The Evening Concert

Besides the Gershwin, tonight's broadcast includes music of Ellington and Ives, and music by Zhao Jiping.

The New York Philharmonic is the orchestra performing this program. The "New York Philharmonic This Week" is heard every Thursday night at 7:00 here.

Ms. Young is becoming better known 'in these parts' by way of her guest conducting in the US. The program includes a rarely heard opera overture by Pfitzner (a contemporary of Sibelius).

It's music by composers of the Paris Conservatoire on tonight's "Evening Concert"

Also on the program: Dvorak's "Carnival Overture" and Smetana's "Ma Vlast".

"Rhapsody in Blue", "Cello Concerto", and "The Planets" among the works you'll hear this week.

Messiaen (perhaps most) famous work, the "Quartet for the End of Time" was written while he was a POW during WWII, thus the strong emotional content in the sounds. Leontyne? Some (including me) think she is th egeratest female singer ever.. Decide for yourself.

Tune in tonight at 7:00 to hear America's premier female classical guitarists play a work that should be heard (imho) more often.

Somehow through music history, composer's "5th" symphonies have become landmark works. Here's another one: Bruckner's "5th".

The criticism of Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony sent him into a depression that he was able to overcome with the help of a psychiatrist. The 2nd Symphony is one of the works that came after that breakthrough.