Music by Gershwin, Beethoven, Schubert and others on this week’s “Evening Concert”
This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear an all-American program on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”, then Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” from Chicago, Beethoven’s “7th Symphony” from San Francisco, Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony from Pittsburgh, and Sunday chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.
WILL-FM: The Evening Concert: WEEK OF MAY 28 –29 – 30 – 31 & JUNE 3, 2018
Monday May 28: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 18-35) Memorial Day 2018
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL
IVES: Holidays Symphony
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
BLITZSTEIN: Airborne Symphony
Orson Welles, narrator, Andrea Velis, tenor, David Watson, baritone, Choral Arts Society, and Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Tuesday May 29: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 18-22)
Marin Alsop conducts American Music
Anna Clyne (b. 1970 what?): Masquerade
Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Jon Kimura Parker, piano)
Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70
[CSO fill: Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa, conductor)]
[fill CSO: John Williams: Excerpts from Lincoln John Williams, Cond.]
Wednesday May 30: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 18-09)
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Alexander Barantschik, violin
Beethoven: Romance in G major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 40
Beethoven: Romance in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 50
Mason Bates (b. 1970?): The B-Sides (San Francisco Symphony commission)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 93
ENCORE: Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Thursday May 31: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 17-18_09)
MOZART: Overture to “Idomeneo”
MOZART: Concerto for Flute No.1 in G Major, K. 313
[fill: ENCORE: BACH: Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1005]
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, “The Great”
[fill: SCHUBERT: Rondo in A Major for Violin, D. 438; Pinchas Zukerman, violin and cond.]
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Lorna McGhee, flute
Sunday June 3: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 17-36)
Shostakovich Quartet
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 11 in F minor for Strings, Op. 122 Jerusalem Quartet
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 2 in A major for Strings, Op. 68 Jerusalem Quartet
AND
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFS 18-10)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 (1794-95)
Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Mark Kosower, cello
(Performance: July 24, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)
MAX BRUCH: String Octet (1920)
Martin Beaver & Owen Dalby, violin; Ida Kavafian, viola; Mark Tatum, bass; Orion String Quartet: Todd Phillips & Daniel Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello
(Performance: August 3, 2017, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art)