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7/14/08 12:00pm |
Kris Kwapis and Robert Wiemken - Norman and Stephanie talk to Kris Kwapis and Robert Wiemken about the Madison Early Music Festival held the week of July 14th. Kwapis plays baroque trumpet and is Artistic Director of Spiritus Collective. Wiemken plays recorders and double reed instruments and is co-director of Piffaro.
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7/10/08 12:00pm |
Frederick Swann - Norman and Stephanie interview organist Frederick Swann who performed at Madison's Overture Hall as part of the Madison Symphony's third annual Organ Festival that ran July 11th and 12th.
Swann is president of the American Guild of Organists (2002-2008) and serves as Organist Emeritus of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
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6/27/08 12:00pm |
Aaron Jay Kernis - Norman talks with composer and pianist Aaron Jay Kernis who appeared with the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society June 27th.
Kernis is one of the youngest composers ever to be granted the Pulitzer Prize in Music, which he received in 1998. He currently serves as New Music Adviser for the Minnesota Orchestra.
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6/25/08 12:00pm |
Celebrating Vicki Nonn's retirement - The Midday celebrates Vicki Nonn's retirement after 18 years with The Midday and 38 years with Wisconsin Public Radio with an hour-long studio concert featuring pianist Christopher Taylor and flutist Stephanie Jutt. They were part of 2008's summer performance series by the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society.
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5/8/08 12:00pm |
Trevor Stephenson and Bruce Gladstone - Vicki and Norman talk with harpsichordist Trevor Stephenson and conductor Bruce Gladstone about the J.S. Bach Mass in b minor, performed on May 10, 2008 at Trinity Lutheran Church by the Madison Bach Musicians with the UW Madrigal Singers.
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4/30/08 12:00pm |
Drew Collins - Vicki and Norman interview Drew Collins who is the Artistic Director of the Festival Choir of Madison. They discuss the choir's final performance of the season on May 3rd as well as composing choral music and working with children's choirs. Collins is also the Associate Director of Choral Studies and Music Education at Wright State University in Dayton.
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4/24/08 12:00pm |
Vladimir Spivakov - Vicki and Norman interview Vladimir Spivakov who is a renowned violinist and also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Philharmonic of Russia.
He conducted the Madison Symphony Orchestra in the Shostakovich Festive Overture, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (Path tique).
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4/18/08 12:00pm |
Anne-Marie McDermott - Vicki interviews pianist Anne-Marie McDermott who performed April 18th with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the Overture Center's Capitol Theater in Madison. They performed Milhaud's La Cr ation du Monde, the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor and Bizet's Symphony No. 1 in C Major.
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4/2/08 12:00pm |
Eugene Alcalay - Norman and Vicki interview pianist Eugene Alcalay who performs live from Studio One with an audience of WPR staff members.
Alcalay plays movements from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 and No. 3. Alcalay is an assistant professor of music at University of Wisconsin-Platteville and was named a Steinway Artist in December 2005.
Special Feature: View a video of this interview using Windows Media Player V10 or later.
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3/26/08 12:00pm |
Peter Takacs - Norman and Vicki interview pianist Peter Takacs who performed at the Morphy Recital Hall on the UW-Madison Campus on March 28th. Takacs is professor of piano and chair of the piano program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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3/14/08 12:00pm |
Chee-Yun - Norman and Vicki interview Korean violinist Chee-Yun who performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra on March 14th at the Capitol Theater in Madison. They performed the Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor.
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3/6/08 12:00pm |
Adam Neiman and Andrew Sewell - Norman talks with pianist Adam Neiman and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra conductor Andrew Sewell about the release of their new CD that was recorded in 2007 in the newly remodeled Capitol Theater in the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison.
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3/5/08 12:00pm |
Taiseer Elias and Uri Vardi - Norman and Vicki interview oud player Taiseer Elias and cellist Uri Vardi. They performed the world premiere of American composer Joel Hoffman's The Forty Steps - Concerto for Cello and Oud with the Madison Symphony Orchestra from March 7-9, 2008 at Madison's Overture Hall.
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2/14/08 12:00pm |
Cho-Liang Lin - Norman and Vicki interview violinist Cho-Liang Lin who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra February 15th - 17th, 2008.
Lin's recordings have won several Grammy nominations and The Gramophone's Record of the Year award. He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991 and also teaches at Rice University.
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1/24/08 12:00pm |
Jennifer Frautschi and Arild Remmereit - Norman and Vicki interview violinist Jennifer Frautschi and conductor Arild Remmereit. They performed Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and Glazunov's Violin Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in concerts on Friday, January 25 through Sunday, January 27 at Madison's Overture Center.
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1/18/08 12:00pm |
Judith Ingolfsson and Mark Kosower - Norman and Vicki interview violinist Judith Ingolfsson and cellist Mark Kosower who performed January 18, 2008 with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the Overture Center's Capitol Theater in Madison starting at 8pm.
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11/13/07 12:00pm |
Diane Alexander - Norman and Vicki interview soprano Diane Alexander who sang November 16-18th in the Florentine Opera's production of The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar, in Milwaukee's Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
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11/5/07 12:00pm |
Valentina Lisitsa - Norman and Vicki interview pianist Valentina Lisitsa who performed November 4th, 2007 with violinist Hilary Hahn at the Wisconsin Union Theater and at a recital November 5th at Farley's House of Pianos in Madison.
Lisitsa is a graduate of the famed Kiev Conservatory and has won numerous international prizes. During this interview, Lisitsa plays several pieces live from WPR's Studio One.
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10/18/07 12:00pm |
Steven Isserlis - Norman and Vicki interview cellist Steven Isserlis who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall October 19-21st.
Isserlis' program included the Berlioz Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Schumann's Cello Concerto and Brahms' Symphony No. 1.
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9/26/07 12:00pm |
Thomas Trotter - Norman and Vicki interview concert organist Thomas Trotter who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in its season opener in Overture Hall September 28th. The program included Barber's Toccata Festiva, the Debussy Nocturnes, the Sibelius Symphony No. 7 and Guilmant's Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra.
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