The Evening Concert

Classic Mornings

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.

Gershwin
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 An all-American music program from the New York Philharmonic

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”.  It’s an all-American music program with Gershwin’s “Catfish Row Symphonic Suite”, marches by Sousa, and songs by Cole Porter. Also on the program selections from musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe.

Dvorak
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This week’s “Evening Concert"s start with Gershwin and end with Dvorak

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Gershwin’s “Catfish Row Symphonic Suite” from New York, Brahms’ “2nd Symphony” from Chicago, Beethoven’s “3rd Cello Sonata” from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Mahler’s “6th Symphony” from San Francisco, then Sunday Mendelssohn’s “Op. 1 Piano Quartet” from Lincoln Center and Dvorak’s “String Sextet” from Santa Fe.

Stravinsky
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Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” two-piano version

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in a two-piano version on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear Dvorak’s “Piano Quintet” on the “Santa Fe Chamber Music” series.

Mozart
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Robert Levin plays Mozart’s “20th Piano Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Robert Levin is the soloist in Mozart’s “20th Piano Concerto”. Manfred Honeck conducts. Also on the program, Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony and the “1st Horn Concerto” with soloist William Caballero”.

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Hilary Hahn plays Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Hilary Hahn is the soloist in Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto”. Marin Alsop guest conducts. Also on the program Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture” and Rachmaninov’s “2nd Symphony”.

Dvorak
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Music from Mozart to Dvorak and many in between: The “Evening Concert”

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mozart’s “23rd Piano Concerto” from New York, Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto” from Chicago, Berg’s “Violin Concerto” from Berlin,  Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony from Pittsburgh, then Sunday Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in a two-piano version from Lincoln Center and Dvorak’s “Piano Quintet” from Santa Fe.

Francis Poulenc
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Poulenc’s “Sonata for Two Clarinets”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Poulenc’s “Sonata for Two Clarinets” on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear music from a new release “Song of Beasts: Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Song” on “Early Music Now”.

Illinois Arts Council Agency

These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.