offerings, and our regular online WFMT Radio Network Newsletter, with news updates, previews of upcoming shows and more. We also make multimedia and other digital assets available to you to augment your station’s website, social media and other methods of outreach. Our service is personal, informed and complete: • We believe in dedicated customer service. We can help you find the right program to fit into your schedule. On our website you’ll find information on all past, present and future shows. We are eager to hear from you. 2 Series SUMMER 2015 Program American Opera Series Beethoven Network with Peter van de Graaff Carnegie Hall Live! (series) Carnegie Hall Live! (Live Broadcast, NEW) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts Civic Orchestra of Chicago (NEW) Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Glimmerglass Opera Festival (NEW) Jazz Network Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green LA Opera on Air (NEW) Lyric Opera of Chicago (NEW) The Midnight Special with Rich Warren Millennium of Music Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra The New York Philharmonic This Week Opera Southwest (NEW) Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Opera (NEW) Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Song: Mirror of the World with Thomas Hampson Spoleto Chamber Music Festival (NEW) Specials Program Bravo! Vail Festival 2014 Chopin: In Our Day and His The Green Room with Lara Downes th July 4 with Leroy Anderson and the Boston Pops! (NEW) José Van Dam: Master Singer at 75 (NEW) Russian Music and Literature: Voices for the People Salzburg Festival 2014 Thomas Hampson at 60 (NEW) Program Information Hours Weeks Code 3+ 29 AOS 9 -BN 2 13 CHL 2+ 1 CHd 1 52 CMS 2 52 CSO 1 13 CVC 2 52 CCF 2 26 DWF 1 52 EXP 1 52 FST 1 13 GIL 3+ 3 GLI 9 -JN 1 13 MBG 3+ 6 LAO 3+ 8 LOC 2 52 MS 1 52 MOM 2 13 MSO 2 52 NYP 3+ 1 OSW 1 52 RLT 2 26 SFS 3+ 10 SFO 1 13 SFE 1 13 SMW 1 13 SCM Air Window Start Date End Date 5/16/2015 11/28/2015 Continuous -4/1/2015 11/13/2015 7/11/2015 -Continuous -Continuous -6/30/2015 6/30/2016 Continuous -9/23/2013 3/16/2015 Continuous -Continuous -10/1/2014 9/30/2015 11/7/2015 11/21/2015 Continuous -1/1/2015 12/31/2015 7/18/2015 7/22/2015 5/16/2015 7/11/2015 Continuous -Continuous -7/1/2014 9/30/2015 Continuous -11/28/2015 -Continuous -3/30/2015 3/31/2016 8/29/2015 10/31/2015 3/31/2015 3/31/2016 4/2/2015 3/31/2016 6/30/2015 6/30/2016 Program Information Hours Weeks Code 2 1 BVV 2 1 CHO 1 1 TGR 1 1 LAJ 2 1 JVD 2 2 RML 2 4+1 SAL 2 1 THA Air Window Start Date End Date 3/1/2015 2/29/2016 3/1/2015 9/30/2015 5/1/2015 12/31/2015 6/1/2015 7/31/2015 8/1/2015 7/31/2016 8/1/2014 7/31/2015 4/1/2015 3/31/2016 6/1/2015 5/31/2016 Please Note: users can click on the title of a program from the list above to jump directly to a program's detailed information page 3 The WFMT Radio Network is proud to make the American Opera Series available to our affiliates. The American Opera Series is designed to complement the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, filling in the schedule to complete the year. This year the American Opera Series features great performances by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Festival and Opera Southwest (see elsewhere in this document for information on each Opera company). The American Opera Series for 2015 will bring distinction to your station’s schedule, and unmatched enjoyment to your listeners. We hope you’ll join us! Highlights of the American Opera Series include: • The American Opera Series celebrates the Fourth of July (which falls on a Saturday) with Lyric Opera of Chicago’s stellar production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. • LA Opera brings us The Figaro Trilogy, including Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles. • The world premiere of Marco Tutino’s Two Women (La Ciociara) starring Anna Caterina Antonacci, based on the novel by Alberto Moravia that became a classic film, staged by San Francisco Opera. • Opera Southwest’s notable reconstruction of Franco Faccio’s 1865 opera Amleto (Hamlet), believed lost for over 135 years, in its American premiere. In addition, this season we’re pleased to announce that we are now including multimedia assets for use on your station’s website and publications! You can find the supplemental materials at the following link: American Opera Series Supplemental Materials Please note: If you have trouble accessing the supplemental materials, please send me an email at eusher@wfmt.com 4 American Opera Series 2015 Presented by The WFMT Radio Network Lyric Opera of Chicago May 16 DON GIOVANNI / Mozart May 23 CAPRICCIO / Strauss May 30 IL TROVATORE / Verdi June 6 ANNA BOLENA / Donizetti June 13 CAROUSEL / Rodgers & Hammerstein June 20 TANNHÄUSER / Wagner June 27 THE PASSENGER / Weinberg July 4 PORGY & BESS / Gershwin July 11 TOSCA / Puccini LA Opera July 18 LA TRAVIATA / Verdi July 25 DIDO & AENEAS/BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE / Purcell/Bartok August 1 BARBER OF SEVILLE / Rossini August 8 MARRIAGE OF FIGARO / Mozart August 15 THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES / Corigliano August 22 THAÏS / Massenet San Francisco Opera August 29 RIGOLETTO / Verdi September 5 MADAME BUTTERFLY / Puccini September 12 NORMA / Bellini 5 September 19 SUSANNAH / C. Floyd September 26 A MASKED BALL / Verdi October 3 PARTENOPE / Handel October 10 CINDERELLA / Rossini October 17 LA BOHÈME / Puccini October 24 TWO WOMEN / M. Tutino October 31 THE TROJANS / Berlioz Additional Operas November 7 MACBETH / Verdi / Glimmerglass November 14 CATO IN UTICA / Vivaldi / Glimmerglass November 21 TBA / TBA / Glimmerglass November 28 AMLETO / F. Faccio / Opera Southwest 6 PROGRAM: BEETHOVEN NETWORK with Peter van de Graaff Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: BN14 Music, Classical, Overnight 9 one-hour modules daily 9 hours /7 days PRX Please consult the BN clock 5 segments Continuous Program Director/Host: Peter van de Graaff Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com Broadcast fees apply for the Beethoven Network. However, you pay only for the hours you use. Beethoven Network listings are posted on the WFMT Radio Network website at wfmt.com/network. Click here to view the Beethoven Network playlists. The highly successful classical music radio format service of the WFMT Radio Network, the Beethoven Network, celebrates over three decades of service and continues to grow. Beethoven Network provides one-hour modules of classical music, culled from WFMT’s extensive library of thousands of recordings. The service was originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. Designed for you and your listeners, all Beethoven Network hours can be fully customized as your local program product. The service features flexibility in each hourly module, permitting network or local break opportunities, top-of-the-hour news, underwriting credits or commercials and local program promotions. Here are some comments about Beethoven Network (all quotes are from letters on file): “Radio is a companion to people and Peter van de Graaff is an excellent one. I like his style and format approach. It’s very intelligent programming.” “We are overwhelmed (but not surprised) by the positive response of our listeners to [BN’s] return to our airwaves. We have a steady stream of comments, and many of them have backed them up with hefty financial contributions.” 7 PETER VAN DE GRAAFF Music Host PETER VAN DE GRAAFF, Host Peter Van De Graaff is recognized nationwide as a leader in classical music broadcasting. After beginning his radio career in 1984 at KBYU, he came to 98.7 WFMT as a staff announcer in 1988. For the past 17 years he has been the host of the Beethoven Satellite Network, a nationally-syndicated daily program carried on over 200 stations. Since 1996 he has been the program director of the service as well. He has also hosted such nationwide broadcast series as Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Van Cliburn Piano Series, Opera from the European Broadcasting Union, Music of the Baroque and the Vermeer Quartet. Hailed by the critics as possessing a "resplendent voice" and "rich, burnished sound" with "formidable skill" and a "commanding grace and strength", bass-baritone Peter Van De Graaff has sung to great acclaim throughout the world. In Europe, he performed and recorded a Mass by Jan Vorisek with the Czech State Symphony under Paul Freeman and has also sung Beethoven's Missa Solemnis throughout the Czech Republic and Poland with the Czech Philharmonic. He appeared in Berlin with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's Moses und Aaron. In Budapest he sang with the Budapest Concert Orchestra in Verdi's Requiem and in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra joined him in a Mozart Mass. As a recitalist he appeared in Tokyo. His singing has also taken him throughout the United States, where his appearances include engagements with the Houston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Colorado Springs Symphony, Richmond Symphony and many, many others. Conductors with whom he has worked include Pierre Boulez, Christopher Wilkins, Paul Freeman, Bernard Labadie, Paul Hillier, Joseph Silverstein, Robert Page, Thomas Wikman, Jane Glover, Klaus-Peter Seibel, Victor Yampolsky, James Paul, Daniel Hege and Nicholas Kraemer, among many others. Mr. Van De Graaff has made a specialty of the baroque repertoire and this has brought him as soloist to the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Chicago's Music of the Baroque, Pittsburgh Bach Choir, Grand Teton Music Festival, St. Louis Early Music Festival, Boulder Bach Festival and several other festivals and concert series throughout the country. He and his soprano wife have been responsible for the modern premieres of several early 18th century chamber operas called "intermezzi." He has also been active in the opera house and has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Opera, Rochester Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Cedar Rapids Opera among many other companies. Peter also has a great interest in languages and speaks Dutch, German and French, and has studied in addition, Italian, Spanish and Russian. 8 BEETHOVEN NETWORK HOURLY CLOCK All Times Given as Eastern Time The Beethoven Network is available 9 hours a day/7 days a week via PRX from 0000ET to 0900ET. All hours are hosted by Peter van de Graaff, and are formatted identically. Programming 22:00:00-22:59:40 Each hour will begin with a 06:00 window to allow for NPR news. Programming continues during optional breaks. Timings: 00:00:00-00:59:40 00:00:00-00:06:00 Varies with program 00:57:40-00:59:40 00:59:40-01:00:00 Segment: Programming Optional Break Optional Break Optional Break Mandatory ID Break Break: 06:00 avail 02:00 avail 02:00 avail 00:20 Network programming is provided during all optional breaks; silence during mandatory breaks. If you have any questions, please contact Estlin Usher at 773-279-2112 or eusher@wfmt.com. 9 Beethoven Network (BN) PROGRAMMING PHILOSOPHY At the Beethoven Network, we go far beyond just playing random pieces of music. Our philosophy and goal is to take the listeners on a musical journey, so we tie pieces of music together in interesting and novel ways. Whether it is to illuminate what has just been heard or to start down a completely different path, the music selected is always played for a purpose. We take great time and care in putting every hour together in thoughtful ways. We never fade in or out of music. Generally speaking, we don’t play single movements of compositions. Exceptions to this may include a ballet, opera or orchestral suite. We believe in playing the “core repertoire” in abundance, but we also delve into the lesser known works and composers, drawing on our extensive collection of thousands of recordings. We limit vocal music primarily to the occasional 2:00 or 6:00 breaks, but if there is a compelling reason to play something vocal that ties in with a theme we are developing, we won’t hesitate to play it. That would be an exception, however, as instrumental compositions by far dominate. Avant-garde music is avoided, as is, with rare exception, organ music. In announcing the selections, the focus is on the music—not on the host. Our goal is to be welcoming and congenial without drawing attention away from the music. Talk is kept to a minimum, but if there is something interesting or illuminating to say, we won’t hesitate to say it. At the Beethoven Network, we maintain time-tested standards of quality to bring you distinguished programming and a consistently engaging listening experience. 10 Beethoven Network (BN) COMMENTS Station Manager: “Thank you for the wonderful programs. We receive compliments all the time on your programming. At least we’re smart enough to carry you.” Listener: “I just wanted to register what a huge asset this man is to my daily life. His knowledge is amazing and his enthusiasm is, too. His professionalism combined with his very pleasant voice is tremendous.” Affiliate station GM: “The listeners just really like Peter. They like his presentation. He’s extremely knowledgeable. He’s just a very friendly voice. We have many people who are very happy when they come into the area and hear that we have him on because they’ve been listening to him in other parts of the country. He’s a friend.” Listener: “I have enjoyed listening to you for a few years now. In fact, you’re one of the main reasons I recently became a member. I just wanted to thank you for giving me hours of listening pleasure.” Listener: “Peter makes a most valuable contribution to the station. He has such a pleasant way of giving listeners information that we never feel he is lecturing, yet we acquire so much good information from him. He’s a treasure for us all.” BBC Producer: “A presenter who can actually pronounce a foreign language, doesn’t tell the story of his life and doesn’t drop his voice at the crucial point in his intro!” Listener: “It’s always a pleasure to hear his pleasant voice and well-crafted, erudite, pithy and brief comments on the music he’s playing. I always find I’ve learned something new about the composer or the music. That’s why I always enjoy listening.” Listener: “Peter is the best ‘friend’ to a listener like myself. I depend on his calm and interesting talk, and the music selections.” Listener: “I have loved your broadcasts for many years now. Your musical knowledge is broad and your voice is comforting. What a joy it is for those of us up at all hours of the night and morning to listen to you. Thank you.” Listener: “I love your voice—the low, rich, smooth sound of it, the relaxed, clear, intelligent pace of it— and I like the music you play. How can I hear more of you?” Listener: “Your nightly music is a big joy in my life. Thank you so very much. Your comments are just right and the choice of music is wonderful.” Listener: “I listen to your music regularly and must say it is superb. As a radio announcer, you have what others don’t: great elocution (English and foreign) and superb taste in music.” Listener: “Your programs are like going night after night to a varied and wonderful concert with a charming companion.” 11 PROGRAM: CARNEGIE HALL LIVE! SERIES Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CHL15 Music, Classical 2 hours 13 weeks PRX and CD Two 2 segments April 1, 2015 – November 13, 2015 Host: Jeff Spurgeon and Celebrity Guest Co-Hosts Executive Producer: Martha Bonta Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/34157-carnegie-hall-live-series *Please Note: this special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations. In addition, the new format for the Carnegie Hall Live series allows for greater flexibility; affiliates may take the series at any time between April 1, 2015 and November 13, 2015. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, the fourth season of Carnegie Hall Live features a new format of a 13-part series in addition to live broadcasts over the course of the 2014/2015 season. With an eye towards increased flexibility for scheduling, the WFMT Radio Network is pleased to offer the series for broadcast for an extended period after its initial launch. With this added flexibility, you and your listeners can enjoy Carnegie Hall Live at any time before the end of the year! Featuring some of the world’s best performers and ensembles in a wide range of styles, from early music to solo recitals to orchestral performances, the season kicks off with a stunning concert by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and featuring guest soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter in their first performance together in the US! Also featured are Thomas Hampson and Wolfgang Rieger with a recital of songs including a world premiere performance of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s Civil 12 Words, a work commissioned by Carnegie Hall especially for the occasion, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Nicole Cabell, Joyce DiDonato, and Lawrence Brownlee with a program of selections from the bel canto era, The National Youth Orchestra with violinist Gil Shaham, and many more! This season, each program will be co-hosted by luminaries from the arts world. Joining series host Jeff Spurgeon will be Soprano Deborah Voigt with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Emmy Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce co-hosting the Trifonov piano recital, New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and more! See the attached schedule for performance details. 13 PROGRAM: CARNEGIE HALL LIVE! SERIES *Please note: final program order and week/day of release may be subject to revision. **Series to be released April, 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-01 April 1, 2015 Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Soloist: Berliner Philharmoniker Deborah Voigt Sir Simon Rattle Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 STRAVINSKY: Closing Scenes from The Firebird PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-02 April 8, 2015 Great American Orchestras I Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Soloist: San Francisco Symphony John Schaefer Michael Tilson Thomas Gil Shaham, violin New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, chorus director SAMUEL ADAMS: Drift and Providence (NY Premiere) PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé (complete) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-03 April 15, 2015 Great American Orchestras II 14 Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Isaac Mizrahi Riccardo Muti MENDELSSOHN: DEBUSSY: SCRIABIN: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 27 La mer Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 43, The Divine Poem PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-04 April 22, 2015 Baroque Unlimited I: Bach’s Orchestral Suites Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Academy of Ancient Music John Hockenberry Richard Egarr, conductor and harpsichord J.S. BACH: J.S. BACH: J.S. BACH: J.S. BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major, BWV 1069 Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-05 April 29, 2015 Recital: Keyboard Virtuosos I Performer: Guest Host: Daniil Trifonov, piano David Hyde Pierce J.S. BACH: BEETHOVEN: LISZT: Fantasy and Fugue for Organ in G Minor, BWV 542 (trans. for piano by Franz Liszt, S. 463) Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 Transcendental Etudes, S. 139 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-06 May 6, 2015 Concertos Plus: All-Beethoven Program Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Alan Gilbert Leif Ove Andsnes, piano and conductor 15 BEETHOVEN: BEETHOVEN: BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-07 May 13, 2015 Recital: Great Singers I Performer: Guest Host: Thomas Hampson, baritone Wolfram Rieger, piano Angela Meade R. STRAUSS: "Heimliche Aufforderung," Op. 27, No. 3 R. STRAUSS: "Mein Herz ist stumm, mein Herz ist kalt," Op. 19, No. 6 R. STRAUSS: "Sehnsucht," Op. 32, No. 2 R. STRAUSS: "Ruhe, meine Seele," Op. 27, No. 1 ZEMLINSKY: "Mit Trommeln und Pfeifen," Op. 8, No. 3 MAHLER: "Revelge" HINDEMITH: "O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor," Op. 14, No. 2 V. WILLIAMS: "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!" HINDEMITH: "Sing on There in the Swamp" IVES: "Tom Sails Away" IVES: "The Things Our Fathers Loved" IVES: "In Flanders Fields" JENNIFER HIGDON: Excerpts from Civil Words (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall) BURLEIGH "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" BERGER "Lonely People" BERNSTEIN "To What You Said" from Songfest PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-08 May 20, 2015 Great American Orchestras III Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Soloists: The Philadelphia Orchestra Deborah Voigt Maurizio Benini Nicole Cabell, soprano Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano Lawrence Brownlee, tenor ROSSINI: CARAFA: Overture to Aureliano in Palmira "O, di sorte crudel" from Le nozze di Lammermoor 16 DONIZETTI: DONIZETTI: DONIZETTI: PACINI: BELLINI BELLINI BELLINI ROSSINI ROSSINI "Havvi un Dio" from Maria di Rohan "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore "Prendi, per me sei libero" from L'elisir d'amore "Ove t'aggiri, o barbaro" from Stella di Napoli Overture to Norma "Oh! quante volte" from I Capuleti e i Montecchi "Ah! mia Giulietta" from I Capuleti e i Montecchi "Asile héréditaire" from Guillaume Tell "Reidi al soglio" from Zelmira PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-09 May 27, 2015 Recital: Great Artists Performer: Guest Host: Sir András Schiff, piano Deborah Voigt HAYDN: BEETHOVEN: MOZART: SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI: 50 Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 Piano Sonata in C Major, K 545 Piano Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-10 June 3, 2015 Baroque Unlimited II: Before Bach Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: Le Concert des Nations Mark Morris Jordi Savall, director ANON.: Concert donné a Louis XIII en 1627 (selected by André Danican Philidor) Les Ombres Air pour les mesmes Les Nimphes de la Grenouilliere Les Bergers Les Amériquains Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turque Premiere Air des Espagnols Second Air des Espagnols L'entrée des Scaramouches Chaconne des Scaramouches Couplets de folies LULLY: LULLY: LULLY: LULLY: LULLY: LULLY: MARAIS: 17 COUPERIN: COUPERIN: COUPERIN: MARAIS: RAMEAU: FORQUERAY: FORQUERAY: FORQUERAY: LECLAIR: Prelude from Deuxième concert royal Musette from Troisième concert royal Chaconne légère from Troisième concert royal Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris from Pièces de clavecin La Forqueray La Cupis La Marais La Marella La du Vaucel La Leclair Sonata in D Major, Op. 2, No. 8 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-11 June 10, 2015 Baroque Unlimited: Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers Performer: Guest Host: Conductor: English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir David Garland Sir John Eliot Gardiner MONTEVERDI: Vespers of 1610 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-12 June 17, 2015 Concertos Plus: Beethoven and Shostakovich Performer: Conductor: Soloist: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Mariss Jansons Mitsuko Uchida, piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CHL 15-13 June 24, 2015 The National Youth Orchestra and Gil Shaham Performer: Conductor: Soloist: National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America David Robertson Gil Shaham, violin 18 BERNSTEIN: BRITTEN: SAMUEL ADAMS: MUSSORGSKY: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Violin Concerto, Op. 15 Radial Play (Carnegie Hall commission) Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) 19 PROGRAM: CARNEGIE HALL LIVE! LIVE BROADCAST Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Air Window: CHd14 Music, Classical, Live 2-3 hours; see Cue Sheet for details Special Live Broadcast Content Depot for live, PRX for delayed broadcast Two Up to one week after live broadcast Host: Producer: Jeff Spurgeon and Celebrity Guest Co-Hosts Martha Bonta, Elaine Warner Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/149412?m=false *Please Note: this special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast up to one week after live broadcast. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, the fourth season of Carnegie Hall Live! continues with the final live broadcast of the season, featuring the National Youth Orchestra of the United States with acclaimed conductor Charles Dutoit at the podium and piano virtuoso YUNDI as soloist. Join us for this special live broadcast, which features the work of Beethoven and Berlioz, as well as a brand-new commission by celebrated Chinese composer Tan Dun. This concert also marks a historic occasion, with the National Youth Orchestra departing on their first-ever concert tour of China later in the month! Each summer, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute brings together the brightest young players from across the country to form NYO-USA. Following a two-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers not only have the opportunity to play on the famed stage of Carnegie Hall but also embark on a tour to some of the great music capitals of the world, while serving as dynamic musical ambassadors. 20 CARNEGIE HALL LIVE! LIVE BROADCASTS Broadcast Schedule – 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CHd14 14-04 July 11, 2015 Live Broadcast: Saturday, July 11, 2015; 8pm ET National Youth Orchestra Charles Dutoit, conductor Yundi, piano TAN DUN BEETHOVEN BERLIOZ (New Commission) Emperor Concerto Symphonie Fantastique 21 PROGRAM: THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CMS14 Music, Classical 1 hour (58:30) 52 weeks PRX and CD One 3 segments October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015 Host: Producer: Commentary: Elliott Forrest Forrest Productions David Finckel, Co-Artistic Director of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the performing artists Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33703-the-chamber-music-society-of-lincoln-center This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations one broadcast through September 30, 2015. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is proud to announce details of its 2014-2015 radio series season. The 52 one-hour programs, hosted by Elliott Forrest, feature live recorded performances by leading chamber music players from around the world. Programs feature enlightening commentary from CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel, and the performers. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world. Along with other constituents such as the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Music Society has its home at Lincoln Center, in Alice Tully Hall. Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, it draws more people to chamber music than any other organization of its kind. CMS presents annual series of concerts and educational events for listeners ranging from connoisseurs to chamber music newcomers of all ages. Performing repertoire from over three 22 centuries, and numerous premieres by living composers, CMS offers programs curated to provide listeners a comprehensive perspective on the art of chamber music. The performing artists of CMS, a multi-generational selection of expert chamber musicians, constitute an evolving repertory company capable of presenting chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. Its annual activities include a full season of concerts and events, national and international tours, nationally televised broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, a radio show broadcast internationally, and regular appearances on American Public Media’s Performance Today. In 2004, CMS appointed cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han artistic directors. They succeed founding director Charles Wadsworth (1969-89), Fred Sherry (1989-93), and David Shifrin (1993-2004). More information is available at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org 23 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Broadcast Schedule —Summer 2015 Please note: these programs are subject to change. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-41 July 7, 2015 Piano, Four Hands Mozart: Mendelssohn: Stravinsky: Andante and Five Variations in G major for Piano, Four Hands, K. 501 Gilles Vonsattel, Andre-Michel Schub, piano Allegro brilliant for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 92 Anne-Marie McDermott, Wu Han, piano The Rite of Spring, for Piano, Four Hands Gilbert Kalish, Wu Han, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-42 July 14, 2015 Brandenburgs & More Boccherini: J.C. Bach: Bach: Bach: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos, G. 324, “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid” Jupiter Quartet (Nelson Lee, violin; Meg Freivogel, violin; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello) Andreas Brantelid, cello Quintet in G major for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Continuo, Op. 11, No. 2 Sooyun Kim, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Meg Freivogel, violin; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello; Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 Paul Neubauer, viola; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Daniel McDonough, Dmitri Atapine, Li-Wei Qin, cellos; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin solo; Ransom Wilson, flute; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Joseph Lin, violin; Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Li-Wei Qin, cello; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord CMS 14-43 July 21, 2015 American Spirit 24 Sierra: Beach: Songs from the Diaspora Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Kevin Murphy, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet (Geoff Nuttall, Scott St. John, violins, Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello) Quintet in F-sharp minor Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Escher String Quartet (Adam BarnettHart, Wu Jie, violins; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Andrew Janss, cello) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-44 July 28, 2015 Hungarian Flair Bartók: Bartók: Dohnányi: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz. 111, BB 116 Daniel Hope, violin; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano “Hatforintos' nóta” for Voice and Piano Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 1 Juho Pohjonen, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Kristin Lee, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-45 August 4, 2015 Mozart Serenades Mozart: Mozart: Serenade in E-flat Major Allan Vogel, Stephen Taylor, David Shifrin, Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Milan Turkovic, bassoon; David Jolley, WIllian Purvis, horn Serenade in C minor Allan Vogel, Stephen Taylor, oboe; Jose Franch-Ballester, Davod Shifrin, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; David Jolley, William Purvis, horn; Edgar Meyer, double bass PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-46 August 11, 2015 Beethoven & Schumann Beethoven: Schumann: Quartet in F minor for Strings, Op. 95, “Serioso” Danish String Quartet (Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Frederik Oland, violin; Asbjørn Norgaard, viola; Fredrik Sjolin, cello) Trio No. 2 in F major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 80 25 Juho Pohjonen, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; David Finckel, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-47 August 18, 2015 Bach to Haydn Bach: Handel: Handel: Handel: Haydn: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Sonata in G minor for Viola da gamba and Piano, BWV 1029 David Muller-Schott, cello; Angela Hewitt, piano "Das zitternde Glänzen der spielenden Wellen" HWV 203 Julianne Baird, soprano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; Paul O'Dette, lute; Fred Sherry, cello "Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise" HWV 206 Julianne Baird, soprano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; Paul O'Dette, lute; Fred Sherry, cello "Meine Seele hört im Sehen" HWV 207 Julianne Baird, soprano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; Paul O'Dette, lute; Fred Sherry, cello Quartet in F minor for Strings, Op. 20, No. 5 Escher Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie, violins; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Andrew Janss, cello) CMS 14-48 August 25, 2015 Voices from Poland & Russia Szymanowski: Penderecki: Arensky: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Nocturne and Tarantella for Violin and Piano. Op. 28 Benjamin Beilman, violin; Gloria Chien, piano Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello Bella Hristova, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello Quartet No. 2 in A minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35 Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Dane Johansen, cello; David Finckel, cello CMS 14-49 September 1, 2015 Haydn/Brahms Haydn: Brahms: Quartet in C major for Strings, Op. 33, No. 3 "The Bird" Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello) Trio No. 1 in B major for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 8 Inon Barnatan, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Julie Albers, cello 26 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CMS 14-50 September 8, 2015 Berg & Brahms for Strings Berg: Brahms: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 Amphion String Quartet (David Southorn, violin; Katie Hyun, violin; Andy Lin, viola; Mihai Marica, cello) Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 111 Philip Setzer, violin; Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin; Richard O'Neill, viola; Arnaud Sussmann, viola; Paul Watkins, cello CMS 14-51 September 15, 2015 Bartok/Borodin Bartok: Borodin: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Quartet No. 4 for Strings, Sz. 91, BB 93 Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello) Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello) CMS 14-52 September 22, 2015 End of Time Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano Jörg Widmann, clarinet; Nicolas Dautricourt, violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello; Gilles Vonsattel, piano 27 PROGRAM: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RADIO BROADCASTS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CSO15 Music, Classical 1:58:30 Ongoing PRX and CD Four 7 segments January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Host: Commentator: Producer: Underwriter: Lisa Simeone Gerard McBurney Jesse McQuarters Bank of America Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33716-chicago-symphony-orchestra-radio-broadcasts This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through December 31, 2015. Hailed as the number one U.S. Orchestra by the venerable British publication Gramophone, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues this quarter with more concerts from Symphony Center, the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Produced by Jesse McQuarters and hosted by Lisa Simeone, this weekly, two-hour series offers a unique format of engaging and lively content, including produced segments created to provide deeper insight into the music and programmatic themes found within the CSO’s concert season; interviews with CSO musicians, guest artists, and composers; and an exploration of the stories found within the CSO’s rich heritage of recordings and the Orchestra’s illustrious history in Chicago. Each radio broadcast highlights the many programs and events at Symphony Center, encouraging listeners to visit the CSO’s website, www.cso.org/radio for additional content, including full-length interviews and the Orchestra’s weekly program notes. These broadcasts also support 28 the CSO’s record label, CSO Resound, with programs timed to coincide with the release of each new recording. In 2011, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was awarded two more Grammys for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists, Riccardo Muti, Conductor; David Frost, Tom Lazarus and Chistopher Willis, Engineers. These are the first Grammys for Maestro Muti. The CSO has earned 62 Grammys over the years. 29 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RADIO BROADCASTS Broadcast Schedule – Summer 2015 Please Note: *** signifies a change from the originally published listings PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-27 July 3, 2015 Slatkin: Gershwin: An American in Paris CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Leonard Slatkin Anne Akiko Meyers, violin Barber: W. Schuman: Bates: Gershwin: Ives: Ives: Overture to the School for Scandal Symphony No. 6 Violin Concerto An American in Paris The Unanswered Question (Susanna Mälkki, conductor) Three Places in New England (Susanna Mälkki, conductor) PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-28 July 10, 2015 Metzmacher conducts Shostakovich CONDUCTOR: Ingo Metzmacher Tchaikovsky: Stravinsky: Shostakovich: Excerpts from The Nutcracker Petrushka (1911 version) Symphony No. 11 (The Year 1905) PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-29 July 17, 2015 Vänskä conducts Brahms CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Osmo Vänskä Renaud Capuçon, violin; Gautier Capuçon, cello Haydn: Brahms: Brahms: Symphony No. 101 in D Major (The Clock) (Bernard Haitink, conductor) Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 PROGRAM #: CSO 15-30 30 RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2015 Petrenko conducts Rachmaninoff CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Vasily Petrenko Paul Lewis, piano Elgar: Beethoven: Rachmaninoff: In the South (Alassio) Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Symphonic Dances PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-31 July 31, 2015 Mei-Ann Chen conducts Scheherazade CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Mei-Ann Chen Robert Chen, violin Mendelssohn: Price: Rimsky-Korsakov: Chopin: The Fair Melusina Overture Mississippi River Scheherazade Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lang Lang, piano; Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor) PROGRAM #: CSO 15-32 RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2015 Van Zweden conducts Beethoven 5 / Goerne sings Strauss CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Jaap van Zweden Matthias Goerne, baritone; Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh, violins Schubert/Strauss: Beethoven: Bach: Elgar: Song selections [see cue sheet for details] (Matthias Goerne, baritone) Symphony No. 5 Concerto for Two Violins (Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh, violins; Harry Bicket, conductor) Cockaigne Overture (Vasily Petrenko, conductor) PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-33 August 14, 2015 Dutoit conducts The Rite of Spring 31 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Charles Dutoit Daniil Trifonov, piano Stravinsky: Mussorgsky: Tchaikovsky: Stravinsky: Symphony in C Night on Bald Mountain Piano Concerto No. 1 The Rite of Spring PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-34 August 21, 2015 Riccardo Muti and Yefim Bronfman CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Riccardo Muti Yefim Bronfmann, piano Brahms: Tchaikovsky: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams) Overture to The Consecration of the House PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-35 August 28, 2015 Muti conducts Respighi CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti Dvorak: Martucci: Respighi: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 Notturno Feste romane Symphony No. 4 ("Italian") PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-36 September 4, 2015 Salonen conducts Tristan CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen Wagner: Wagner: Gabrieli: Tristan and Isolde Introduction to Act I Tristan and Isolde Act II Sacred Symphony and Canzona (from CSO Resound) 32 PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-37 September 11, 2015 Muti conducts the Pathétique CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti Scriabin: Tchaikovsky: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) From Romeo and Juliet, “Montagues and Capulets” (from CSO Resound) PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-38 September 18, 2015 Yo-Yo Ma plays Dvorak CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Riccardo Muti Yo-Yo Ma, cello Moncayo: Beethoven: Dvorak: Bloch: Huapango Symphony No. 2 Cello Concerto Schelomo (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; from CSO Resound) PROGRAM #: RELEASE DATE: CSO 15-39 September 25, 2015 Muti conducts Tchaikovsky CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Riccardo Muti Stephanie Jeong, violin; Kenneth Olsen, cello; Jonathan Biss, piano Ligeti: Beethoven: Tchaikovsky: Clyne: Lontano Triple Concerto Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) Night Ferry (from CSO Resound) 33 PROGRAM: CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CVC15 Music, Classical 1 hour (58:30) 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 Host: Producers: Recording Engineer: Underwriter: Lisa Flynn Mary Mazurek Christopher Willis Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33735-civic-orchestra-of-chicago This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through June 30, 2016. For nearly a century, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago has served as the training ensemble of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, preparing emerging professional musicians for lives in music. Under the guidance of CSO Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti, Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma, Civic Orchestra Principal Conductor Cliff Colnot and musicians of the CSO, Civic members are immersed in rigorous, time-honored orchestral training and performances that serve as the program’s foundation. Additionally, Civic musicians participate in open rehearsals with Riccardo Muti and residencies with Yo-Yo Ma, rehearse and perform as small chamber ensembles in school and community locations across the city and attend professional development workshops with special guest artists and clinicians. Musicians of the Civic Orchestra embody a principle known as Citizen Musicianship, which challenges musicians to use music to build communities and enrich the lives of people everywhere, not just in the concert hall. 34 Over fifteen percent of the members of the Chicago Symphony are Civic alumni, and former Civic musicians have joined the ranks of major orchestras including those of New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The 2015 Civic Radio Broadcast Series is supported in part by a generous grant from The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation. 35 CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-01 June 30, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): Carlos Miguel Prieto Yo-Yo Ma, cello Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-02 July 7, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Cliff Colnot Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-03 July 14, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): Cliff Colnot Winston Choi, piano Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques Various, arr. Colnot: Rite of Passage PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-04 July 21, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Jaap van Zweden Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-05 July 28, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Jaap van Zweden Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 36 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-06 August 4, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Rei Hotoda Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' in E-flat Major PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-07 August 11, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): Markus Stenz Nicholas McGegan Harry Bicket Xiomara Mass, oboe; Sang Kyun Kim, violin Bach/Stokowski: Bach: Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue (excerpts) Orchestral Suite No. 3 Concerto for Violin and Oboe PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-08 August 18, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): N/A (Chamber Program) Julianne Skones, oboe Brian Gnojek, clarinet Julia Birnbaum, violin Nicole Feryok, viola Andrew Goodlett, bass Prokofiev: Shostakovich: Brahms: Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 String Quintet No. 1 Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-09 August 25, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): Michael Christie Thérèse/La Cartomancienne – Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Le Mari – Will Liverman Le Directeur – Anthony Clark Evans Le Fils – Jonathan Johnson Le Gendarme – Richard Ollarsaba Presto – Bradley Smoak Lacouf – Jesse Donner Le Journaliste – Jesse Donner La Marchande de journaux – J’nai Bridges 37 La Dame élégante – Julie Anne Miller La grosse dame – Julie Anne Miller Le Monsieur barbu – Bradley Smoak Chorus (Solo Quartet) Laura Wilde, soprano Julie Anne Miller, mezzo-soprano Jonathan Johnson, tenor Anthony Clark Evans, baritone Poulenc : Les Mamelles de Tiresias PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-10 September 1, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST(S): Cliff Colnot Daniel Gingrich, horn Strauss: Respighi: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, Trv 283 Pines of Rome PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-11 September 8, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Larry Rachleff Cliff Colnot Bartok: Stravinsky: Concerto for Orchestra Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-12 September 15, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Mark Elder Cliff Colnot Rachmaninoff: Ravel: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Rhapsodie Espagnole PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CVC 15-13 September 22, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Cliff Colnot Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 38 PROGRAM: COLLECTORS’ CORNER with Henry Fogel Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CCF14 Music, Classical 1 hour 58 minutes 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Producer/ Host: Henry Fogel Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33696-collectors-corner-with-henry-fogel This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for two broadcasts through March 31, 2016. After the huge success of The Callas Legacy and The Art of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Henry Fogel returned with Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel. Mr. Fogel had the following thoughts: “The series will present a wide range of recordings that I feel are true classics of the industry. Recordings to be included will feature either unusual repertoire that I feel deserves a wider public, or performances unique in their interpretive profile, sense of commitment, and intensity. Many of these recordings will be long out-ofprint, or hard to locate in the United States.” The series includes a broad range of orchestral, vocal, chamber and solo-instrumental music. Host Henry Fogel has held many important and influential posts in the classical music world, including being appointed to the position of Executive Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in August, 1985, and resigned from his position as President in 2003. In addition to his work as host, Henry Fogel’s radio experience includes a stint as former Vice President and Program Director of radio station WONO in Syracuse, New York, where he conceived the first radio fundraising marathon for an orchestra, a format which has become popular throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. Fogel has acted as producer and broadcast host for over 100 radiothons for some 26 different orchestras. The 39 radiothon concept has raised in total over $60 million for orchestras on this continent since Mr. Fogel started the concept in 1968. A native of New York City, and a passionate Chinese cook, Henry Fogel received his education at Syracuse University, and studied for three years under Virginia Lee, author of the New York Times Chinese Cookbook. He and his wife Frances have a son, Karl, and a daughter, Holly, and four grandchildren. 40 COLLECTORS’ CORNER with HENRY FOGEL Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 N.B. Fill music may change in the production process. Please consult cue sheet for detailed information. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-15 July 6, 2015 Music by Vagn Holmboe – Program 2 HOLMBOE: Requiem for Nietsche. (Ronning; Reuter; Schonwaldt, cond; Danish National Choir and Orch) DaCapo 8.224207 51:44 HOLMBOE: Concerto for Violin. (Heide; Slobodeniouk; Norrkoping Orch) DaCapo 6.220599 24:44 HOLMBOE: The Ill-Tempered Turk: Suite. (Hughes, Aalborg Orch) 19:28 HOLMBOE: Concerto for Orchestra No. 10. (Hughes, Aalborg Orch) 17:46 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-16 July 13, 2015 Joseph Szigeti and Béla Bartók Recital at Library of Congress, 1940 Music of Beethoven, Bartok, and Debussy – (Pristine PACM 084) Music fill with other recordings of Szigeti and Bartók PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-17 July 20, 2015 A Great Performance of “Samson et Dalila” SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila. (Vickers, Dominguez, Blanc; Fournet; Netherlands Radio Chorus and Orch – Feb 29, 1964) Opera D’Oro OPD 7028 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-18 July 27, 2015 A Complete Concert with John Barbirolli and the Cologne Radio Orchestra (1969) All material taken from ICA Classics ICAC 5096 SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 4, “Tragic” BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Gerald English; Baumann) SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 Other material used as filler—please consult cue sheet for details. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-19 August 3, 2015 41 The Mravinsky Tchaikovsky Recordings Transferred by Pristine – I TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 (Mravinsky, Leningrad) Pristine PASC 396 Francesca da Rimini (Mravinsky, Len) Erato 2292-45757 Symphony No. 5 (Mravinsky, Leningrad) Pristine PASC 396 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-20 August 10, 2015 The Mravinsky Tchaikovsky Recordings Transferred by Pristine – II TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Symphony No. 6 (Mravinsky, Leningrad) Pristine PASC 396 Piano Concerto No. 1 (Richter, Mravinsky, Len) Chant du Monde LDC 278 848 Nutcracker: Excerpts (Mravinsky, Leningrad) Japanese BMG/Melodiya BVCX 8024-27 CCF 15-21 August 17, 2015 Music of Georgi Catoire – Program 1 CATOIRE: CATOIRE: CATOIRE: CATOIRE: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, “Poema” (Oistrakh; Goldenweiser) Doremi 7720 Symphony in C Minor, Op. 7 (Yates, Royal Scottish National) Dutton CDLX 7298 Piano Quartet in A Minor (Room Music) Hyperion CDA 67512 Piano Trio in F Minor (Room Music) Hyperion CDA 67512 Elegy for Violin and Piano (Oistrakh; Yampolsky) Doremi 7720 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-22 August 24, 2015 CATOIRE: Music of Georgi Catoire– Program 2 CATOIRE: CATOIRE: CATOIRE: CATOIRE: Piano Concerto, Op. 21 (Takenouchi; Yates; Royal Scottish) Dutton CDLX 7287 Violin Sonata No. 1 in B Minor (Oistrakh; Goldenweiser) Doremi 7720 Poems for Voice and Piano (Ivanilova; Zassimova) Antes Edition BM3 19286 Romance (Breuninger; Zassimova) cpo 777 278-2 42 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-23 August 31, 2015 Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor – Program 1 BRUCKNER: ANDREAE: Symphony No. 8 (Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227 String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat (LocrianEns) Guild GMCD 7238 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-24 September 7, 2015 Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor – Program 2 BRUCKNER: ANDREAE: ANDREAE: ANDREAE: Symphony No. 4 (Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227 Symphony in C (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD7377 Quartet No. 2 in E Major (LocrianEns) Guild GMCD 7238 Kleine Suite: Movements 3-4 (M. Andreae, Bournemouth) Guild 7377 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-25 September 14, 2015 Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor – Program 3 BRUCKNER: ANDREAE: ANDREAE: ANDREAE: BRUCKNER: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Symphony No. 9 (Vienna Symphony) Music & Arts CD-1227 Nocturne and Scherzo (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD 7377 Music for Orchestra (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD 7377 Quartet for Flute and Strings (Noakes; Locrian Ensemble) Guild GMCD 7328 Te Deum (Loose; Rossl-Majdan; Dermota; Frick; Vienna Singverein; Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227 CCF 15-26 September 21, 2015 The Art of the Mexican Mezzo-Soprano Oralia Dominguez See cue sheet for details PROGRAM #: RELEASE: CCF 15-27 September 28, 2015 43 Classic Richter Recordings of Russian Piano Concertos (Pristine PASC405) TCHAIKOVSKY: PROKOFIEV: RACHMANINOFF: GLAZUNOV: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mravinsky, Leningrad Phil) Piano Concerto No.1 (Kondrashin, Moscow Youth Orch) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sanderling, Leningrad Phil) Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kondrashin, Moscow Youth Orch) 44 PROGRAM: DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: DWF14 Music, Classical 1 hour 58 minutes 26 weeks PRX and CD Three 5 segments September 22, 2014 – March 16, 2015 Producer/Host: Rick Fulker Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33737-deutsche-welle-festival-concerts This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast within one year of the initial release date of each program. Music made in Germany: rock-solid recordings of electrifying events from the country’s festival circuit, presented by Rick Fulker. Did you know that Germany has some five hundred music festivals? A good many of them classical, bringing all-time favorites and experiences one isn’t likely to encounter anywhere else. In this series of twenty-six programs, Deutsche Welle reaps the rewards of its media partnership with the world’s premiere Beethovenfest, in the composer’s - and the broadcaster’s - home town of Bonn, Germany. Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony give a fitting opening to Beethovenfest with - no, you guessed it not! - Mendelssohn and Schumann. After the Beethoven symphony cycle in the first thirteen programs, the second set of thirteen broadcasts leads up to the composer’s complete piano concertos in a muscular rendition by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra - led and accompanied by conductor/pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Interestingly, these works - and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy are paired off with neo-classical fare by Igor Stravinsky. An unlikely combination? Judge for yourself. Here, both “rock.” And as for music that “rocks,” no one can make that better than Kristjan Järvi and his Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, showing just how relevant masterworks from the past are when presented alongside new music. 45 One maestro who has been conducting up a storm or three is Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, winner of Germany’s ECHO Klassik award as “Conductor of the Year 2014.” You’ll hear why as he leads his Rotterdam Philharmonic in Mahler’s Sixth. With so many festivals in that musical superpower, there are always more to discover, so we paid our first visit to the small but strong Shostakovich Festival in Gohrisch, the little town in eastern Germany where the composer lived for a stretch of time. Maestro Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica make their mark there. Russia’s Borodin Quartet has a tradition extending back over sixty years. The last three of which have seen them at the Beethovenfest, playing the complete string quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich alongside works by other Russian composers—this season wraps up the cycle. Of course, the lineup also includes two of Germany’s major orchestras: the Deutsches SymphonieOrchestra Berlin under its principal conductor Tugan Sokhiev, who will move on soon to take the reins at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Also included in the series is the Munich Philharmonic, here in the hands of guest conductor Semyon Bychkov. The exciting a cappella group Singer pur span the centuries from Josquin des Pres to Sting, and renowned Wagnerian vocalist Waltraud Meier performs an evening of Lieder. No one can convey the meaning and intensity of song better than she. We’re combining the two in a single program and calling it “Meier pur.” No season would be complete without our visit to “Tensions” in the Power Plant in Heimbach, where chamber music takes on a symphonic sound. And DW’s yearly Orchestral Campus hosted a youth orchestra from Ankara, Turkey, vigorously playing Beethoven and a world premiere. And as an additional option, the Strauss and Bach mini-series and the Beethoven cycles lend themselves to modular scheduling. 46 DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS Broadcast Schedule — Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Note: All broadcasts are allowed a one-year air window from the initial release date. