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Evening Music

Wednesday, September 03, 2008
  • Clara Schumann in 1853
    Clara Schumann in 1853

    Four Fugitive Pieces

    Married to one brilliant composer and drawn to another, Clara Schumann had a turbulent personal life — no doubt complicated even more by her own formidable music talents. She often wrote spry little keyboard works, however, that belied the tension she must have felt at home. We hear an example in a brief but delightful set of piano diversions, "Four Fugitive Pieces."

Other music featured tonight includes:
Steve Reich / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ
Carlos Chavez / Symphony No. 2, Sinfonia India
John Adams / My Father Knew Charles Ives
Robert Schumann / "Liederkreis," Op. 24
Henry Purcell / Indian Queen: Incidental Music
Miles Davis / Blue in Green

The Mostly Mozart Festival on WNYC

Listen on Demand

This year's annual Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center is rife with sounds stretching the spectrum of Requiems, Metamorphoses, and Passions — including the American premiere of composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho's tale of the sufferings of French mystic Simone Weil, who died of starvation in protest to the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1943.

Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble Live Webcast

Evening Music

WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble. Presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music, and hosted by David Garland, the program features an ambitious re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Rite: Remixed.

Related Links:
Video: Deerhoof fans perform leaked track for WNYC
View photos from the concert
Deerhoof on Spinning on Air (March 18, 2007)
NPR Music
Metropolis Ensemble
Deerhoof
Celebrate Brooklyn!
Wordless Music
Listen on Demand to more Wordless Music Concerts

Wordless Music

Concerts on Demand

WNYC presents web-exclusive concerts from the Wordless Music Series, hosted by Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad. Devoted to the desegregation of musical boundaries, Wordless Music pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience.

2008 American Music Festival

Listen on Demand

Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland curate the 68th annual American Music Festival, featuring "America's Classical Music." Guests include LD Brown a.k.a. Grey Reverend; acclaimed jazz pianist Jason Moran; composer and musicologist Gunther Schuller; culture critic John Rockwell; new music guru John Zorn, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom.