“Happy Thanksgiving” from WILL’s “The Evening Concert”
Tonight's program is not your usual fare for Thanksgiving. However, we give thanks for the amazing live-in-concert recordings provided to us by our syndicators, including this rarity.
String Quartets by Mendelssohn and Janacek on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
How different, yet how similar string quartets can be, both the compositions themselves and the groups that perform them, tonight being no exception with a quartet by Janacek and one by Mendelssohn...
Christian Tetzlaff plays Dvorak’s “Violin Concerto” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Dvorak was inspired to write his "Violin Concerto" after meeting Joseph Joachim. There's no clear historical record indicating why Joachim never performed it.
Janacek, Sibelius, and a Saariaho Premiere from the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Tonight's LA Philharmonic is a program of "Program" music, which is music without words, often with a descriptive rather than generic title, meant to evoke the feeling, the place, the situation, in sound.
On an Overgrown Path
Georgia Hornbacker joins the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra on violin.