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Wednesday, 6-20 at noon we'll hear music from the graduation recital of violist En-Chi Cheng: Elegie, op. 44 by Alexander Glazunov, Bach's Partita in d minor BWV 1004 as transcribed for viola and the Viola Sonata by Mikhail Glinka.  Performances from student recitals at the Curtis Institute of Music, Wednesdays at noon and Monday evening at 10. 

This week's edition of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys features internationally acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in both words and music.

Sunday evening (6-17) at 11 we'll hear Johan Kvandal's Wind Quintet, the University of Miami Chorale in Sleep by Eric Whitacre and the 10th Symphony by Alexander Moyzes.  Music from the past half-century or so.

Gian Carlo Menotti's first success and still one of the finest of his operas, was Amelia Al Ballo, Amelia Goes to the Ball. He wrote it beginning in 1933 and finished the orchestration in 1937. Members of the Curtis Institute of Music (where Menotti had studied) premiered the opera at the Academy of Music in Phiiladelphia on April 1, 1937, in an English translation by George Mead. A few days later, the same cast presented it in New York, where is was so successful the Metropolitan picked it up and first performed it on March 3, 1938.

Join host Amanda Quist, Associate Professor and Chair of the Conducting, Organ, and Sacred Music Department at Westminster Choir College, as she surveys some of the many choral works based on poem settings. Enjoy this program Sunday (6/17) at 2 pm.

On Friday's Distant Mirror hear the late 13th--early 14th century Tournai Mass, the very first complete mass, that is, the first mass in which the ordinary remained fixed, although the mass movements were composed by several anonymous scribes.  The Trio Medaieval performs.  There's also music of King Henry VIII of England, who, when not beheading wives or detroying monasteries, had time to write some happening tunes, such as the suite "Rose without a Thorn" written while wooing Anne Boleyn. The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble performs.  Join Allan Kelly at 10pm.