Holiday Specials: “Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir” and “Welcome Christmas”
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival return next week.
The Evening Concert
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.
Tonight: The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice
The Christmas Revels Solstice program pre-empts Prairie Performances.
Tonight: Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol and All is Bright: Contemplative Music for Christmas
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is pre-empted this week for two Holiday specials.
Act 3 of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” from Cleveland on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Music Director Franz Welser-Most conducts.
Saint-Saens’ “Organ Symphony” & Schumann’s “Violin Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”
Paul Jacobs is the organ soloist for the Saint-Saens' work, and Isabelle Faust is the violin soloist for the Schumann work.
Handel’s “Messiah” from the Philharmonic on the “Evening Concert”
Helmuth Rilling conducts this concert from the Philharmonic's archives.
“Messiah”, “Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol”, and much more on the week’s “Evening Concert”
The "much more" includes the "Organ Smphony" of Saint-Saens, Act 3 of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", and more holiday music.
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Chamber Music by Dvorak, Ravel and others from New York and Charleston, SC.
You'll also hear music by Enescu and Haydn on tonight's programs.
Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony from Milwaukee on the “Evening Concert”
Also to be heard: Barber's “Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance” and Prokofiev's “Sinfonia concertante for Cello and Orchestra”.
The Cleveland Orchestra and guests perform Act 2 of “Tristan and Isolde”
It's a concert-version of Act 2 of the famous Wagner opera.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
