Blue Lake Public Radio
May 2013 Listener Guide
1.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Cello Concertos” - For many music lovers, the cello's melodic capacity and deep timbre represent the pinnacle of musical expression. This week we'll explore some of the great works written for this instrument and the musicians that made them famous.
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; BRUCKNER: Symphony No.8
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ira Sullivan, trumpet/saxophones
2.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Cello Concertos”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; SIBELIUS: Pohjola’s Daughter; SIBELIUS: Symphony No.7, Op.105; LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto; TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Richard “Groove” Holmes, organ
3.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Cello Concertos”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic Commission); BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium); IVES: Symphony No.4
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ron Carter, bassist
4.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Saxophonist Phil Woods is a true master of all things bop. He’s been called one of the top alto players since his debut in the 1950s, and the musical heir to Charlie Parker. He cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Buddy Rich, and since 1973 his quartet has been redefining bebop. On this session from 2003, Woods joins the host, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin on “How About You” and “Fine and Dandy.”
1:00pm Metropolitan Opera
POULENC: Dialogues Des Carmelites – Louis Langree, conductor; with Isabel Leonard, Patricia Racette, Erin Morley, Elizabeth Bishop and Felicity Palmer
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast from the Ted Constant Convocation Center at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, with guests Rob Fisher, The DiGiallonardo Sisters, Joe Newberry, Howard Levy, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and the U.S. Fleet Forces Band
5.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“French Sweets” - Groups of brief, characterful movements proved a good ‘recipe’ for organ composers in France, and they stuck with it through centuries!
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, conductor; ANDREW NORMAN: The Great Swiftness; ADAMS: City Noir; RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
3:00 SymphonyCast
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; RAVEL: La Valse; GOLIJOV: Violin Concerto; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.5
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Gentle Giants: The Beauty of the Jazz Ballad” - Ask any jazz musician and they’ll tell you the real test of a player’s ability is the ballad. Cornetist Bob Barnard and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band explore the art of the jazz ballad.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Why Jazz Happened, With Marc Myers” - An interview with Marc Myers, JazzWax blogger, Wall Street Journal music writer, and author of the new book Why Jazz Happened, which looks at jazz through the prism of social history.
6.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Schubertiade II” - Chamber music by one of the foremost composers in this intimate genre, Franz Schubert.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, music director and conductor; Westminster Choir College, Joe Miller, conductor; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.2, Op.36; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Choral, Op.125
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jack Walrath, trumpet
7.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Schubertiade II”
8:00pm Pittsburgh Symphony
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Lise de la Salle, piano; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Betsy Burleigh, director; DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; BOULANGER: Psalm 130; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; RAVEL: Bolero
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Renee Rosnes, piano
8.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Schubertiade II”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Janine Jansen, violin; Lang Lang, piano; WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture; MAHLER: Orchestral Songs; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No.3 (excerpt); SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso; R.STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Keith Jarrett, piano
9.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Schubertiade II”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Christian Macelaru conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano; DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No.2; BARTÓK: Divertimento for String Orchestra; STRAVINSKY: The Song of a Nightingale
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
The Hot Club of Detroit
10.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Schubertiade II”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Emmanuel Ax, piano; MOZART: Piano Concerto No.25; BRUCKNER: Symphony No.3
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Christian McBride, bass
11. Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Vocalist Jane Monheit has tempered her phenomenal vocal range and musical intuition with perhaps the rarest gift of all: restraint. The thirty something singer has already performed with top artists including Ron Carter, Terrence Blanchard, and the late Michael Brecker, and she‘s sure to stick around for years to come. On this 2001 Piano Jazz, with host McPartland at the piano, Monheit performs “My Foolish Heart,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and Marian’s tune, “In The Days Of Our Love.”
11:00am Metropolitan Opera
WAGNER: Götterdämmerung – Fabio Luisi, conductor; with Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Karen Gargill, Lars Cleveman, Iain Paterson, Richard Paul Fink and Hans-Peter König
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, with guests Stuart Duncan, and The Time Jumpers
12.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Going Organic” - An international sampler of recent pipe organ installations in Virginia, New Jersey, Louisiana, Austria, Germany and England.
