The Evening Concert

"Rhapsody in Blue", "Cello Concerto", and "The Planets" among the works you'll hear this week.

Messiaen (perhaps most) famous work, the "Quartet for the End of Time" was written while he was a POW during WWII, thus the strong emotional content in the sounds. Leontyne? Some (including me) think she is th egeratest female singer ever.. Decide for yourself.

Tune in tonight at 7:00 to hear America's premier female classical guitarists play a work that should be heard (imho) more often.

Somehow through music history, composer's "5th" symphonies have become landmark works. Here's another one: Bruckner's "5th".

The criticism of Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony sent him into a depression that he was able to overcome with the help of a psychiatrist. The 2nd Symphony is one of the works that came after that breakthrough.

Carpenter is a new breed of organist; he tours with an organ that uses organ sounds sampled from famous organs around the world.

Music by Rachmaninoff, Haydn, Bruckner, Falla, Mendelssohn, and so many others. Please, join us!

Mnedelssohn's 3rd "Piano Quartet" is his third published work, prodigy-like, at age 16 years!

Beethoven's Third Symphony premiered was 7 April 1805. The work has had a profound impact on composers and their symphonies that followed, including Bruckner.

Stravinsky's "Petrtushka" is, as the composer subtitled the score, "A burlesque in four scenes".