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 Every weekday, WPR host Norman Gilliland shares "The Midday" with listeners of the NPR News & Classical Music Service stations. He plays music, interviews musicians, and holds the popular Midday Quiz at about 12:30pm CT.
The Midday Quiz numbers are:
Toll Free 800-442-7106
or in Madison 263-1236
or email at Midday@wpr.org.
THE MIDDAY QUIZ
THE MIDDAY INTERVIEWS
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Monday, January 16, 2012: Norman talked with violinist Naha Greenholtz
who was recently named the new Concertmaster for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. She was born in Kyoto, Japan and
raised in Canada. She made her solo debut at the age of 14 playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra. She received her BM from the Juilliard School in 2007.
Ms. Greenholtz played live from Studio One in Madison with pianist Jeannie Yu. She performed the first, third and final movements
from Franck's Sonata in A for Violin and Piano and Elgar's Salute to Love.
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Friday, December 16, 2011: Norman welcomed the Ekaterinburg Classical Trio aka "The Kat Trio"
back to WPR's Studio One in Madison for a live Midday Recital. Current members of the trio include violinist Victoria Gorbich, clarinetist Vladislav Gorbich and
pianist Julie Page. They played music by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Bruch, Bohm, Gershwin and Frolov.
The trio has released ten CD's since their formation in 1998 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. They are now touring as "artists-in-residence"
with Wisconsin Public Radio and the Chazen Museum of Art.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011: Norman interviews Trevor Stephenson,
harpsichordist and Artistic Director of the Madison Bach Musicians.
They will be performing their holiday concert on Friday, December 16th starting at 8pm at the First Congregational Church, 1609 Unversity Ave in Madison.
The concert will include Fall and Winter from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, Concerto in G minor, Op. 6 no. 8, "Christmas" by Corelli,
and Cantata 61, Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland by Bach.
Trevor Stephenson tours throughout the United States regularly giving concerts, lectures, and masterclasses.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011: Norman talks to internationally known violinist Midori.
She will be performing Shostakovich's Concerto No.1 with the Madison Symphony Orchestra on
November 11, 2011. Midori was born in Japan and started playing violin when she was just three years old. She made her first
recording at the age of 14 for Philips when she performed music of Bach and Vivaldi with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under
the direction of Pinchas Zukerman.
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Friday, October 7, 2011: Norman Gilliland hosts a live concert by the world renowned Pro Arte Quartet in WPR's Buck Studio.
The Quartet was founded in Belgium 100 years ago. The quartet's members suddenly became "Artists in Residence" at the UW-Madison
in 1938 when they were stranded after Germany invaded Belgium just prior to World War II. This afternoon, they played Barber's String Qt Opus 11,
music from Shostakovich's String Qt No. 4 and Beethoven's Razumovsky String Qt.
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Friday, September 30, 2011: Stephanie Elkins interviews two members of the
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble,
Violinist Harvey de Souza and Cellist John Heley.
The Ensemble was created in 1967 to perform larger chamber works, from quintets to octets. The members are drawn from the principal
players of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber orchestra. They tour worldwide and have have over 30 CDs to their name.
They will be playing at the Wisconsin Union Theater
on September 30, 2011 at 7:30pm.
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Friday, September 23, 2011: Norman talks to pianist Frank Glazer,
a Wisconsin native who started playing piano 93 years ago! He studied under Artur Schnabel and Arnold Schoenberg. Glazer made his debut
at Town Hall in New York City on October 20, 1936. He is currently artist in residence at Bates College in Maine. He'll play at
Farley's House of Piano in Madison on Friday, September 23, 2011.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011: Norman interviews pianist Andre Watts who burst upon the music world at the age of 16 when Leonard Bernstein chose him to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic in their Young People's Concerts, broadcast nationwide on CBS-TV. More than 45 years later, Andre Watts remains one of today's most celebrated and beloved superstars. He played Grieg at the Overture Center in Madison on September 17, 2011.
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Friday, August 12, 2011: Norman talks to 16-year-old Mike Ryan who built his own harpsichord. He is a student of Trevor Stephenson, harpsichordist and Artistic Director of the Madison Bach Musicians.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011: Norman talks to violinist Felicia Moye about the Peninsula Music Festival. Felicia Moye is currently Professor of Violin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of Trio Antigo. She has performed throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America as soloist and chamber musician with groups such as the Miami String Quartet, Orpheus and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. The 2011 Peninsula Music Festival is held on August 2-20 in the Door Community Auditorium, Fish Creek.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011: Norman welcomes Calmus Ensemble to perform live in the studio. Formed in 1999 in Leipzig, Germany, the Calmus Ensemble has five members: Anja Lipfert, Sebastian Krause, Tobias Pöche, Ludwig Böhme, and Joe Roesler. The repertoire of the Calmus Ensemble includes music of the Gregorian period, of Machaut, Palestrina, Bach, Verdi and contemporary sacred music, and, the great variety of profane music extending from madrigals to folksongs or rock.
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Friday, June 24, 2011: Norman welcomes Jeffrey Sykes San Francisco Piano Trio to perform live in the Buck Studio. Jeffrey Sykes is co-founder of the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society and an accomplished performer and professor with national bona fides. The newly-formed San Francisco Piano Trio, featuring German violinist Axel Strauss, French cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and American pianist Jeffrey Sykes, has quickly established itself as a top-flight ensemble.
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Friday, June 10, 2011: Norman talks to violinist Leah Latorraca, 17, the second-place winner of the 2011 Bolz Young Artist Competition. A senior at Madision La Follette High School, Ms. Latorraca studies with Desiree Ruhstrat in the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy Program. She most recently won the Soceity of American Musicians' Young Artist Competition and performed a recital for the Young Steinway Artists concert Series.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011: Norman talks to Samantha George, Violin and Stas Venglevski, Russian Bayan (accordion) who performed at the 2011 Green Lake Festival of Music. Currently Associate Professor of Violin at Lawrence University, Samantha George served as Associate Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from 1999-2008. A native of the Republic of Moldova (part of the former Soviet Union) and an award-winning musician, Stas Venglevski has toured extensively as a soloist throughout the former Soviet Union, Canada, Europe, and the United States.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011: Norman welcomes young pianist Ariela Bohrod
to The Midday where she performs in front of a live audience in the WPR Performance Studio. She recently became the winner
of the 2011 Bolz Young Artist Competition and was also the winner of the 2011
Interlochen Arts Academy Concerto Competition where she attends high school. She's been playing and performing for eleven years.
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Friday, May 20, 2011:
Norman's guest is Anne Aley, a member of the Oakwood Chamber Players.
They will be performing on Saturday, May 21 at 7:30pm the Oakwood Village Auditorium in Madison, and again on Sunday, May 22
at 1:30pm at the UW-Madison Arboretum where they'll be playing music by Fine, Stravinsky and Kodaly.
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Monday, May 9, 2011: Norman talks to Violist Daniel Kim, one of the winners of 2011 Neale-Silva Young Artists' Competition. Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, Daniel Kim began his musical studies on the violin with his parents, Ellen and Young-Nam Kim. As he became exposed more and more to the soulful sound of the viola through chamber music and orchestra, he made the decision to study it seriously in high school by taking lessons from his hometown teacher, Sabina Thatcher. Currently he is a senior studying the viola with Professor Sally Chisholm at the UW-Madison where he is pursuing a BA in music performance as well as a Certificate in East Asian Studies. He performed the following pieces on The Midday:
- J.S. Bach: Allemande from the D-minor violin partita; Gigue from the D-minor violin partita; Gavotte I & II from Suite no. 6 in D-major for Cello
- Paul Hindemith: op. 25 no. 1 mvt. I and II
- Elliott Carter: Figment IV
- Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F-minor for viola mvt. II and IV (with pianist Thomas Kasdorf)
- Ba Wey Go Gae, Korean folk song
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Thursday, April 28, 2011: Norman talks to Cuban-American soprano Elizabeth Caballero
who will be perfoming in Verdi's La Traviata with the Madison Opera on April 29 & May 1, 2011.
She'll be playing Violetta and recent performances in the role had Opera News calling her "an excellent heroine... commanding
and vulnerable by turns." Ms. Caballero made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2006.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011:
Pianist Jeremy Denk visits the WPR studios to talk about his concert at
the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison this evening.
He'll be playing Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 1 and Bach's Goldberg Variations.
He graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory in piano and chemistry, earned a master?s degree in music from
Indiana University and a doctorate in piano performance from the Juilliard School.
His widely-read blog, "Think Denk", is highly praised and frequently referenced by many in the music press and industry.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011:
Pianists Alessio Bax and
Lucille Chung, also husband and wife, talk to Norman about
Farley's Piano-for-Four-Hands Concert
on April 19th.
In 2005, the pair recorded Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth
Symphony Orchestra. They have also recorded the complete works for two pianos and piano four hands of György Ligeti on
Dynamic Records. They reside in New York City.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011:
UW Band director Mike Leckrone visits the WPR studios to talk about the 125th anniversary of
the Wisconsin Marching Band. Leckrone received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Butler University
and has been the director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band since 1969. He has composed or arranged many pieces,
and over 200 of his compositions for marching and concert bands have been published.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011: Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Paul Badura-Skoda
who will be performing with the UW Madison Chamber Orchestra on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7:30pm at Mills Hall on the UW Campus.
On Saturday evening, March 12th, he'll be appearing at Farley's House of Piano in Madison.
Badura-Skoda was born in Vienna in 1927 and entered the Vienna Conservatory in 1945. In the 1960's, he was both the Brittingham
Professor of Music at UW-Madison and an artist in residence for five years.
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Friday, March 4, 2011: Norman and Stephanie welcome five members of the
The Portland Cello Project who will be performing at the High Noon Saloon in Madison.
"PCP" has received national notoriety for the variety of music they play, contributions from a diverse set of collaborators, and
performances in unusual settings.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011: Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Simone Dinnerstein.
She came to Madison to perform with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at
Overture Center on February 18th. She will perform Bethoveen's "Emperor Concerto"
as well as Bach's English Suite No. 3 in G minor. Dinnerstein made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall
in 2005. Her new album "Bach: A Strange Beauty" was just released on Sony Classical.
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