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.
Wednesday night July 13 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the second program in a new season from the “Los Angeles Philharmonic”. Soprano Camilla Tilling is the soloist in Mahler’s “4th Symphony”. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel conducts. Also on the program Steven Mackey’s “Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra”.
Tuesday night July 12 at 7:00 on the Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear an award-winning recording of Mahler’s “1st Symphony”. Carlo Maria Giulini conducts. Also on the program Mozart’s “K. 297 Sinfonia concertante” and Prokofiev’s “Classical Symphony”.
Monday night July 11 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Leonard Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic in his “Chichester Psalms”, Bach’s “5th Brandenburg Concerto” and Schumann’s “Mandfred Overture”. Also on the program music by Debussy, and Virgil Thomson.
Sunday night July 10 at 6:00 you'll hear Berg’s “Chamber Concerto” from Santa Fe, followed at 7:00 by Mozart’s “K. 515 Viola Quintet” from Lincoln Center and at 8:00 by “Aura: A Mexican Opera” on “Fiesta!”.
Thursday night July 7 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “The New York Philharmonic This Week” program that was postponed due to the 4th of July Holiday. You’ll hear Strauss’ “Don Quixote” and “Ein Heldenleben”.
Wednesday night July 6 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the first program in a new season from the “Los Angeles Philharmonic”. Soprano Golda Schulz is the soloist in Strauss’ “Four Last Songs’. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel conducts. Also on the program Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration”.
Tuesday night July 5 at 7:00 on the Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast” with their Independence Day program “Variations on “America”. You’ll hear Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture”, Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story”, and more.
Monday night July 4 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 “The New York Philharmonic This Week” is postponed until Thursday of this week so that we can bring you a Fourth of July special “May the Fourth Be With Us! An American Routes Independence Day Then and Now”.
Sunday night July 3 at 6:00 on FM 90.9 the “Evening Concert” starts with Brahms’ “1st Piano Trio” from Santa Fe, followed at 7:00 by Schumann’s “3rd Piano Trio” from Lincoln Center and at 8:00 by music performed by “Great Latino Virtuosi” on “Fiesta!”.
Thursday night June 30 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. You’ll hear Beethoven’s “7th Symphony” and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Sinfonietta No. 2”. Also on the program music of Purcell, Kidane and Salmenhaara.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