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, conductor; HANDEL: Concerto Grosso, Op.6/4; AVNER DORMAN: Concerto Grosso; BACH/WEBERN: Fuga (Ricercata) from The Musical Offering; STRAVINSKY: Concerto in D for Strings; RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.1
3:00 SymphonyCast
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, music director and conductor; Westminster Choir College, Joe Miller, conductor; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.2, Op.36; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Choral, Op.125
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Irving Berlin’s Music Box” - Becky Kilgore and Nina Ferro join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a concert of America’s best-loved popular songs from its hardest-working composer.
10:00pm Night Lights
“The Billy Strayhorn Songbook” - Billy Strayhorn rose to recognition as Duke Ellington's composing partner. By the time of his death in 1967, he'd established a musical legacy that stood on its own. We'll pay tribute to Strayhorn's music with recordings from Johnny Hodges, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, and more.
13.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Richard Wagner” - "The greatest genius that ever lived" proclaimed WH Auden, while Rossini said that Wagner had "beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour." Love him or hate him, Wagner is an undeniable force who stretched tonality and orchestration to their utmost limits. This week (and next) we celebrate Wagner's 200th birthday in grand style with programs filled to the brim with his music.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Chis Thile, mandolin; BERNSTEIN: Suite for Small orchestra from Trouble in Tahiti; THILE: Mandolin Concerto Ad Astra per Alas Porci; BACH: Gigue from d minor Partita for solo violin; NEEDHAM: When We Forget (Project 440 world premiere); COPLAND: Appalachin Spring Suite
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Gil Evans, pianist/arranger/bandleader
14.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Richard Wagner”
8:00pm Pittsburgh Symphony
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Anne Martindale Williams, cello; STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka; HONEGGER: Cello Concerto; GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sidney Bechet, clarinet/soprano saxophone
15.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Richard Wagner”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Riccardo Chailly – The Stravinsky Recordings
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Edmond Hall, clarinet
16.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Richard Wagner”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Riccardo Muti conductor; HONEGGER: Pacific 231; BATES: Alternative Energy; (CSO Commission, World Premiere); FRANCK: Symphony in d-minor; MOZART: Symphony No.35, K.385; MOZART: Divertimento in F, K.138
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Woody Herman, clarinet/alto saxophone/bandleader
17.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Richard Wagner”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor; Shereazde Panthaki, soprano; Joelle Harvey, soprano; Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Bach Collegium Japan, chorus; Yale Schola Cantorum, chorus; J.S.BACH: Singet dem Hern; MENDELSSOHN: Christus; MENDELSSOHN: Magnificat in D; J.S.BACH: Magnificat
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jackie McLean, alto saxophone
18.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Grady Tate began his jazz career as a much-celebrated drummer, backing up big names like Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, and Quincy Jones. Tate traded in his skins for a microphone, and now employs his baritone to deliver smooth and soulful vocals. With pianist John di Martino, Tate sings “Everybody Loves My Baby” and “All Blues.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
R. STRAUSS: Elektra – Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; with Christine Goerke, Emily Magee, Jill Grove, Alan Held and Roger Honeywell
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
The Lake Wobegone gang with a rebroadcast
19.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“A Wagner Bicentennial Celebration” - Showcasing music by the foremost 19th century composer who did not write for the pipe organ, Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, conductor; Randall Goosby, violin; VIVALDI: Four Seasons; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.9
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Chis Thile, mandolin; BERNSTEIN: Suite for Small orchestra from Trouble in Tahiti; THILE: Mandolin Concerto Ad Astra per Alas Porci; BACH: Gigue from d minor Partita for solo violin; NEEDHAM: When We Forget (Project 440 world premiere); COPLAND: Appalachin Spring Suite
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Riffs and Shouts: The Building Blocks of Jazz “ - Nothing gets us in the groove like a catchy riff — those short melodic patterns that many jazz tunes are based on. Trumpeter Bob Barnard and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band heat up the bandstand with a show devoted to the hot rhythms of jazz riffs.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Woody's World: Woody Herman” - Join us for a centennial celebration of the bandleader whose "Herd" orchestras rode across the landscape of swing from the 1940s through the 1980s.