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-01 September 22, 2014 Strauss and Thielemann at the Anniversary Gala in Dresden Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Christian Thielemann Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden Christine Goerke, soprano Camilla Nylund, soprano Anja Harteros, mezzo-soprano R. Strauss: First set of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Elektra’s opening monologue from Elektra Love scene (orchestral interlude) from Feuersnot Salome’s final song from Salome Second set of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Act One, final scene from Arabella Daydreaming at the fireplace: second symphonic interlude from Intermezzo Second Wedding Night: Helen’s aria from Act Two of Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) Potpourri Overture from Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) Final scene and Daphne’s transformation from Daphne Recorded by Central German Radio, Halle (MDR) in the Semper Oper, Dresden on June 11, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Christian Thielemann Munich Phiharmonic Orchestra Renee Fleming, soprano R. Strauss: ImAbendrot (At Sunset) from the Four Last Songs Decca 0028947810742 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-02 September 29, 2014 Strauss and Barenboim at the Dresden Music Festival Conductor: Orchestra: Daniel Barenboim Staatskapelle Berlin Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of 47 Wagner: R. Strauss: Nuremberg) Overture and Liebestod (Love-Death) from Tristan and Isolde EinHeldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Recorded by DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Berlin (DLR) in the Semper Oper, Dresden on May 23, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Andris Nelsons West German Radio Symphony Orchestra R. Strauss: Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on June 6, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Christian Thielemann Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Renee Fleming, soprano R. Strauss: Frühling (Springtime) from the Four Last Songs Decca 0028947810742 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-03 October 6, 2014 Strauss and Nelsons in the Cologne Philharmonie Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Andris Nelsons West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cologne BaibaSkride, violin R. Strauss: R. Strauss: R. Strauss: Violin concerto in D Minor, op. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Sinfonia Domestica(Domestic Symphony) Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on June 6 and 7, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-04 October 13, 2014 Composer Wields the Baton at Heidelberg Spring Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Jörg Widmann Irish Chamber Orchestra Igor Levit, piano Ning Feng, violin 48 Alexey Stadler, cello Mendelssohn: Jörg Widmann: Beethoven: Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, op.26 180 beats per minute for string sextet Triple Concerto in C Major, op. 56 Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, op. 56 (Scottish) Recorded by DeutschlandRadio Kultur (DLR) in the Heidelberg City Hall on April 6, 2014 Performers: Jörg Widmann, clarinet Lars Vogt, piano Schumann: Three Fantasies for clarinet and piano, op. 73 Cavi Music 15080 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-05 October 20, 2014 Young Russian at the Schwetzingen Festival Performer: Daniil Trifonov, piano Debussy: Chopin: Chopin: Schumann: Rachmaninov: Daniil Trifonov: Refletsdansl’eau, from Images, vol. 1 24 Preludes for piano, op. 28 Waltz, op. 69, No. 1 Symphonic Etudes for piano, op.13 Gavotte Rakhmaniana Recorded by Southwest German Radio Stuttgart (SWR) in the Rococo Theater of Schwetzingen Palace on May 18, 2014 Performer: Daniil Trifonov, piano Scriabin: Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor op. 19 (Sonata-Fantasy) Deutsche Grammophon PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-06 October 27, 2014 Bach and Sons (I) at the Schwetzingen Festival Orchestra: Soloists: AkademiefüralteMusik Berlin (Academy of Ancient Music Berlin) Raphael Alpermann, harpsichord 49 Xenia Löffler, oboe J.S. Bach: W.F. Bach: C.P.E. Bach: C.P.E. Bach: J.C. Bach: Haydn: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046a (first version) Concerto in E Minor for harpsichord, strings and continuo Symphony in B Minor for strings and continuo, Wq 182, No. 5 Concerto in E-flat Major for oboe, strings und continuo, Wq 165 Symphony in G Minor for two oboes, two horns, strings and continuo, op. 6, No. 6 Sinfonie Nr. 3, finale Recorded by Southwest German Radio Stuttgart (SWR) in the Rococo Theater of Schwetzingen Palace on May 23, 2014 Orchestra: AkademiefüralteMusik Berlin J.S. Bach: Selections from The Art of the Fugue Harmonia Mundi France PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-07 November 3, 2014 Bach and Sons (II) at the Bachfest, Leipzig Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Gotthold Schwarz Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Ullrich Böhme, organ Julia Sophie Wagner, soprano Susanne Krumbiegel, mezzo-soprano Benno Schachtner, male alto Martin Petzold, tenor Andreas Scheibner, bass St. Thomas’ Choir, Leipzig Members of the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra J. S. Bach: MeineSeeleerhebt den Herren (My Soul Glorifies the Lord), Fugue on the Magnificat, BWV 733 J. S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243 C. P. E. Bach: C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq 215 Heilig (Holy), Wq 217 Recorded by Central German Radio, Halle (MDR) in St. Thomas’ Church, Leipzig on June 13, 2014 Performer: Ullrich Böhme, organ J. S. Bach Kyrie, GottVater in Ewigkeit (God the Father in Eternity), BWV 669 50 Christe, aller Welt Trost (Consulation to the entire world), BWV 670 Kyrie, Gottheiliger Geist (God, holy spirit), BWV 671 Rheinberger: Fantasy from the Sonata in A Major, op. 188 Recorded by Deutsche Welle (DW) in St. Thomas’ Church, Leipzig on June 16, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-08 November 10, 2014 Mozart in Würzburg Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Reinhard Goebel West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Alina Pogostkina, violin L. Mozart: W. A. Mozart: W. A. Mozart: Serenade in D Major Violin Concerto No. 7 in D Major, K. 271a Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K. 320 (Post Horn) Recorded by Radio Bavaria, Nuremberg(BR) in the Emperor Hall of Würzburg Palaceon June 28, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-09 November 17, 2014 Eight Bridges, Festival for New Music in Cologne Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Jonathan Stockhammer West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne Thorsten Johannsen, clarinet Andreas Langenbuch, clarinet Eight music academy students, clarinets Tamara Stefanovich, piano John Adams: Gander: Reich: Abrahamsen: Zappa: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) Orchannibal corpse (2013), world premiere New York Counterpoint (1985) for eleven clarinets Concerto for piano and orchestra (2000) Four pieces for Solo Drummer and Orchestra (arr. Andrew Digby) Aerobics in Bondage Navanax Naval Aviation in Art? Put a Motor in Yourself San Francisco Polyphony (1974) Ligeti: 51 Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on May 4, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Reinbert de Leeuw Asko / Schönberg Ensemble Tarnopolski: Foucault's Pendulum (2004) Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on May 1, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-10 November 24, 2014 Beethoven Symphonies I at the Beethovenfest, Bonn Conductor: Orchestra: Andris Nelsons City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op. 21 Symphony No. 2 D Major, op. 36 Symphony No. 3 E-flat Major, op. 55 (Eroica) Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 7, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-11 December 1, 2014 Beethoven Symphonies II at the Beethovenfest, Bonn Conductor: Orchestra: Andris Nelsons City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, op. 60 Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 8, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-12 December 8, 2014 Beethoven Symphonies III at the Beethovenfest, Bonn Conductor: Orchestra: Andris Nelsons City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Beethoven : Symphony No. 6 in F Major, op. 68 (Pastoral) 52 Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 9, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-13 December 15, 2014 Beethoven Symphonies IV at the Beethovenfest, Bonn Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Andris Nelsons City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus Annette Dasch, soprano Lioba Braun, alto Toby Spence, tenor Vuyani Mlinde, bass Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93 Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 10, 2013 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-14 December 22, 2014 Beethovenfest Opening Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: John Eliot Gardiner London Symphony Orchestra Gautier Capucon, cello Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, op. 27 Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 107 (Reformation) Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129 Song of the Birds Schumann: Casals (adapt): Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on September 6, 2014 Soloist: Elizaveta Miller, fortepiano Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, op. 31, No. 3 (The Hunt) Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Schumann House, Bonn on September 15, 2013 PROGRAM #: DWF 14-15 53 RELEASE: December 29, 2014 Young Turks Conductor: Orchestra: Işın Metin Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125, 1st and 2nd movements Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 23, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Işın Metin Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra Tobias Feldmann, violin Tolga Yayalar: Beethoven: Images of a Resistance (world premiere) Violin Concerto in D Major, op.61 Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in St. Elisabeth’s Church, Berlin on September 25, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-16 January 5, 2015 Shostakovich in Gohrisch Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Gidon Kremer Kremerata Baltica Gidon Kremer, violin Anna Vinnitskaya, piano Sofia Gubaidulina: Shostakovich: Reflections on B-A-C-H (arranged for strings by Gidon Kremer) Violin sonata in G Major (version for violin, percussion and strings by Michail Zinmann and Alexei Pushkarev) Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, op. 102 Shostakovich: Recorded by Central German Radio, Halle (MDR) in the Concert Tent in Gohrisch on September 20, 2014 Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Gidon Kremer Kremerata Baltica Nurit Stark, violin Alexander Suslin, double bass Cédric Pescia, piano Taiko Saito, percussion Alexei Mochalov, bass Sofia Gubaidulina: Shostakovich: So sei es (So Be It) for violin, double bass, piano and percussion (world premiere) A Little Anti-Formalistic Paradise, satire for bass and chamber orchestra, arranged by Alexei Pushkarev 54 Recorded by Central German Radio, Halle (MDR) in the Concert Tent in Gohrisch on September 21, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-17 January 12, 2015 Baltic Sea Voyage Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Kristjan Järvi Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic Jan Lisiecki, piano Mussorgsky: Grieg: Sibelius: Gediminas Gelgotas: Imants Kalniņš: Night on Bald Mountain Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 16 Karelia Suite Never Ignore the Cosmic Ocean Rock Symphony: First Movement Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 26, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-18 January 19, 2015 Borodin in Bonn Ensemble: Borodin Quartet Nikolai Myaskovsky: German Galynin: Beethoven: Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, op. 86 String Quartet No. 2 in F Minor String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, op. 135 String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, op. 142 Recorded by Deutsche Welle (DW) in the Beethoven House, Bonn on September 8, 2014; in La Redoute, Bonn on September 9, 2014 and in the City Museum, Siegburg on September 11, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-19 January 26, 2015 New World with the Munich Philharmonic Conductor: Orchestra: Semyon Bychkov Munich Philharmonic Dvořák: Carnival Overture Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 (New World) Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major R. Strauss: Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on September 20, 2014 55 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-20 February 2, 2015 DSO in Berlin Conductor: Orchestra: Soloists: Tugan Sokhiev Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano Aribert Reimann: Schumann: Seven Fragments for orchestra, in memory of Robert Schumann Concerto-Allegro with introduction in D Minor for piano and orchestra, op. 134 Concerto piece for piano and orchestra, op. 55 Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G Major, op. 55 Tchaikovsky: Recorded by DeutschlandRadio Kultur Berlin (DLR) in the Berlin Philharmonie on September 16, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-21 February 9, 2015 Tensions in Heimbach Soloists: Christian Tetzlaff, violin Tanja Tetzlaff, cello Artur Pizarro, piano Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D Minor, op. 8 Recorded by Deutschlandfunk Cologne (DLF) in the Power Plant in Heimbach on June 12, 2014 Soloists: Christian Tetzlaff, violin Elisabeth Kufferath, violin Rachel Roberts, viola Tanja Tetzlaff, cello Artur Pizarro, piano Lars Vogt, piano Dvorak: Rachmaninoff: String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, op. 105 Suite No. 2 for two pianos, op. 17 Recorded by Deutschlandfunk Cologne (DLF) in the Power Plant in Heimbach on June 15, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-22 February 16, 2015 Yannick! Mahler! Conductor: Orchestra: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Rotterdam Philharmonic 56 Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Cologne Philharmonie on September 18, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-23 February 23, 2015 Maier pur Ensemble: Singer Pur Palestrina: Arvo Pärt: Josquin Desprez: Kyrie from Missa Te deum laudamus (Lord God We Praise Thee) Most Holy Mother of God Inviolata, integra et casta es, Maria (Undefiled, unblemished and pure are you, Mary) Fields of Gold Fragile Cantai, or piango –Tengan dunque ver me (I Sang, Now I Weep – Let Them Keep Toward Me) Alma Redemtoris Mater (Loving Mother of the Redeemer; world premiere) Crystal Silence Darthulas Grabgesang (Darthula’s Grave Song), op. 42, No. 3 Sting: Adrian Willaert: Martin Smolka: Chick Corea: Brahms: Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in St. Evergislus’ Church, Bornheim on September 21, 2014 Soloists: Waltraud Meier, soprano Joseph Breinl, piano Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder: Der Engel (The Angel) Stehe still! (Stand Still!) Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse) Schmerzen (Pains) Träume (Dreams) Mahler: Five Lieder after texts by Friedrich Rückert: Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! (Look Not Into My Songs!) Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (I Breathed a Gentle Fragrance) Um Mitternacht (At Midnight) Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I Am Lost to the World) Liebst du um Schönheit (If You Love for Beauty) Von ewiger Liebe (Of Eternal Love) Unglückliche Liebe (Unhappy Love) Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes) Brahms: Mozart: Mahler: Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Bonn Opera House on September 27, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-24 March 2, 2015 57 Beethoven Piano Concertos I Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Leif Ove Andsnes Mahler Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Beethoven: Stravinsky: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, op. 19 Apollon musagète, ballet music for strings Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, op. 58 Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 25, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-25 March 9, 2015 Beethoven Piano Concertos II Conductor: Orchestra: Chorus: Soloists: Leif Ove Andsnes Mahler Chamber Orchestra West German Radio Chorus Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Benita Borbonus, soprano Anke Lambertz, soprano Claudia Nüsse, alto Kwon-Shik Lee, tenor Christian Dietz, tenor Arndt Schumacher, bass Stravinsky: Beethoven: Schoenberg: Beethoven: Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37 Peace on Earth, for a cappella chorus, op. 13 Fantasy in C Minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, op. 80 (Choral Fantasy) Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 27, 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-26 March 16, 2015 Beethoven piano Concertos III Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Leif Ove Andsnes Mahler Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Stravinsky: Beethoven: Beethoven: Concerto in D for strings Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, op. 15 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 28, 2014 58 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: DWF 14-27 [OPTIONAL PROGRAM] March 23, 2015 Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau Conductor: Orchestra: Soloist: Ernst Theis German State Philharmonic Rheinland Palatinate Various (see below) Schubert/Reger: Schubert/Reger: Pfitzner: Dvorak: R. Strauss: Weill: Im Abendrot (In the reddish glow of the evening) (Rainer Trost, tenor) Nacht und Traume (Night and Dreams) (Paul Armin Edelmann, baritone) Wanderers Nachtlied (A wanderer’s night-time song) (Edelmann, baritone) Song to the Moon (Sara Hershkowitz, soprano) Nottorno, op. 44, No. 1 Four Walt Whitman Songs (Anhaltian Philharmonic Dessau; Antony Hermus, cond.; Wiard Witholt, baritone) La Somnambule (The Somnambulant) Mahagonny-Songspiel (Josephine Renelt, Andromahi Raptis, sopranos; Rainer Trost, tenor; Jens Muller, Peter Cismarescu, baritone; Carl Rumstadt, bass) Schulhoff: Weill: Recorded by Deutsche Welle (DW) in Dessau, Germany on March 3, 2015 59 PROGRAM: EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: EXP15 Classical 59 minutes Weekdays, 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments October 6, 2014 – October 2, 2015 Host: Producers: Executive Producer: Bill McGlaughlin Cydne Gillard, Bill Siegmund Steve Robinson A broadcast fee is required for this series. Listings are sent out monthly. Please check with Estlin Usher for the most recent listings. Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com Now in its 10th year, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is a creative exploration of classical music and other genres. Each week’s programs are unified by compositions that share a central theme, which might be a composer, a period of history, or a musical form. Peabody Award-winning broadcaster Bill McGlaughlin is a broadly experienced musician, conductor, and composer. Bill draws on his background, his love of jazz, and his unmatched musical knowledge to connect recorded examples with engaging commentary. McGlaughlin is an affable, yet erudite musical story teller, whose insights speak to both novice and expert classical music fans. Listeners and program directors have enthusiastically responded to Bill McGlaughlin’s anecdotes and illustrations at the piano, and recently, The Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio (AMPPR) honored Bill McGlaughlin with its Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2011 Public Radio Music Conference. The series is also syndicated internationally, and its universal appeal was recently recognized by listeners in Canberra, Australia, who chose Exploring Music as the recipient of the 2010 Artsound Award for Best Overseas Program. Draw your listeners more fully into the world of classical music and develop new audience members by adding Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin to your program schedule. 60 “We MADE our fundraising goal for the first time in about four years! Your funders really helped to make the difference as did a flurry of new listeners, the best online pledging we've seen, concert tickets from area presenters and donated original artwork for our final day. Our listeners really LOVE Exploring Music, and Bill McGlaughlin's remarkable breadth of knowledge and topics presented in a highly passionate yet personal style." -- Kimberly Powell, KUCO, Edmond, OK 61 EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 Please note: these programs are subject to change. TBA weeks will be announced closer to their release date. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: EXP 15-41 Week of July 6, 2015 Program Title: Description: Maestro, Part II The second in a series highlighting American conductors who shaped American music-making in the mid-20th century. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-42 Week of July 13, 2015 Program Title: Description: Sounds of the City of Light Music in Paris from Berlioz to Debussy, from 1830 to the early 1900s. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-43 Week of July 20, 2015 Program Title: Description: Hit or Myth The gods must be crazy! This week, we’ll survey the trials and tribulations of mortals and immortals, brought to life by the likes of Berlioz, Gluck, Handel and more. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-44 Week of July 27, 2015 Program Title: Description: Ravel A five-part biography on Maurice Ravel. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-45 Week of August 3, 2015 Program Title: Description: A Little Traveling Music, Please Rivers, boatmen, water-borne vessels and wanderers, farewells, fair maidens and sight-seers on the move. This week, Bill calls up “A Little Traveling Music” from the pens of Handel, Smetana, Duke Ellington and more. 62 PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-46 Week of August 10, 2015 Program Title: Description: TBA TBA PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-47 Week of August 17, 2015 Program Title: Description: TBA TBA PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-48 Week of August 24, 2015 Program Title: Description: School Days A celebration of young composers and performers. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-49 Week of August 31, 2015 Program Title: Description: Gitana: Gypsy Music and its Influences As the Roma journeyed through Europe and beyond, the native music and that of these travelers combined to create an energetic and exotic confluence unlike anything else. This week we'll sample some of this music and its antecedents. PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-50 Week of September 7, 2015 Program Title: Description: TBA TBA PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-51 Week of September 14, 2015 Program Title: Description: Tone Poems In a literal case of art imitating life, symphonic music is freed from its traditional structures and takes a programmatic turn. 63 PROGRAM #: Release: EXP 15-52 Week of September 21, 2015 Program Title: Description: George Gershwin A true American original! Join us for a week-long look at the life and soulful music of George Gershwin, including his Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess. 64 PROGRAM: FIESTA! with Elbio Barilari Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: FST15 Music, Classical, Latin 1 hour (58:30) 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Host: Producer: Underwriter: Elbio Barilari Daniel Goldberg Joyce Saxon Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33434-fiesta This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through March 31, 2016. Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners. The acclaimed composer, musician, performer, and professor Elbio Barilari is the host and creative force behind this series. He invites listeners to enjoy and learn about the lively and compelling sounds of Latin American classical music. Fiesta! provides a valuable platform for the sound, culture, and history of classical music in Latin America. Barilari enriches our listeners by introducing them to a genre that does not typically receive much exposure. Fiesta! fosters an appreciation for Latin American classical music and creates a meeting place for listeners of diverse backgrounds. “Fiesta!” says the Uruguayan-born composer Elbio Barilari, “features the hottest LatinAmerican music from the 16th to the 21st centuries.” Mr. Barilari, a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Chicago, is at the helm for this trip through the hidden pleasures of Latino concert music, including the magical rhythms of Silvestre Revueltas and Heitor Villa- 65 Lobos and the power of symphonic tango. Plus, the series shares littleknown treasures from the Latin-American Baroque, and celebrates classical guitar through the music of Agustin Barrios, Antonio Lauro, and Leo Brouwer. NOTE: There is a new logo and new media assets for Fiesta! Please contact Estlin Usher at 773-279-2112 or eusher@wfmt.com for more information. 66 FIESTA! with Elbio Barilari Broadcast Schedule — Spring 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-14 July 5, 2015 Impressions of Nature Well before the Impressionism claimed direct inspiration in nature, musicians from different eras and styles linked the music to its forces. In this program we will features masterpieces by composers such as Almeida Prado (Brazil), José Pablo Moncayo (México), Esteban Benzecry (Argentina), and Alberto Villalpando (Bolivia). PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-15 July 12, 2015 Blas Galindo: Famous Unknown As Joaquín Rodrigo’s music has been overshadowed by the extraordinary success of Concerto de Aranjuez, the composer, Blas Galindo has experienced the same fate because of his Sones de Mariachi. This program focuses on the monumental work of Galindo as a symphonic composer as well as the author of some delicate and delightful chamber pieces. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-16 July 19, 2015 Canyengue: African Roots – Part 1 Canyengue is lunfardo (slang) from Rio de la Plata. The word comes from the African KiKongo language and means “melting with the music.” It would be impossible to understand the music of the Americas without the influence of African culture. More than 15 million Africans were forcefully brought across the Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, the native peoples were almost extinct due to mistreatment and exploitation, but also because of the epidemic diseases carried to the Americas by the Europeans. Genres like jazz, salsa, Brazilian samba or tango from Rio de la Plata, cannot be explained without the African element. These two programs show the African influence on Latin American concert music. Anonymous: Avelino Valenti: Ignacio Cervantes: Camargo Guarnieri: Lamarque Pons: Tarambote (Ensemble Turicum) Brasil K617131 Pepita (Jazmin Arakowa, piano) LAMC 2007 Danca Cubanas (Jorge Luis Prats, piano) London Decca 478b2732 Danca Negra Danca Brasileira Danca Selvagem (Max Barros, piano) Naxos 8.572626-27 Danza de la Negrita presumida (Elida Gencarelli, piano) private collection 67 Amadeo Roldan: Carlos Rafael Rivera: Pablo Bellinati: Marlos Nobre: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Ritmicas 5 (New World Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor) Argo 436 7372 Cumba-Quin (LAGG, guitars) Carlos Rivera Music Jongo (Christopher Laughlin, guitar) Peregrin 51001 Convergencias, Op. 28 (Simon Bolivan Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Heri-Lynn Wilson, conductor) Dorian 90254 FST 15-17 July 26, 2015 Opera Heroes Today a footnote in a history full, mostly, of Italian, German and French names, there were Latin American composers that were considered mega-stars in the opera houses of the 19th century: Mexican Melesio Morales and Brazilian Antônio Carlos Gomes. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-18 August 2, 2015 Soccer and Music It is known that soccer (or fútbol, as it is called in Spanish) constitutes and important element of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese identity. Several composers, classical and popular, have dedicated memorable works to this sport, its emotions, memories and feats. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-19 August 9, 2015 Spanish Symphonies Few Spanish symphonies, if any, have found its place within the standard repertoire, a strange phenomenon, considering the richness and depth of the existing repertoire in this field. Fiesta! revisits this territory featuring pieces by Tomás Bretón and Teobaldo Power. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-20 August 16, 2015 Canyengue: African Roots – Part 2 Canyengue is lunfardo (slang) from Rio de la Plata. The word comes from the African Ki-Kongo language and means “melting with the music.” It would be impossible to understand the music of the Americas without the influence of African culture. More than 15 million Africans were forcefully brought across the Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, the native peoples were almost extinct due to mistreatment and exploitation, but also because of the epidemic diseases carried to the Americas by the Europeans. Genres like jazz, salsa, Brazilian samba or tango from Rio de la Plata, cannot be explained without the African element. This second program shows the African influence on four Latin American living composers, the Brazilian Edu Lobo, better known as one of the pioneers of his country’s modern song, the Hatian Ludovic Lamothe, who was also a well-known piano virtuoso, 68 and two composers living in the US, the Venezuelan Ricardo Lorenz and the Uruguayan Elbio Barilari, also Fiesta’s host. Edu Lobo: Antonio Carlos Jobim: Suite Popular Brasileira: Batuque de Guerra Quase Memoria Pe de vento (OSESP, John Neschling, conductor) (Private collection_ En Tren Vá Changó (Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Jiumenez, conductor) Navona Records 5820 La Dangéreuse (William Chapman Nyaho, piano) www.nyaho.com Canyengue (Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo, Fernando Condon, conductor) Private Collection Samba do Aviao (David Burgess, guitar) Tritone Records PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-21 August 23, 2015 Ricardo Lorenz: Ludovic Lamothe: Elbio Barilari: Call of the Wild Nature has inspired, and continues to inspire, composer from all cultures. Bolivian Alberto Villapando and Brazilian Almeida Prado have written gorgeous music on this topic. