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5/7/09 12:00pm |
Bruce Gladstone - Bruce Gladstone is the new Artistic Director of the Festival Choir of Madison. The Choir performed a concert they call "Cantate: Sing of Spring" on Saturday, May 9th at 7:30pm in the Atrium Auditorium of the First Unitarian Society of Madison, and also on Sunday, May 10th at the Stoughton Opera House in Stoughton, WI.
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4/24/09 12:00pm |
Paavali Jumppanen - Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Paavali Jumppanen who performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the Capitol Theater in Madison.
The program included Rossini's Overture to II Signor Bruschino, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major 'Emperor', and Haydn's Symphony 104 in D Major. The guest conductor for the "Masterworks" concert program was Julian Wachner.
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4/17/09 12:00pm |
UW Russian Folk Orchestra - Norman and Stephanie welcome four members of the UW Russian Folk Orchestra to our studios including Dan Cobb on Prima domra, Fred Middleton on Prima Balalaika, Don Becker on Bayan and Victor Gorodinsky on Guitar.
Gorodinsky is the conductor and founder of the orchestra. They played on Sunday, April 19th at 7:30pm in the Mills Concert Hall on the UW Campus.
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4/9/09 12:00pm |
Trevor Stephenson - Norman and Stephanie talk to Trevor Stephenson about the St. Matthew Passion performed Easter weekend of 2009 in the Atrium Auditorium of the First Unitarian Society of Madison.
Stephenson is the Artistic Director of the Madison Bach Musicians using period instruments for the performance, which also included the Madison Youth Choir. There was also a lecture at 6:15pm before each performance.
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4/3/09 12:00pm |
Andre Watts - The Midday welcomes pianist Andre Watts to the studio. He performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on April 3rd, 4th and 5th. The program included music by Saint-Sa ns, Wagner and Brahms.
In 1962, at the age of 16, he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic. 24 years later, Mr. Watts received the Avery Fisher Prize. Today he is one of the most celebrated classical musicians in the world.
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3/13/09 12:00pm |
Eleanor Bartsch and Stanislava Varshavsky - Norman and Stephanie welcome violinist Eleanor Bartsch with pianist Stanislava Varshavsky to WPR's Studio One in Madison. At just 19 years old, Bartsch plays with the Perlman Piano Trio, Madison Bach Musicians, Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and the Madison Symphony.
Live in our studio, they played the Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano in G, the Bach gavotte & rondo from Partita #3 in E Major, Beethoven's Romance in F, and Fritz Kreisler's 'Love's Sorrow'. Studio Photo A / Studio Photo B
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3/5/09 12:00pm |
Julian Rachlin - Norman and Stephanie talk to violinist Julian Rachlin who regularly performs with the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and many others.
He performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on March 6th-8th, 2009. He also performed Borodin's "Overture to Prince Igor" as well as works by Stravinsky and Dvor k.
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2/18/09 12:00pm |
Danielle de Niese - Norman and Stephanie welcome soprano Danielle de Niese to the WPR studios.
She made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with Los Angeles Opera and became the youngest singer ever to participate in the Young Artists Studio at the Metropolitan Opera. She performed at the UW-Madison's Wisconsin Union Theater on Thursday, February 19th.
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2/6/09 12:00pm |
Olga Kern - Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Olga Kern who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall in Madison on February 6-8, 2009.
The program was billed as a "Feast of Beethoven" including his Leonore Overture No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Symphony No. 7. In the past year she made her debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin and presented recitals throughout the U.S.
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1/23/09 12:00pm |
Amit Peled - Cellist Amit Peled played with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra on Friday , January 23rd. The program included Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds & Orchestra, Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major and Respighi's Gli Uccelli (The Birds).
Peled talks about how he became, at 28, one of the youngest music professors at a music conservatory. His CD "The Jewish Soul" was released in March.
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1/15/09 12:00pm |
Henning Kraggerud - Norman and Stephanie talk to Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on January 16-18, 2009.
He played music by Mozart, Sibelius and Prokofiev. Kraggerud performs both on violin (with a 1744 Guarneri del Gesu) and on viola at major international chamber music festivals.
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11/14/08 12:00pm |
Paul Badura-Skoda - Norman and Stephanie switch to WPR's performance studio to talk to Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and hear him play WPR's Mason & Hamlin.
Badura-Skoda performed the last piano sonatas of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert at the First Unitarian Society in Madison on Sunday, November 16th at 7:30pm.
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11/6/08 12:00pm |
Sarah Chang - Norman and Stephanie talk with violinist Sarah Chang who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on November 7th. The program included Barber, Brahms, Tormis and Shostakovich. The conductor was Anu Tali.
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10/23/08 12:00pm |
Samuel Hutchison - Norman and Stephanie talk with organist Samuel Hutchison. Mr. Hutchison and the Rhapsodie String Quartet. The group performed works of Handel, Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi at Overture Hall in Madison on Tuesday, October 28th at 7:30pm. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
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10/17/08 12:00pm |
Philip Rothman - Norman and Stephanie talk with composer Philip Rothman, Composer in Residence for the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
The Symphony performed his work Morningside Run on October 17th, It had its premiere in 2002 with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Rothman holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School.
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10/16/08 12:00pm |
Alban Gerhardt - Norman and Stephanie interview cellist Alban Gerhardt who played with the Madison Symphony Orchestra October 17-19th, 2008. He performed Elgar's Cello Concerto, Copland's An Outdoor Overture and Holst's The Planets.
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10/10/08 12:00pm |
Mimmi Fulmer and Trevor Stephenson - Norman and Vicki interview Mimmi Fulmer, associate director of University Opera and Trevor Stephenson, director of Madison Bach Musicians. They performed Corelli, Bach, and Handel on October 11th and 12th, 2008 at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.
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9/25/08 12:00pm |
Garrick Ohlsson - Norman and Stephanie interview pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson performed Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in a program that also included Respighi's Pines of Rome and the Italian Symphony of Mendelssohn.
The performances took place on September 26-28, 2008 in Overture Hall. Garrick Ohlsson won a Grammy Award in 2008 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance.
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8/19/08 12:00pm |
John Harbison - Norman and Stephanie interview John Harbison, composer and Artistic Director of the Token Creek Music Festival which ran from August 23rd through the 31st.
He discusses 2008's program and plays several selections from their CDs. Mr. Harbison has been the recipient of many prestigious awards in his career including the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
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7/23/08 12:00pm |
Christopher Ocasek - Norman and Stephanie interview Christopher Ocasek, Conductor & Music Director of The Savoyards 2008 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" along with Savoyard's board member Evan Richards. "The Mikado" performed Thursday, July 24th and at the UW-Madison's Music Hall.
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