Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Verdi’s Requiem

Celebration of the anniversary of Giuseppi Verdi’s birth with a performance of his Requiem Mass.

Picture of Giuseppe Verdi.
By Ferdinand Mulnier - Bonhams, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2772735

The Creation

Celebrate the beauty of nature through this performance by the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.

Portrait of Franz Josef Haydn
"Joseph Haydn" by Thomas Hardy (1757-circa 1805) - Unknown. 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

Sounds of Youth

This performances draws from the talent of young people in the Champaign-Urbana area.

hand playing piano
By lecates - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lecates/438919948, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34035793

No Strings Attached

Enjoy this concert by the Illinois Chamber Symphony.

By © Guillaume Piolle /, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914367

Latin Sensations

This concert features lively music sure to set your toes tapping.

Composer George Gershwin at his piano
PBS

Fiery Fiddlin’

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

Violin scroll
Wikimedia Commons

Porgy and Bess

Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra playing selections from this opera from George Gershwin.

Aaron Copland in 1962 from a television special
By CBS Television - eBay itemphoto frontphoto back, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19913210

Music of the Heartland

Enjoy this program of music that defines our country.

George Gershwin (1898 – 1937), an American composer
By unnamed photographer in employ of Bain News Service - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b02101.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the