Program Guide

Blue Lake Public Radio Listener Guide

March 2024

1.Friday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Let Me Tell You A Story, Part 2”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Levy Lorenzo, electronics; MARCOS BALTER: Oyá for light, electronics, and orchestra; JOHN ADAMS: My Father Knew Charles Ives; TANIA LEÓN: Stride; RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

2.Saturday
7:00pm Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics

1:00pm The Metropolitan Opera
(Listeners’ Choice from 1962) VERDI: Ernani – Thomas Schippers, conductor; with Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, Cornell MacNeil, and Giorgio Tozzi
5:00pm All Things Considered
6:00pm American Routes
8:00pm A Michigan Saturday Night
9:00pm Folk Alley
10:00pm WoodSongs
11:00pm Sing Out!

3.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“AGO Seattle 2022 (VI)” – Enjoy a concert by David Briggs playing the C. B. Fisk organ at Benaroya Hall.
8:00 Choral Traditions
9:00 Sunday On Blue Lake

12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
1:00pm SymphonyCast
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru, conductor; Isabelle Faust, violin; DVORAK: Carnival Overture; BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No.2; PROKOFIEV: Symphony No.5 in B-flat
3:00pm Concierto
5:00 All Things Considered
6:00 Radio Deluxe
8:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
10:00pm Night Lights

 4.Monday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 1 (1906-1975)” – “He forged a musical language of colossal emotional power,” says Grove’s Dictionary. This week will be the first of a two-part series exploring the life and times of Dmitri Shostakovich. From his four-note “D-Es-C-H” signature to the musical sounds of the KGB knocking on his door, Bill will help us understand these hidden meanings in his music. Born in Tsarist Russia and living through the establishment of the USSR, his music reflects these political changes with emotional depth for the world to hear. Also, having his ear to the ground for music from other places, we will hear his Tahiti Trot and waltzes.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“French Ingenuity”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Stan Getz, tenor saxophone

5.Tuesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 1”
8:00pm SymphonyCast
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin; Marin Alsop, conductor; Alban Gerhardt, cello; MONTGOMERY: Strum; DEAN: Cello Concerto; DVOŘÁK: Symphony No.9 From the New World
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Stacy Kent, voice

6.Wednesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 1”
8:00pm California Symphony
California Symphony, Donato Cabrera, conductor; Sarah Cahill, piano; BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture, Op.9; VIET CUONG: Stargazer (World Premiere, CA Symphony commission); WALTON: Symphony No.1; RAVEL: Mother Goose
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ingrid Jensen, trumpet

7.Thursday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 1”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Bernard Haitink, conductor; Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz; Beethoven: Symphony No.7, Op.92; Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op.1; Brahms: Symphony No.2, Op.73

10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Christine Jensen, saxophone/composition

8.Friday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 1”
8:00 The New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmerman, violin; LINDBERG: EXPO; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
George Coleman, saxophone

9.Saturday
7:00pm Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics

1:00pm The Metropolitan Opera
VERDI: La Forza del Destino – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor; with Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Soloman Howard, Judit Kutasi, and Patrick Carfizzi
5:00pm All Things Considered
6:00pm American Routes
8:00pm A Michigan Saturday Night
9:00pm Folk Alley
10:00pm WoodSongs
11:00pm Sing Out!

10.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Women in Music” – In celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8), a galaxy of composers and performers.
8:00 Choral Traditions
9:00 Sunday On Blue Lake

12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor; Danil Trifanov, piano; COURTNEY BRYAN: White Gleam of Our Bright Star; GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F; RAVEL: La valse
3:00pm Concierto
5:00 All Things Considered
6:00 Radio Deluxe
8:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
10:00pm Night Lights

11.Monday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 2 (1906-1975)” – This week we conclude our two-part series on the life and times of Dmitri Shostakovich. From his later symphonies to the Jazz Suite No. 2, Bill explores all forms of Shostakovich’s writing. Starting with Shostakovich’s Four Romances after Pushkin, Op.46, and his Symphony No.5, The “Market Place” from The Gadfly, Op.97, Bill ends the week with Kim Kashkashian playing a beautiful performance of the Viola Sonata with Robert Levin.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Romantic Schoenberg”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Leroy Jenkins, violin

12.Tuesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 2”
8:00pm SymphonyCast
A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra; GOLIJOV: Arum dem Fayer; MONTGOMERY: Banner; BECENTI: The Glittering World; DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No.12, American
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Brandee Younger, harp

