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The Tuesday Evening Concert for October 4th is pre-empted by the Vice-Presidential Debate.
We pre-empt tonight's "Evening Concert" to bring you NPR's coverage of the VIce-Presidential Debate.
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.
We pre-empt tonight's "Evening Concert" to bring you NPR's coverage of the VIce-Presidential Debate.
It's all 'American music' on the first program in the new series of live-in-concert recordings from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
on the "Evening Concert", from Milwaukee, Cleveland, New York, and Kalamazoo (!) yes, Kalamazoo....
We also start a new series tonight at 8 pm CT from the "Gilmore International Keyboard Festival" selections by Chopin, Brahms and Beethoven, played by pianists Ingrid Fliter, Richard Goode and Llyr Williams.
While the lyricism in the Violin Concerto sounds spontaneuos, Brahms sweated over every bar of music.*
Sibelius wanted to be a concert violinist. He never achieved that goal, but did write a violin concerto that is part of the (nearly) standard Violin repertoire.
Absolute music is music that is purely for music's sake; there's not a story to tell, just sound to move us. Program music attempts to tell a story or be descriptive, like "Pictures at an Exhibition".
It's the first of the Presidential Debates between the Democratic and repuboican nominees. It could get 'very interesting'!
There's no "debating" that the "Evening Concert" is a great series of recorded-live-in-concert broadcasts.
Chamber music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are in our first hour tonight (7:00 pm CT) and an all-baroque music hour to follow that.