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Celebrating Beethoven’s birthday this Friday (12/12, rebroadcast Saturday 12/13)
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A Tempo Saturday (12/13 at 7 pm) features an interview with conductor Anthony Parnther, who will lead the New Jersey Symphony's performances of The Messiah and the Philadelphia Orchestra's All-Hollywood New Year's concert.
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Works by Schubert, Scriabin and Joplin, as well as by lesser known composers Emil von Sauer and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.
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Works by Brahms, Zaimont, Ravel, Debussy, Cage, Glass and others this Friday (12/5, rebroadcast Saturday 12/6)
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A Tempo (12/3) features a conversation about the discovery of a document that might represent some of the oldest known pre-cursors of Western music notation, and also includes a preview of this year's Make Music Winter program scheduled for the Winter Solstice.
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We’re heading to the Vienna State Opera for Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/7 3:00 p.m.) for a story awakening love and sight gained that takes place in the 15th century in the mountains of southern France.
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The end is nigh! Well, the end of the year, that is. Welcome to December, and to kick off the month of wishes and gifts, we’re going to be looking at a dozen musicals that opened in New York this month on this week’s Dress Circle (12/7 7:00 p.m.). We’ll be looking at 125 years of musical history, from Victor Herbert’s “The Ameer” in 1899 through to the 2024 revival of “Gypsy” that starred Audra McDonald and Danny Burstein.
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A Tempo this week (11/29) looks at the story and tradition behind Tindley Temple's 68th presentation of this seasonal favorite.
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Concertos by W.A. Mozart and John Foulds this Friday (11/28, rebroadcast Saturday 11/29)
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Germanic paganism mixed with some Early Middle Age Christianity and a splash of Greek tragedy is the recipe for this week’s Sunday Opera (11/30 3:00 p.m.) and the Bayreuth Festival’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin.”
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We’re turning to our third and final (for now) program of Literary Based Musicals on this week’s Dress Circle (11/30 7:00 p.m.), and we’re once again looking at four very different works from Broadway, television, and London's West End.
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Music by a mix of well-known and lesser-heard composers, including Karol Szymanowski, César Franck and Joseph Martin Kraus.