The Evening Concert

2006 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Young Artists Award Winer Ingrid Fliter returns to the Festival to play Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto.

"O, Fortuna" might be the most recognized music by Carl Orff. Hear the enire work that "O, Fortune" comes from: "Carmina Burana" on tonight's "Evening Concert".

Destination? Vienna. Started in 1805, the work had its premiere in December of 1808 in Vienna in a concert hall "in the most bitter cold".

The phrase “speaking truth to power” originates from a Quaker treatise published in 1955 that outlined alternatives to violence and became a cornerstone of the pacifist movement.

[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