Regional Spotlight™

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Regional Spotlight: Kate Hamilton and Sonja Harasim

Steve Staruch can be heard on Classical Minnesota Public Radio on Monday mornings and at other times during the week. Prior to joining the staff of MPR in 2004, Steve presented a variety of radio programs on WCAL in Northfield, Minn., where he created an immensely popular call-in program, and on WXXI in Rochester, New York. Outside radio, Steve also enjoys work as a freelance tenor and violist. Steve and his wife, Naomi, enjoy traveling, gardening and hosting dinner parties.


Steve Staruch

As the wind starts to blow a bit colder this October, Regional Spotlight features a performance with some spice!


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Regional Spotlight: Diotima String Quartet

The Diotima Quartet performed one of the most autumnal-sounding works by Brahms earlier this year as guest artists with the Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Minn.


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Moveable Feast: Duluth

John Birge has been hosting, producing and performing classical music for more than 25 years. Since 1997, he has been hosting on Minnesota Public Radio's Classical Music Service. He played French horn for the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra and performed with them on their centennial tour of Europe in 1995. He was trained at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Eastman School of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy.


John Birge

This week on Moveable Feast, John Birge and Rachel Hutton are looking north to Duluth in anticipation of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra's season opener this weekend.


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Moveable Feast: A Brew Sleuth's Duluth

Minnesota Bach Ensemble: Concerto for violin and oboe

This week's Regional Spotlight is a work that inspires us to ponder the legacy of JS Bach. It's performed by the Minnesota Bach Ensemble in a recording from Sundin Music Hall.


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Regional Spotlight: Minnesota Bach Ensemble

Alison Young interviews Mark Mandarano

Alison Young

Mark Mandarano, Director of Instrumental Music at Macalester College, is bringing together a group of the finest string players in town for a concert at Mairs Concert Hall on Saturday.


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Regional Spotlight: A peppery performance

The Artaria String Quartet's peppery peformance of Erwin Schulhoff's String Quartet No. 1 is in this week's Regional Spotlight.


Wagner's

Cast members from the Minnesota Concert Opera "Mini Ring" sing in the Maud Moon Weyerhauser Music Studio.


Wagner's "Mini Ring"

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Regional Spotlight: Music on the Hill

In this week's Regional Spotlight, we have a performance that's perfect for fall from the Music on the Hill series in Mankato, Minn.


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Regional Spotlight: A mirror of the natural world

Simple and unadorned, David Maslanka's Quintet for Wind No. 3 is a mirror of the natural world.


On both Sunday and Monday at 2 p.m., Copper Street Brass Quintet will perform at the Minnesota State Fair on the stage at the MPR booth, located near the corner of Judson and Nelson. Founded in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2007, the Copper Street Brass Quintet (or CSBQ) relocated to Minneapolis in 2008.
