Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper

fridays at 7 pm on fm 90.9 and 101.1

"Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Aquarell von James Warren Childe 1830" by Eckart Kleßmann. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

February 04, 2019

Classically Black + Lilacs in Bloom

Enjoy back-to-back Prairie Performances. 


William Warfield

By Carl Van Vechten - Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2766732

January 25, 2019

Classically Black: William Warfield

Learn more about his life and his music.


Claude Debussy in 1908

By Nadar, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=983139

January 18, 2019

An Anniversary Celebration

From Debussy to Bernstein, Sinfonia da Camera performs your favorites. 


Picture of Hector Berlioz

Wikimedia Commons

January 11, 2019

Roman Carnival Overture

The premier university orchestra performs a variety of pieces, including this favorite from Hector Berlioz.


Windbeeches, Germany

By Richardfabi - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=236450

January 04, 2019

Windless Winter

The Sinfonia strings and percussion are showcased in an evening of “windless” favorites that spans three centuries.


Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart

Wikimedia Commons

December 28, 2018

Messiah and Mozart

Treat yourself to Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s Messiah.


George Frideric Handel by Balthasar Denner

By attributed to Balthasar Denner - National Portrait Gallery. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6364709

December 07, 2018

Judas Maccabeus

Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana performs Handel's Judas Maccabeus, an oratorio written in 1746, drawn from the Apocrypha of the Bible (First Book of the Maccabees) and the historian Josephus.


Sergei Rachmaninoff

public domain via Wikimedia Commons

November 30, 2018

Resounding Russians

Alexander Toradze is the featured soloist in this performance with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.


John Williams speaks on a microphone

TashTish - CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

November 23, 2018

Made in the USA

A salute to the armed forces along with music from some of our favorite movies.


Gustav Mahler in 1892

By E. Bieber - Kohut, Adolph (1900) "Gustav Mahler" in Berühmte israelitische Männer und Frauen in der Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (Volume 1 ed.), Leipzig, Germany: Druck und Verlag von A. H. Payne, pp. p. 143

November 16, 2018

Music of Titans

Explore Gustav Mahler’s music with the autobiographical Symphony No. 1.


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