7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Thursday night November 9 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”. You’ll hear Brahms’ “Opus 111 String Quintet in G Major”. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, live, call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night November 8 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. You’ll hear a program of Baroque music with guest conductor Nicholas McGegan leading the orchestra in Handel’s “1st Water Music Suite”, a suite from Rameau’s “Nais” and two concertos by Vivaldi.
CORRECTED: Tuesday night November at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. It's a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the CSO's founder and first Music DIrector/Conductor Frederick Stock, with music by Mendelssohn, Bartok, Elgar, Scriabin and Paganini.
Monday night November 6 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Alan Gilbert conducts the Philharmonic in Beethoven’s “8th Symphony” and Brahms’ “4th Symphony”. Also on the program a “Concerto for 4 Violins” by Vivaldi and Berg’s “Violin Concerto”.
Sunday night November 5 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Schubert’s “D. 887 String Quartet” from Lincoln Center followed at 7:00 by “Hidden Treasures of Brazil” on “Fiesta” and at 8:00 by James V. Cockerham’s “Fantasia” on “Gateways Radio”.
Thursday night November 2 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”. You’ll hear Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet” played by the Dover Quartet. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, live, call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night November 1 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. You’ll hear Sibelius’ “Night Ride and Sunrise” Symphonic Poem and Beethoven’s “3rd Symphony”, the ‘Eroica’. Also on the program Baibe Skride is the violin soloist in a work by Sebastian Currier.
Tuesday night October 31 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Martin Helmchen is the soloist in Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto. Also on the program, Shostakovich’s 8th Symphony. Vladimir Jurowski guest conducts.
Monday night October 30 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” with a “Playlist” program called “There, In the Night” with music for night-time, like Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Schoenberg’s “Transfigured Night”.
Sunday night October 29 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Tchaikovsky’s 2nd String Quartet from Lincoln Center followed at 7:00 by music for the Day of the Dead on “Fiesta” and at 8:00 by Florence Price’s “2nd Violin Concerto” on “Gateways Radio”.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
