Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Resounding Russians

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

Sergei Rachmaninoff
public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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" 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

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 via Wikimedia Commons.

British Bounty

Prepare to be amazed with musical treasures from the British Isles.

County Kerry, Ireland
By Tony Webster - Ring of Kerry, Ireland, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Fiery Fiddlin’

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

Violin scroll
Wikimedia Commons

No Strings Attached

Violins, the violas, the cellos and the basses take the night off. 

trumpet
By Guillaume Piolle via Wikimedia Commons

Masterworks I

This concert has a definite eastern European accent.

Inside Kirkland Fine Arts Center at Millikin University
millikin.edu/kirkland