Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

The Bachs

Enjoy this concert with the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana or B.A.Ch conducted by Joseph Baldwin.

Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 61) in a portrait
By Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Unfinished Business

Sinfonia da Camera is getting down to business in this week's program. 

man standing at a piano
ianhobson.net

Roman Carnival Overture

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

Picture of Hector Berlioz
Wikimedia Commons

August 4, 1964

This performance follows the events of this day during Lyndon Johnson's presidency.

President Lyndon B. Johnson Photo. Photo by Arnold Newman.
https://www.goodfreephotos.com

Inspired by Shakespeare

Enjoy an evening of romantic tragedy inspired by the Bard himself.

William Shakespeare 1609
By Unknown - The Washington Times, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Brass Blowout

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra is literally tooting their own horns in this concert.

brass instrustments
By Kreuzschnabel (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons

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