WILL-FM: Music and Performance
Old-Time Piano Music Recorded Live at The Blind Pig
12 noon Thursday on Live and Local
Toes were doing some serious tapping when Kevin Kelly hosted a group of old-time piano players at The Blind Pig. Don’t miss the recorded show with five contestants and former contestants participating in the Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria May 24-28. Old-time is a style used in public venues like drinking establishments and ragtime competitions between 1890 and 1929.
Live and Local with Kevin Kelly
Weekdays noon to 1pm
This week we’re covering the Third Annual Jazz Festival at the Iron Post in downtown Urbana, the most active venue for jazz in our communities. Nearly the entire University of Illinois jazz faculty will play at the festival Saturday night, and they’ll join us live on the Wednesday edition of “Live and Local.”
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Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo
9 am-noon weekdays
Why have just a good morning, when you can have a classic morning? Join Vic for his show right after Morning Edition on WILL-FM 90.9. He’ll share classical music and keep you company!
Classics of the Phonograph with John Frayne
11 am Saturday
The slow movements from string quartets seem to be the ones that achieve a separate identity as audience favorites, or encores, perhaps, because these movements are the most likely to allow composers to develop their highest level of melodic invention. I’ll share some famous slow movements by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Barber.
WILL Digital Radio
FM 90.9’s digital service provides three streams of content: FM 90.9 HD1 airs a simulcast of the FM music service; FM 90.9 HD2 airs a 24-hour music service, including programming from the C-24 classical music service and WILL-FM’s locally produced programs. HD3 airs the news and information service, also available on AM 580.
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Cello-Guitar Duo Montana Skies on “Live and Local”
Jonathan and Jennifer Adams are Montana Skies, a cello-guitar fusion duo whose music ranges from Vivaldi to Pink Floyd. They joined Kevin Kelly recently on Live and Local. Here’s a video of a portion of their original work entitle “Locomotion Commotion Potion,” or LCP. Watch the video.
Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
7 pm Friday
I’ll present the C-U Symphony with Steven Larsen, conductor, and Alon Goldstein, pianist. On the program are Alexander Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; and Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor.
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