The Evening Concert

As a testament to the popularity of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", arkivmusic.com lists over 200 recordings of these violin concertos.

Ireland, known as the Emerald Isle, has a geographic beauty that's inspired both Irish and non-Irish composers.

Pianist Joyce Yang and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra have one of those "artist-performing group" relationships that borders on the 'magical'.

This week's Evening Concert includes Joyce Yang playing Rachmaninoff's 4th Piano Concerto, classical music of Ireland, Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", Brahms' First Symphony and more.

Ruth Crawford Seeger....that surname, Seeger, sounds mighty familiar ....ah, that's right: Pete Seeger, the great American folksinger.....Ruth is his mom. Her music is heard on part of tonight's Evening Concert.

Conductor Lorin Maazel passed away July 13, 2014 at the age of 84. Tonight's "New York Philharmonic This Week" is a retrospective of his career.

In our culture Hollywood is the destination for many who want to be involved with the "art that includes all arts" (motion pictures). In Mozart's day it was Vienna and the world of opera (opera, in it's time, was -,maybe still yet! - the  "art that includes all arts").

Take two cellos plus orchestra, title it "Antidotum Tarantulae XXI" and wonder like I do what that sounds like!

It's another concert in from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra that links Beethoven with American composer John Adams. Tune in find out what those links are.

Mozart wrote the "Ave verum corpus in 1791. Beethoven's 7th Symphony was written twenty years later, 1811 - 1812. Schubert's 3rd Symphony was written only four years after Beethoven's 7th during the summer of 1815, 200 years ago this year.