The Evening Concert

It's a New Year (2018!) and with that we start of two new series on Wednesday and Thursday evenings: the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Favorite waltzes and polkas of the Strauss'.

Susan Babini is the soloist for the "Rhapsody"; Music Director Edo de Waart conducts...

That would be the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and our own East Central Illinois Youth Orchestra ranks right up there with them....(although we're not going to hear from them tonight, alas...)

Storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson hosts this program of tales and traditions for Kwanzaa. Corva Coleman hosts the hour with the Spelman and Morehouse Glee Clubs as they sing spirituals and carols.

The program was performed and recorded less than 24 hours ago!

"...of Nine Lessons and Carols, "A Seaso's Griot 2017" and Glee Club music from Morehouse and Spelman, an amazing Youth orchestra and more.

Tonight's first special, "In Italia" is an hour of Renaissance era Holiday music; the second special is an hour of Baroque-era music from the "New World".

This Holiday special brings together the best recordings from the years of "Christmas Revels" live programs (not including this year's Venetian Celebration.

The concert was recorded at New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 2016.