Music by Ives and Blitzstein on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” with a program from the Philharmonic archives led by Leonard Bernstein. Orson Welles is the narrator for Marc Blitzstein’s “Airborne Symphony”. Also on the program Charles Ives’ “Holidays Symphony”.

Monday June 8: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP 20-37)

America, the Beautiful

IVES: Holidays Symphony (Leonard Bernstein, conductor)

BLITZTEIN: Airborne Symphony (Orson Welles, narrator; Andrea Velis, tenor; David Watson; Choral Arts Society; Leonard Bernstein, conductor)