 13.Wednesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 2”
8:00pm California Symphony
Donato Cabrera, conductor; Inbal Segev, cello; KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta; ANNA CLYNE: DANCE for Cello and Orchestra; MYROSLAV SKORYK: Melody for Symphony Orchestra; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Terence Blanchard, trumpet

14.Thursday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 2”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Jakob Hrůša, conductor; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Cyrille Aimee, voice

 

15.Friday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Dmitri Shostakovich, Part 2”
8:00 New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; WEBERN: Im Sommerwind, Idyll for Orchestra; SCHOENBERG: Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5; IVES: Symphony No.2; IVES: The Unanswered Question
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Maria Schneider, composer/bandleader

16.Saturday
7:00pm Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics

1:00pm The Metropolitan Opera
PUCCINI: Turandot – Oksana Lyniv, conductor; with Elena Pankratova, SeokJong Baek, Aleksandra Kurzak, and Vitalij Kowaljow
5:00pm All Things Considered
6:00pm American Routes
8:00pm A Michigan Saturday Night
9:00pm Folk Alley
10:00pm WoodSongs
11:00pm Sing Out!

17.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Bach in Seattle” – In churches and concert halls, more performances from AGO Seattle 2022 (Part VII)
8:00 Choral Traditions
9:00 Sunday On Blue Lake

12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor; Sterling Elliott, cello; ERROLLYN WALLEN: Mighty River; ELGAR: Cello Concerto; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No.2, London
3:00pm Concierto
5:00 All Things Considered
6:00 Radio Deluxe


18.Monday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“The Four Seasons” – This week, Bill welcomes the vernal equinox with music inspired by the seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter. We’ll be able to envision the boundless majesty of the summer sun in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, and the frosty and shivering winds of Vivaldi’s Winter, and then to spice up our week, Astor Piazzolla’s tango, Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas) performed by Trio Solisti. Bill will recite poems that complement the seasonal music, and we’ll listen to Tchaikovsky’s Seasons performed by Yefim Bronfman.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Britten and Dvorak”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Julian Labro, accordion

19.Tuesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“The Four Seasons”
8:00pm SymphonyCast
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Yuja Wang, piano; LISZT: Piano Concerto No.1; MAHLER: Symphony No.1, Titan
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Benny Benack III, trumpet/voice


20.Wednesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“The Four Seasons”
8:00pm California Symphony
Donato Cabrera, composer; Charlie Albright, piano; BERNSTEIN: Overture to Candide; DEBUSSY/RAVEL: Danse; GABRIELLA LENA FRANK: Three Latin-American Dances for Orchestra; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3, Op.37; BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Mary Lou Williams, piano/composition

21.Thursday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“The Four Seasons”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, Morton Gould, Fritz Reiner, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductors; JANÁČEK: Sinfonietta; COPLAND: Dance Symphony; JOHANN STRAUSS, Jr: Wiener Blut, Rosen aus dem Süden, Der Zigeunerbaron, Unter Donner und Blitz, Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Amina Claudine Myers, piano/organ/voice

22.Friday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“The Four Seasons”
8:00pm The New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Emmanuel Ax, piano; IVES: The Unanswered Question; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58; WEBERN: Symphony, Op.21; SCHUMANN: Symphony No.2, Op.61
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ben Webster, tenor saxophone/piano

 23.Saturday
7:00pm Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics

1:00pm The Metropolitan Opera
GOUNOD: Roméo et Juliette – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; with Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Will Liverman, Alfred Walker, Samantha Hankey, and Frederick Ballentine
5:00pm All Things Concsidere
6:00pm American Routes
8:00pm A Michigan Saturday Night
9:00pm Folk Alley
10:00pm WoodSongs
11:00pm Sing Out!

 24.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Out of the Depths” – Even in the hour of profound unhappiness, composers have used the organ in uplifting ways.
8:00 Choral Traditions
9:00 Sunday On Blue Lake

12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
Marcelo Lehninger conductor; Martina Filjak, piano; Grand Rapids Youth Symphony; LISZT Les preludes; LISZT: Piano Concerto No.1; BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra
3:00pm Concierto
5:00 All Things Considered
6:00 Radio Deluxe
8:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
10:00pm Night Lights

 25.Monday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Music for the Masses” – For the past eight centuries, Latin Masses have continuously been written and played for many different occasions, religious or not. This program spotlights recordings that bring these ancient Latin texts to life. Spanning from the beginning of written masses to modern times, Bill demonstrates the process it takes to compose these enduring masses that continue to be played.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“The Craft of Shostakovich”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Wayne Bergeron, trumpet

