Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Classically Black: Leontyne Price

Celebrate the birthday of the voice of the millennium.

Portrait of Leontyne Price
By Carl Van Vechten - Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3374598

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

Unfinished Business

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

man standing at a piano
ianhobson.net

Classically Black: William Warfield

Learn more about his life and his music.

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

Brass Blowout

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

By Kreuzschnabel (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons

British Bounty

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

County Kerry, Ireland
By Tony Webster from San Francisco, California - Ring of Kerry, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47643835

Beautiful Beethoven

Commemorate Beethoven’s 247th birthday, coming up on December 16.

Painting of Beethoven
"Beethoven" by Joseph Karl Stieler - Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia

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

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

Resurrection

Hear one Mahler's most popular and successful work.

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