Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

An Anniversary Celebration

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

Claude Debussy in 1908
By Nadar, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Terra Nostra

Moving music focusing on the relationship between our planet and mankind.

The Solar System, (not to scale) showing the Sun, Inner Planets, Asteroid Belt, Outer Planets, and a comet.
By Harman Smith and Laura Generosa (nee Berwin), graphic artists and contractors to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Public Domain via Wikipedia

Made in the USA

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

John Williams speaks on a microphone
TashTish - CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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