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THE 2010 INTERVIEWS
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Friday, December 17, 2010: Norman and Stephanie welcome Jim Latimer of The Madison Marimba Quartet.
The ensemble will be performing at a free concert on Sunday, December 26th at 1pm in Mills Concert Hall
located on the UW-Madison Campus. They've been performing together for over 15 years. Members of the Quartet are Tim Gruber, Laura Guse, Jim Latimer and Tom Shaver.
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Friday, December 10, 2010: Norman and Stephanie speak with members of
Cantus,
a male vocal ensemble presenting their show
"All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914" through drama and song on Saturday, December 11th at the Wisconsin Union Theatre.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010: Angela Brown
is an internationally known soprano appearing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra this weekend for their annual Christmas Spectacular. She will appear
with the Madison Symphony Chorus, Madison Youth Choirs and Mt. Zion Gospel Choir. Ms. Brown debuted with Metropolitan
Opera in 2004.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010: Norman and Stephanie welcome cellist Alisa Weilerstein
to the WPR studios where she plays her English-made 1790 William Forster cello. The 26 year old sensation will be performing
Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra from
November 12-14 at the Overture Center in Madison.
See this YouTube Video with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie talk to bass Jason Hardy
who will be performing as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro with the Madison Opera
on Friday, November 5th and Sunday, November 7th at the Overture Center in Madison. He has performed in
productions with the New York City Opera, the Atlanta Opera, the Florentine Opera and with Wolf Trap Opera. Hardy has recently released his first solo CD,
entitled "Youth and Love".
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Friday, October 29, 2010: Stephanie talks to pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton "The Naughton Twins".
These native Madisonian pianists are starting to get national attention for their artistry, and they'll be performing with the
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra this Friday evening. The performance will
include Torke's Adjustable Wrench, Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’ and Mendelssohn's Concerto for Two Pianos in E major
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010: Olga Kern guest artist with Madison Symphony Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on October 15, 16 and 17.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview Trevor Stephenson who is a harpsichordist and Artistic director
of Madison Bach Musicians, and Marc Vallon, a composer, bassoonist and Professor of Music at UW-Madison. The Madison Bach Musicians
will be performing works by Haydn, Bach and Vivaldi on October 2 & 3, 2010 at the First Congregational Church in Madison.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2010 - Pianist Pamela Howland
discusses her upcoming performance called "Remembering Frederic" at the Oconomowoc Arts Center in Wisconsin on Sept 11, 2010.
The performance features the music of Chopin and writings of George Sand.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - Norman Gilliland interviews John Harbison,
pianist, composer and artist director of the Token Creek Music Festival which
runs from August 28th through September 5th, 2010. For Ticket information, call (608) 241-2525.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview broadway singer and actor Tom Wopat.
He is a University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumnus who first achieved fame in the long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard.
Today Wopat can be found on Broadway or locally at the Wisconsin Union Theater
in the performance of South Pacific.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - Live from WPR's music studio in Madison, Norman and Stephanie talked to the members of The Kat Trio and heard them perform music by Bruch, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Gottschalk and Lamb. They talked about their music and their upcoming preformance at Divine Savior United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 25.
The members of the "Ekaterinburg Classical Trio" are clarinetist Vlad Gorbich, violinist Vikki Gorbich and guest pianist Patrick Christians.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie visit with Evan Richards, producer, videographer and board member for The Madison Savoyards. Every summer the The Madison Savoyards present fully staged productions with orchestra of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Friday through Sunday on the weekends of July 23 and July 30, they are putting on Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore at Music Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
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Monday, July 12, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview artistic director Paul Rowe and instrumentalist Tom Zajac representing the 11th annual Madison Early Music Festival which took place at the Mosse Humanities Building on the UW-Madison campus. The festival includes Master Classes and lectures.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie talk to David Judisch, Music Director and Jon Lewis, President
of the Norwegian Singers Association of America about the 58th biennial Sangerfest held in Madison from
June 24th to June 26th. Sangerfest is produced by the Dane County Friends of Scandinavian Culture in association with the NSAA and is hosted by Madison’s Edvard Grieg Chorus. This year it will be held
at the Overture Center and will include accompaniment by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra . June 24th: "Parade of Choruses" concert. June 26th: The "Grand Concert"
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Thursday, June 23, 2010 - Stephanie interviews violinist
Joan Singer, founder and current director of the group Quin Tango.
She is a member of the Baltimore Opera Orchestra and Capitol Chamber Ensemble. The group will be appearing at the
Green Lake Festival of Music on Friday, June 25th at
Ripon College. The festival runs from June 11 through July 25.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie join 19 year old pianist Sejoon Park
who plays live from WPR's Buck Studio in Madison. Born in Seoul, Korea of musical parents, he started playing at the age of six. He's appearing at PianoArts,
the biennial North American piano competition. Their competition finale with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is on June 9th
in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie talk to violist Sally Chisolm,
a member of the Pro Arte Quartet. They are performing as members of the
Midsummer's Music Festival in Door County. The festival runs June 11th through
July 11th. The programs include "Passion and Pathos", "Gallery Fantasies", "Intense Memories", "Radiance and Rapture", "Echos of the Past",
"Romatic Revelations", Historical Connections" and on the Labor Day weekend, "Celebration".
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview Matt Oltman, Music Director of the Grammy award winning choral group
Chanticleer. The group is based in San Francisco and known around the world
as "an orchestra of voices" for the seamless blend of its twelve male voices. They will be performing
at the UW-Madison Union Theater on Thursday, May 6 at 7pm.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview French pianist Philippe Bianconi.
After winning the Silver Medal in the 7th Van Cliburn International Competition, he made an acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987.
Mr. Bianconi lives in Paris and performs extensively in Europe. He will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
on Friday, April 15 through Sunday, April 17 at the Overture Center. Included in the performance will be
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie visit with Mike Lachrone, Director of the UW Marching Band and The Varsity Band.
The 300-member UW Varsity Band will play several concerts on April 16-17 at the
Kohl Center in Madison. These concerts are
the 36th annual Varsity Band Concert and also includes a celebration of the the birthday for the UW's official song,
"On, Wisconsin!" Lachrone received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Wisconsin Foundation for School Music in 2007.
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Friday, March 26, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie interview trumpeter Ryan Anthony
who will be performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the
Overture Center in Madison on friday, March 26. They will be playing
Albinoni's Concerto St. Marc and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto. Mr. Anthony has played with the Canadian Brass and
is currently Principal Trumpet with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Jonathan Biss
Mr. Biss will be performing the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" with the
Madison Symphony Orchestra in three concerts on Friday March 19th, Saturday March 20th and a matinee on Sunday, March 21st
at the Overture Center.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie welcome the Eroica trio
to the WPR studios. They're performing a recital on March 11th and then will perform with the UW-Madison Chamber Orchestra on
March 13th, both at the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison.
Their album "An American Journey" was nominated for a Grammy award and they won the prestigious 1991 Naumburg Award which
resulted in a highly successful Lincoln Center debut.
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Friday, January 22, 2010 - Norman and Stephanie welcome the Minneapolis
Guitar Quartet into the studio. The quartet includes Jeff Lambert, Joseph Hagedorn, Ben Gateño and Steven Newbrough, and
plays a repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Spanish, Latin American, Romantic and even contemporary works.
They'll be performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the
Overture Center in Madison on Friday, January 22 at 8pm.
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