The Evening Concert

Tone poems by Richard Strauss tonight: Don Juan and "Till".

The WILL Marathon continues....and in hours 13 and 14 of the 26.2 hour fund-raising marathon, you'll hear the San Francsico Symphony in concert.

The 'Third Piano Concerto" was written after Rachmaninov overcame 'writer's block' by daily reciting aloud positive affirmations (paraphrased) "I will compose again" and "I will compose successful and well-received compositions". It worked!

Schubert's "Winterreise" is one his most moving and poignant works. If you're familiar with it, tune in and enjoy it again. If you aren't familiar with it, tuen in and set aside the time to enjoy this sonic journey.

This week you'll also hear Rachmaninov's "3rd Piano Concerto" and a string quartet by it's "inventor" Franz Joseph Haydn.

Also on the program Brahms' "2nd Piano Trio" and his "need-to-be-hear-more-often-because-they're-great-works" "Libeslieder (Love-Song) Waltzes".

Also on the program: Schumann's "2nd Symphony"

Music Director MTT (Michael Tilson Thomas) conducts. Daniil Trifonov is the piano soloist in one of Chopin's two piano concertos.

Music by Gershwin (An American in Paris), Barber (Overture to the School For Scandal), Ives, Bates and others.

The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra knows how to "get to Carnegie Hall"  (practice, practice, practice!).