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Different Trains on Now Is the Time
It’s two large works—one for piano, one for string quartet—on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 2nd at 10 pm. The Sonata for Piano Solo by Judith Lang Zaimont shows its depth through color and a confident...
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Franz Biebl, Ave Maria
WRTI asked some of us to write up brief descriptions of music from our 60th Anniversary Classical Collection. We took listener classical favorites, put them together in a 3-CD set, and gave them as...
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Gerald Finzi, Eclogue for Piano and Strings
The second of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post,...
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Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium
The third of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post,...
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Mozart, Ave verum corpus
The fourth of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post,...
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The theme to The Deer Hunter
The fifth of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post,...
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Randall Thompson, Alleluia
The last of six brief descriptions of music I’ve written up for WRTI’s 60th Anniversary Classical Collection of listener favorites. Here is a fuller description of the project, under the first post,...
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Thrum on Now Is the Time
It’s all movement and angles on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 9th at 10 pm. Sergio Cervetti’s two harpsichord pieces Candombe and Alberada spin and dance, while Elizabeth Brown’s chamber work Liguria...
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Requiem for a Requiem on Now Is the Time
It’s surprising remembrance on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 16th at 10 pm. In her Cantata da Requiem, World War II Poems of Peace, Gloria Coates gathers unlikely texts—including a BBC 1942 weather...
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Now Is the Time: The People United Will Never Be Defeated
It’s a monument of contemporary solo piano literature on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 23rd at 10 pm. Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated is a staggering set of 36 variations on...
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Ancient Stories on Now Is the Time
Stories of suffering and joy define our culture on Now Is the Time, Sunday, June 30th at 10 pm. Elena Ruehr’s Averno sets the poetry of Pulitzer-winning Louise Glück, the 2003–04 U.S. Poet Laureate....
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Englishmen in Germany on Fleisher Discoveries
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, July 6th, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950). Overture to a Comedy (1906/11). Northern Sinfonia, Richard...
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Numbering the Stars on Now Is the Time
We reflect on the Battle of Gettysburg’s 150th Anniversary on Now Is the Time, Sunday, July 7th at 10 pm. Warren Swenson sets the Civil War poetry of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville in Battle Pieces....
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The $100 Guitar Project on Now Is the Time
Two guys buy a cheap guitar and get all their friends to write for it on Now Is the Time, Sunday, July 14th at 10 pm. Nick Didkovsky and Chuck O’Meara set some ground rules: keep the guitar for a week,...
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Smoke and Mirrors on Now Is the Time
Heat isn’t all there is to summer on Now Is the Time, Sunday, July 21st at 10 pm. Gao Hong not only composed Guangxi Impressions, but also plays the pipa, or Chinese lute, on her work, along with the...
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Neither Anvil nor Pulley on Now Is the Time
Out of machinery, music on Now Is the Time, Sunday, July 28th at 10 pm. Dan Trueman combines hi- and lo-tech into gear that audibly shines in neither Anvil nor Pulley. He founded and directs the...
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1935: Ginastera, Berg, Prokofiev on Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org. Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983). Concierto Argentino (1935). Barbara Nissman, piano,...
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For All, on Now Is the Time
Unusual ensembles blend their voices on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 4th at 10 pm. W.A. Mathieu vaulted into stardom among jazz cognoscenti when, at 22, he wrote all the arrangements for the 1959...
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In Bone-Colored Light on Now Is the Time
Stark contrasts play against each other on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 11th at 10 pm. Zeitgeist performs In Bone-Colored Light, Jerome Kitzke’s illumination of a late afternoon in an American...
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The World Beloved on Now Is the Time
The question—What Is American Classical Music?—comes to mind on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 18th at 10 pm. The Symphony No. 1 of John Biggs is in the grand tradition we think of as “American,” with...
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