20.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Wagner's Ring Cycle” - From leitmotifs to lighter fare, this week's programs are a five-hour exploration of Richard Wagner’s crowning operatic achievement.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Rossen Milanov, conductor; Steven Copes, violin; SCARLATTI/arr.SHOSTAKOVICH: Pastorale and Capriccio for Winds, Brass and Timpani; SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony in c, Op 110a; PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op.34b; KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto, Op.35
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Louis Smith, trumpet
21.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Wagner's Ring Cycle”
8:00pm Pittsburgh Symphony
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; R.STRAUSS: Don Juan; R.STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto; R.STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Fats Waller, pianist/vocalist/composer
22.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Wagner's Ring Cycle”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor; Genia Kühmeyer, soprano; Bernarda Fink, mezzo soprano; Michael Schade, tenor; Netherlands Radio Choir; HENZE: Elogium Musicum; MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.2, Lobgesang
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sun Ra, pianist/bandleader
23.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Wagner's Ring Cycle”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Manfred Honeck, conductor; Till Fellner, piano; Eugene Izotov, oboe; David McGill, bassoon; Robert Chen, violin; John Sharp; cello; R.STRAUSS: Overture to Die Fledermaus; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15; DVOŘÁK: Symphony No.8, Op.88; HAYDN: Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat; BEETHOVEN: Overture to Fidelio, Op.72b
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader
24.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Wagner's Ring Cycle”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Steve Davislim, tenor; Eric Owens, bass-baritone; The New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director; BACH: Mass in b-minor
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ken Peplowski, clarinetist/saxophonist
25.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Pianist and singer Barbara Carroll was one of Marian’s very first guests on Piano Jazz. On this return appearance from 2009, Carroll reminisces with her good friend about their experiences at New York’s Hickory House and the Oak Room. Carroll gives a charmed performance of “Very Early” and Marian improvises a musical portrait of her guest.
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra – Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; with Thomas Hampson, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Krassimira Stoyanova, Frank Lopardo, Quinn Kelsey and Evan Boyer
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast fromThe Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, with guests Aoife O'Donovan, Howard Levy
26.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Encore: Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (Part 1)” - Performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor; Tianwa Yang, violin; REVUELTAS: Suite from Redes; PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; CHÁVEZ: Sinfonia India; MONCAYO: Huapango; RAVEL Boléro
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Rossen Milanov, conductor; Steven Copes, violin; SCARLATTI/arr.SHOSTAKOVICH: Pastorale and Capriccio for Winds, Brass and Timpani; SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony in c, Op 110a; PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op.34b; KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto, Op.35
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Tango, Opera and the Blues: Jelly Roll’s Recipe for Jazz” - Many jazz musicians and writers have said that Jelly Roll Morton was the first great composer in jazz. Some of his best work is performed here by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Dick Hyman and others.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Turn Out the Stars 4” - Here's another in Night Lights' continuing Memorial Day series of musical tributes to departed jazz musicians.
27.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Music in Time of War” - This week’s program will focus on composers' reactions to armed conflict, including the great War Requiem by Benjamin Britten. We'll also feature music by Beethoven, Haydn and Shostakovich.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohanányi, conductor; ALL BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No.3; Symphony No.6, Op.68, Pastoral; Symphony No.5, Op.67
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass
28.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Music in Time of War”
8:00pm Pittsburgh Symphony
Manfred Honeck, conductor; James Gorton, oboe; Gretchen van Hoesen, harp; Heidi van Hoesen Gorton, harp; GOOSSENS: Concert Piece for Oboe/English Horn, Two Harps and Orchestra; MAHLER: Symphony No.6, Tragic
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Claudio Roditi, trumpet/flugelhorn
29.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Music in Time of War”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor; Christine Brewer, soprano; Camilla Nylund, soprano; María Espada, soprano; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Mihoko Fujimura, alto; Robert Dean Smith, tenor; Tommi Hakala, baritone; Stefan Kocán, bass; Netherlands Radio Choir; State Choir Latvija; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; National Boys' Choir; National Children's Choir; MAHLER: Symphony No.8
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Kenny Washington, drums
30.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Music in Time of War”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Asher Fisch, conductor; Michael Barenboim, violin; Robert Chen, violin; Mathieu Dufour, flute; Eugene Izotov, oboe, William Buchman, bassoon; WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll; SCHOENBERG: Violin Concerto, Op.36; MAHLER: Adagio from Symphony No.10; WAGNER: Prelude to Parsifal; BACH/KOOPMAN: Concerto in C from BWV1064
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Benny Goodman, clarinet/bandleader
31.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Music in Time of War”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
András Schiff, conductor and piano; BACH: Keyboard Concerto in f-minor; MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No.9; BACH: Keyboard Concerto in D; SCHUMANN: Symphony No.4
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Peggy Lee, voice