Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Porgy and Bess

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

Composer George Gershwin at his piano
PBS

Swing! Swing! Swing!

Celebration of the Allerton Music Barn Festival continues with a tribute to legendary clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman. 

Benny Goodman
By Photo by James Kreigsmann, New York - Original text : eBayfrontback), Public Domain,

Arturo Sandoval

Celebration of the Allerton Music Barn Festival continues with Arturo Sandoval.

Arturo Sandoval accepting an award
http://arturosandoval.com/

Blues & Truth

Celebration of the Allerton Music Barn Festival continues with a tribute to Oliver Nelson.

up close of a saxophone
Wikimedia Commons

60 years of the Jazz Messengers

Celebration of the Allerton Music Barn Festival continues with this musical anniversary. 

The Jazz Messengers of 1985
By Roland Godefroy - Own work, CC BY 2.5

Jazz in July

Enjoy sizzling hot jazz and smooth tunes from the Allerton Music Barn Festival, featuring Nathan and Julie Jordan Gunn

band performing in barn
allerton.illinois.edu

Songs of Love

Eastern Illinois University Choral Ensembles helps us celebrate love.

By Infamous Hussy at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Seraglio, Samson and Seville

Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra is performing works from many of the greats in this concert from Spring 2016, don’t miss it. 

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

The Immortal Beethoven

Sinfonia da Camera celebrates the enduring legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven.

statue of Beethoven
"BEETHON" by Hans Weingartz - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Wikimedia Commons