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Carols and Cheer 2018

Scott Blankenship and T. Mychael Rambo review their favorite carols this holiday season. Audiences will love singing along as they share their top picks for the Christmas season, performed by today's leading artists and ensembles.


Carols and Cheer

The SPCO

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Terry Blain

In recent years, the musicians of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra have tackled many new challenges. To recognize their efforts, the orchestra will hold a Musician Appreciation Concert on Thursday night, featuring the orchestra's artistic director and principal violin, Kyu-Young Kim.


SPCO in rehearsal at the remodeled Ordway

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SPCO performers to get all proceeds from Thursday's Musician Appreciation Concert

A day-by-day guide to all of our special holiday programming for the 2018 season.


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Classical Holiday Programming Schedule

Alison Young

Jeremy Denk plays one of his favorite pieces, Beethoven's 'Emperor Concerto,' this weekend with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Find out why the pianist loves the work so much and hear his performance Saturday night during Classical MPR's live broadcast of the SPCO's season-opening concert.


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Listen live: Jeremy Denk explores Beethoven's 'Emperor Concerto' with the SPCO

From Bach to Beat Box is an ambitious project that involves tossing the music of J.S. Bach into a hungry arena of performers, including rapper Terrell Woods (aka Carnage the Executioner), folk-classical string duo the OK Factor, and the classically trained jazz pianist Samuel Rosenstone. It's the latest creation of Mischa Santora's Minneapolis Music Company.


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From Bach to Beat Box puts classical music through a cross-genre grinder

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For the first time since 2014, much-beloved former Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra artistic partner and international pop star Bobby McFerrin returns to Minnesota with his ensemble Voicestra for eight performances at the Dakota in Minneapolis.


Bobby McFerrin: Circlesong for 60,000 (excerpt)

Bobby McFerrin returns to Minnesota with his Voicestra for 8 shows

Hannah Lash - Moth Sketches

This Saturday at 8 p.m., join Alison Young on Classical MPR for our live broadcast of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, featuring compositions by American composer Hannah Lash, Igor Stravinsky and more.


Simple Symphony and Fancy Fiddling with the SPCO and Hannah Lash

Patricia Kopatchinskaja leads the SPCO in 'Fragments'

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast sharing behind-the-scenes stories about a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesdays and at 9 a.m. on Saturdays.


Julie Amacher

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performed with artistic partner Patricia Kopatchinskaja in a program that explored the mystery behind various incomplete musical fragments as well as music from their Grammy-winning album, Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet.


Patricia Kopatchinskaja

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja explores musical fragments with the SPCO

Here's a calendar with all of the Voices of Spring programming for April.


Choral Stream

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Voices of Spring programming calendar

Join Alison Young in celebrating Easter with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's performance of Handel's 'Messiah,' a piece who's message continues to resonate nearly 300 years later.
