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.
Tuesday night April 16 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. The program begins with Sibelius' “Violin Concerto” featuring Jascha Heifetz, followed by Mahler's “Songs of a Wayfarer”, then Strauss’ “Burleske in D Minor” and concludes with Dvořák’s “Cello Concerto”.
Monday night April 15 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky's “Rite of Spring”, Debussy's “La Mer”, and Beethoven's “Symphony No. 7 in A major”. The program differs from the listing in Patterns magazine.
Sunday night April 14 the Evening Concert starts at 5:00 o’clock with the “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”, followed at 6:00 by the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”, at 7:00 by Fiesta, and at 8:00 by Gateways Radio. Music by Beethoven, Brahms, Anonymous, and Florence Price, et.al.
Thursday night April 11 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear another episode of “The Sound of 13”, a program that investigates the intersection between the 13th Amendment and classical music. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night April 10 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the San Francisco Symphony led by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen. You’ll hear Stravinsky’s “The Firebird”, along with Sibelius’s Luonnotar with soprano Golda Schultz, and the United States premiere of Daniel Kidane’s SF Symphony commission, Sun Poem.
Tuesday night April 9 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä returns lead to the CSO in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. The program includes the U.S. premiere of Aino by Jimmy López Bellido, which the CSO co-commissioned.
Monday night April 8 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Prokofiev’s “2nd Piano Concerto”. Alan Gilbert conducts. Also on the program Rachmaninoff’s “2nd Symphony”.
Sunday night April 7 the Evening Concert starts at 5:00 o’clock with the “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”, followed at 6:00 by the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”, at 7:00 by Fiesta, and at 8:00 by Gateways Radio.
Thursday night April 4 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear another episode of “The Sound of 13”, a program that investigates the intersection between the 13th Amendment and classical music. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night April 3 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear the first program in a new season from the San Francisco Symphony led by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen. You’ll hear Trevor Weston’s “Push” and Mahler’s “2nd Symphony”.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
