The Evening Concert

"The New York Philharmonic This Week" is pre-empted for two Holiday Specials....

The Cleveland Orchestra is pre-empted for the Holiday Special...Winter arrived at 4:44 a.m. CT today

Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pre-empted tonight... Winter arrives Wed Dec 21 at 4:44 a.m. CT.

Falla didn't call it a piano concerto, "it" being his "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"....Debussy didn't call "La Mer" a symphony as it more rightly can be classified as a Symphonic poem.

Starting Tuesday night, we'll have some new Holiday specials and some old favorites as well....Happy Holidays from WILL!

While Ravel is often thought of as an amazing orchestrator (he was) his chamber music shares many of the same qualities of textures and sonorities.

Seemingly coming out of the blue, labeled a 'bona fide phenom' by Justin Davidson of NY Magazine's, Julia Adolphe has written a work of high interest...

Tonight's broadcast was recorded in August of this year...you'll hear Tchaikovsky's 1st and Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto.

Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" is still 'fantastic' in so many ways....over 170 years since it's composition, listeners still marvel at it's sonic majesty.....

After the Second World War, actor Christopher Plummer worked with Sir Neville Marriner and others to create the work now known as "A Shakespeare Scenario" using Shakespeare's words and music by Sir William Walton originally frmo the film "Henry V" by Sir Lawrence Olivier.