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-22 August 30, 2015 Music from Portugal Little Portugal, once one of the mightiest nations in the world, can boast of an amazing musical treasure. From the medieval period to the present, Portuguese composers have been in the forefront of western art. Fiesta! attempts a first overview to Portugal’s fabulous music history. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-23 September 6, 2015 Forgotten Geniuses and Pioneers Throughout history some musicians have reached immense popularity just to be quickly forgotten, many times without a clear explanation. In other cases, artists from the past still enjoy considerable fame but only as pioneers on their field. Fiesta! pays tributes both to forgotten geniuses and pioneers. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-24 September 13, 2015 The Myth and Music Throughout history, myths have been a popular source of inspiration. Ibero-American composers (that means from Spain, Portugal and Latin America), have been using Greek, Roman, Biblical, 69 Arab, Chinese or Indian mythology as well as the myths of the original native cultures together with the rich traditions brought by Africans slaves. • Los Gnomos de la Alhambra by Ruperto Chapí y Lorente, is based on Spanish folk tales about the gnomes living at the ruins of the Arab palace called the Alhambra in Granada. • La Fragua de Vulcano by Eduardo Morales Caso, was written after 2 ideas: the Roman God Vulcan working at his forge, and a famous work by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. • Conjuros by Roberto Sierra, features the African influence by using expressions in the Yoruba language still alive with religious purposes among the Afro-Caribbean communities. • Los centinelas de Etersa by Eduardo Angulo, is based in Mexican folk tales about three popular characters of a whimsical nature. • Rito de los Orixas by Leo Brouwer, goes back to the Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions. Orixas u Orichas are the African Gods or “Saints” in Cuba and Puerto Rico as well as in Brazil. Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (Spanish, 1851-1909): La Ronda de los Gnomos (4:07) La fiesta de los espíritus (6:51) (Andres Segovia, guitar) Eduardo Morales Caso (Spanish, b.1969): La Fragua de Vulcano (6:28) (Adam Levin, guitar) Roberto Sierra (American, b.1953 Puerto Rico): Conjuros (12:00) (Judith Kellock, voice, Stefanie Jacob, piano) Eduardo Angulo (Mexican, b.1954): Leo Brouwer (Cuba, b. 1939): PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Los Centinelas de Etersa Huacalito 4:58 Etersa 6:17 Sargento Polito 5:51 (Ensamble Orquestal Ars Moderna, Miguel Angel Villanueva, flute, Jesus Medina, conductor) Rito de los Orishas 12:49 Exordium-conjuro Danza de las diosas negras (Victor Pellegrini, guitar) FST 15-25 September 20, 2015 Composers from Chile Fiesta! pays a visit to giants of Chile’s musical history, such as Domingo Santa Cruz, Acario Cotapos, Carlos Isamitt and Alfonso Letelier. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-26 September 27, 2015 Viva la Zarzuela! The first half of the 20th century saw the incredible popularity of an exclusively Spanish genre: the 70 zarzuela. It can be defined, superficially, as light opera without being “operettas.” Zarzuela constitutes a delicate balance between Spanish folk music. costume dramas and an operatic style completely developed in Spain. This program of Fiesta! features brilliant moments of the zarzuela repertoire, such as “Luis Fernanda”, “Doña Francisquita”, “La rosa del azafrán” and, of course, “La verbena de la Paloma”. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-27 October 4, 2015 Visions of the Vanquished “The Vision of the Vanquished” or “La voz de los vencidos”, a book by Mexican historian Miguel León Portilla was very instrumental in changing the view that Latin Americans had about the clash of cultures and the cultural genocide that took place in the continent. The Native-American experience in Latin America has been reflected abundantly and in many different, even conflicting, ways by our composers. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: FST 15-28 October 11, 2015 The Music of José Pablo Moncayo The author of the very popular Huapango, considered as the second Mexican anthem, composed several symphonic, chamber pieces of great importance. Fiesta! pays tribute to this giant of the 20th century Latin America. José Pablo Moncayo: José Pablo Moncayo: José Pablo Moncayo: José Pablo Moncayo: Huapango (historic recording) (Orquesta José Pablo Moncayo, Enrique Bátiz, conductor) Conaculta Federal Amatzinac for Flute and String Orchestra (Orquesta José Pablo Moncayo, Enrique Bátiz, conductor; Sabina Laurain, flute) Conaculta Federal Sinfonía (Orquesta José Pablo Moncayo, Enrique Bátiz, conductor) Conaculta Federal Tierra de temporal (Orquesta José Pablo Moncayo, Enrique Bátiz, conductor) Conaculta Federal 71 PROGRAM: GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FESTIVAL Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: GIL14 Music, Classical, Festival 59 minutes 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015 Host: Producer: Joan Kjaer Jesse McQuarters Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33953-gilmore-international-keyboard-festival This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through September 30, 2015. Presented every two years and based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival is internationally recognized as North America’s finest piano music festival. Now in its 23rd year, nearly 100 events showcase some of the most notable and accomplished pianists and keyboardists in the world alongside artists just emerging on the international stage. From classical to jazz, orchestra concerts to solo recitals, and chamber music to musical theater, the Festival continually achieves acclaim for presenting performances of the highest artistic caliber. This 13-part radio series focuses on classical music at the 2014 Gilmore Festival, featuring artists such as Richard Goode, Emmanuel Ax, Peter Serkin and Gilmore Artist Kirill Gerstein as well as rising stars Vanessa Perez, Christian Sands and Gilmore Young Artists Conrad Tao and George Li. Exclusive interviews, at-the-piano demonstrations, and on-site recordings give a behind-thescenes look at the artists' approach to their craft as well as 72 exactly what it takes to put on one of the world's most magnificent music festivals. The first Gilmore International Keyboard Festival took place in 1991. The Festival spanned nine days and encompassed 46 musical events, including a Music Critics Institute. The Gilmore Keyboard Festival is set throughout West Michigan, with the main stage Festival events occurring in Kalamazoo, a city just inland from Michigan’s beautiful west coast. Now, every two years, The Gilmore presents two-plus weeks of superb piano performances – nearly100 events. The Gilmore Keyboard Festival has become a leading American festival known the world over for celebrating the joy and power of keyboard music in concerts, lectures, master classes and films. 73 GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FESTIVAL Broadcast Schedule — Fall 2014 Please Note: This series was initially released in Fall Quarter of 2014 (October), but may be used at any time before Fall Quarter of 2015. PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-01 October 1, 2014 Performer: Scarlatti: Liszt: André Watts, piano Sonata in A Major, K. 39 La Lugubre Gondola Performer: Henry Cowell: Barbara Lieurance, piano (with extended technique) Aeolian Harp Performers: Schubert: Susanna Phillips, s.; Myra Huang, p. Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 Performers: Schubert: Eric Owens, bs. bar.; Myra Huang, p. An die Musik, D. 547 Performer: Rameau: Jory Vinikour, hps. Pièces de clavecin (excerpts) Performers: Philip Glass: Grand Band, pianos Closing (arr. Grand Band) Performer: Chopin: Rafał Blechacz, piano Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1, Military PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-02 October 8, 2014 Performer: J.S. Bach: Rafał Blechacz, piano Partita No. 3 in A Minor Performers: Mozart: Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra/Raymond Harvey; Rafał Blechacz, p. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-03 October 15, 2014 Performer: Andrew Hsu: Samuel Barber: Andrew Hsu, piano Fantasy (world premiere) Piano Sonata, Op. 26 Performer: Beethoven: Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, p. Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110 74 Maurice Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-04 October 22, 2014 Performers: George Perle: Gilmore Festival Chamber Orchestra; Gilbert Kalish, p. Serenade No. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra Performer: Beethoven: Llŷr Williams, p. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 Performer: J.P. Johnson: Stephanie Trick, p. Caprice Rag PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-05 October 29, 2014 Performers: Schumann: Randall Scarlata, bar.; Gilbert Kalish, p. Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (excerpts) Performer: Chopin: Rafał Blechacz, p. Three Mazurkas, Op. 63 Performer: Schumann: Daniil Trifonov, p. Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-06 November 5, 2014 Performer: Liszt: André Watts, p. Étude de Concert, S. 144 No. 3 Performer: Rachmaninoff: Nikolai Lugansky, p. Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32 (excerpts) Performer: Erroll Garner: Adam Makowicz, p. Misty Performer: Chopin: Chopin: Rafał Blechacz, p. Etudes, Op. 28 No. 4 Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39 Performers: Mozart: Gilmore Festival Chamber Orchestra; Karina Gauvin, s. Ch'io mi scordi di te?, K. 505 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-07 November 12, 2014 75 Performers: Beethoven: Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra/David Lockington; Ingrid Fliter, p. Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Performer: J.S. Bach: Jory Vinikour, hps. Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-08 November 19, 2014 Performer: J. S. Bach: Piotr Anderszewski, p. Overture in the French Style, BWV 831 Performers: Grieg: Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra; Alon Goldstein, p. Piano Concerto in A Minor, I (excerpt) Performer: Alberto Ginastera: Alon Goldstein, p. Danzas Argentinas (excerpt) Performers: Michael Jackson: Anderson & Roe piano duo Billie Jean (arr. Anderson and Roe) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-09 November 26, 2014 Performers: Mozart: Gilmore Festival Chamber Orchestra; Lori Sims, Gilbert Kalish, pianos Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 265 Performer: Beethoven: Llŷr Williams, p. Piano Sonata, Op. 14 No. 2 Performer: Stephanie Trick: Stephanie Trick, p. Blues for Alfie PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-10 December 3, 2014 Performer: Curtis Curtis-Smith: Barbara Lieurance, piano Rhapsodies Performer: Schumann: Gilbert Kalish, p. Drei Fantasiestücke, Op. 111 Performers: Ferruccio Busoni: Kirill Gerstein & Katherine Chi, pianos Duettino concertante nach Mozart, BV B 88 Performers: Schubert: Eric Owens, bass bar.; Daniel Gingrich, horn; Myra Huang, p. Auf dem Strom, D. 943 76 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-11 December 10, 2014 Performer: Prokofiev: Nikolai Lugansky, p. Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29 Performers: Saint-Saëns: Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra/David Lockington; Llewellyn SanchezWerner, p. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-12 December 17, 2014 Performer: Beethoven: Llŷr Williams, p. Piano Sonata No. 17, Op. 31 No. 2 Performer: Samuel Barber: Lori Sims, p. Excursions Performer: Chopin: Andrew Hsu, p. Mazurkas, Op. 56 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GIL 14-13 December 24, 2014 Performers: George Gershwin: Storm Large, voc.; Kirill Gerstein, p. Summertime Performer: George & Ira Gershwin: Adam Makowicz, p. Performer: George Gershwin: Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, p. Variations on “I Got Rhythm” (arr. Earl Wild) Performers: Beethoven: Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra/Raymond Harvey; Rafał Blechacz, p. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 I Loves You Porgy 77 PROGRAM: GLIMMERGLASS OPERA BROADCASTS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: GLI15 Music, Classical, Opera Varies 3 weeks PRX and CD Varies – please see cue sheet Varies – please see cue sheet November 7 – November 21, 2015 Host: Producer: Executive Producer: Recording Engineer: TBA – more information on the host and producer will be released soon! Aaron Cohen Martha Bonta Joel Moran Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33730-american-opera-radio-series This special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast in the week of the program’s release (November 7 – 21, 2015). The Glimmerglass Festival is a one-of-a-kind summer destination for opera lovers and firsttimers alike. The scenic campus lies on the shore of sparkling Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, New York, nestled between the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. Each season, the company presents new productions of opera and musical theater, accompanied by myriad concerts, lectures, master classes and more. In 2015, the company celebrates its 40th anniversary with new productions of Verdi’s Macbeth, Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica and another opera from their season, as yet to be determined. In the first-ever Glimmerglass production of Verdi’s powerful interpretation of the Shakespearean drama, returning Artist in Residence Eric Owens makes his role debut as the title character. The Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone is joined onstage by soprano Melody Moore, who returns to the Glimmerglass stage as his scheming wife, Lady Macbeth. Glimmerglass Festival Music Director Joseph Colaneri leads the cast. 78 Passion and politics collide in Vivaldi's setting of Metastasio's poetic depiction of Cato the Younger. Celebrated for his moral integrity, Cato was one of the last Romans who opposed Caesar. Driven to the African province of Utica, Cato remains defiant, even as his daughter is drawn to his enemy. Conductor Ryan Brown, founder and Artistic Director of Opera Lafayette, leads countertenor John Holiday in his company debut as Caesar, mezzo-soprano Sarah Mesko in the vocally demanding role of Emilia and tenor Thomas Michael Allen in the title role. 79 GLIMMERGLASS OPERA BROADCASTS Broadcast Schedule — Fall 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GLI 15-01 Nov 7, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: MACBETH (in Italian) Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave CAST (in order of vocal appearance): Macbeth Banquo Lady Macbeth Servant Macduff Lady-in-waiting Malcolm Assassin Herald Doctor Apparitions Eric Owens Soloman Howard Melody Moore Nathan Milholin* Michael Brandenburg* Mithra Mastropierro* Marco D. Cammarota* Derrell Acon* Hunter Enoch* Nathan Milholin* Rhys Lloyd Talbot* Vanessa Becerra* Jasmine Habersham* Conductor: Director: Choreographer: Sets: Costumes: Lighting: Projected Text: Hair & Makeup: Joseph Colaneri Anne Bogart Barney O’Hanlon James Schuette James Schuette and Beth Goldenberg Robert Wierzel Kelley Rourke Anne Ford-Coates Assistant Conductor: Assistant Director: Chorus Master: Principal Coach/Accompanist: Assistant Coach/Accompanist: Stage Manager: Approx. Length: Edward Poll* Teddy Crecelius* David Moody Kevin Miller Blair Salter/Zalman Kelber* Cody Symanietz 3 hours *Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GLI 15-02 Nov 14, 2015 80 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: CATO IN UTICA (in Italian) Antonio Vivaldi Metastasio CAST (in order of appearance): Marzia Arbace Cato Caesar Fulvio Emilia Megan Samarin* Eric Jurenas* Thomas Michael Allen John Holiday Allegra De Vita* Sarah Mesko Conductor: Director: Choreographer: Sets: Costumes: Lighting: Projected Text: Hair & Makeup: Ryan Brown Tazewell Thompson Anthony Salatino John Conklin Sara Jean Tosetti Robert Wierzel Kelley Rourke Anne Ford-Coates Assistant Conductor: Assistant Director: Principal Coach/Accompanist: Assistant Coach/Accompanist: Stage Manager: Approx. Length: Edward Poll* Matthew Trucano* Christopher Devlin Zalman Kelber* Annie Wheeler 2 hours *Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist PROGRAM #: RELEASE: GLI 15-03 Nov 21, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: TBA: More Information Coming Soon! Cast: 81 PROGRAM: JAZZ NETWORK Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: JN15 Music, Jazz, Overnight 9 one-hour modules 9 hours / 7 days a week PRX Please consult the JN Clock 5 segments Continuous Producer/Host: Bob Parlocha and new hosts to be announced soon! Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com Broadcast fees apply for the Jazz Network. However, you pay only for the hours you use. Jazz Network listings are posted on the WFMT Radio Network website at wfmt.com/network. Click here to view Jazz Network playlists. Stay Tuned! Updates for the Jazz Network to be released soon! Updates include; new content, new hosts, and some exciting new initiatives! Following the enormous success of the Beethoven Network classical music format service and in response to radio station requests for low-cost, highly-quality hosted jazz hours, the WFMT Radio Network created the Jazz Network, now 9 hours nightly of mainstream jazz programming. Although Bob Parlocha passed away in early 2015, we are continuing to honor his memory with archived hours that were selected and hosted by the legendary jazz expert. A curated selection of these hours will continue over the course of the year to supplement new hours from the new hosts! Jazz Network debuted in April 1997 with a strong and rapidly growing base of affiliates. The qualities and features that have worked so well with Bach, Mozart and Beethoven now apply to Evans, Coltrane and Parker through the Jazz Network. Designed for you and your listeners, all Jazz Network hours can be fully customized as your local program product. The service includes flexible hourly modules, with optional internal covered breaks which allow for news, IDs, local promotion, funding credits or commercials, and customized continuity with a local sound which will have your listeners convinced that the hosts are sitting right in your studio! 82 STAY TUNED! NEW HOSTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! BOB PARLOCHA Host, Jazz Network Nationally known jazz expert and former program director/ host of KJAZ of San Francisco, Bob Parlocha's rich, elegant voice is familiar to jazz audiences as host of the highly rated "Dinner Jazz Show" at the former KJAZ. Born and reared in Vallejo, California, Bob learned about jazz from his mother's Count Basie and Duke Ellington records. He grew up listening to former KJAZ owner Pat Henry, broadcasting at that time on KROW, and to Jerry Dean, who used to do a weekly KJAZ show from Vallejo. In high school Bob played tenor and soprano saxophones, the flute, and sang in road bands. A sensitive programmer, articulate spokesman for Jazz, and astute analyst of the music scene, Bob's master of ceremonies style has enhanced many jazz concerts and fund-raisers over the years. His credits include the Gil Evans Orchestra's concert at the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival, the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival, Oakland Arts Explosion, Jazz at the Palace, Bay Area Jazz Awards, the San Francisco International KJAZ Festival, and KJAZ host on the SS Norway Jazz Cruises. Bob generously donated his time to jazz causes, especially those aiding Bay Area musicians. He also delighted in identifying and developing younger air talent, especially at his local station KCSM. Sadly, Bob passed away in March of 2015; however, his voice, talent, and exquisite taste in Jazz will continue to be heard over the air for the remainder of 2015 to honor of his many decades of delighting Jazz audiences across the country and the world. Carlos Lando/ Program Director - KUVO/ Denver, CO: “Bob is a national treasure. He plays the most consistently balanced mix of jazz music every night. Parlocha plays all the music that is fit to be played. The impact this man has had on listeners will not be realized for years. Simply put, he has the best ears in the business.” Listener – KRPS/Pittsburg, KS: “Keep those discs spinning, my friend! Every time I listen to your program I have such a sense of joy for the music that it can only be described as ethereal. Thank you - KEEP JAZZ ALIVE!” Listener – WDNA/Miami, FL: “I listen to your show and learn something every time I listen. Thanks for your contagious passion for jazz!” Listener – KCSM/San Mateo, CA: “Many a sleep-interrupted night has been made bearable (well, almost) by hearing so much great jazz music. Some of it was old, some was new. Some of it was by the great masters, some by young lions just making their marks. Two things that I really appreciated about Bob Parlocha’s approach was that he rarely played more than two pieces consecutively, and that he always listed the musicians on every tune that he played. It was night school for jazz geeks.” 83 PROGRAM: LIVING AMERICAN COMPOSERS: NEW MUSIC FROM BOWLING GREEN Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: MBG15 Classical, New Music 59 minutes 13 weeks PRX and CD One 3 segments January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Host/Producer: Underwriters: Brad Cresswell and WGTE Public Media College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33736-living-american-composers-new-music-from-bowling This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through December 31, 2015. "Believe it or not, a little town in Northwest Ohio is one of the liveliest spots for new music in the whole United States." – Stephen Stucky, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in music. New Music from Bowling Green is a radio series devoted to living composers and their works. The program originates from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (MACCM), part of the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Northwest Ohio. Since 1980, MACCM has been hosting some of the biggest names in modern music at the annual New Music Festival. It also sponsors a multi-venue concert series called Music at the Forefront, which shines a spotlight on new and exciting young performers of contemporary music. Produced by WGTE Public Media and hosted by Brad Cresswell, New Music from Bowling Green draws on live concert recordings from the New Music Festival and Music at the Forefront, as well as commercial recordings featuring the Bowling Green Philharmonia and the BGSU Wind Symphony. Designed with the mainstream classical music listener in mind, the program features audience-friendly contemporary works that are introduced by their composers. We also hear from the performers who bring those works to life – in some cases, for the very first time. 84 Highlights from our second season include a Music at the Forefront concert from violist Nadia Sirota; an all-Frederic Rzewski sampler, and three episodes dedicated solely to works composed by women – which are also performed by women. We also hear a live concert recording from Chicago's avant-garde music venue, Constellation, and survey music by some of the most exciting young composers on the horizon. Composers featured during this season include Nico Muhly; Braxton Blake; Cindy McTee; Orianna Webb; Stephen Hartke; Marc Mellitts; George Lewis; Avner Dorman, and Marilyn Shrude. We also focus on the music of Jennifer Higdon, who is an alumna of Bowling Green State University and a curator for our series. About Brad Cresswell Award-winning producer; programmer, and music host Brad Cresswell is Radio Program Manager and Music Director for WGTE Public Media in Toledo, Ohio. Previously, Brad was a host and producer for WNYC Radio in New York, where he oversaw the creation of that station's 24/7 classical music service on the Internet and HD Radio, WNYC2 (now WQXR's popular Q2 channel). Brad has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Metropolitan Opera Radio, both behind the scenes as a writer and in front of the microphone as host of the popular Metropolitan Opera Quiz. Before entering the Public Radio arena, Brad enjoyed a successful 16 year career as an opera singer, with leading roles at the New York City Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; San Francisco Opera; Washington Opera, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires to his credit, among others. His singing voice can still be heard on commercial classical recordings issued by the London, Philips, New World, Innova, and Carlton Classics record labels. 85 LIVING AMERICAN COMPOSERS: NEW MUSIC FROM BOWLING GREEN A Radio Series Devoted to Living Composers and Their Works Broadcast Schedule — Winter 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-01 January 1, 2015 Music at the Forefront: Nadia Sirota Violist and new music maven Nadia Sirota comes to the Clazell Theatre in Bowling Green, Ohio, for a program of live viola with pre-recorded electronics. Shara Worden: Judd Greenstein: Marcos Balter: Nico Muhly: Nico Muhly: Paul Corley: From the Invisible to the Visible (feat. James McVinnie, organ) In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves Ut Etude 3 (feat. Nico Muhly, keyboards) Keep in Touch (feat. Nico Muhly, keyboards & Antony Hegarty, vocals) Tristan da Cunha PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-02 January 8, 2015 Poetry in Music: Crockett; Freund; Rands We hear orchestral works inspired by three different poets: Theodore Roethke, A.R. Ammons, and Samuel Beckett. Donald Crockett: Don Freund: Bernard Rands: Roethke Preludes (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Radical Light (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) …body and shadow… (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-03 January 15, 2015 Music of Dedication: Blake; Adler; Husa Modern works that were dedicated to or inspired by specific people and events. Braxton Blake: Dorothy Parker Songs (Freda Herseth, mezzo-soprano; Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Samuel Adler: Karel Husa: Requiescat in Pace (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Symphony No. 2, Reflections (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: MBG 15-04 January 22, 2015 Satterlee plays Rzewski: Alone at Last 86 DESCRIPTION: Pianist Robert Satterlee performs music by composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Rzewski, including a work he commissioned for left hand, called "Alone at Last." Frederic Rzewski: Frederic Rzewski: Second Hand, or Alone at Last (Robert Satterlee, piano) De Profundis (Robert Satterlee, piano/speaker) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-05 January 29, 2015 Women Making Music I: Webb; Ran; McTee; Higdon Works composed by women, performed by women. Orianna Webb: Shulamit Ran: Cindy McTee: Jennifer Higdon: xylem (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Voices (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown; Christina Jennings, flute) Circuits (Bowling Green Philharmonia/Collins) String Poetic (Jennifer Koh, violin; Reiko Uchida, piano) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-06 February 5, 2015 Live at Constellation: Andriessen; Hartke; Dietz; Mellits A program of modern music from the BG New Music Ensemble, recorded live at Chicago's Constellation theatre. Louis Andriessen: Hout (Matt Younglove, sax; Ariel Kasler, guitar; Stephanie Titus, piano; Zeca Lacerda, percussion) Two Movements from The Horse With the Lavender Eye (Stephen Miahky, violin; Kevin Schempf, clarinet; Laura Melton, piano) Kinderspiel (Conor Nelson, flute; Thomas Rosenkranz, piano) Tight Sweater (Jeff Heisler, baritone saxophone; I-Chen Yeh, piano; Isabelle Huang, marimba) Stephen Hartke: Christopher Dietz: Marc Mellits: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-07 February 12, 2015 Women Making Music II: Chen; Feery; Krauss; Higdon; Shrude More works composed by women, performed by women. Chen Yi: Amanda Feery: Morgan Krauss: Jennifer Higdon: Marilyn Shrude: Chinese Folk Dance Suite (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown; Penny Thompson Kruse, violin) Squarepushers (Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble) So Evenings Die (Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble) Secret and Glass Gardens (Mary Kathleen Ernst, piano) Into Light (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) PROGRAM #: MBG 15-08 87 RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: February 19, 2015 BG Potpourri: Bryant; Link; Smith; Newman A musical potpourri from the archives of Bowling Green State University's annual New Music Festival. Steven Bryant: John Link: Rob Smith: Jonathan Newman: Radiant Joy (BGSU Wind Symphony/Moss) Around the Bend (Flexible Music Ensemble) Dance Mix (BGSU Wind Symphony/Moss) Wapwallopen (Maria Bessmeltseva & Paraschos Paraschoudis, violins; Jesse Griggs, viola; Heather Scott, cello) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-09 February 26, 2015 Women Making Music III: Shrude; Higdon More music written by women, performed by women. Marilyn Shrude: Jennifer Higdon: Memorie di luoghi . . . (Maria Sampen, violin; Marilyn Shrude, piano) Violin Concerto (Hilary Hahn, violin; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-10 March 5, 2015 Recordings from the Philharmonia: Bryant; Lustig; Dorman We explore the recorded legacy of BGSU's longstanding cultural jewel, the Bowling Green Philharmonia. Stephen Bryant: Raymond Lustig: Avner Dorman: Loose Id (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Unstuck (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) Variations Without a Theme for Large Orchestra (Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-11 March 12, 2015 New Composers from Bowling Green: Taylor; Dangerfield; Sampson; Rice We sample music from the younger generation of composers, all graduates of Bowling Green State University. Benjamin Dean Taylor: Worlds Without End (Indiana University Symphony Orchestra/Palmer) Joseph Dangerfield: Winter Rites (University of Iowa Center for New Music Ensemble) Jamie Leigh Sampson: The Body Electric (Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano; Bowling Green Philharmonia/JJ Pearse) Carter John Rice: Color Variations (Concordia College Orchestra/Houglum) PROGRAM #: MBG 15-12 88 RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: March 19, 2015 Fulkerson and Rosenkranz: Beyond Minimalism Violinist Gregory Fulkerson and pianist Thomas Rosenkranz present a program of modern works written expressly for them, including Philip Glass's Violin Music from Einstein on the Beach. Peter Flint: Conrad Cummings: Stephen Dembski: Andrew Shapiro: Phillip Glass: We Speak Too Much of Danger The Golden Gate Fantasy Nocturne from the Violin Sonata The High Line Violin Music from Einstein on the Beach PROGRAM #: RELEASE: TITLE: DESCRIPTION: MBG 15-13 March 26, 2015 Festival 2013/14: Lewis; Blake; Puckett We hear live performances from both the 2013 & 2014 New Music Festival from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University. George Lewis: Braxton Blake: Signifying Riffs: Unison (BGSU String Quartet; Mark Cook, percussion) Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra (Kevin Schempf, clarinet; Bowling Green Philharmonia/E.F. Brown) The Shadow of Sirius (Conor Nelson, flute; BGSU Wind Symphony/Moss) Joel Puckett: 89 PROGRAM: LA OPERA Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: LAO15 Music, Classical, Opera Varies (see cue sheets) 6 weeks PRX and CD Varies – please consult cue sheet Varies – please consult cue sheet July 18, 2015 – August 22, 2015 Host: Commentators: Producer: Executive Producer: Duff Murphy James Conlon and Placido Domingo Brian Lauritzen Kelsey McConnell Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33730-american-opera-radio-series This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast in the week of the program’s release through August 22, 2015. The WFMT Radio Network is pleased to continue its American Opera Series with five productions from LA Opera’s 2014-15 season and a special encore broadcast of Massenet’s Thaïs, starring Plácido Domingo. Now on the eve of its 30th Anniversary Season, LA Opera has become the nation’s fourth largest opera company under the leadership of its Eli and Edythe Broad General Director, Plácido Domingo, and now "...stands out as a newly important force in American Opera." (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times). Conductor and Music Director James Conlon has developed a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire and has established enduring relationships with the world's most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. Through worldwide touring to North and South America, Asia, and Europe, an extensive discography, frequent television appearances and guest speaking engagements, he has become one of today's most recognized conductors. 