The Evening Concert

[cue 'Jeopardy' theme music]. "Alex, I'll take American composers for $1000: The composers on tonight's program are all graduates of the same American Conservatory."

Composer's whose names start with "B" are found throughout this week's Evening Concert.

There's Baroque chamber music at 7:00 and Chopin, Rachmaninoff and others' piano music from the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival at 8:00 on tonight's Evening Concert.

"The Five" was a group of Russian composers in the 19th century. Two of these (Mussorgsky, Borodin, Shostakovich) were in the group. One wasn't.

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.