26.Tuesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Music for the Masses”
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Lakes Area Music Festival, Christian Rief, conductor; Julia Bullock, soprano; CLYNE: This Midnight Hour; BERLIOZ: Les nuits d’été; BRAHMS: Symphony No.2
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Artemis, band

27.Wednesday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Music for the Masses”
8:00pm California Symphony
Donato Cabrera, conductor; Nathan Chan, cello; VIET CUONG: Next Week’s Trees; ELGAR: Cello Concerto, Op.85; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5, Op.64
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sarah Vaughn, voice

28.Thursday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Music for the Masses”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; HAYDN: Symphony No.103, Drum Roll; LIGETI: Piano Concerto; BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Mary Halvorson, guitar/composition

29.Friday
12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Music for the Masses”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Petra Lang, mezzo-soprano; Women of the Westminster Symphony Chorus/Joe Miller, director; The American Boychoir/Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Toshiko Akiyoshi, piano/composer/band leader

30.Saturday
7:00pm Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics

1:00pm The Metropolitan Opera
VERDI: Requiem (from September 2023) – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; with Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitry Belosselskiy
5:00pm All Things Considered
6:00pm American Routes
8:00pm A Michigan Saturday Night
9:00pm Folk Alley
10:00pm WoodSongs
11:00pm Sing Out!

31.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“For Easter Day” – Anthems and organ solos express the joyful amazement that is the essence of the resurrection festival.

8:00 Choral Traditions
9:00 Sunday On Blue Lake

12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor; Christopher Kantner, flute; Elizabeth Colpean, harp; MOZART: Concerto for Flute and Harp; GRIEG: Holberg Suite
3:00pm Concierto
5:00 All Things Considered
6:00 Radio Deluxe
8:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
10:00pm Night Lights

2. Monday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Unfinished Symphonies“ - Schubert wasn't the only composer who passed from this earth with an incomplete symphony on his shelf. Elgar, Mahler, Bruckner, and other symphonists left fantastic but tantalizingly unfinished material that Bill will feature. Varied and unusual stories explain why each one of these works remained unfinished on its shelf and buried deep in the back of our composers’ minds.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Beethoven/Mendelssohn/Hummel”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake

Alvin Queen, drums

3. Tuesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Unfinished Symphonies”
8:00pm SymponyCast
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; GINASTERA: Variaciones concertantes; JUAN PABLO CONTRERAS: Mariachitlan; MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.4, Italian
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Catherine Russell, voice

4. Wednesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Unfinished Symphonies”
8:00pm European Broadcasting Union
(new series highlighting various European orchestras) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladmir Jurowski, conductor; Julia Fischer, violin; ELGAR: Violin Concerto in b-minor; SILVESTROV: Lullaby, from 'Melodies of the Moments’, Op.145; ENESCU: Symphony No.2, Op.17
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Al Foster, drums

5. Thursday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Unfinished Symphonies”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen, violin and conductor; Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, flute; ALL MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525; Flute Concerto No.2, K.314; Violin Concerto No.3, K.216; Symphony No.25, K.183
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Diego Rivera, tenor saxophone

6. Friday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Unfinished Symphonies”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
An All-American New Year’s Eve: Thomas Hampson Sings Copland and Porter
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bob James, piano/keyboard

7. Saturday

7:00 Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics
1:00pm Metropolitan Opera

CHERUBINI: Medea – Carlo Rizzi, conductor; with Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, Ekaterina Gubanova, Janai Brugger, and Michele Pertusi
6:00 American Routes

8. Sunday

7:00am Pipedreams
“Un-Finnished Business and Other Nordic Notions” - The ‘energy bunny’ James D. Hicks regales us with additional accounts of his Scandinavian sojourns.
12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
A new addition to our Sunday line-up! Join host Jody Knol for performances from around the Great Lakes. JONATHAN BRUCE BROWN: Morning, Too, Shall Come (Jackson Sym Orchestra, Stephen Osmond, conductor); CARLOS SIMON: This Land (Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Earl Lee, conductor); BARBER: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op.14 (Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Muffitt, conductor; Ade Williams, violin); COPLAND: Letter from Home Suite (Jackson Symphony Orcheatra, Matthew Aubin, conductor)
1:00pm SymphonyCast
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; GINASTERA: Variaciones concertantes; JUAN PABLO CONTRERAS: Mariachitlan; MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.4, Italian
3:00pm Concierto
10:00pm Night Lights

9. Monday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 1” - Put on your dancing shoes and join us for two weeks of ballet music. Starting in the 16th century to meet Catherine de' Medici, and we continue to a golden age of ballet in Paris. Then we meet the Russian ballets, and finally, we will return to Paris for Ballets Russe in the years just before WWI. Our survey covers four hundred years of ballet strictly minding to the principles of Classical form with turnouts and arabesques all choreographed to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Tchaikovsky, and Gluck. Ballet changed in Paris on the evening of May 29, 1913, when Nijinsky danced from his pelvis to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Here we leave you plopped on the doorstep of Modern dance — that is music for another day.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Schubert's Trout Quintet”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake

Jazzmeia Horn, voice

10. Tuesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 1”
8:00pm SymponyCast
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marko Ivanovic, conductor; Martin Kasik, piano; JANÁČEK: The Fiddler’s Child; ANTON RUBINSTEIN: Piano Concerto No.4, Op.70; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5, Op.64
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Pasquale Grasso, guitar

11.Wednesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 1”
8:00pm European Broadcasting Union
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard, conductor; Jörg Widmann, clarinet; NIELSEN: Symphony No.1, Op.68; MOZART: Clarinet Concerto, K.622; NIELSEN: Symphony No.4, Op.29, Inextinguishable
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
T. S. Monk, drums

12. Thursday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 1”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Xian Zhang, conductor; Simon Trpčeski, piano; NGWENYAMA: Primal Message; GRIEG: Piano Concerto, Op.16; PROKOFIEV: Symphony No.6, Op.111
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
The Diva Jazz Orchestra

13. Friday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 1”
8:00 New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Judith Raskin, soprano; Alexander Young, tenor; John Reardon, baritone; Camerata Singers; HAYDN: The Creation, Hob.XXI:2
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
WFMT Jazz Network

14. Saturday

7:00 Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics 1:00pm Metropolitan Opera

GIORDANO: Fedora – Marco Armiliato, conductor; with Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Rosa Feola, and Lucas Meachem
6:00 American Routes

15. Sunday

7:00am Pipedreams
“Onstage with Bradley Hunter Welch” - A concert performance, with commentary, recorded at Bethel University in Minnesota.
12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
ROSSINI: Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri (Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Watson, conductor); MOZART: Symphony No.41, K.551, Jupiter (Traverse Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Watson, conductor); MARCUS NORRIS: There Can Be No More Kings: A Hood Fantasy (Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Aubin, conductor)
1:00pm SymphonyCast
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marko Ivanovic, conductor; Martin Kasik, piano; JANÁČEK: The Fiddler’s Child; ANTON RUBINSTEIN: Piano Concerto No.4, Op.70; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5, Op.64
3:00pm Concierto
10:00pm Night Lights

16. Monday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 2” - Put back on your dancing shoes for our second week of ballet music. This week we will hear the Russian ballets and return to Paris for what now is considered a full-out riot when Ballets Russe choreographed movements to express the music they heard from Igor Stravinsky. New music, and new dance techniques in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. While listening to this music, sit down with your computer and research Ballets Russe in Paris. Its cultural history created a complete renaissance, if not a revolution, much like Catherine de' Medici did for dance 400 years before at the beginning of our survey.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Schubert: From Song to Instrumental Lyricism”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake

Tony Monaco, organ

17. Tuesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 2”
8:00pm SymponyCast
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Jun Iwasaki, violin; Kevin Bate, cello; Tamara Winston, English horn; SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela; BRAHMS: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra; JENNIFER HIGDON: Blue Cathedral; RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
The Reid Hoyson Project

18. Wednesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 2”
8:00pm European Broadcasting Union
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ariane Matiakh, conductor; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; KOECHLIN: Vers la voûte étoilée; DESSNER: Violin Concerto; TRADITIONAL: Finnish Traditional Song; BACH: Sarabande in d-minor; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6, Op.68, Pastoral
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jeremy Pelt, trumpet

19. Thursday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 2”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
James Conlon, conductor; Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano; BACH/WILHELMJ: Air on the G String from Orchestral Suite No.3; SHOSTAKOVICH/BARSHAI: Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op.110a; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No.1, Op.10; SCHUBERT: Symphony No.3, D.200
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Dave Stryker, guitar

20. Friday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Modest Survey of Ballet Music, Part 2”
8:00 New York Philharmonic
All-Bach Program with Bernard Labadie and Isabelle Faust
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Antonio Adolfo, piano

21. Saturday

7:00 Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics
1:00pm Metropolitan Opera

DONIZETTI: L’Elisir d’Amore – Michele Gamba, conductor; with Javier Camarena, Golda Schultz, Davide Luciano, and Ambrogio Maestri
6:00pm American Routes

22. Sunday

7:00am Pipedreams
“Renaissance Man” - As composer, transcriber, improviser and performer, British-born recitalist David Briggs does it all.
12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
GEORGES HÜE: Fantaisie for Flute & Orchestra (Anthony Trionfo, flute, Baroque on Beaver Festival Orchestra, Robert Nordling, conductor); SIBELIUS: Symphony No.2, Op.43 (Jackson Sym Orchestra, Matthew Aubin, conductor)
1:00pm SymphonyCast
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Jun Iwasaki, violin; Kevin Bate, cello; Tamara Winston, English horn; SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela; BRAHMS: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra; JENNIFER HIGDON: Blue Cathedral; RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite
3:00pm Concierto
10:00pm Night Lights

23. Monday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)” - One of the most influential (and underrated) Czech composers, Leoš Janáček created a deeply original style of composition that infused his operas, string quartets, and symphonic music with Moravian and Slavic folk influences. We start this week listening to his charming intimate Nursery Rhymes, “White Goat Gathers Pears,” and “Beetroot Was Getting Married,” performed by The Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Each hour of the week continues with a wonderful sample of Janáček’s works handpicked by Bill McGlaughlin.
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“Viennese Bookends”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake

Lynne Arriale, piano

24. Tuesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Leoš Janáček”
8:00pm SymponyCast
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; PERKINSON: Lamentations ; MOZART: String Quintet, K.516; BRAHMS: Horn Trio in E-flat
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Lisa Hilton, piano

25. Wednesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Leoš Janáček”
8:00pm European Broadcasting Union
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu, conductor; Renaud Capuçon, violin; CHABRIER: España ; RAVEL: Violin Sonata No.1; RAVEL: Tzigane ; MASSENET: Méditation, from 'Thaïs'; IBERT: Escales, symphonic poem; RAVEL: Boléro
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Deanna Witkowski, piano

26. Thursday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music “Leoš Janáček”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Jeremy Denk, piano; MAHLER: Blumine ; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3, Op.37; BRAHMS/SCHOENBERG: Piano Quartet No.1, Op.25
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Michael Weiss, piano

27. Friday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“Leoš Janáček”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
tba
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Scott Hamilton, tenor saxophone

28. Saturday

7:00 Jazz a la Carte
10:00am Radio Deluxe
12:00pm Saturday Classics
1:00pm Metropolitan Opera

POULENC: Dialogues Des Carmélites – Bertrand de Billy, conductor; with Ailyn Pérez, Christine Goerke, Alice Coote, Jamie Barton, Sabine Devieilhe, Piotr Buszewski, and Laurent Naouri
6:00 American Routes

29. Sunday

7:00am Pipedreams
“Wintering in Oaxaca” - An exploration of vintage instruments in southern Mexico with Cicely Winter, director of the Institute for Historic Organs of Oaxaca (IOHIO).
12:00 Great Lakes Concerts
HAYDN: Symphony No.90 (Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Muffitt, conductor); RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43 (Inon Barnatan, piano, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Earl Lee, conductor); GERSHWIN: "I Got Rhythm" from "Girl Crazy" (Inon Barnatan, piano)
1:00pm SymphonyCast
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; PERKINSON: Lamentations ; MOZART: String Quintet, K.516; BRAHMS: Horn Trio in E-flat
3:00pm Concierto
10:00pm Night Lights

30. Monday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Visit with Richard Stoltzman” - Descending into Richard’s daylight basement is stepping into over fifty years of clarinet history. Music scores, posters, photos, thousands of clarinet reeds, and over 175 of his recordings fill tables and shelves. With sweet overtones and a twinkle in his eye, he describes standing on stage, pointing the bell of his clarinet towards the audience, and drawing them into the music of Messiaen, Takemitsu, and Copland. His welcoming sense of community has introduced us to new players, and new interpretations of less understood works, plus he has commissioned music by everybody. Listen to stories about his parents, Benny Goodman, Rudolf Serkin, his teachers and friends, and you quickly understand his dedication to a lifetime spent getting it right. This week with Richard will make your jaw drop!
8:00pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“From the Movie Screen to the Concert Hall”
9:00pm Millenium of Music
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake

Tierney Sutton, voice

31. Tuesday

12:06/7:00pm Exploring Music
“A Visit with Richard Stoltzman”
8:00pm SymponyCast
Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Time for Three; HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis ; HIGDON: Concerto 4-3 ; TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Samara Joy, voice