90 LA OPERA Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-01 July 18, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: LA TRAVIATA Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave, based on a play by Alexandre Dumas, fils CAST: Violetta Valery Alfredo Germont Giorgio Germont Flora Bervoix Gastone Baron Douphol Marquis d’Obigny Doctor Grenvil Annina Nino Machaidze Arturo Chacón-Cruz Plácido Domingo Peabody Southwell Brenton Ryan Daniel Mobbs Daniel Armstrong Soloman Howard Vanessa Becerra CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: James Conlon LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 2 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-02 July 25, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: DIDO AND AENEAS / BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Henry Purcell / Béla Bartók Nahum Tate / Béla Balázs CAST: Dido Aeneas Belinda Sorceress Second Lady First Witch Second Witch Spirit/Sailor Bluebeard Judith Paula Murrihy Liam Bonner Kateryna Kasper John Holiday Summer Hassan G. Thomas Allen Darryl Taylor Brenton Ryan Robert Hayward Claudia Mahnke 91 CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Steven Sloane LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 2 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-03 August 1, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Gioachino Rossini Cesare Sterbini, after the play by Beaumarchais CAST: Figaro Count Almaviva Rosina Doctor Bartolo Don Basilio Berta Fiorello Rodion Pogossov René Barbera Elizabeth DeShong Alessandro Corbelli Kristinn Sigmundsson Lucy Schaufer Jonathan Michie CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: James Conlon LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 3 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-04 August 8, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the play by Beaumarchais CAST: Figaro Susanna Count Almaviva Countess Almaviva Cherubino Doctor Bartolo Marcellina Barbarina Antonio Don Basilio Don Curzio Roberto Tagliavini Pretty Yende Ryan McKinny Guanqun Yu Renée Rapier Kristinn Sigmundsson Lucy Schaufer So Young Park Philip Cokorinos Robert Brubaker Joel Sorensen 92 CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: James Conlon LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 3 ¼ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-05 August 15, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES John Corigliano William M. Hoffman CAST: Marie Antoinette Beaumarchais Louis XVI Figaro Bégearss Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Susanna Count Almaviva Cherubino Florestine Leon Marquis Woman with Hat Wilhelm Suleyman Pasha Samira Patricia Racette Christopher Maltman Kristinn Sigmundsson Lucas Meachem Robert Brubaker Guanqun Yu Lucy Schaufer Joshua Guerrero Renée Rapier Stacey Tappan Brenton Ryan Scotty Scully Victoria Livengood Joel Sorensen Philip Cokorinos Patti LuPone CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: James Conlon LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 3 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LAO 15-06 August 22, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THAÏS (archival broadcast - from 2013-2014 season) Jules Massenet Louis Gallet, based on the novel by Anatole France CAST: Thaïs Nino Machaidze 93 Athanael Nicias Palemon Albine Crobyle Myrtale Servant Plácido Domingo Paul Groves Valentin Anikin Milena Kitic Hae Ji Chang Rebecca Nathanson Kihun Yoon CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Patrick Fournillier LA Opera Chorus Grant Gershon 2 ¾ hours 94 PROGRAM: THE LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO BROADCASTS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: LOC15 Music, Classical, Opera Varies 9 weeks PRX and CD Varies – Please see cue sheet Varies – Please see cue sheet May 16, 2015 – July 11, 2015 Host: Commentator/Co-Producer: Project Manager: Producers: Production Assistant: Underwriters: Suzanne Nance Roger Pines Chris Willis Daniel Goldberg Nichole Slaughter Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts are generously sponsored by The Hurvis Family Foundation with matching funding provided by The Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum Family, the John and Jackie Bucksbaum Family, and Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33730-american-opera-radio-series This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through July 11, 2015 The Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts return with opening night productions, following the end of the Metropolitan Opera season. This year, we present eight operas, including Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and more. Of special note is an exceptional performance of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, airing on July 4th! Since its early days, Lyric Opera of Chicago has been regarded as one of the top three American opera companies, along with the Met and San Francisco. Chicago boasts an opera company that’s second to none. “Lyric Opera broadcasts have been a cornerstone of our programming for more than three decades, so everyone at 95 WFMT is thrilled that this glorious broadcast tradition [is on] the airwaves,” said Steve Robinson, Executive Vice President and General Manager of 98.7WFMT and the WFMT Radio Network. “I know I speak for scores of radio stations throughout America welcoming these historic broadcasts to their schedules when the Lyric season is rebroadcast in the spring.” 96 THE LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO BROADCASTS Broadcast Schedule — Spring 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-01 May 16, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: Libretto by: DON GIOVANNI (in Italian) W.A. Mozart Lorenzo Da Ponte CAST: Don Giovanni Donna Anna Donna Elvira Leporello Don Ottavio Il Commendatore Zerlina Masetto Mariusz Kwiecien Marina Rebeka Ana María Martínez Kyle Ketelsen Antonio Poli Andrea Silvestrelli Andriana Chuchman Michael Sumuel CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: CHORUS MASTER: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Sir Andrew Davis Robert Falls Michael Black Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-02 May 23, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: Libretto by: CAPRICCIO (in German) Richard Strauss Clemens Krauss & Richard Strauss CAST: Countess Clairon Count Flamand Olivier La Roche Renée Fleming Anne Sofie von Otter Bo Skovhus William Burden Audun Iversen Peter Rose CONDUCTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: REVIVAL DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: Sir Andrew Davis John Cox Peter McClintock 3 hours 97 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-03 May 30, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: IL TROVATORE (in Italian) Giuseppe Verdi CAST: Ferrando Inez Leonora Count Di Luna Manrico Azucena An Old Gypsy A Messenger Ruiz Andrea Silvestrelli J’nai Bridges Amber Wagner Quinn Kelsey Yonghoon Lee Stephanie Blythe Kenneth Nichols Timothy Bradley Jonathan Johnson CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: REVIVAL DIRECTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Asher Fisch David McVicar Leah Hausman Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-04 June 6, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: ANNA BOLENA (in Italian) Gaetano Donizetti Felice Romani CAST: Jane Seymour Smeton Anne Boleyn King Henry Viii Lord Rochford Lord Richard Percy Lord Hervey Jamie Barton Kelley O’Connor Sondra Radvanovsky John Relyea Richard Ollarsaba Bryan Hymel John Irvin CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Patrick Summers Kevin Newbury Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 ½ hours 98 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-05 June 13, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: CAROUSEL (in English) Oscar Hammerstein II Richard Rodgers CAST: Carrie Pipperidge Julie Jordan Mrs. Mullin Billy Bigelow First Policeman David Bascombe Mrs. Bascombe Nettie Fowler Enoch Snow Jigger Craigin Arminy Second Policeman Captain First Heavenly Friend (Brother Joshua) Second Heavenly Friend Starkeeper Louise Carnival Boy Enoch Snow, Jr. Margaret Snow Baby Snow Other Snow Children Principal Dr. Seldon CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Jenn Gambatese Laura Osnes Charlotte D’Amboise Steven Pasquale J. Michael Finley David Lively Pamela Williams Denyce Graves Matthew Hydzik Jarrod Emick Emily Rohm Rob Hunt Ronald Watkins George Andrew Wolff McKinley Carter Tony Roberts Abigail Simon Martin Harvey Robby Kipferl Eliza Palasz Rosie Jo Neddy Spencer Curnutt Betsy Farrar Laura Savage James Romney Jessye Wright Tony Roberts David Chase Rob Ashford Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 hours 99 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-06 June 20, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: TANNHÄUSER (in German) Richard Wagner Richard Wagner CAST: Tannhäuser Elisabeth Venus Wolfram Landgraf Johan Botha Amber Wagner Michaela Schuster Gerald Finley John Relyea CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Sir Andrew Davis Tim Albery Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 5 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-07 June 27, 2014 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THE PASSENGER (in Russian, German, Polish, French, Yiddish, Czech, and English) Mieczyslaw Weinberg Alexander Medvedev CAST: Marta Liese Walter Tadeusz Katya Amanda Majeski Daveda Karanas Brandon Jovanovich Joshua Hopkins Kelly Kaduce CONDUCTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Sir Andrew Davis David Pountney Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-08 July 4, 2015 OPERA: PORGY & BESS (in English) 100 COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: George Gershwin DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin CAST: Clara Mingo Sportin’ Life Jake Serena Robbins Jim Peter Lily Maria Porgy Crown Bess Detective Policeman Undertaker Lawyer Frazier Annie Nelson Strawberry Woman Crab Man Coroner Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Chase Taylor Jermaine Smith Norman Garrett Karen Slack Bernard Holcomb Earl Hazell Curtis Bannister Veronica Chapman-Smith Gwendolyn Brown Eric Owens Eric Greene Adina Aaron John Lister Brian Mccaskill Kenneth Nichols Will Liverman Leah Dexter Anthony P. Mcglaun Samantha Mcelhaney Jermaine Brown, Jr. Dev Kennedy CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Ward Stare Francesca Zambello Lyric Opera Chorus Michael Black 3 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: LOC 15-09 July 11, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: TOSCA (in Italian) Giacomo Puccini Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa CAST: Cesare Angelotti Sacristan Mario Cavaradossi Floria Tosca Baron Scarpia Richard Ollarsaba Dale Travis Brian Jagde Tatiana Serjan Evgeny Nikitin 101 Spoletta Sciarrone Shepherd Jailer Rodell Rosel Bradley Smoak Annie Wagner Anthony Clark Evans CONDUCTOR: DIRECTOR: CHORUS: Dmitri Jurowski John Caird Lyric Opera Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee, Chorus Director Michael Black 3 hours CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: 102 PROGRAM: THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL with Rich Warren Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: MS15 Music, Folk, Bluegrass, Comedy 2 hours (1:58:30) 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Producer/Host: Underwriter: Rich Warren Bose Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33697-the-midnight-special This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through December 31, 2015. Welcome to The Midnight Special, one of the most enduring of syndicated folk music radio programs, available through the WFMT Radio Network. The Midnight Special was established in Chicago on WFMT-FM in 1953, and went national in 1971. It has stayed current through decades of change, rich in tradition and history while retaining its timeliness, delighting listeners throughout the world with gentle irreverence or touching them with candid observation. In 1953, the late Mike Nichols, (then a WFMT announcer who went on to become one of the most respected stage and film directors), developed The Midnight Special as a showcase for recorded folk music. Over the years, The Midnight Special has evolved into an eclectic mixture of song and story that attracts not only a loyal following, but also new, younger listeners with each broadcast. They hear an incredibly diverse selection of artists, from the traditional to the contemporary: Pete Seeger and The Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, Mike Cross, Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Alison Krauss and Anais Mitchell, to name a few, along with comedy from the likes of Bob Newhart and Mitchell & Webb. Material 103 comes from an unrivaled library of over 13,000 CDs, 5,000 LPs and 55 years of live concert and studio recordings that began with Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy in a concert that became a Folkways album. Thousands of traditional and contemporary folk performers and comedians fill this two-hour spontaneous entertainment program that we call The Midnight Special. Original, offbeat, and always entertaining, The Midnight Special offers listeners a program of music, madness and mayhem – a lively potpourri of folk, Celtic and bluegrass, show and novelty tunes, and hilarious comedy routines. The Midnight Special often airs live performances recorded by WFMT over the past 60 years that are not available commercially, including well-known artists appearing at Chicago-area clubs, the University of Chicago Folk Festivals, and the comedy revues of Chicago’s famed Second City troupe. Tomorrow’s folk stars are on The Midnight Special this week! Rich Warren has hosted folk programs for over 40 years, including 35 years with The Midnight Special, while remaining committed to seeking out new music. He attends the international and regional Folk Alliance International conferences as well as other folk music events in search of tomorrow’s songwriters and performers. He studied folk music in college with an acknowledged authority, the late Archie Green. Warren also wrote for Sing Out, the national folk music magazine, for 20 years. He was named “Broadcaster of the Year” by the Folk Alliance International Conference in 2008. A photograph of Rich Warren is available upon request, and a yearly fund-raising program is also available. 104 PROGRAM: MILLENNIUM OF MUSIC Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: MOM15 Classical, Music, Early Music 59 minutes 52 weeks PRX and CD Two 5 segments January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Producer/Host: Underwriter: Robert Aubry Davis Radio Netherlands Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33705-millennium-of-music This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through December 31, 2015. Millennium of Music is the world’s longest running program featuring early music. Host and producer Robert Aubry Davis regularly presents music from major European music festivals which can be heard weekly on radio stations throughout the United States. What began as a local Sunday morning program on WJCT-FM in Jacksonville, Florida, moved to WETA in 1978, when Davis returned to his home town of Washington, DC. At that time, Program Director Martin Goldsmith suggested that the idea of a genuine early music program, with much emphasis on Gregorian chant, would be appropriate for Easter. The program began as a regular part of the schedule on Easter Sunday in 1980. The next visionary to touch the program was Mary Beth Kirchner, a producer brought on board to help create national programming, who believed in the inevitability of taking the program to a wider audience. 105 PROGRAM: MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: MSO14 Music, Classical 1 hour 58 minutes 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments July 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015 ` Hosts: Producer: Advisory Producer: Engineers: Executive Producer: Edo de Waart and Suzanne Nance Silvester Vicic Jesse McQuarters SoundMirror Steve Robinson Contact Information: Estlin Usher at 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims at 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso at 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33741-milwaukee-symphony-orchestra This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through September 30, 2015. Among the finest orchestras in the country, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is the largest cultural organization in Wisconsin. Since its inception in 1959, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra has consistently received critical acclaim for artistic excellence. Today, the MSO continues to reach new heights under the baton of its sixth music director, Edo de Waart. In addition to his present position as Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, Maestro de Waart is also Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of The Santa Fe Opera; Conductor Laureate of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; and Artistic Partner of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra since the 2010/2011 season. He has also held posts with the Sydney Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras. 106 The symphony’s 88 full-time professional musicians perform more than 140 concerts each season. Each of the MSO’s resident musicians is a gifted virtuoso. In addition to performing with the MSO, these musicians provide a strong professional core within Milwaukee’s thriving arts community. Orchestra players make frequent appearances with other local ensembles, perform as soloists internationally, and serve as teachers and mentors to music students and area youth. A cornerstone organization in Milwaukee’s art community, the MSO provides enrichment and education activities for audiences of every age, economic status, and background. The MSO’s education and outreach programs are among the most highly regarded of any American symphony. Through initiatives such as Youth & Teen Concerts, MSO Stars of Tomorrow, and the nationally-acclaimed Arts in Community Education (ACE) program. The most comprehensive education initiative ever undertaken by an American orchestra, the MSO has become a national leader in arts education programming. 107 MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2014 These programs are subject to change PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-01 July 1, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Roberto Abbado Augustin Hadelich, violin; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus; Lee Erickson, director Stravinsky: Ravel: Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra Daphnis et Chloé PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-02 July 8, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Asher Fisch Todd Levy, clarinet Wagner: Mozart: Bartók: Overture to Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] Concerto in A major for Clarinet and Orchestra, K. 622 Concerto for Orchestra PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-03 July 15, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Edo de Waart Ingrid Fliter, piano Ippolito: Chopin: Brahms: Nocturne, for Orchestra Concerto No. 2 in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-04 July 22, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Bach: Berg: Brahms: Edo de Waart Jennifer Koh, violin Ricercare No. 2 from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (orch. Webern) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (orch. Schoenberg) 108 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-05 July 29, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Edo de Waart Inon Barnatan, piano Schumann: Macmillan: Brahms: Overture to Manfred, Op. 115 The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano, Op. 15 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-06 August 5, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Francesco Lecce-Chong Georgia Jarman, soprano Bernstein: Foss: Barber: Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Time Cycle, Four Songs for Soprano and Orchestra Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-07 August 12, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Edo de Waart Orion Weiss, piano Fauré: Ravel: Stravinsky: Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra Pétrouchka (1947 revision) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-08 August 19, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Edo de Waart Susanna Phillips, soprano; Kelley O'Connor, mezzo soprano; Thomas Cooley, tenor; Christopher Maltman, baritone; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus; Lee Erickson, director Adams: Beethoven: The Wound-Dresser Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, Choral PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-09 August 26, 2014 CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart 109 SOLOIST: Timothy McAllister, saxophone Stravinsky: Adams: Beethoven: Concerto in D major for String Orchestra (1961 revision) Saxophone Concerto Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, Eroica PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-10 September 2, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Edo de Waart Leila Josefowicz, violin Stravinsky: Adams: Beethoven: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 revision) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-11 September 9, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Edo de Waart Joyce Yang, piano Rachmaninoff: Rachmaninoff: Rachmaninoff: Prince Rostislav Concerto No. 4 in G minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 40 Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-12 September 16, 2014 CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart Wagner: Mozart: Elgar: Siegfried Idyll Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504, Prague Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, Enigma Variations PROGRAM #: RELEASE: MSO 14-13 September 23, 2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Gilbert Varga Susan Babini, cello Elgar: Schumann: Dvorák: Serenade in E minor for String Orchestra, Op. 20 Concerto in A minor for Cello, Op. 129 Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 110 PROGRAM: THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: NYP15 Music, Classical 2 hours (1:58:30) 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015 Host: Producer: Recording Engineer: Underwriters: Alec Baldwin Mark Travis Larry Rock The Kaplen Foundation; the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; MetLife Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33732-the-new-york-philharmonic-this-week This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast within a twoweek window from the first release date. Music Director Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic welcome you to the 2014-15 syndicated radio broadcasts by one of the world’s longest-running and most celebrated orchestras. Of the 52 weekly two-hour broadcasts that make up this series, many will make use of material from the orchestra’s 2013-2014 subscription season. Interspersed throughout the year are programs taken from the Philharmonic’s tours, Summertime Classics, and the orchestra’s residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado. There will also be a handful of thematic programs and encore presentations that explore the breadth and depth of the Philharmonic’s extensive library of commercial and archival recordings. 111 The New York Philharmonic’s first live national radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930, over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday, Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic, since 2002, has shared its radio broadcasts with a worldwide audience through its website, nyphil.org. In 2004 the New York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the first-ever subscription download series, Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprised of more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season. The self-produced iTunes Pass Series has continued each and every year since then. Since 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings, with more than 500 currently available — including two recent releases on Da Capo featuring music of Carl Nielsen and Magnus Lindberg. The New York Philharmonic This Week, which began in 2004 and is syndicated nationally by the WFMT Radio Network, has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Gold World Medal in the category of Best Sound, and its second Bronze World Medal in the category of Best Regularly Scheduled Music Program at the 2013 New York Festivals Radio Programs and Promotions Awards. The program has also won awards for Best Classical Format and Best Announcer Presentation. Broadcasts are available on the Philharmonic’s website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the original uplink. Emmy and Golden-Globe Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, New York Philharmonic Audio Producer Mark Travis is the writer and producer, and New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer for the series. On June 18, 2010, The New York Philharmonic was honored with two 2009-10 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming at the League of American Orchestras’ Annual Meeting at its 65th National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The Philharmonic received the Award for American Programming on Foreign Tours, and a First Place Award for Programming of Contemporary Music. The following year, the Philharmonic received the 2010-11 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, winning first place in the Awards for Programming Contemporary Music. For 2012-13, the orchestra was again awarded the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming. This exciting broadcast venture is made possible with the generous support of The Kaplen Foundation and the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the Philharmonic’s corporate partner, MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. 