The Evening Concert

Also on the program Li Huanzhi's :"Spring Festival Overture", music by Zhao Lin, and Piazzolla's "History of the Tango"

Monday night it's the Shanghai Symphony; Tuesday, the CSO with Mozart; Wednesday, more from the Dallas Symphony; Thursday, Beethoven's Violin Concerto from New York; Dvorak from Lincoln Center and the start of a new series "The Cradle That Rocked: Rediscovering Marc Blitzstein"

Urbana-born Conrad Tao host Shanghai Spring... tonight an eclectic (what did you expect? the expected?) program: Barber, Jiping, Crumb, Wen, and Mozart.

Famous songs by Schubert, plus a famous 'musical portrait' of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet from "the Philharmonic".

What 'hasn't" yet been said about Beethoven's "5th Symphony"? Only this: if you've not ever listened to it from start to finish, as in, stop doing whatever you are doing and just listen, then you owe it to yourself to do that tonight, starting at 7 pm.

Bruckner's "Te Deum" was completed in 1884, just a few years before he started the composition of his "9th Symphony".

Meet Alice Sara Ott, if you haven't already. The 28-year-old German pianist's record label Deutsche Grammaphon says that she "..stands among the most compelling artists of her generation".

Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Bruckner's 9th Symphony, and other large works are on this week's schedule. Please join us!

The fourth movement of the Beethoven String Quartet No., 6 is marked "Questo pezzo si deve trattare colla più gran delicatezza" ("This piece is to be played with the greatest delicacy".)

In Mahler's Ninth Symphony there is a section in the first movement that Alban Berg asserted was a "vision of the hereafter."