A number of major American orchestras are in financial crisis this year. In today's show, we'll hear news about the Minnesota Orchestra, whose musicians have been locked out after contract negotiations failed to reach an agreement earlier this week. And we'll hear from conductor Leonard Slatkin about the tricky process of moving forward after a labor crisis is over. Slatkin is music director of the Detroit Symphony, which went through a bitter, six-month musicians' strike last year.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Francis Poulenc: Voyage to Paris and Montparnasse
Jessye Norman, soprano, Dalton Baldwin, piano
Franz Liszt: Etude de Concert No. 3 (A Sigh)
Andre Watts, piano
The Schubert Club, St. Paul
Maurice Ravel: Piece en Forme de Habanera
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet, Steffen Horn, piano
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
Eugene Bozza: Scherzo
Margaret Schenk, flute, Virginia McDowell, oboe, Jae-Won Kim, clarinet, Hunter Gordon, bassoon, Pin-Chun Liu, French horn
Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, Michigan
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins, RV 522, Op. 3, No. 8
Daniel Hope, violin and conductor, Stefan Jackiw, violin, festival musicians
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
Francis Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra, FP 61
Orion Weiss and Anna Polonsky, pianos, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Duke Ellington Festival, Buffalo, New York
Hour 2
Frederic Chopin: Minute Waltz, Op. 64, No. 1
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Matthew Hagle, piano
Jules Massenet: Twilight, from Poemes Pastorale
Rachel Barton Pine, violin, Matthew Hagle, piano
Niccolo Paganini: Excerpts from 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Rockefeller University, New York City
Osvaldo Golijov: Night of the Flying Horses
The Knights, Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, Georgia
Alla Borzova: To The New World
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor
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