![Composer Gregorio Allegri](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/34384/allegri__medium.jpg)
The Tallis Scholars perform Allegri’s “Miserere” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
In the absence of corroborating evidence the 'story' appears to be true, about Mozart and Allegri's "Miserere", that...
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In the absence of corroborating evidence the 'story' appears to be true, about Mozart and Allegri's "Miserere", that...
Tonight's "Evening Concert" features works written within ten years of each other, the period from
Tangential to the conductor's work of conducting is selecting music to create a "program". Music Director Edo de Waart has put together
This week's "Evening Concert" (Monday, Feb. 2 - Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015) features three other "Three B's": Britten, Bruckner, and Borodin as well as the familiar "Three B's": Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Listeners in Schumann's time thought that his "Symphonic Etudes" were wild and crazy. Ligeti's "Etudes" qualify.....and by contrast, Chopin Mazurkas. . .
As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.
How did Max Bruch (German composer) come to write the famous "Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra"? It turns out that
Prokofiev made five trips to Chicago in his lifetime. During Prokofiev’s last trip to Chicago, in January 1937, he led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in selections from his new, still-unstaged ballet, Romeo and Juliet. Tune in tonight at 7:00 to hear Riccardo Muti's "take" on this classic work.
Alban Berg's "Violin Concerto" is subtitled "To the Memory of an Angel"? Who was the 'angel'?
This week on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Berg’s “Violin Concerto” from Milwaukee, Prokofiev’s “Romeo And Juliet” Suite 4th from the CSO, Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy” Violin Concerto from Pittsburgh, Beethoven’s