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Kimberlea Daggy's "Daily Special"
Weekdays at noon
Celebrate Spring
The sun shines a little longer, the trees begin to bud, and flowers pop with fragrant blooms, reminding us that spring is here! April 2 through April 6, on the “Daily Special,” join Kimberlea Daggy as we spend this first week of April celebrating nature in music. Vivaldi welcomes the season with his Spring Violin Concerto, and Astor Piazzolla sends the season south with Spring in Buenos Aires. Flowers bloom on the “Daily Special” with Benjamin Britten's Flower Songs, and Amy Beach's From Grandmother's Garden. Also this week, we’ll hear music inspired by forests, including Beethoven's 6th Symphony, Wagner's Forest Murmurs, and Smetana's From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows.
Friday, 4/06
Beethoven Live from Cologne
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. 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. The performance features soloists Bozena Harasimowicz, Monica Groop, Jerry Hadley, and Franz-Josef Selig, with the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Fridays With George
9 am
Join Columbus Symphony Associate Conductor Albert-George Schram and Boyce Lancaster, for a look at music from the conductor’s perspective. Every Friday morning on “Fridays with George.”
Saturday, 4/07
Serenata
1 pm
Guess This Topic?
Music by Mozart, Rorem, Hundley, Grieg, Wolf and Saint-Saëns.
Metropolitan Opera
1:30 pm
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.
Saturday at the Pops
8 pm
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.
Sunday, 4/8
Sacred Classics with Stephanie Wendt
7 am
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.
The MTT Files
5pm
You Call That Music?
250 years ago, when composers included "noise" in their music, they mimicked the sounds of the physical world, like chickens clucking and gunshots. But by the late 1800's, noise in music had started to represent the internal, psychological anxieties of the coming modern age. And then, of course, during the 20th century, composers blurred the line between noise and music even more. From the dissonance of early modernism to music that glorified the machine, from musique concrete to the ear-deafening throbs of hyper-amplification - art music gave us just about everything an increasingly noisy world could offer. In this program, MTT asks what’s music and what’s noise, and demonstrates that noise is in the mind of the listener. His guest is contemporary composer Steven Mackey.
From the Top
6 pm
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.
Music in Mid-Ohio
7 pm
Jefferson Academy of Music
Columbus’s own beloved pianist Caroline Hong performs J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Harmonia
9 pm
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.
Pipedreams
10 pm
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