Kristina Boerger is the new director of the Augsburg Choir. In this week's Regional Spotlight is a performance of "O Magnum Mysterium," by contemporary Dutch composer Huub de Lange.
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Today’s date marks the anniversary of the first performances of two 20th century chamber works.
On April 25, 1931, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 1 received its premiere performance by the Brosa Quartet at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Accepting the...Episode details...
Right before the rains in the Sonoran Desert, trees turn their branches upward. Cacti reach for the heavens. Lightning and thunder are a prelude to the deluge. When the clouds release their rain, the desert sighs in relief. On this episode of Performance Today, joyful music called Sonoran Storm brings all of those images and sounds to life
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“In an ideal musical world,” says Joan Tower, “a composer should have a friendly, creative, and ongoing working relationship with performers for whom she writes.”
For Tower, who has emerged as one of the most successful American composers of her generation, a friendly, creative, and ongoing...Episode details...
Richard and Pauline Strauss would have made good TV, even today. Jade Simmons, host of our new podcast Decomposed, writes of the complicated relationship between the couple and how we tell the stories of women in classical music history.
Our new podcast Decomposed has covered the dynamics of two classical power couples in its first two episodes -- Robert and Clara Schumann, and Richard and Pauline Strauss. Here are six other classical music power couples you might not have known.
When Edgar Meyer was growing up, there was sort of a family tradition... his father and two uncles played the double bass. Now, Edgar Meyer is THE great double bass virtuoso of our time. On this episode of Performance Today, hear him play a Bottesini double bass concerto with the Nashville Symphony.
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