112 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Broadcast Schedule —Summer 2015 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-40 July 1, 2014 7/4/12 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Bramwell Tovey Tracy Dahl, vocalist; The Hellcats and Jazz Knights from the West Point Band; Lt. Col. Jim Keene, commander/conductor BERNSTEIN: BERNSTEIN: GERSHWIN: GERSHWIN (arr. Bramwell Tovey) Three Dance Episodes from On the Town "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide "Walking the Dog" from Shall We Dance? SOUSA: KESSLER: EGNER: SOUSA: "The Man I Love", “They Can't Take That Away from Me", "A Foggy Day in London Town", "Fascinatin' Rhythm" American Heritage America the Beautiful In the Mood March No. 1 in D major from Military Marches, Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39, No. 1 The Liberty Bell Armed Forces Medley The Official West Point March The Stars and Stripes Forever (Performed on 7/3/2013) PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-41 July 8, 2015 7/10 2012 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Bramwell Tovey Kirill Gerstein, piano TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: TCHAIKOVSKY: Festival Coronation March Piano Concerto No. 2 Selections from Act IV of Swan Lake 1812 Overture PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-42 July 15, 2015 7/23/2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Bramwell Tovey Marc Nuccio, clarinet COPLAND GERSHWIN/Arr. Rose Fanfare for the Common Man “Strike Up the Band” from Strike Up the Band TRADITIONAL: WARD: GARLAND: ELGAR: 113 COPLAND GROFÉ Clarinet Concerto Grand Canyon Suite PROGRAM#: RELEASE: CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: NYP 15-43 July 22, 2015 Bramwell Tovey, conductor Joseph Alessi, trombone; U.S. Coast Guard Band; Capt. Kenneth W. Megan, Director COPLAND: TOVEY: SOUSA: HESKETH: BERNSTEIN/ arr. GRUNDMAN: BERNSTEIN/ Arr. GRUNDMAN: BERNSTEIN/ Arr. GRUNDMAN: BERNSTEIN/ Arr. GRUNDMAN: BERNSTEIN/ Arr. GRUNDMAN: VARIOUS/ arr. Daniel Sandidge and Sean Nelson: SOUSA: SOUSA: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret for Trombone and Orchestra The Glory of the Yankee Navy Masque Armed Forces Medley Hands Across the Sea The Liberty Bell PROGRAM #: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-44 July 29, 2015 7/2/2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Bramwell Tovey Joyce Yang, piano SHOSTAKOVICH RACHMANINOFF Festive Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1 MUSSORGSKY RACHMANINOFF TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY Night on Bald Mountain Vocalise Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Marche Slave, op. 31 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-45 August 5, 2015 7/5/13 Candide Suite The Best of All Possible Worlds Auto-Da-Fe (What a Day) Glitter and Be Gay Make Our Garden Grow 114 CONDUCTOR: Bramwell Tovey John ADAMS: OFFENBACH: JOSEF STRAUSS: HOLST: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Ballet of the Snowflakes from Le Voyage dans la lune Music of the Spheres The Planets PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-46 August 12, 2015 7/25/13 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Bramwell Tovey Joseph Alessi, trombone COPLAND: TOVEY: DVOŘÁK: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret Symphony No. 8 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-47 August 19, 2015 7/18/2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Alan Gilbert Midori, violin NIELSEN TCHAIKOVSKY GRIEG LISZT Helios Overture, Op. 17 Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 Selections from Peer Gynt: Morning Mood Solvejg’s Song Åse’s Death Anitra’s Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3, after Lamartine PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-48 August 26, 2015 7/20/2014 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Alan Gilbert Liang Wang, oboe R. STRAUSS R. STRAUSS Christopher ROUSE TCHAIKOVSKY Don Juan, op. 20 Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Oboe Concerto Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy 115 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-49 September 2, 2015 Various The Artistry of Zubin Mehta Musical highlights taken from: CRUMB: MOZART: BARTOK: FURTWANGLER: WEBERN: Ancient Voices of Children Symphony No. 25 Piano Concerto No 1 (soloist Barenboim) Furtwangler Symphony No 2 (Scherzo) Six Pieces for Orchestra PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-50 September 11, 2015 9/10/11 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Alan Gilbert Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director MAHLER: ADAMS: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” The Wound-Dresser (Thomas Hampson, baritone/Alan Gilbert/NYP from iTunes Pass) PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: NYP 15-51 September 18, 2015 Various Pierre Boulez at 90 Musical highlights taken from: BOULEZ: Pli selon Pli DEBUSSY: La Mer BARTOK: The Miraculous Mandarin PROGRAM#: RELEASE: Performed on: from 4/16/81 from 1/21/82 from 11/ /86 from 1/22/03 from 4/13/86 from 6/18/88 (Commercial release, SMK) NYP 15-52 September 25, 2014 Various Music Director Emeritus, Kurt Masur Musical highlights taken from: WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg (excerpts) ADAMS: Short Ride in a Fast Machine MOZART: Symphony No. 41 IVES: Three Places in New England, Brant Desert Forests BEETHOVEN: Leonore No 3 Overture ADÈS: America: A Prophesy COLEMAN: Skies of America from 6/16/81 from 9/14/91 from 5/9/92 from 5/28/94 from 9/18/98 from 1/16/99 from 7/9/97 116 MARTIN: MENDELSSOHN: SHOSTAKOVICH: Sechs Monologe aus Jederman Die Erste Walpurgisnacht Symphony No. 13 from 1/4/01 from 2/4/09 from 10/27/11 117 PROGRAM: OPERA SOUTHWEST PRESENTS: AMLETO Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: OSW15 Music, Classical, Opera Approx. 3 hours 1 week PRX and CD Varies – Please see cue sheet Varies – Please see cue sheet November 28, 2015 Hosts: Producers: Underwriters: Kathlene Ritch Brent Stevens Brabson Library and Educational Foundation Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33730-american-opera-radio-series This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast for the week of November 28, 2015 Originally premiered in 1865 in Genoa and then performed again in 1871in Milan, Franco Faccio’s Amleto (Hamlet) was thought lost for over 135 years. Opera Southwest’s artistic director, Anthony Barrese, has spent nearly a decade in libraries and the Ricordi archives recovering the work from a microfilm of the composers autograph. This performance, recorded in the fall of 2014 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center – Journal Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the first performance of the work in over 143 years, and is the American premiere. Founded in 1972 as Albuquerque Opera Theatre, Opera Southwest is Albuquerque’s professional, regional company. With a mission to produce quality, professional, enjoyable and accessible opera in an intimate setting for audiences of all ages, Opera Southwest produces two to three major operas each year selected from the best of the standard and not-so-standard repertoire. To date, Opera Southwest has produced 122 operas, including 23 world premieres, many of which were original operas created especially for children and families. 118 OPERA SOUTHWEST BROADCAST Broadcast Schedule – Fall 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: OSW 15-01 November 28, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: AMLETO Franco Faccio Arrigo Boito CAST: Amleto (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) Claudio (Claudius, King of Denmark) Polonio (Polonius, Lord Chamberlain) Orazio (Horatio, Amleto’s friend) Marcello (Marcellus, a Sentry) Laerte (Laertes, Polonio’s son) Ofelia (Ophelia, Polonio’s daughter) Geltrude (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark) Lo Spettro (the Ghost) Un Sacerdote (a Priest) Un Araldo (a Herald) Il Re Gonzaga (King Gonzaga, an Actor) La Regina (The Queen, an Actress) Luciano (Sir Luciano, an Actor) Primo Becchino (Gravedigger) Alex Richardson Shannon De Vine Matthew Curran Joseph Hubbard Paul Bower Javier Gonzalez Abla Lynn Hamza Caroline Worra Jeff Beruan Paul Bower Jonathan Charles Tay Jonathan Charles Tay Heather Youngquist Jeffrey Beruan Matthew Curran CONDUCTOR: CHORUS: CHORUS MASTER: Approx. Length: Anthony Barrese Opera Southwest Chorus Paul Bower 3 hours 119 PROGRAM: RELEVANT TONES with Seth Boustead Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: RLT15 Music, Classical, Contemporary 59 minutes 52 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Host: Producer: Seth Boustead Jesse McQuarters Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33603-relevant-tones This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through December 31, 2015. Relevant Tones, a weekly exploration of the most fascinating time in classical music history: right now. From up-and-coming firebrands to established artists, this series features music and in-person interviews from the hottest festivals around the world, celebrates the major figures shaping classical music today, spots emerging trends, shines a light on lesser known but fascinating composers, and features music recorded in dynamic live broadcasts. Host, composer and Executive Director of Access Contemporary Music, Seth Boustead brings an informative but engagingly down-to-earth presentation that provides a context for the music and connects with listeners of all ages to present classical music as a diverse art form with a storied history that is alive and thriving in the 21st century. With its informative, yet engagingly down-to-earth presentation, Relevant Tones seeks to make contemporary music accessible to diehard classical music fans while attracting new and younger listeners. Seth Boustead draws from the entire classical music canon to put modern-day compositions in context, exploring the social and musical influences on their 120 creation. Guest appearances by composers and performers are a vital part of the program, offering a first-person perspective that gives insight and depth to their art form and its creation. Since launching in July 2011 on 98.7 WFMT in Chicago, Relevant Tones has garnered significant praise from critics and listeners alike. Examiner.com named it one of the best shows in the world for new classical music, and ChicagoMusic.org says that it is “changing the way audiences experience modern music.” Listener response has been equally positive, with fans praising Boustead’s “invigorating selections,” “enlightening commentary” and hailing the show as a “long-overdue addition” of new music to the station’s programming. Relevant Tones is broadcast in markets throughout the United States and internationally through the WFMT Radio Network. 121 RELEVANT TONES Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-27 July 1, 2015 CD Grab Bag We’re having a ball trying to keep up with our ever-expanding musical collection as composers and performers around the world joyously overwhelm us with their creations. We’re consistently amazed by their level of talent and artistry, and are thrilled this week to share their music with our listeners. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-28 July 8, 2015 Pianist Jenny Lin Stunningly versatile pianist Jenny Lin has recorded with jazz musicians, rockers, contemporary composers and everyone in between. Equally comfortable playing Shostakovich on the same concert as giving a world premiere, Lin is a vital talent that is taking concert halls by storm. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-29 July 15, 2015 Above and Beyond In recent years composers have become interested in the fact that the performers can do things on stage other than just play their instrument: stomp their feet, clap, play simple percussion, and even sing. We’ll feature a variety of pieces from composers who ask musicians (who are not trained singers) to vocalize and supplement their playing. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-30 July 22, 2015 Composer Champions Where would Gustav Mahler be without the incredible support of Leonard Bernstein? Bach without the support of Mendelssohn? Being championed by a famous performer or conductor is an incredible leg up to the career of many composers. Who are the modern day composer champions, and whose work are they promoting? PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-31 July 29, 2015 122 Composer Spotlight: Alvin Singleton Critic Kyle Gann says “Singleton's music is soulful, with an understated simplicity that I particularly prize. Despite the studied economy of his means and the set character of his images, the music is never cold ... nor abstract. It glows with warmth.” We’ll feature Singleton’s music on our next Composer Spotlight. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-32 August 5, 2015 Cityscapes We all know the Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture inspired by Fingal’s Cave, and the music by Vaughan Williams inspired by the English countryside. But in the modern era, the urban environment is inspiring many composers to capture its sounds in music. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-33 August 12, 2015 A Change of Opinion Throughout history, composers who have been known for championing a particular musical style have shocked their fans by radically and suddenly changing their aesthetic. Why does this happen, and who’s changing their style in the modern era? PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-34 August 19, 2015 The Modern Symphony Much like the novel, people are always pronouncing the symphony to be a dead form. And yet, composers continue to write symphonies at an incredible pace. We’ll feature music by composers around the world who are adding to the symphonic canon. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-35 August 26, 2015 The Laptop Ensemble This week we're exploring a newer musical medium: the laptop. We wanted to find out what exactly groups named PLOrk, CLOrk, and Benoit and the Mandelbrots could possibly have to offer. The answer surprised us. We discovered improvisation, live coding, and even orchestral collaboration. 123 PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-36 September 2, 2015 Composer Collectives The twentieth century saw an interesting movement as composers banded together in collectives to help promote each other’s work. The movement has only gotten stronger in the twenty-first century with the rise of entrepreneurialism in classical music. We’ll feature the music of several composer collectives and take a close look at their inner workings. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-37 September 9, 2015 SIRGA Festival A relatively new festival in a remote part of Catalonia featuring music by electro-acoustic composers, SIRGA has recently grown into an international event that brings musicians from all over the world. Relevant Tones visits the SIRGA festival to feature audio from their concerts. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-38 September 16, 2015 Composers Among Us: Michael Colgrass Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Colgrass has had a varied career as jazz drummer, freelance percussionist and composer of a dizzying array of works in every conceivable genre. PROGRAM#: RELEASE: RLT-15-39 September 23, 2015 Kronos Quartet Ground breakers, virtuousos, and commissioners of many of the world’s twentieth and twentyfirst century string quartet masterpieces, the influence of the Kronos Quartet cannot be underestimated. We’ll talk with the musicians and feature a sampling of their luminous output over the years. 124 PROGRAM: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SFS15 Music, Classical, Symphony 2 hours 26 weeks PRX and CD Two 3 segments March 30, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Host: Recording Engineer: Producer: Underwriter: Rik Malone Jack Vad San Francisco Symphony Contact Information: Roselyne C. Swig, Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston of the Shenson Foundation in memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33739-san-francisco-symphony This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through March 31, 2016. Since its beginning in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony has been known for innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music. Today, the Orchestra’s artistic vitality, recordings, and groundbreaking multimedia educational projects carry its impact throughout American musical life. “At a time when America’s major orchestras are struggling to define their missions and maintain audiences, the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas is an exception.” — The New York Times The San Francisco Symphony has grown in stature and acclaim under such distinguished music directors as Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz, the legendary Pierre Monteux, Josef 125 Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart and Herbert Blomstedt. Current Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas assumed the post in 1995. Together, he and the San Francisco Symphony have formed a musical partnership hailed as “one of the most inspiring and adventurous in the country.” Maestro Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra have also been praised by the critics for their musicianship, for their innovative programming, for bringing the works of American composers to the fore, and for bringing new audiences into Davies Symphony Hall. “In most places, and certainly in London, the presence of many of the (American Mavericks Festival) composers – from Charles Ives to John Adams to Steve Reich – would have emptied halls. But the audiences in San Francisco have been large, varied, attentive, and enthusiastic. Something quite special, perhaps even revolutionary, is going on.” — The Times (London) The San Francisco Symphony has toured extensively to Europe, Asia and throughout the United States. It has won some of the world’s most prestigious recording awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, Japan’s Record Academy Award, France’s Grand Prix du Disque, and Britain’s Gramophone Award. “The San Francisco Symphony, led since 1995 by the brilliant and musically restless Michael Tilson Thomas, gave the kind of performance that proves yet again that the best is the enemy of the better.” — The Washington Post With the launch of the San Francisco Symphony’s own SFS Media label in 2001, Michael Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra embarked on a project to record all of Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles. The label’s first offering, Symphony No. 6, was released to international acclaim and received the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. The recordings of seven more Mahler symphonies have been released since, and the project has received three more Grammy Awards – Best Classical Album for Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and both Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance for Symphony No. 7. In addition to live concert recordings, SFS Media produces and releases documentary and live performance videos, including the SFS’s national public television series and multimedia project Keeping Score, which included three seasons of television episodes, eight documentaries, and eight concert films designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds, now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Keeping Score includes an innovative website, www.keepingscore.org, live performance audio CDs, two radio broadcast series: The MTT Files and 13 Days When Music Changed Forever. “Can every conductor be Michael Tilson Thomas? Obviously not! But every conductor can learn from him the value of bringing a sense of adventure back to the concert hall.” — The Toronto Star 126 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Broadcast Schedule — Spring/Summer 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-01 March 30, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Yefim Bronfman, piano Di Castri: Tchaikovsky: Prokofiev: Stravinsky: Lineage Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23 Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Opus 44 Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-02 April 6, 2015 CONDUCTOR: Mahler: Debussy: Michael Tilson Thomas Symphony No. 9 in D major La Mer PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-03 April 13, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Emanuel Ax, piano Mahler: Beethoven: Copland: Debussy: Delius: Grieg: Rachmaninoff: Delibes: Copland: Blumine Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Opus 37 Music from the film Our Town La Plus que lente On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring The Last Spring, Opus 34, no.2 “Vocalise,” Opus 34, no.14 “Cortège of Bacchus” from Sylvia Short Symphony PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-04 April 20, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Pablo Heras-Casado Leila Josefowicz, violin Lully: Overture and Passacaille from Armide 127 Thomas Adès: Stravinksy: Mendelssohn: Kissine: Three Studies from Couperin Violin Concerto in D major Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 56, Scottish Post-scriptum PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-05 April 27, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Yan Pascal Tortelier Martin Helmchen, piano Berlioz: Schumann: Dvořák: Mozart: Roman Carnival Overture Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54 Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70 Divertimento in D major, K.251 (Herbert Blomstedt, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-06 May 4, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Edwin Outwater Simon Trpčeski, piano Ligeti: Prokofiev: Dvořák: Concert Românesc Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Opus 26 Three Legends for Orchestra Legend for Orchestra, Opus 59, no.2 Legend for Orchestra, Opus 59, no.6 Legend for Orchestra, Opus 59, no.10 Concerto for Orchestra Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass, Opus 50 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) Lutosławski: Hindemith: PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-07 May 11, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Jeremy Denk, piano Beethoven: Steve Mackey: Mozart: Copland: Tilson Thomas: Leonore Overture No. 3, Opus 72a Eating Greens Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K.503 Symphonic Ode Street Song for Symphonic Brass 128 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-08 May 18, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Semyon Bychkov Till Fellner, piano Mozart: Strauss: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491 An Alpine Symphony, Opus 64 Serenade No. 2 in A major, Opus 16 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-09 May 25, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Alexander Barantschik, violin Beethoven: Beethoven: Mason Bates Beethoven: Mahler: Romance No. 1 in G major, Opus 40 Romance No. 2 in F major, Opus 50 The B-Sides Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 93 Adagio from Symphony No. 10 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-10 June 1, 2015 SOLOIST: SOLOIST: Alexander Barantschik, leader and violin Seth Asarnow, bandoneón Mozart: Mendelssohn: Britten: Piazzolla: Brahms: Divertimento in F major for Strings, K.138(125c) Violin Concerto in D minor Simple Symphony, Opus 4 Melodia--Libertango Symphony No. 2 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-11 June 8, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Osmo Vänskä Daniil Trifonov, piano Sibelius: Rachmaninoff: Stravinsky: Sibelius: Haydn: Night Ride and Sunrise, Opus 55 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43 Symphonies of Wind Instruments [1947 version] Symphony No. 6, Opus 104 Symphony No. 60 in C major, Il distratto (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) 129 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-12 June 15, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Lionel Bringuier Hélène Grimaud, piano Brahms: Dutilleux: Ravel: Debussy: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Opus 15 Métaboles La Valse Nocturnes (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-13 June 22, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Jaap van Zweden Simone Lamsma, violin Mozart: Sibelius: Tchaikovsky: Respighi: Overture from The Abduction from the Seraglio, K.384 Violin Concerto in D minor, Opus 47 Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36 Roman Festivals (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-14 June 29, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Alisa Weilerstein, cello Haydn: Haydn: Rimsky-Korsakov: Ravel: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Le Matin Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major Scheherazade, Opus 35 Rapsodie espagnole (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-15 July 6, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Julia Fischer, violin Prokofiev: Berlioz: Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Opus 19 Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14 Selections from Cinderella PROGRAM #: SFS 15-16 130 RELEASE: July 13, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Herbert Blomstedt Carey Bell, clarinet Nielsen: Schubert: Berlioz: Clarinet Concerto, Opus 57 Symphony in C major, D.944, The Great Love Scene from Roméo et Juliette, Opus 17 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-17 July 20, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Herbert Blomstedt Garrick Ohlsson, piano Mozart: Bruckner: Webern: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467 Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, Romantic Six Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 6 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-18 July 27, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: SOLOIST: James Conlon Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Mark Inouye, trumpet Schulhoff: Shostakovich: Tchaikovsky: Shostakovich: Scherzo from Symphony No. 5 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Opus 35 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, Pathétique Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Opus 70 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-19 August 3, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: SOLOIST: SOLOIST: Ton Koopman Carolyn Sampson, soprano Mark Inouye, trumpet Peter Wyrick, cello J. S. Bach: C. P. E. Bach: C. P. E. Bach: J. S. Bach: Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069 Cello Concerto No. 3 in A major, H.439(Wq.172) Symphony in G major, H.666(Wq.183,4) Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 Symphony No. 2 (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) 131 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-20 August 10, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Christian Tetzlaff, violin Sibelius: Bartók: Brahms: Brahms: Lemminkäinen's Return, Opus 22, no.4 Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98 Variations on a Theme by Haydn, opus 56a (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-21 August 17, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Yuja Wang, piano Fauré: Schubert: Dvořák: Grieg: Prokofiev: Litolff: Debussy: Brahms: Pavane, Opus 50 Entr’acte No. 3 in B-flat major from Rosamunde, D.797 Legends for Orchestra, Opus 59, no.6 The Last Spring, Opus 34, no.2 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Opus 10 Scherzo from Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Opus 102 Images Tragic Overture, Opus 81 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-22 August 24, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Charles Dutoit Kirill Gerstein, piano Beethoven: Shostakovich: Bates: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Opus 19 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Opus 93 The B-Sides (Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-23 August 31, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Gil Shaham, violin Gamelan Sekar Jaya, gamelan ensemble Traditional: Lelambatan Tabuh Pat Jagul 132 Prokofiev: Britten: Ives: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Opus 63 Excerpts from The Prince of the Pagodas, Opus 57 Three Places in New England PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-24 September 7, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Toby Spence, tenor Robert Ward, horn Copland: Britten: Shostakovich: Mozart: Danzón cubano Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Opus 31 Symphony No. 15 in A major, Opus 141 Divertimento in D major, K. 251 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-25 September 14, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Nadine Sierra, soprano Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Bruckner: Schumann: “Ruhe sanft mein ganzes Leben” from Zaïde, K.344 “Trostlos schluchzet Philomel” from Zaïde, K.344 “Tiger! Wetze nur die Klauen” from Zaïde, K.344 Symphony No. 7 in E minor Symphony No. 3 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFS 15-26 September 21, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: Michael Tilson Thomas Gil Shaham, violin Stravinsky: Stravinsky: Stravinsky: Stravinsky: Agon Violin Concerto in D major The Rite of Spring [1947 revision] Apollo 133 PROGRAM: SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SFO15 Music, Classical, Opera Varies – please cue sheet 10 weeks PRX and CD Varies – please see cue sheet Varies – please see cue sheet August 29, 2015 – October 31, 2015 Hosts: Producers: Recording Engineer: Executive Producer: Dianne Nicolini Jon Finck and Jessica Koplos Michael Chen David Gockley Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33730-american-opera-radio-series This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast in the week of the program’s release (August 29 – October 31, 2015). The WFMT Radio Network continues our 2015 American Opera Series with ten performances by San Francisco Opera. This year’s series features the world premiere of Marco Tutino’s Two Women (La Ciociara) and Hector Berlioz’ monumental saga The Trojans (Les Troyens), presented by the company for the first time in 47 years. Both productions feature beloved Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, who has garnered outstanding reviews for her rare United States performances. San Francisco Opera was founded by Italian conductor and pianist Gaetano Merola, who presented the Company’s first season in 1923 at the Civic Center Auditorium. In 1932, the Beaux Arts 3,100 seat War Memorial Opera House opened and remains the home of San Francisco Opera. Maestro Merola, who led the Company until his death in 1953, was succeeded as general director by Kurt Herbert Adler (1953–81), Terry McEwen (1982–88), Lotfi Mansouri (1988– 2001), Pamela Rosenberg (2001–05), and David Gockley (2006– 2016). 