7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Thursday night March 14 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear another episode of “The Sound of 13”, a program that investigates the intersection between the 13th Amendment and classical music. At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night March 13 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear the California Symphony led by Music Director Donato Cabrera in Tchaikovsky’s “2nd Symphony”, Kodaly's “Dances of Galanta”, and Anna Clyne’s “DANCE for Cello and Orchestra” featuring cellist Inbal Segev.
Tusday night March 12 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Mahler’s “9th Symphony”, one that contains the hallmarks of Mahler’s symphonies — grand scale, profound emotions, and folk-dance themes — capped by an ethereal finale of transcendent rapture.
Monday night March 11 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. EXPO by Magnus Lindberg begins the broadcast and is followed by the Brahms “Violin Concerto” performed by Frank Peter Zimmerman. The program concludes with the “Symphonie fantastique” by Berlioz.
Sunday night March 10 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Schoenberg’s “1st String Quartet” from Lincoln Center followed at 7:00 by music of Gaspar Cassado on Fiesta and at 8:00 by Gateways Radio.
Thursday night March 7 at 7:00 on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear another episode of “The Sound of 13”, a program that investigates the intersection between the 13th Amendment and classical music, tonight featuring William Grant Still's "Sahdji". At 8:00 it’s “The Middle”: a weekly, non-partisan call-in talk show on politics.
Wednesday night March 6 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear the California Symphony led by Music Director Donato Cabrera in Berlioz's “Roman Carnival Overture”, William Walton's “1st Symphony, Ravel's “Mother Goose Suite”, and the radio world premiere of Viet Cuong's “Stargazer”, featuring pianist Sarah Cahill.
Tuesday night March 5 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Bernard Haitink—leads the CSO in Beethoven’s “7th” and Brahms’s “2nd” symphonies in a 2007 broadcast from the CSO’s archives. Also on the program Weber’s “Overture to ‘Der Freischütz’” and Webern’s “Passacaglia for Orchestra”.
Monday night March 4 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. In October of 2022 the Philharmonic returned to the newly renovated David Geffen Hall with Marcos Balter’s Oyá, followed by music of Respighi, John Adams, and Tania León.
Sunday night March 3 at 6:00 on the “Evening Concert” on (WILL)-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Franck’s famous “Violin Sonata” from Lincoln Center followed at 7:00 by “Music from the Pacific Coast” on Fiesta and at 8:00 by Gateways Radio.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
