Prairie Performances

Prairie Performances

with Mel Miller

Thursdays at 7 pm on FM 90.9

Sinfonia da Camera Messiah and Mendelssohn

Sinfonia inaugurates the holiday season with a performance of Mendelssohn’s exuberant “Reformation” Symphony

"Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Aquarell von James Warren Childe 1830" by Eckart Kleßmann. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Mostly Mozart

The mastery of Mozart comes to life through this performance by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.

Portrait of a man
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On an Overgrown Path

Georgia Hornbacker joins the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra on violin.

Violin scroll
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Menahem and Mozart

Enjoy this rare treat as Menahem Pressler joins Ian Hobson and Sinfonia da Camera in an all-Mozart program that is sure to captivate. 

menahem pressler
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Ovations

Eastern Symphony Orchestra joined by tenor sax and choirs to perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Bruckner, and Verdi.

up close of a saxophone
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Mostly Mozart

The mastery of Mozart comes to life through this performance by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart
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Motets by Bach

Local singers and instrumentalists join the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana for this performance of Motets by Johann Sebastian Bach. 

Painting of Johann Sebastian Bach
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The Gathering Grounds

The University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra plays Mozart, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov. 

clarinet up close
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