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Columbus Symphony Orchestra Saturday Nights at 8 PM WOSU 89.7 is proud to host the first season of live broadcasts of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Saturday nights from the Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus. Here is the LIVE broadcast schedule (subject to change):
Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm William Eddins, conductor Colin Currie, percussion (CSO performance debut) Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie Higdon: Percussion Concerto Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Saturday, May 5 at 8 pm James Gaffigan, conductor (CSO performance debut) Ingrid Fliter, piano (CSO performance debut) Fauré: Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Saturday, May 12 at 8 pm Günther Herbig, conductor Andrew Armstrong, piano (CSO performance debut) Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Saturday, June 2 at 8 pm Junichi Hirokami, conductor Richard Stoltzman, clarinet Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven Live from Cologne Friday, April 6 at 8pm
Sir Gilbert Levine conducts a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, recorded LIVE in Cologne Cathedral during the 2005 World Youth Day celebrations in Germany. This was the first time that Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s monumental spiritual masterpiece, had ever been performed in Cologne Cathedral, Germany’s most famous church and home cathedral of Beethoven, who was a native of Bonn, just down the river Rhine from Cologne. The performance features soloists Bozena Harasimowicz, Monica Groop, Jerry Hadley, and Franz-Josef Selig, with the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Beethoven himself dubbed this mass his “greatest and most successful work.” With his Missa Solemnis the composer broke with all conventions for the composition of a mass, creating a work that went well beyond the normal framework of the liturgy. His treatment and interpretation of the text creates the impression of a coherent set of events, and as such the work distances itself from normal liturgical procedures, becoming instead the main focus of interest. In his introduction to the performance given in the Cologne Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The Missa Solemnis bears overwhelming witness to an unceasing search for belief that refuses to turn its back on God.” Please join us for this special presentation on Good Friday, April 6 at 8pm.
The MTT Files Sundays, April 8-May 27 at 5pm
“The MTT Files” is an exciting new series hosted by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Eight 60-minute programs explore classical music and its influence on our lives in unexpected ways. These programs include music by the San Francisco Symphony and interviews with special guests, including the late James Brown and Garrick Ohlsson.
Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) is one of the great communicators about music in the world today. Michael grew up in Los Angeles, an extremely gifted young pianist. He was working with the likes of Stravinsky, Stockhausen and Copland by the time he was a teenager, and by his early 20's—when he was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony—it was clear that he would be one of the world's foremost conductors.
“The MTT Files” is produced in association with the San Francisco Symphony and is part of the Symphony's Keeping Score project. Keeping Score is a comprehensive initiative that includes the PBS television series of the same name, “The MTT Files,” an interactive Web site, and a rich educational program for K-12 teachers. For more information about Keeping Score, please visit www.keepingscore.org.
Sacred Classics with Stephanie Wendt
Sunday, April 8, 7 am on WOSU 89.7 April heralds the beginning a three month Bach Cantata Series on “Sacred Classics.” Each Sunday, Stephanie Wendt will present one cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Throughout Bach’s lifetime, the prolific composer wrote approximately 300 cantatas, including a work for every almost every Sunday and feast day of the ecclesiastical year. On Easter Sunday, Stephanie presents the Easter Cantata 4: "Christ lag in Todesbanden." Also for Easter, celebrate with The Redeemer by Robert Cundrick. Composed in 1977, in an effort to tie together one musical testament of faith, the text was selected from a combination of Old and New Testaments with latter-day scripture.
Pipedreams
Sundays, 10 pm on WOSU 89.7
From the Top
Sunday, April 8, 6 pm on WOSU 89.7 Violin virtuoso Mark O'Connor is From the Top's special guest on this show recorded at the Texas Music Educators' Conference featuring all Texas musicians.
Metropolitan Opera
Saturday, April 7, 1:30 pm on WOSU 89.7 Giordano’s Andrea Chénier Ben Heppner sings the title role of a French poet passionately devoted to his country, yet saddened by the Revolution’s corrupt, murderous turn. Violeta Urmana sings the role of Maddalena di Coigny, the woman Andrea loves. Marco Armiliato conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra and chorus.
Music in Mid-Ohio with Christopher Purdy
Sunday, April 8, 7 pm on WOSU 89.7 Jefferson Academy of Music Columbus’s own beloved pianist Caroline Hong performs J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Harmonia
Sunday, April 8, 9 pm on WOSU 89.7 Politically Correct Baroque composers were notorious for ingratiating themselves to people of power, wealth, and influence. One way they usually did this was to dedicate a composition to a person who had something they wanted. This week on Harmonia we'll look at dedication pages and their results.
Saturday at the Pops withBoyce Lancaster
Saturday, April 8, 8 pm on WOSU 89.7 What in the World Happened? 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered, composer Elmer Bernstein was born, the Beatles occupied the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, the first modern Olympics took place in Greece, and it's National Repot your Plant Day...it's a musical look at the month of April on Saturday at the Pops.
“The MTT Files” is an exciting new series hosted by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Eight 60-minute programs explore classical music and its influence on our lives in unexpected ways. These programs include music by the San Francisco Symphony and interviews with special guests, including the late James Brown and Garrick Ohlsson. more...
If it’s an issue that affects you and your community, look for it on Viewpoint. Hosted by Brad Mitchell, this weekly public-affairs series is designed to inform, intrigue, and encourage the exploration and analysis of important issues in our communities and our state. more...
Beethoven Live from Cologne 
The MTT Files
Metropolitan Opera
Music in Mid-Ohio with Christopher Purdy
