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Dead Man Walking on Now Is the Time
Masks are worn and removed on Now Is the Time, Saturday, September 13th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. The flutist and composer Katherine Hoover has greatly expanded the literature for her...
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Dancing Loops on Now Is the Time
Two versions of the same piece encircle Now Is the Time, Saturday, September 20th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Mathew Rosenblum wrote Möbius Loop for saxophone quartet and for saxophone quartet...
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Voices of Autumn on Now Is the Time
Say hello to fall on Now Is the Time, Saturday, September 27th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Jonathan Miller conducts Chicago a cappella in his setting of The Fall, a little poem about a boy,...
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Bach Old and New
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday October 4th at 5 pm Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Mahler. Suite from the Orchestral Works of Bach. Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw...
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Uncovered on Now Is the Time
Classical covers pop on Now Is the Time, Saturday, October 4th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Cellist Maya Beiser’s new CD Uncovered ranges over the landscape of hits with aggressive yet nuanced...
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Soliloquy on Now Is the Time
It’s one voice among all on Now Is the Time, Saturday, October 11th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Two concertos—the ultimate one vs. many format—bookend a lone flute on this week’s program....
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Pre-Halloween Suites on Now Is the Time
Let’s have suites before Halloween on Now Is the Time, Saturday, October 25th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. A Prelude, Sarabande, Burlesca, and Gigue make up the Partita (just another name for...
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The Taste of Bach and Harpsichords
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday November 1st, 2014 at 5 pm Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044. Andrew Manze, violin...
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Into the Brightening Air on Now Is the Time
A string quartet and a solo cello breathe on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 8th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Michael Hersch wrote the Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello when he was all of...
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Post-modern Homages on Now Is the Time
Composers praise composers on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 15th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Randall Woolf re-forms, with a string quartet, the phrasings of another century in Franz...
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The stars shine, at Westminster Choir College
My great thanks to James Jordan, director of the Westminster Williamson Voices, for their performance of the last movement of The Consolation of Apollo, “The stars shine.” Their concert Saturday Nov....
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Textures on Now Is the Time
Different quartets evoke different textures on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 22nd at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Geology dominates Paul Lansky’s Textures. It’s for two pianists and two...
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On WRTI Sunday: The Consolation of Apollo, The Waking Sun
WRTI broadcasts The Crossing’s recent premiere of The Consolation of Apollo on Sunday, November 23rd at 3 pm, with David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion. Conducted by Donald Nally, this was...
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Giving Thanks on Now Is the Time
We’re thankful on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 29th at 9 pm at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Film composer Victor Young (Shane, Around the World in Eighty Days) was a benefactor of the music department...
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Bach Secular and Sacred
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, December 6th, 5-6 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, “Coffee Cantata” (c.1735) Bach: Herz und Mund...
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The Piano’s 12 Sides
Maybe Thanksgiving is making us burst at the seams on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 6th at 9 pm, but we’re chock-full of music on this program. There’s not even enough time to play all of Carter...
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El Niño
It’s John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 13th at 9 pm. We’ll fit in as much as we can, since the concert-length work is too long for our one-hour show. Adams...
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Less Than a Week Before Christmas
from Nativity, Domenico Ghirlandaio, c.1480 We’re counting down the days on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 20th at 9 pm. Less Than a Week Before Christmas is David Golub’s work for chorus and...
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Taking Leave of 2014 on Now Is the Time
from Jan Steen, Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, c.1660–1679 The sun turns and we anticipate a new year on Now Is the Time, Saturday, December 27th at 9 pm. Stephen Hartke based The King of the Sun on...
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David Diamond 100th Anniversary
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, January 3rd, 5-6 pm. David Diamond (1915-2005): Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in Two Parts (1940) Diamond: Elegy to the Memory of Maurice Ravel...
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