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May 2008

Music from the 92nd Street Y: The 20th Century

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. Tonight, the diversity of the last century is on display with music by Debussy, Dallapiccola, Ligeti, and Opperman, performed by several of this music's leading champions: Serkin, Laredo, Stoltzman and others.

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Music from the 92nd Street Y: Dynamic Duos

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. In this episode of the series, The Assad brothers perform Scarlatti; Perényi and Schiff take up Beethoven's "Judas Maccabeus," and pianist Jeremy Denk demonstrates his versatility by pairing up with tenor Paul Groves for Brahms and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman for Duparc.

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Music from the 92nd Street Y: Tokyo String Quartet, Part Two

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. In this program, the Tokyo String Quartet returns for two Viennese masterworks, and pianist Marc-André Hamelin offers some French impressions for contrast.

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Paranoid Cheese

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

According to one critic, composer Marc Mellits "apparently draws considerable inspiration from food." Terrance serves up a slice from Mellits' 2006 album, Paranoid Cheese. Also, orchestral dances old and new from Dmitri Shostakovitch, Franz Listz, and Richard Danielpour; the suite from Philip Glass's score for "The Secret Agent," and classical bluegrass from Banjo virtusoso Bela Fleck.

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Mother's Whistler

Sunday, May 11, 2008

For Mother's Day, David offers up several musical tributes, including "Mother's Whistler" from Louis "Moondog" Hardin (we also hear Mother's Day selections by Tchaikovsky, Britten, and Dvorak). Then, later in the evening, it's Johann Sebastian Bach's "A Musical Offering," paired with a set of madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo.

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Live from the 92nd Street Y: The Czechs

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. Tonight, it's a program of music from Central Europe, with Dvořák's Quintet in E-flat, featuring Chamber Music at the Y's artistic director Jaime Laredo, and Martinů's Cello Sonata No. 3, performed by a Y favorite, Steven Isserlis.

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Guitar Roundup; John King

Friday, May 09, 2008

David spins music both written for and not written for (but performed on) guitar, including Sergio Assad's "Gypsy Songs," Laurindo Almeida's "Lobiana," and a Handel concerto. We also hear music from guitarist/composer John King, who joins David in the studio for an informal chat.

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Idle

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Sounding somewhat like an Arabian hoedown, Michael Gordon's "Idle" is anything but. Terrance spins that track from Gordon's Light is Calling, a string-textured soundtrack to Bill Morrison's psychedelic short film of the same name. In our first hour we also hear Bryan Lester's "Three Jazz Fugues" from guitarist Eduardo Isaac, plus music by Morton Gould, Lalo Schifrin, Giuseppe Tartini and Bela Bartok.

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Hallelujah Strauss

Monday, May 05, 2008

Terrance kicks off Cinco de Mayo with Art Tatum's "Hallelujah" — and throws a little Richard Strauss into the mix as well. We hear Glenn Gould in one of Strauss' early keyboard works, "Five Piano Pieces," and André Previn leads the venerable Vienna Philharmonic in the colorful tone poem "Metamorphosen."

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Nino's Nonetto

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Composer Nino Rota may be famous for writing the "Godfather" theme, but he also left behind a vast catalog of chamber music. We hear a charming example in his "Nonetto" for winds.

Also, Elizabethan era composer John Dowland knew he had a hit on his hands when he wrote the lute song "Flow my teares"; his set of dances based on that tune became one of the most popular pieces of music of the 17th century (and we hear them tonight).

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Music from the 92nd Street Y: Winds

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Sara Fishko brings us more choice performances from the stage of the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. In this episode, music for winds by Dvořák, Poulenc and Debussy is performed by an international cast: members of the Ensemble Wien-Berlin*, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a member of the Nash Ensemble from London** and musicians from the New York Philharmonic.

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Bach in Brasil

Friday, May 02, 2008

Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote nine "Bachianas brasileiras," his hybrid of baroque styles and Brazilian melodies in tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach. We hear the first of these, written for eight cellos in 1932. Another brazilian featured is Radamés Gnattali, who started out writing music for radio serials and ended up combining Jazz with folk elements for his "Brazilian" guitar concerto. The guitar figures prominently in other music tonight, including works by Dominic Frasca, Louis Bonfa, and Altamiro Carrilho.

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A New Hot One

Thursday, May 01, 2008

David Garland sits in for Terrance tonight, and spins the title track from clarinetist David Krakauer's high-octane Klezmer CD, A New Hot One. Also, Bulgarian tunes are juxtaposed with Meredith Monk, and we hear music for piano and strings from William Bolcom and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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