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Prelude and Excursion on Now Is the Time
We turn the corner into a new year of Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 3rd at 9 pm. Kevin McCarter’s Prelude and Excursion for orchestra leads into a sacred new year’s dedication for chorus by Carson...
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Three of a Kind on Now Is the Time
Everything’s coming up threes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 10th at 9 pm. Childlike simplicity is deceptive in creativity but Brian Belet achieves that goal in Drei Kinderstücke for solo piano....
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Winter Spirits on Now Is the Time
It’s time for some warmth in the midst of winter on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 24th at 9 pm. From The Crossing’s 2013 Christmas Daybreak CD is Benjamin C. S. Boyle’s Three Carols for...
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Ice Canyons on Now Is the Time
It’s ice and echoes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, January 31st at 9 pm Eastern on the all-classical stream at wrti.org and WRTI-HD2. Figure-skating and Stravinsky inspire Joan Tower’s gliding...
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1915: Waldteufel and Taneyev
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, February 7th, 5-6 pm. Émile Waldteufel (1837-1915). The Skater Waltz (1882) Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915). Suite de concert (1909) Émile Waldteufel...
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Many Times on Now Is the Time
Ancia Saxophone Quartet Everything’s numbered on Now Is the Time, Saturday, February 21st at 9 pm. Rudy Davenport comes up with Seven Innocent Dances for harpsichord, and for piano are the Bagatelles...
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Elusive Dreams on Now Is the Time
It’s all whispers and shadows on Now Is the Time, Saturday, February 28th at 9 pm. Deliciously riffing on Shakespeare takes us to where comedy, tears, and romance meet, in Daron Hagen’s Much Ado for...
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Karl Goldmark Had Character Enough
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, March 7th, 5-6 pm. Karl Goldmark (1830–1915). Overture to Penthesilea (1879) Goldmark. Violin Concerto No. 1 (1877) Continuing our survey of the...
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All Viola on Now Is the Time
duoJalal The spotlight is on the alto of the string section on Now Is the Time, Saturday, March 7th at 9 pm. John Harbison’s sumptuous Viola Concerto starts the program off, and then duoJalal...
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Seagulls In This Blue Room
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 3 Mar 2014, as Composing “In This Blue Room”] They thrill me here, the seagulls. Above the Beneficial Savings Bank building on Broad at Chew Avenue, a block...
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Women at the Cross on Now Is the Time
Two Philadelphia composers explore sacred themes on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 4th at 9 pm. Holy the Firm is the song cycle by James Primosch on texts by Denise Levertov, Annie Dillard, Susan...
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Paul Dukas 150th Anniversary
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, April 4th, 5-6 pm. Paul Dukas (1865–1935). The Sorceror’s Apprentice (1897) Dukas. Symphony in C (1896) Paul Dukas, age 30 There’s one Paul Dukas...
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Passover and Remembering on Now Is the Time
Passover passes and remembrance continues on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 11th at 9 pm. The composer and guitarist David Leisner tells the story, in Acrobats, of circus performers on a...
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Available Forms on Now Is the Time
Forms traditional, and those not so, arise on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 18th at 9 pm. Composers often wrestle over titles, hoping to trumpet putative musical originality with a never-seen-before...
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Tango Nuevo on Now Is the Time
from the CD Entangoed, Eliane Lust, piano The tango spins and snaps to a halt on Now Is the Time, Saturday, April 25th at 9 pm. If there’s a meaning behind Mean Old Pony Tango by Michael Kurth, we’ll...
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1915: Richard Strauss, An Alpine Symphony
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, May 2nd, 5-6 pm. Richard Strauss (1864-1949). An Alpine Symphony (1915) The Zugspitze, the Alps, near the home of Richard Strauss,...
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Unseen Sounds on Now Is the Time
We can almost see the music on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 2nd at 9 pm. Robert Moran took snippets of words from a 30-year correspondence with John Cage and worked them into this delicious...
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Streetscape on Now Is the Time
It’s all spontaneous fun this weekend on Now Is the Time, Saturday, May 23rd at 9 pm. Paavo Järvi conducts a substantial orchestral work by Charles Coleman, Streetscape, then Patrick Beckman plays his...
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Jacques Ibert 125th Anniversary
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, June 6th, 5-6 pm. Jacques Ibert (1890-1962). The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1920) Ibert. Escales (1922) Ibert. Divertissement (1929) Since his name...
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Threads on Now Is the Time
We are all connected on Now Is the Time, Saturday, June 20th at 9 pm. We just learned that composer Brian Fennelly passed away on Wednesday; his loving celebration of his granddaughter was already...
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