This Week (Jan 6 - Jan 10, 2014) on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM
This week on the Evening Concert ..... we start on Monday with a special program on Jerome Moross [myhhr-ROSS]; then Tuesday night at 7:00 it's the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at its "regular" time and day; Wednesday we start a new season of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; then Thursday: "The New York Philharmonic This Week"..... Friday...Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper.
WEEK OF JANUARY 6 –7 – 8 – 9 – 10, 2014
Monday January 6: Special: Jerome Moross Centenary – The Big Country and Beyond
MOROSS: The Big Country (Jerome Moross, conductor; United Artists Orchestra); Frankie and Johnny (Ursula Allen, et.al.; New Zealand S.O./Falletta)
The Golden Apple (Kaye Ballard, et.al.; [(Unnamed) Orchestra/Ben Steinberg]
A Tall Story, for Orchestra (New Zealand S.O./Falletta)
Those Everlasting Blues; Beguine; Parade from Life Can Be Beautiful; Symphony No. 1;
The Last Judgment; The War Lord; Sonata for Piano Duet and String Quartet; Sorry, Wrong Number; Flute Concerto.
[plus excerpts from other composers like R.STRAUSS; COPLAND, ET.AL.]
Tuesday January 7: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#14-01)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
SIBELIUS: Pohjola’s Daughter
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7
LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini
[CSO fill: HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D: Mvts 1 & 3. (CSO/Ton Koopman; Yo-Yo Ma, cello)]
Wednesday January 8: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (#13-14_Bonus Program)
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
BIZET: Carmen Suite
BIZET/ARR: SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy
MENDELSSOHN: Italian Symphony
RAVEL: Bolero
Thursday January 9: The New York Philharmonic This Week (#14-13)
You’ll find the New York Philharmonic here every Thursday night from now on (unless pre-empted)!
[This Listing Differs from the one in Patterns Magazine]
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Thomas Hampson, baritone
COPLAND: Suite from Appalachian Spring
COPLAND: Selections from “Old American Songs, Books 1 & II”: The Dodger; Simple Gifts; The Little Horses; The Golden Willow Tree; The Boatmen's Dance
Cole PORTER: Night and Day; Who Said Gay Paree?;
Where Is the Life that Late I Led?; In the Still of the Night; Begin the Beguine
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
Friday January 10: Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper (perPatterns)
Allerton Barn Music Festival 2013: Swing!, Swing!, Swing! (09/20/13)
University of Illinois Jazz Band; Joel Spencer, conductor; Ken Peplowski, clarinet. Celebrating Benny Goodman and the 75th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall debut.