134 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Broadcast Schedule — Summer/Fall 2014 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-01 August 29, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: RIGOLETTO (in Italian) Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave CAST: Rigoletto Gilda Duke of Mantua Maddalena Count Monterone Sparafucile Borsa Marullo A Page, Countess Ceprano Giovanna Count Ceprano An Usher Željko Lučić Aleksandra Kurzak Francesco Demuro Kendall Gladen Robert Pomakov Andrea Silvestrelli Daniel Montenegro Joo Won Kang Laura Krumm Renée Rapier Ryan Kuster Jere Torkelsen ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Nicola Luisotti Ian Robertson Harry Silverstein 2 ¼ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-02 September 5, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: MADAME BUTTERFLY (in Italian) Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica CAST: Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly) Lt. B.F. Pinkerton Suzuki Sharpless Goro Kate Pinkerton Prince Yamadori The Bonze Commissioner Patricia Racette Brian Jagde Elizabeth DeShong Brian Mulligan Julius Ahn Jacqueline Piccolino Efrain Solis Morris Robinson Hadleigh Adams 135 ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Nicola Luisotti Ian Robertson Leslie Swackhamer 2 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-03 September 12, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: NORMA (in Italian) Vincenzo Bellini Felice Romani CAST: Norma Adalgisa Pollione Oroveso Clotilda Flavio Sondra Radvanovsky Jamie Barton Russell Thomas Christian Van Horn Jacqueline Piccolino A.J. Glueckert ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Nicola Luisotti Ian Robertson Kevin Newbury 2 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-04 September 19, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: SUSANNAH (in English) Carlisle Floyd Carlisle Floyd CAST: Susannah Polk Sam Polk Rev. Olin Blitch Mrs. McLean Little Bat McLean Mrs. Hayes Mrs. Gleaton Mrs. Ott Elder Hayes Elder Gleaton Patricia Racette Brandon Jovanovich Raymond Aceto Catherine Cook James Kryshak Jacqueline Piccolino Erin Johnson Suzanne Hendrix Joel Sorensen A.J. Glueckert 136 Elder McLean Elder Ott Dale Travis Timothy Mix ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Karen Kamensek Ian Robertson Michael Cavanagh 1 ¾ hour PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-05 September 26, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: A MASKED BALL (in Italian) Giuseppe Verdi Antonio Somma CAST: Riccardo Amelia Oscar Renato Ulrica Tommaso Samuele Silvano Judge Amelia’s Servant Ramón Vargas Julianna Di Giacomo Heidi Stober Thomas Hampson Dolora Zajick Scott Conner Christian Van Horn Efrain Solis A.J. Glueckert Christopher Jackson ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Nicola Luisotti Ian Robertson Jose Maria Condemi 2 ½ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-06 October 3, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: PARTENOPE (in Italian) George Frideric Handel (Anonymous) CAST: Partenope Arsace Rosmira Emilio Danielle de Niese David Daniels Daniela Mack Alek Shrader 137 Armindo Ormonte Anthony Roth Costanzo Philippe Sly ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra Julian Wachner Christopher Alden 2 ¾ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-07 October 10, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: CINDERELLA (in Italian) Gioachino Rossini Jacopo Ferretti CAST: Cinderella Don Ramiro Dandini Don Magnifico Alidoro Clorinda Tisbe Karine Deshayes René Barbera Efrain Solis Carlos Chausson Christian Van Horn Maria Valdes Zanda Svede ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Jesus López-Cobos Ian Robertson Gregory Fortner 2 ¾ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-08 October 17, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: LA BOHÈME (in Italian) Giacomo Puccini Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa CAST: Mimi Rodolfo Musetta Marcello Colline Schaunard Benoit, Alcindoro Alexia Voulgaridou Michael Fabiano Nadine Sierra Alexey Markov Christian Van Horn Hadleigh Adams Dale Travis 138 ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Giuseppe Finzi Ian Robertson John Caird 2 hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-09 October 24, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: TWO WOMEN (in Italian) Marco Tutino Marco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa CAST: Cesira Rosetta Michele Giovanni Anna Caterina Antonacci Sarah Shafer Dimitri Pittas Mark Delavan ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: STAGE DIRECTOR: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Nicola Luisotti Ian Robertson Francesca Zambello 2 ¾ hours PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFO 15-10 October 31, 2015 OPERA: COMPOSER: LIBRETTO: THE TROJANS (in French) Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz CAST: Cassandra Dido Aeneas Anna Chorebus Narbal Iopas Anna Caterina Antonacci Susan Graham Bryan Hymel Sasha Cooke Brian Mulligan Christian Van Horn René Barbera ENSEMBLE: CONDUCTOR: CHORUS DIRECTOR: PRODUCTION: Approx. Length: San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus David Runnicles Ian Robertson David McVicar 4 ¾ hours 139 PROGRAM: SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SFE15 Music, Classical, Chamber Music 59 minutes 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments March 31, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Host: Commentary: Producer: Recording Engineer: Underwriter: Kerry Frumkin Marc Neikrug Louise Frank Matt Snyder Ira N. Langsan & Lillian Langsan Fund in memory of Susan Black National Endowment for the Arts Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33740-santa-fe-chamber-music-festival This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for two broadcasts through March 31, 2016. The WFMT Radio Network invites your listeners to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico through the sounds of thirteen new one-hour radio concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Now in its tenth season, the program has been broadcast across the United States and around the world. One of the world’s leading performing arts festivals, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is known for its enduring commitment to tradition, artistic excellence, innovation, and vision. Our weekly radio series reflects the Festival’s high standards and varied repertoire by presenting superbly recorded concerts and recitals by some of today’s greatest musical artists. The 2015 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series features performances recorded in 2014 in Santa Fe, New Mexico during this celebrated music festival's 42nd 140 summer season. Each broadcast hour typically contains two full-length works representing chamber music's core repertoire. The Festival also remains dedicated to lesser known composers and compositions, and to commissioning new works. Veteran WFMT announcer Kerry Frumkin hosts the series along with Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival artistic director, Marc Neikrug. Many of the performers provide additional commentary as they describe their experiences at the Festival and the music they've played here. Here are some highlights from the 2015 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series: • Pianist Yefim Bronfman is the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 2014 Artist-inResidence. He opens this tenth season of radio broadcasts with the Piano Quintet in F Minor of Johannes Brahms, which he performs with violinists Martin Beaver and Benny Kim, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, and cellist Eric Kim. In Week 2, Martin Beaver, Benny Kim and Yefim Bronfman play Beethoven's “Archduke” Piano Trio in B-flat Major. • The Festival commissions new works each season. In week 9, soprano Tony Arnold and the Orion String Quartet are heard in the U.S. Premiere of the String Quartet No. 2, "And once I played Ophelia," by the Australian composer and former violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Brett Dean. • In Week 11, the New York Philharmonic's principal oboe, Liang Wang, collaborates with violinist Benny Kim, New York Philharmonic principal violist Cynthia Phelps, and cellist Ronald Thomas to play Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370. Also in the series, Daniel Phillips demonstrates his affection for the violin sonatas of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber, and Tara Helen O'Connor plays a beautiful Poulenc flute sonata. • Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug, says that many pieces this season reflect the sense of how time flows for certain composers. Examples include Hommage à Mihály András, 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op. 13 by György Kurtág; Rain Spell by Tōru Takemitsu; and the String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46 of Viktor Ullmann. • Above all, the 13-week series celebrates many of the chamber repertoire's most enduring gems. These include the Mozart Divertimento in E-flat Major; two of Bach's celebrated Brandenburg Concertos, No. 2 in F Major and No. 6 B-flat Major; Quartet for the End of Time by Oliver Messiaen; and the Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 by Antonín Dvořák. Violinist William Preucil, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, cellist Mark Kosower and pianist Alessio Bax bring the series to a conclusion with their performance of the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25. Other repertoire comes from composers Bohuslav Martinu, Georg Philipp Telemann, Ástor Piazzolla, Felix Mendelssohn, Zoltán Kodály, Carl Maria Von Weber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and others. Some of the many outstanding performers heard in this series are violinists Benjamin Beilman, 141 Jennifer Frautschi, Jennifer Gilbert, Jessica Lee, Kathleen Brauer, L. P. How, Todd Phillips and William Preucil; bassoon player Christopher Millard; violists Brett Dean; Choong-Jin Chang; Cynthia Phelps; Ida Kavafian; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt; Hsin-Yun Huang and Steven Tenenbom; cellists Clive Greensmith; Eric Kim; Joseph Johnson; Mark Kosower; Peter Stumpf; Ronald Thomas and Timothy Eddy; clarinetists Alan Kay, Carol McGonnell, David Shifrin and Todd Levy; pianists Yefim Bronfman, Alessio Bax, Inon Barnatan, Pei-Yao Wang and Ran Dank; soprano Tony Arnold; trumpeter Caleb Hudson; double bassist Leigh Mesh, and quartets the Dover Quartet, the Johannes String Quartet and Orion String Quartet. Music production for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series is by Grammy awardwinning recording engineer, Matt Snyder. Louise Frank is the series producer. Full program listings and sound samples, along with artist biographies and photos, are available at www.wfmt.com/santafe 142 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Broadcast Schedule — Spring 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-01 March 31, 2015 Bohuslav Martinu: La Revue de Cuisine (1927) Benny Kim, violin; Alan Kay, clarinet; Christopher Millard, bassoon; Caleb Hudson, trumpet; Joseph Johnson, cello; Ran Dank, piano Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34a (1861-64) William Preucil, violin; Benny Kim, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Yefim Bronfman, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-02 April 7, 2015 György Kurtág: Hommage à Mihály András, 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op. 13 (1977) Johannes String Quartet (Soovin Kim, violin; Jessica Lee, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello) Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke” (1811) Martin Beaver, violin; Eric Kim, cello; Yefim Bronfman, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-03 April 14, 2015 Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantasia No. 8 in E Minor (1732-1733) Liang Wang, oboe Ástor Piazzolla: Oblivion (1982) Liang Wang, oboe; Inon Barnatan, piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in E-flat Major, KV. 563 (1788) Ida Kavafian, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello PROGRAM #: SFE 15-04 143 RELEASE: April 21, 2015 Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute & Piano (1956) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Pei-Yao Wang, piano Zoltán Kodály: Serenade, Op. 12 (1919-21) Benny Kim, violin; Benjamin Beilman, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (1719) Benjamin Beilman, violin; Bart Feller, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Caleb Hudson, trumpet: L. P. How, violin; Kathleen Brauer, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-05 April 28, 2015 Tōru Takemitsu: Rain Spell (1982) Bart Feller, flute; Todd Levy, clarinet; Lynn Gorman DeVelder, harp; Inon Barnatan, piano; David Tolen, percussion Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1887) Benjamin Beilman, violin; Benny Kim, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-06 May 6, 2015 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major (1681) Daniel Phillips, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (1858-60) Martin Beaver, violin; Benjamin Beilman, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello; Ronald Thomas, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-07 May 12, 2015 Oliver Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (1940-41) 144 Jennifer Gilbert, violin; Eric Kim, cello; Carol McGonnell, clarinet; Ran Dank, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-08 May 19, 2015 Ludwig van Beethoven: Fugue in D Major for String Quintet, Op. 137 (1817) Dover Quartet (Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello); Cynthia Phelps, viola Viktor Ullmann: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46 (1943) Dover Quartet (Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello) Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34 (1815) David Shifrin, clarinet; Johannes Quartet (Soovin Kim, violin; Jessica Lee, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-09 May 26, 2015 Brett Dean: String Quartet No. 2, "And once I played Ophelia" Text by Matthew Jocelyn after William Shakespeare Co-Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Britten Sinfonia, and Australian String Quartet (2014, U.S. Premiere) Tony Arnold, soprano; Orion String Quartet (Daniel Phillips, violin; Todd Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, KV. 593 (1790) Ida Kavafian, violin; Jessica Lee, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-10 June 2, 2015 Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg No. 6 B-flat Major, BWV 1051 (1721) Cynthia Phelps, viola; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello; Ronald Thomas, cello; Eric Kim, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, 145 harpsichord Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899) Daniel Phillips, violin; Todd Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Ida Kavafian, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello; Peter Stumpf, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-11 June 9, 2015 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370 (1781) Liang Wang, oboe; Benny Kim, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87 (1845) William Preucil, violin; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Brett Dean, viola; Hsin-Yun Huang. viola; Mark Kosower, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-12 June 16, 2015 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonata Violino Solo Representativa in A Major "Representatio Avium" (1669) Daniel Phillips, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord Francis Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano (1926) Liang Wang, oboe; Christopher Millard, bassoon; Inon Barnatan, piano Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” (1808) Benny Kim, violin; Eric Kim, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SFE 15-13 June 23, 2015 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude No. 16 in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5 (1910-03) Prelude No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 Alessio Bax, piano Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861) William Preucil, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Mark Kosower, cello; Alessio Bax, piano 146 PROGRAM: SONG: MIRROR OF THE WORLD with Thomas Hampson Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SMW15 Music, Classical, Vocal 1 hour (58:30) 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments April 2, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Artistic Director and Host: Executive Producers: Producer: Project Manager: Coordinating Producer: Underwriter: Thomas Hampson Thomas Hampson and Steve Robinson Carolyn Paulin Christie Finn Miriam Lewin The Hampsong Foundation Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/34168-song-mirror-of-the-world-with-thomas-hampson This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast between April 2, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Song: Mirror of the World is a 13-week radio series that explores classic song — poetry set to music — as a prism for understanding culture and history. The series builds on the Hampsong Foundation's highly successful Song of America radio series, also co-produced by the WFMT Radio Network. Each one-hour program includes 40-45 minutes of music, drawn from recordings of all eras, and 15-20 minutes of commentary by international opera star, recitalist, and arts and humanities advocate Thomas Hampson. Some programs focus on a particular moment and place in history, while others have a wider chronological and geographic range. 147 Song: Mirror of the World takes a broad, humanities-based approach to the role of song in society. The series explores the relationship of song to cultural movements, historical events, and intellectual thought. There is a special focus on cross-cultural dialogues throughout the European continent, and between Europe and the United States. Writers who collaborated with Mr. Hampson on the series include leading authorities on classic song from American and European universities, as well as radio professionals who contributed to Song of America. Please note that Song: Mirror of the World has extra materials for use on your station website, and to find out more about this rich series! These assets include a 2-minute audio preview of the program hosted by Thomas Hampson. You can find these assets at the links below. Also available for your use are logos, photos, and other supporting information. • Song: Mirror of the World Audio Preview • Song: Mirror of the World on the Hampsong Foundation Website 148 SONG: MIRROR OF THE WORLD With Thomas Hampson, Host Broadcast Schedule – Spring 2015 [as of 2/3/15] PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-01 April 2, 2015 A Diary of Our Times Composers and poets create a powerful diary through classic song—poetry set to music. Starting with Mozart and ending in the 21st century, a variety of intriguing songs open unique windows to particular moments in history. We hear a foretaste of the musicians, writers, and cultural currents that the next twelve programs will explore. Writer: Christie Finn, scholar, soprano, and managing director of the Hampsong Foundation PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-02 April 9, 2015 Vienna, Crossroads of Change At the turn of the 18th century, Imperial Vienna was the setting for political as well as artistic upheaval. A new yearning for individual expression gave Schubert the impetus to forge poetry and music into a fresh, powerful metaphor for human experience. This was the birth of the Lied, the cornerstone of classic song. We hear Schubert’s game-changing song “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” plus masterpieces by Mozart, Reichardt, Weber, and Beethoven. Writer: Morten Solvik, musicologist and director of the Institute for the International Education of Students, Vienna PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-03 April 16, 2015 Singing the Romantic Self The Romantic movement gave birth to a new era of individuality, heralded by the innovative poetry of Goethe and the musical genius of Schubert. The Romantics were also fascinated by the natural and supernatural worlds, which are explored in contrasting settings of Goethe’s eerie poem “Der Erlkönig.” Groundbreaking songs of longing, loneliness, and love, by Beethoven and the Mendelssohn siblings, are also featured. 149 Writer: Scott Burnham, Princeton University PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-04 April 23, 2015 Fascination With the Foreign Hector Berlioz was a political and musical radical. His songs are the framework for looking at life in France and Germany between the revolutionary years of 1830 and 1848, when a fascination with the outside world created passionate interest in Shakespeare, Scotland, and Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Other composers lured by the unknown include Stephen Foster, Robert and Clara Schumann, Robert Franz, and Carl Loewe. Writer: Stephen Rodgers, University of Oregon PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-05 April 30, 2015 Paris, City of Light This program roams the streets of Paris during the fast-changing period of 1840 to 1848, when the French capital was a cradle for literary, artistic, and musical innovation—and a centrifuge for social, philosophical, and political revolution. Artists we meet include Chopin, Liszt, Meyerbeer, and Offenbach, plus Heine, Hugo, and the fable writer La Fontaine. Writer: Benjamin Binder, Duquesne University PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-06 May 7, 2015 Forging a National Consciousness Beginning in 1848, the Year of Revolution, this program explores the role of song as a unifying cultural force in the face of vital political struggles. With the folksongs of their homelands ringing in their ears, composers from Brahms to Duparc, from Mahler to Mussorgsky, took up the torch of nationalism at a moment when worlds were colliding. Writer: Heather Platt, Ball State University PROGRAM #: SMW 15-07 150 RELEASE: May 14, 2015 After Wagner This program illuminates a cultural world living in the shadow of Richard Wagner, and throws light on how a generation of composers responded to him. We also explore the influence of broader currents, from anti-Semitism to feminism to industrialization, and conclude in the late 1890s with riveting songs by Arnold Schoenberg and Hugo Wolf. Writer: Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-08 May 21, 2015 The Fin de Siècle Framed by the innovative songs of Charles Ives, this program explores the decadent and tumultuous years surrounding the turn of the 20th century. From a somber work by Brahms to an erotic song by Debussy and a bitter reaction to war by Korngold, song paints a picture of the worldwide unrest that was starting to take hold. Writer: Sheila Gaffney, freelance radio and screenwriter PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-09 May 28, 2015 The Great War and Its Echoes Song proclaims the patriotism that greeted the start of World War I, and the tragedy that followed, as expressed by composers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the unstable years of peace after 1918, we use the lens of song to examine Surrealism, jazz, and the growing influence of mass technology, plus compelling figures like Josephine Baker and Gertrude Stein. Writer: Laura Tunbridge, University of Oxford PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-10 June 4, 2015 Forbidden Music, Silenced Voices Germany was the land of classical music’s most glorious achievements, but when Hitler came to power, he banned everything written by Jews. That included acknowledged masters like 151 Mendelssohn and Mahler, and musicians whose reputations never recovered, like Karl Goldmark. Also on the list were promising composers forced to flee, such as Alexander Zemlinsky, and those who were murdered, including Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann. Writer: Michael Haas, author of Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-11 June 11, 2015 The New World Order World War II had a deep influence on composers. The program begins with Benjamin Britten’s “Death, Be Not Proud,” then explores how post-war challenges brought a new appreciation of folksong, how atonality gained influence, and how artists coped under repressive regimes. Featured composer/poet pairs include Copland/Dickinson, Bernstein/Rilke, Rorem/Frost, Poulenc/Eluard, and Shostakovich/Chyorny. Writer: Jeff Lunden, freelance arts reporter and producer for NPR PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-12 June 18, 2015 The Return of Melody By the 1970s, there was a re-exploration of all the colors that melody could bring to the human voice and story. Prominent examples include Leonard Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles, William Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs, and cycles by Ned Rorem and Dominick Argento. While the focus of this program remains in the United States, it also expands to include composers from Latin America. Short interviews with five of the composers give perspective to their approaches. Writer: Jeff Lunden, freelance arts reporter and producer for NPR PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SMW 15-13 June 25, 2015 The ’89s To sum up the series, we look at the world in three landmark years: 1789, the year of the French Revolution; 1889, the year of the Paris Exposition; and 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the AIDS epidemic surged up. Music we hear ranges from the Marseillaise to Massenet to John Adams, with Leonard Bernstein as a guiding force. 152 Writer: Christie Finn, scholar, soprano, and managing director of the Hampsong Foundation 153 PROGRAM: SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SCM15 Classical, Chamber Music 59 minutes 13 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 Host: Producers: Recording Engineer: Underwriters: Miles Hoffman Shari Hutchinson, Cathy Bradberry Andrew Shire Bank of America; ETV Endowment of South Carolina Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33742-spoleto-chamber-music-festival This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through June 30, 2016. The WFMT Radio Network is very pleased to announce the syndication of the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival in conjunction with South Carolina ETV Radio. For more than 30 years this 13-week series of 1-hour concerts has showcased world-class musicians from the Spoleto Festival USA. Hosted by NPR commentator Miles Hoffman, these concerts will feature performances recorded live from the historic Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 2014 Spoleto Festival USA. Musicians featured on the series include mezzosoprano Charlotte Hellekant, violist Masumi Rostad, and pianist Pedja Muzijevic, along with performers such cellist David Ying, oboist James Austin Smith, and the members of the renowned St. Lawrence String Quartet. The series includes master works 154 from Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, and Schubert, as well as 21st century music from composer and pianist Stephen Prutsman. Highlights of the series include: • Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Piano Quintet in C Minor, performed by Inon Barnatan, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Masumi Rostad, viola; David Ying, cello; and Anthony Manzo, double bass • A Chamber Arrangement of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major from the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet with pianist Pedja Muzijevic and flutist Tara Helen O'Connor • New music includes a jazz set from pianist Stephen Prutsman and his original work, Color Preludes for Piano Quintet, performed with the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet • Sibling string players Gabriela Diaz and Andres Diaz perform Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 • Vocalist Charlotte Hellekant performs works from Wilhelm Stenhammar to Charles Ives, accompanied by pianist Pedja Muzijevic For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina’s historic theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists, as well as emerging performers in opera, theater, dance, chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music. Founded in 1977, Spoleto Festival USA is internationally recognized as America’s premier performing arts festival. And for over 30 years, South Carolina ETV Radio has brought the Spoleto Chamber Music Series, recorded at the annual Festival, to the national radio audience. 