The Evening Concert

Tusday night January 2 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”.  You’ll hear Dvorak’s “8th Symphony” led by guest conductor Herbert Blomstedt.  Also on the program Dvorak’s “Cello Concerto” featuring soloist Andrei Ioniță.

Monday night January 1 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 we pre-empt “The New York Philharmonic This Week” to bring you a holiday special “New Year’s Day from Vienna”. Christian Thielemann leads the Vienna Philharmonic in favorite waltzes, polkas, and other selections heard on a typical New Years Day concert.

Sunday night December 31 at 6:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Baroque chamber music from Lincoln Center, then from 7:00 – 9:00 it’s the “Minnesota Orchestra New Year’s Celebration”, followed by “Jazz Night in America”, then NPR’s “Toast of the Nation” from 10:00 pm to 2:00 AM.  That’s our New Year’s Eve extended “Evening Concert” schedule.

Thursday night December 28 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival” is pre-empted to bring you a holiday special: “The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays”. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.  

Wednesday night December 27 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is pre-empted so that we can bring you two holiday specials: the “Wind & Rhythm Christmas Special” and “Jingle Them”, also from the producers of “Wind & Rhythm”.

Tuesday night December 26 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast” is pre-empted so that we can bring you two holiday specials: “The Sounds of Kwanzaa” and “The Ballad of the Brown King”.

Monday night December 25 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Sherezade Panthaki, Reginald Mobley, Leif Auruhn Solén, and Jonathon Adams are the vocal soloists with the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus in Handel’s “Messiah”. Masaki Suzuki conducts.

Sunday night December 24 our holiday programs start at 5:00 pm with the “St. Olaf Christmas Festival” followed at 7:00 by “Classical Christmas in Latin America” on “Fiesta” and from 8:00 to 10:00 “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” recorded earlier in the day in Cambridge, England.

Thursday night December 21 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival” is pre-empted to bring you a new holiday special from NPR: “A Paul Winter Solstice” featuring an array of Brazilian guests. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.  

Wednesday night December 20 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is pre-empted so that we can bring you two holiday specials: “In Winter's Glow” and “The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice”.