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Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Inon Barnatan is the soloist in Mozart’s “23rd Piano Concerto”. Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts. Also on the program Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem” and Beethoven’s “5th Symphony”.

Originally commissioned in honor of the centennial of the birth of 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, focusing on the events of this particular day.

Find out how this budding maestro would have the impossible task of filling Arturo Toscanini’s shoes at just 36 years old.

For this year's Opera Gala on Sept. 18, we enjoy a truly phenomenal piece of operatic history brought to life by Opera Southwest’s Artistic Director Anthony Barrese and then brought straight to you, thanks to Afternoon at the Opera.

It’s a famous line.