Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

August 4, 1964

University of Illinois Oratorio Society performs work from Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky.

The west facade of the Krannert Center; the amphitheatre is on the left
By Aries Liang - Own work by the original uploader, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29332296

Classically Black: Leontyne Price

In honor of her 90th birthday, we celebrate her life, her art, and her legacy.

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

Spirituals

A celebration led by Ollie Watts-Davis.

Ollie Watts-Davis featured on WILL-TV's Illinois Pioneers.

Soundstage

The Eastern Symphony Orchestra welcomes some very special guests. 

Portrait of a man from 1889
By C. Brasch, Berlin - http://www.oberlin.edu/library/graphics/SCP/Brahms.gif, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Voices Unite!

Two outstanding college choirs from separate continents join forces to celebrate the unifying power of music. 

Franz Schubert
By Josef Kriehuber - http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/oai:baa.onb.at:3497513, Public Domain.

Masterworks I

An exhibition of virtuosity and some of the greatest storytelling through art and music.

Kirkland Fine Arts Center Main Entrance
By Millikin University - Kirkland Fine Arts Center, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4384439

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

No Strings Attached

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

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

Messiah and Mozart

Treat yourself to Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s Messiah.

Portrait of a Mozart
Wikimedia Commons

The Immortal Beethoven

Sinfonia da Camera helps us celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday.

Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis
By Joseph Karl Stieler - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165990