155 SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-01 June 30, 2015 Telemann: Concerto for Oboe in E Minor, TWV 51:e1 James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nutall and Livia Sohn, violins; Gabriela Dias, viola; David Ying, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Saint-Saëns : “Caprice sur des Aires Danois et Russes,” Op.79 Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; and Inon Barnatan, piano Schoenberg: Ein Stelldichein James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Andres Diaz, cello; and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio, K. 498 Todd Palmer, Clarinet; Masumi Rostad, viola; and Pedja Muzijevic, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-02 July 7, 2015 Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49, No.1 Inon Barnatan, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; and David Ying, cello Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa: Partita No. 3 Mark Fewer and Livia Sohn, violins and Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord Brahms: Two Songs, Op. 91 Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano; Masumi Rostad, viola; and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Wieniawski: Etude-Caprice, Op. 18, no. 5 Livia Sohn and Geoff Nuttall, violins PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-03 July 14, 2015 Sarasate : “Nouvelle Fantaisie sur Faust,” Op. 13 Livia Sohn, violin and Pedja Muzijevic, piano 156 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, “The Trout” Inon Barnatan, piano; Geoff Nutall, violin; Gabriela Diaz, viola; David Ying, cello; and Anthony Manzo, double bass Kurtág: “Hommage à Tristan” James Austin Smith, English horn and Todd Palmer, bass clarinet PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-04 July 21, 2015 VaughanWilliams: Piano Quintet in C Minor Inon Barnatan, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Masumi Rostad, viola; David Ying, cello; and Anthony Manzo, double bass Respighi: “Il Tramonto” Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Macmillan: “From Galway” Todd Palmer, clarinet Lanner: Neue Wiener Ländler, Op. 1 Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins; Gabriela Diaz, viol; and Anthony Manzo, double bass PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-05 July 28, 2015 Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 Geoff Nuttall and Daniel Phillips, violins; Masumi Rostad, viola; David Ying, cello Pandolfi: Sonata Op. 3, No. 2 Mark Fewer, violin; David Ying, cello; and Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major (chamber arr.) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; St. Lawrence String Quartet PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-06 August 4, 2015 157 Stenhammar: Ives: Rangström: Britten: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote Memories: A. Very Pleasant, B. Rather Sad Den enda stunden Funeral Blues Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Prutsman: Jazz Set Stephen Prutsman, piano Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478 Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Gabriela Diaz, viola; David Ying, cello PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-07 August 11, 2015 Haydn: Sonata in G Major, H. XVI: 40 Pedja Muzijevic, piano Brahms: Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60, No. 3 Stephen Prutsman, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; Gabriela Diaz, viola; and Andres Diaz, cello Handel: Selections from Giulio Cesare: “Priva son d’ogni conforto” “Deh, piangete, o mesti lumi” Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano; Geoff Nuttall, Mark Fewer, Gabriela Diaz, Daniel Phillips, violins; Masumi Rostad, viola; David Ying, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; and Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-08 August 18, 2015 Martinu: Serenade No. 3 for Oboe, Clarinet, 4 Violins, and Cello, H. 218 James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Gabriela Diaz, Mark Fewer, Livia Sohn, Geoff Nuttall, violins; and David Ying, cello Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 Todd Palmer, clarinet and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Rossini: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra Todd Palmer, Clarinet; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Livia Sohn and Daniel Phillips, violins; Gabriela Diaz, viola; Andres Diaz, cello; and the St. Lawrence String Quartet 158 Monti: Csardas Eric Ruske, horn; Pedja Muzijevic, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-09 August 25, 2015 Crumb: “Vox Balaenae” (Voice of the Whale) Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Chris Costanza, cello; and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Connesson: “Techno-Parade” Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; and Inon Barnatan, piano Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor The St. Lawrence String Quartet PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-10 September 1, 2015 Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 Gabriela Diaz, violin and Andres Diaz, cello Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor (Four Hands) Stephen Prutsman and Pedja Muzijevic, piano Schubert: Grand Duo for Violin and Piano in A Major, D. 574 Livia Sohn, violin and Stephen Prutsman, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-11 September 8, 2015 Süssmayr: Quintetto in D Major Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Livia Sohn, violin; Gabriela Diaz, viola; and Andres Diaz, cello Golijov: String Quartet (2011) St. Lawrence String Quartet von Weber: Grand Duo Concertante in E-flat Major, Op. 48 Todd Palmer, clarinet and Pavel Kolesnikov, piano 159 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-12 September 15, 2015 Fauré: “Élégie,” Op. 24 Andres Diaz, cello and Stephen Prutsman, piano Prutsman: Color Preludes for Piano Quintet Stephen Prutsman, piano and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Ravel: La Valse Pedja Muzijevic and Pavel Kolesnikov, piano PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SCM 15-13 September 22, 2015 Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 The St. Lawrence String Quartet; Gabriela Diaz, viola; and Andres Diaz, cello Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 Pedja Muzijevic, piano and the Brentano String Quartet 160 PROGRAM: BRAVO! VAIL 2014 Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: BVV14 Special, Classical, Festival 1 hour 59 minutes Special PRX and CD One 2 segments March 1, 2015 — February 28, 2016 Producer: Host: Underwriter: Daniel Goldberg Suzanne Nance The Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com This special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast from March 1, 2015 through February 28, 2016. Hailed as one of the Top 10 "Can't Miss" Classical Musical Festivals in the United States by NPR, Bravo! Vail is a destination for innovative programming, top talent, a matchless chamber music series, and is the only Festival in North America to host three world-renowned symphony orchestras—the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra—in a single season. For six weeks every summer, internationally acclaimed soloists, ensembles, and chamber music artists come together in an eclectic and engaging chamber music series with programs of the great classics and tantalizingly new works. While audiences come for a variety of reasons, they stay with Bravo! Vail for the ultimate trifecta: enjoying extraordinary music in the company of great friends and the natural beauty of the Vail Valley. The Bravo Vail! 2014 radio special will focus on the exciting chamber series. “Each season, the Bravo! Vail Chamber Music Series brings together artists who share the same passion for chamber music; the intensity of these groups creates a fresh sense of energy and inspiration rarely found in other settings,” says Anne-Marie McDermott, artistic director of Bravo! Vail. “Audiences can expect many firsts for Bravo! Vail, including the stellar percussion ensemble, Third Coast 161 Percussion, whose concert marks the first time percussion will be highlighted in the series.” Bravo Vail! 2014 will also include solo piano works performed by Anne-Marie McDermott in addition to her collaboration with the acclaimed Calder Quartet, the riveting young ensemble Le Train Bleu, and the vibrant Third Coast Percussion. The concerts feature music that is both familiar and new, including exceptional performances of recent works by contemporary American composers Christopher Rouse, Charles Wuorinen, and John Adams. And classic works of Haydn, Ravel, and Bartok will also be featured in this program. 162 PROGRAM #: BVV 14-01 RELEASE: March 1, 2015 Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and strings (Calder Quartet :Benjamin Jacobson, Andrew Bulbrook, violins; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; Eric Byers, cello; ; Le Train Bleu: Ransom Wilson, flute; Alexey Gorokholinsky, clarinet; Bridget Kibbey, harp) Rouse: Compline for flute, clarinet, harp and strings (Calder Quartet :Benjamin Jacobson, Andrew Bulbrook, violins; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; Eric Byers, cello; ; Le Train Bleu: Christopher Matthews, flute; Alexey Gorokholinsky, clarinet; Bridget Kibbey, harp) Haydn: Piano Sonata in G Major Hoboken XVI: 40-8:20 (Anne-Marie McDermott, piano) Wuorinen: Fourth Piano Sonata- 3rd and 4th Movements (Anne-Marie McDermott, piano) Bartok: Sonata for two pianos and percussion Sz. 10- 3rd Movement (Anne-Marie McDermott, Gilles Vonsattel, pianos; Third Coast Percussion: Robert Dillon, xylophone, bass drum, triangle, snare drum; David Skidmore, timpani, cymbals) Reich: Sextet for percussion, two pianos, and two synthesizers (Anne-Marie McDermott, Gilles Vonsattel, keyboards; Third Coast Percussion: Robert Dillon, David Skidmore, Peter Martin, Sean Conners) Adams: Gnarly Buttons for clarinet and small orchestra (Calder Quartet :Benjamin Jacobson, Andrew Bulbrook, violins; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; Eric Byers, cello; Le Train Bleu: Alexey Gorokholinsky, solo clarinet; Claire Brazaeu, English horn; Saxton Rose, bassoon; Matthew McDonald, trombone; James Moore guitar/banjo/mandolin; James Johnson, piano; Katie Hyun, violin; Alex Shiozaki, violin; Andy Lin, viola; Colin Stokes, cello; and Brian Ellingsen bass; Anne-Marie McDermot, keyboards; Ransom Wilson, conductor) 163 PROGRAM: CHOPIN: IN OUR DAY AND HIS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: CHO15 Classical Music, Documentary 1 hour 57 minutes Special PRX and CD One 2 segments March 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015 Host: Producer: Executive Producer: Underwriter: Jon Tolansky Jon Tolansky Steve Robinson Fondation Résonnance Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/134875-chopin-in-our-day-and-his This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through September 30, 2015. A two-hour documentary with pianist, pedagogue and Chopin specialist Elizabeth Sombart Chopin created a radically new musical language for the piano that was nevertheless strongly influenced by his love of the contemporary folk music from his native country that he was exiled from for the greater part of his creative life, Poland. The unique flavour of his expression was intimately connected to the longing he felt for a world that was vastly different in make-up and feeling from anywhere today, but the power and appeal of his compositions have long outlasted the demise of their environmental origins. However, for the pianist and pedagogue Elizabeth Sombart, the founder of the specialised educational school organised by the Fondation Résonnance, this very survival of Chopin and his particular popularity today presents a great challenge for the performer who lives in such a dissimilar ambience from the far more intimate atmosphere that Chopin evoked. 164 Whereas of course the worlds of all the great 19th century composers were completely different from life as it is today, for Madame Sombart the changed situation brings especially critical issues for the understanding and interpretation of Chopin’s music, which is why after a lifetime of the study of Chopin she has decided to make new recordings here and now of the composer’s works. In this two-hour documentary, she discusses the interpretation of Chopin in our own day and in his day by investigating how Chopin is approached, felt and considered today, how the situation was in his own time, and also how it was in between these nearly two centuries of time apart, that is how Chopin was performed in the early part of the 20th century by great pianists such as Ignacy Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ignaz Friedman and Alfred Cortot. The documentary also quotes from letters of Chopin and written comments that were produced by some of his pupils who revealed his meticulous instructions about style, sound and technique when they studied his works with him. Nevertheless, this feature is not at all an attempt to condition today’s performers and today’s audiences and listeners into an imaginary ideal environment for experiencing Chopin’s music – on the contrary it is a consideration of the many-sided challenges that musicians and audiences of our time have as they approach this composer’s art in our own day and age. This documentary is generously underwritten by the Fondation Résonnance. 165 PROGRAM: THE GREEN ROOM with Lara Downes Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: TGR15 Music, Classical, Interview 1 hour Special PRX One 2 segments May 1, 2015 – April 30, 2016 Host/Producer: Executive Producer: Lara Downes Steve Robinson Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/140361-the-green-room-with-lara-downes This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast between May 1, 2015 and April 30, 2016. The Green Room is a radio series about the real lives of classical musicians, behind the scenes and before the downbeat. Lara Downes’ visits with guest artists in the Green Room expose many topics central to the lives of working musicians, from the hazards of concert touring to the challenges of successful entrepreneurship, from the problems of parenting from the road to the joys of making music together. In this one-hour special we hear from three incredible artists. Join Anne Akiko Meyers in the Green Room as she tells Lara about the challenges and rewards of working and performing while expecting a baby; Jeremy Denk talks about becoming a McArthur Genius Award recipient and his work onstage and off, writing about music and performing; and accomplished pianist Simone Dinnerstein speaks about her breakout success, hosting performances in her home, and much more! Join Lara and her guests as they open up about what it really takes to get to The Green Room. 166 PROGRAM: JULY 4 with LEROY ANDERSON AND THE BOSTON POPS Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: LAJ15 Music, Holiday 59 minutes Special PRX and CD One 2 segments June 1, 2015 – July 31, 2015 Host: Producer: Underwriter: Keith Lockhart Kurt Anderson This program is underwritten in part by the Leroy Anderson Foundation Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/149276?m=false This special will be available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast between June 1 and July 31, 2015. The WFMT Radio Network is very pleased to present Leroy Anderson and the Boston Pops for your July 4th holiday pleasure! This radio special features Leroy Anderson, America’s most popular light music composer, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, which premiered many of his short orchestral miniatures. This special explores how the two came together to make music that will be remembered for generations. Leroy Anderson’s music, including Bugler’s Holiday, Fiddle-Faddle and The Typewriter, are heard with the Boston Pops Orchestra, with conductor Keith Lockhart playing host. Also heard are Anderson’s classic Boston Pops arrangements of George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Meredith Willson. Seiji Ozawa, John Williams and Leroy Anderson all comment on the music. Leroy Anderson and the Boston Pops is produced and hosted by Kurt Anderson, the composer’s son, and is distributed by the WFMT 167 Radio Network to radio stations nationwide free of charge to all stations. Kurt has produced three other public radio special programs on Leroy Anderson that were distributed by National Public Radio and WFMT. This program is underwritten in part by the Leroy Anderson Foundation. 168 PROGRAM: JOSÉ VAN DAM: MASTER SINGER AT 75 Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: JVD15 Music, Classical, Opera, Documentary 1 hour 58 minutes Special PRX and CD One 2 segments August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016 Host: Producer: Executive Producer: Underwriter: Jon Tolansky Jon Tolansky Steve Robinson, Kate Mead A Co-Production with Radio New Zealand Concert Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/149282?m=false This special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through July 31, 2016. Bass-baritone José van Dam is a legend in his own time as one of this and last century’s very greatest and most highly acclaimed operatic actor/singers and also masterly interpreters of art song. With a 50 year career span, from 1960 to 2010, he has sung a truly enormous range of repertoire with a 250 year compass: extending from Bach to Messiaen, it comprised French, German, Italian and Russian opera, French mélodies, German lieder, and oratorio. A top choice bass-baritone of nearly all the most pre-eminent conductors and stage directors of the last half century, and the personal choice of Olivier Messiaen for the title role of his opera St Francois d’Assise, in the theatre he remarkably interpreted his operatic roles in a very wide range of varying productions, displaying his exceptional intellectual and artistic versatility. To celebrate Monsieur van Dam’s 75th birthday, which falls on August 25th, this two hour program features him recalling 169 his life and career and discussing as well as singing some of his favourite repertoire. We hear his magnificent mastery of greatly differing styles and his striking diversity of vocal colours and vivid characterisation across the unusually broad gamut of music he performed, including these works that he not only sings but also talks about: Berlioz – La damnation de Faust Gounod – Faust Wagner – Der Fliegende Hollander Verdi – Don Carlos Massenet – Don Quichotte Saint-Saens – French Melodies Puccini – Gianni Schicchi Charpentier – Louise Debussy – Pelleas et Melisande Ravel – French Melodies Hahn – Ciboulette Berg – Wozzeck Poulenc – French Melodies Messaien – St Francois d’Assise 170 PROGRAM: RUSSIAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE: VOICES FOR THE PEOPLE Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: RML14 Music, Classical, Documentary 2 hours 2 weeks PRX and CD One 2 segments August 1, 2014 – July 31, 2015 Narrator: Producer: Executive Producer: Underwriter: Suzanne Nance Jon Tolansky, Cydne Gillard Steve Robinson Northwestern University Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/33862-russian-music-and-literature-voices-for-the-peopl This special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for 1 broadcast before June 30, 2015. The story of how Russian literature and music in the Tsarist and Soviet eras affected a large sector of people in Russia is vibrantly related by Northwestern University’s Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature Irwin Weil, who since 1966 has been captivating students with his presentations as well as anecdotes from his own vast experience of Russia, where he has been a regular guest speaker, lecturer and researcher for the last 54 years. In this documentary he illustrates how the Russian people, Russian composers such as Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, and also Jewish settlers in Russia were strongly motivated by Russian folktales and folksongs, and he discusses how the poetic and historical writings of dramatists such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Leskov and Yevgeny Yevtushenko inspired composers such as Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich to write operas and other works on deeply Russian themes. The documentary also looks at how authorities both in Imperial and Soviet Russia reacted to the communicative power of music and literature for the people, and additionally it examines the public role of music and literature in post Soviet Russia. Commenting on the latter is the Mariinsky Theatre’s Artistic Director Valery Gergiev, for whom 171 Rodion Schedrin has written his new opera Levsha (The Left-Hander), a satirical picture of the Russian soul based on the folk-style novel by Nikolai Leskov. Maestro Gergiev and Professor Weil are also heard in the context of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Easter Festival railway tour of 2013. This documentary has been made with the generous financial assistance of Northwestern University. 172 PROGRAM: SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2014! Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: SAL15 Classical Music 1 hour 58 minutes 4 weeks, plus 1 optional program PRX and CD One 2 segments April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Host: Producer: Executive Producer: Underwriter: Kerry Frumkin Ben Arnow Steve Robinson Friends of the Salzburg Festival Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/series/34153-salzburg-festival Please Note: This series is available for one broadcast through March 31, 2016! Further Note: You must broadcast the first 4 programs: the final program is optional. The WFMT Radio Network is offering live performances from the world-class Salzburg Festival. The world’s first international music festival and the most renowned, the Salzburg Festival this year continues its over 90-year history of producing and presenting great orchestras, soloists, opera, and theatre in the historic and picturesque Austrian town where Mozart was born. This year’s highlights include the fantastic keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout performing an all-Mozart program with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, led by Ivor Bolton. Also featured in this season’s program is the Vienna Philharmonic with two astounding programs; one with Maestro Riccardo Muti at the podium performing Schubert and Bruckner, and the other with Gustavo Dudamel, who brings works by Strauss and others. Also included this season is an optional fifth program, with baritone Christian Gerhaher performing works by Schubert and Rihm. 173 Salzburg Festival 2014 will include commentary by conductors, administrators, and performers at this year’s Festival, as well as conversations with concert-goers and critics from around the globe. The world’s stars have been drawn to Salzburg for decades, not only for the large-scale concerts in the Grosses Festspielhaus and Felsenreitschule, but for the intimacy and acoustic excellence of the historic Golden Hall of the Mozarteum and the Haus für Mozart. We know you will want to join us for this rare opportunity to visit this remarkable festival, Salzburg Festival 2014! 174 SALZBURG FESTIVAL Broadcast Schedule — Summer 2015 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SAL 15-01 March 31, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOIST: ORCHESTRA: Ivor Bolton Kristian Bezuidenhout, Piano Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Ballet Music from the opera Idomeneo, K 367 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G, K 453 March in D, K 189 Serenade in D, K 185, Antretter Serenade Symphony No. 41 in C, K 551 Jupiter (movements II, III, IV) Allegretto from Piano Sonata No. 10 in C, K 330 PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SAL 15-02 April 7, 2015 CONDUCTOR: ORCHESTRA: Riccardo Muti Vienna Philharmonic Schubert: Bruckner: Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, Tragic” Symphony No. 6 in A Grand Rondeau in A Major, D 951 (Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, piano) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SAL 15-03 April 14, 2015 CONDUCTOR: SOLOISTS: Adam Fischer Martina Janková, soprano; Sophie Rennert, alto; Peter Sonn, tenor; Amitai Pati, tenor; Thomas E. Bauer, bass Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg Salzburg Bach Choir, chorus master Alois Glassner ORCHESTRA: CHORUS: Michael Haydn: Mozart: Mozart: Mozart: Missa sub titulo Sancti Francisci Seraphici, MH 826, St Francis Mass A Little Masonic Cantata, K 623 Symphony No. 36 in C, K 425, Linz Symphony Symphony No. 33 in B Flat, K 319 (movements III, IV; Hermann Minkowski, conductor) PROGRAM #: SAL 15-04 175 RELEASE: April 21, 2015 CONDUCTOR: ORCHESTRA: Gustavo Dudamel Vienna Philharmonic Strauss: Strauss: René Staar: Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Time Recycling (2014) Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (movements IV, V, VI; Zubin Mehta, conductor) PROGRAM #: RELEASE: SAL 15-05 (BONUS PROGRAM) April 28, 2015 Lied Recital SOLOIST: PIANO: Christian Gerhaher, baritone Gerold Huber Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Wolfgang Rihm: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Wolfgang Rihm: Schubert: Schubert: Schubert: Prometheus D 674 Mahomets Gesang D 549 Ganymed Op. 19 No. 3, D 544 An Schwager Kronos D 369 Harfenspieler D 478 / 480 / 479 From Goethe-Lieder (2004/2007): Willst du dir ein gut Leben zimmern / Worte sind der Seele Bild / Heut und ewig / Höchste Gunst / Parabase / Aus Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren Sehnsucht D 123 Am Flusse D 160 Hoffnung D 295 Schäfers Klagelied D 121 Wonne der Wehmut D 260 An den Mond D 296 Nachtgesang D 119 Der du von dem Himmel bist D 224 Jägers Abendlied D 368 Harzreise im Winter (Austrian premiere) Willkommen und Abschied D 767 Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D 200 (Zubin Mehta, conductor) Piano Sonata in C, D 840 (movement IV; Alfred Brendel, piano) 176 PROGRAM: THOMAS HAMPSON AT 60 Code: Genre: Length: Frequency: Delivery Type: Optional Breaks: Segment Count: Air Window: THA15 Music, Classical, Opera, Documentary 2 hours (1:58:30) Special PRX and CD One 2 segments June 1, 2015 – May 31, 2016 Host: Producer: Executive Producer: Underwriter: Jon Tolansky Jon Tolansky Steve Robinson, Olga Buckley A Co-Production with RTÉ lyric fm. Contact Information: Estlin Usher: 773-279-2112, eusher@wfmt.com David Sims: 773-279-2027, dsims@wfmt.com Tony Macaluso: 773-279-2114, tmacaluso@wfmt.com PRX Link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/149280?m=false This special is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through May 31, 2016. Baritone Thomas Hampson has been globally acclaimed not only for his vivid characterisation and stylistic mastery in an exceptionally wide range of opera and song repertoire but also as an outstanding music scholar, writer and teacher. In celebration of his 60th birthday, which falls on June 28th, this two hour feature presents him discussing his life, career, teaching and music from his hugely diverse repertoire, which embraces works from the 17th Century right up to the present time, and in no less than a dozen languages. Thomas Hampson first of all takes us back more than 35 years and tells us how, after initially studying political science, he became a singer and was strongly encouraged and vitally influenced by some of the most eminent musicians and teachers of the time. He then discusses in revealing detail some of the operatic roles and song repertoire for which he has been 177 particularly highly extolled. His opera performances and discussions are covered in the first part of the program, with extracts from works by Mozart, Verdi, Thomas and Britten, and then in the second half of the feature the focus is on song, with music by Schubert, Berlioz, Schumann, Mahler, Foster and Bowles. Additionally, the program looks at his deep commitment to vocal education and the large scale research and study courses he has initiated, and we hear a very strong illustration of him taking a singing master-class with one of the students who was specially selected to take part, at the Manhattan School of Music last year. The music Thomas Hampson sings and discusses is: Bach – Cantata 140: Wachet auf Mozart – Don Giovanni Schubert – Winterreise Berlioz – Irish Melodies Schumann Dichterliebe Verdi – Simon Boccanegra Thomas – Hamlet Mahler – Des Knaben Wunderhorn Foster – American Songs Bowles – Blue Mountain Ballads Britten – Billy Budd 178