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Enjoy past interviews and performances in the Live and Local archive.

July 17, 2014:

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Host Roger Cooper brings you outstanding classical music from central Illinois orchestras and ensembles, including many artists from the U of I.

August 01, 2014:

Jupiter Quartet—Plus!

Host Roger Cooper presents the 2013 Allerton Music Barn Festival's Jupiter Quartet-Plus! concert with pianist Wuna Meng and horn player Bernhard Scully.

July 31, 2014:

Yefim Bronfman Plays Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM, 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” pianist Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic. Alan Gilbert conducts. Also on the program Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Ravel’s Alborado del gracioso. The program differs from the one listed in Patterns Magazine.

John Frayne's weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century.

August 02, 2014:

Gabrieli Compositions

 Andrea Gabrieli and his nephew Giovanni were organists and music directors at the Cathedral of St. Mark in the days of Venice's glory, from the late 16th century to the early 17th century. They wrote multi-voiced compositions for the great cathedral in Venice, and over the past decades, performers have tired to record and duplicate the original sounds of their splendid pieces in the same cathedral or other locations.  We will hear some of these records. 

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August 02, 2014:

BILLY BUDD

(Britten) Los Angeles Opera production with Conlon, conductor, and Bonner, Croft, Grimsley, Michaels-Moore and the LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus.