Like “Scheherazade”? Tonight’s your night! it’s a concert recording from San Francisco
My father did not know Charles Ives and neither did John Adams' father. However, the composer explains himself below....
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.
It’s “Italian Opera Masterworks” on tonight’s “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Braodcast”
Music by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Boito, from the CSO helmed by Maestro Riccardo Muti.
It’s “A Night at the Opera” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”
Central to the broadcast is a complete performance of Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle"
This week’s “Evening Concert"s have a mix of favorites and less-often heard works…
Faves like "Scheherazade" and the Brahms' "Violin Concerto" and less-often heard works like Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" and music by Elliott Carter.
Chamber music by Dvorak, Prokofiev, Bach, Bridge, and Beethoven on the"Evening Concert”
At 7:00 it's the "Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center", at 8:00 it's “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”.
One can always count on audience favorites from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
And tonight those are Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto" and Dvorak's "New World Symphony".
Tonight’s “Evening Concert” features music by Strauss, Bartok, and Michael Tilson Thomas
"I am Richard Strauss". That's an exact quote from the composer heard by US troops when he answered the knock on his door by US troops during WWII.
Bruckner’s “4th Symphony” played by the CSO on the “WILL Marathon”
Tonight between 7 and 9 pm you have an opportunity to directly pledge support for the "Evening Concerrt" series, and, of course, other WILL programs that you have in your life.
“Music Director Profiles #1: Pierre Boulez” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”
Tonight's "Evening Concert" is an eclectic program with complete shorter works and excerpts from larger works, recordings Boulez made with the NYP.
Concerts this week from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Santa Fe
Music by Wagner, Bruckner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and others on the programs.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
