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This broadcast Monday (6/29 at 8 pm) features the Brooklyn-based ensemble's recent concert at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park.
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic in Charles Ives' Holiday Symphony and Marc Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony, featuring Orson Welles, Andrea Velis, David Watson and the Choral Arts Society.
This broadcast features Khachaturian’s Third Symphony led by Leopold Stokowski, John Williams’s Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra with Yo-Yo Ma under the baton of Williams himself. Also on the broadcast: Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, and Franck’s Symphony in D minor.
German violinist Isabelle Faust brings intensity and lyricism to Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, while Susanna Mälkki leads the Danish National Symphony Orchestra through a pair of Sibelius symphonies: No. 6 and No. 7.
As we wrap up our Fiscal-Year Membership Drive, we will not be airing Pipedreams or Millennium of Music on Monday June 29. The programs will return as usual next Monday. Thank you for your understanding and your support.
Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "George Gershwin" - Bill shares how Gershwin’s life and work 'flashed across the world like a comet,' and gives fresh insights into the people and experiences that shaped him.
The Piano Matters - Wednesdays at 3 PM and Sundays at noon. **The Piano Matters will be pre-empted on Wednesday June 24 - hear the episode Sunday June 28!
Between the Keys - Fridays at 3 PM and Saturdays at 6 PM
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Celebrate American. Piano Music in all of its glorious diversity, this Friday (6/26, rebroadcast Saturday 6/27)
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