Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Music of Titans

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

Gustav Mahler in 1892
By E. Bieber - Kohut, Adolph (1900) "Gustav Mahler", Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Music of Destiny

An exciting offering of acclaimed masterworks and engaging discoveries.

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

The Planets

Enjoy this musical observation of the solar eclipse.

Gustav Holst, c. 1921 (photograph by Herbert Lambert)
By Herbert Lambert (1881–1936) - National Portrait Gallery - Portrait NPG Ax7745; Gustav Theodore Holst, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7667183

Bold and Beautiful

The Illinois Symphony invites you to bask in brilliance of Beethoven, Barber and Brahms.

Portrait of a man from 1889
By C. Brasch, Berlin - http://www.oberlin.edu/library/graphics/SCP/Brahms.gif, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Carmina Burana

Enjoy this performance of Carl Orff’s scenic cantata.

Munich Hall of Fame: Composer Carl Orff (installed in 2009)
By Rufus46 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7032318

The Triumph of Music

The Champaign-Urbana Symphony plays Sibelius and Shostakovich.

A man posing with a violin
Photo courtesy stefanmilenkovich.com

Fiery Fiddlin’

Fiddles and violins abound in this program from the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. 

Violin scroll
Wikimedia Commons

Mahler and Strauss

Join the Champaign-Urbana Symphony in this program of the late Romantic music of Mahler and Strauss.

Gustav Mahler
By E. Bieber - Kohut, Adolph (1900) "Gustav Mahler", Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Saint Matthew Passion

The performance features Sinfonia da Camera, the Central Illinois Children’s Chorus, the University of Illinois Chorale, and the UI Oratorio Society.

man standing at a piano
ianhobson.net

Windless Winter

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

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