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Program highlights for July 4 - 11


Saturday, July 4

10AM Saturday Opera: Portland Opera’s production of La Traviata.

3PM First Impressions: It’s likely to be some of the most beautiful music you’ll hear this year: Austin-based, Grammy-nominated choir, Conspirare directed by Craig Hella Johnson, sing works by Morten Lauridsen, Morricone, and a short Requiem that is astonishing in its beauty.

4PM The Score: This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone we celebrate America’s Birthday with music to movies about the War of Independence or moments from films set around July 4th, from The Music Man and his 76 Trombones to Rocky Balboa. There’s a call to arms in The Patriot and a battle to save Earth during Independence Day. It’s a great day to honor the United States.

5PM From the Top: This week’s program comes from one of the world’s leading opera houses, Houston Grand Opera, with an exciting line-up of young singers and instrumentalists who all come together for a finale from Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel, conducted by Christopher O’Riley.

6PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra: This American program for Independence Day includes a bicentennial celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and a Song for World Peace by John Williams.

8PM Club Mod: America the Bountiful. An encore presentation of the special 4th of July show features American composers and pieces that celebrate the bounty that we find in our country. From Gwyneth Walker’s Sweet Land of Liberty to Ernest Bloch’s America: An Epic Rhapsody, it’s an all-American show this week, for the Fourth of July.

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Saturday through 6AM Sunday, features classical music with the night in mind with hosts Edmund Stone and Andrea Murray.

Sunday, July 5

8AM Millennium of Music: Vasquez: Sonetos y Villancicos
Back to secular music with the successor to Encina as the primary composer of popular songs for the nobility, Juan Vasquez (c.1500-c.1560). Performances by La Trulla de Bozes, directed by Carlos Sandua.

9AM St. Paul Sunday: Violist Helen Callus and pianist Phillip Bush play music by Brahms, Rebecca Clarke, Sergei Prokofiev and Pamela Harrison.

10AM Classical Guitar Alive: This week’s edition features music from some of the best recently-released CDs and interviews with American lutenist Ronn McFarlane, who discusses his latest Dorian Recording, CD Indigo Road, which features his own compositions.

3PM Request Show: Email your requests for this two-hour program to Edmund@allclassical.org

5PM Played in Oregon with Christa Wessel: Highlights from the 2008 summer season at Chamber Music Northwest. Include an original two-piano version of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, the aria from Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 for soprano and eight cellos (Matt Haimovitz was one of those cellists!) and a couple of other surprises as well.

6PM New York Philharmonic: 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center – and Welcome to Alan Gilbert
The program features Beethoven’s Gloria from Missa Solemnis in D, Op. 123, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and with soprano Eileen Farrell, mezzo-soprano Carol Smith, tenor Richard Lewis, bass Kim Borg, and The Westminster Choir. Maestro Bernstein also conducts Schuman’s Symphony No. 8 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major.

8PM Vocal Chords: Stile Antico sings Tomas Luis Victoria’s Vadam et circuibo (I will arise...and seek him...), soprano Carolyn Sampson and the King’s Consort Choir perform Mozart’s Regina coeli, K. 127, and Ton Koopman conducts the Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra in J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 Schweight Stille.

9PM The Organ Trail: Organ Music celebrating Independence Day

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Sunday through 6AM Monday, features classical music with the night in mind with your hosts Edmund Stone and Brandi Parisi.

Monday, July 6

8PM Symphony Hall: Kurt Masur leads the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and solists in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Op. 125, “ Choral,” and Jeffrey Tate conducts the English Chamber Orchestra and pianist Mitsuko Uchida in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat Major, K 482.

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Monday through 6AM Tuesday, features classical music with the night in mind with host Brandi Parisi.

Tuesday, July 7

8PM Symphony Hall: Herbert Blomstedt leads the San Francisco Symphony in Franz Berwald’s Symphony No. 1 in g minor, “Serieuse,” and Chamber Music Northwest plays Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111.

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Tuesday through 6AM Wednesday, features classical music with the night in mind with host Brandi Parisi.

Wednesday, July 8

8PM Symphony Hall: Andreas Delfs conducts pianist John O’Conor and the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15, and Pierre Boulez conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Singverein in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in c minor, “Resurrection.”

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Wednesday through 6AM Thursday, features classical music with the night in mind with host Brandi Parisi.

Thursday, July 9

6PM Northwest Previews: A preview of this year’s Portland Piano International Festival; plus, interviews from Chamber Music Northwest include a talk with members of the Miro Quartet and pianist Leila Josefowicz.

8PM Symphony Hall: The Berlin Philharmonic plays Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote, Op. 35, pianist John O’Conor plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 29, “Hammerklavier,” in B flat Major, Op. 106; the Montreal Symphony Orchestra presents Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op. 25; and pianist Alfred Brendel joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 50.

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Thursday through 6AM Friday, features classical music with the night in mind with host Brandi Parisi.

Friday, July 10

12N Northwest Previews: A preview of this year’s Portland Piano International Festival; plus, interviews from Chamber Music Northwest include a talk with members of the Miro Quartet and pianist Leila Josefowicz.

8PM Symphony Hall: The San Francisco Symphony plays Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, and the Cleveland Quartet presents Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 8 in e, Op. 59, “Razumovsky.”

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Friday through 6AM Saturday, features classical music with the night in mind with host Andrea Murray.

Saturday, July 11

10AM Saturday Opera: Portland Opera’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio

3PM First Impressions: The Sound of Scandinavia is a 6-CD set that includes the beautiful string serenades and overtures of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian composers, excellently played by some of Scandinavia’s great artists, including pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and others. Also, John Pitman features Souvenirs by Paul Shoenfield, with movements titled Samba, Tango, Tin Pan Alley and Square Dance, for violin and piano.

4PM The Score: This week on The Score, Edmund Stone talks to eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard. They discuss and feature Newton Howard’s music to Defiance, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Michael Clayton and King Kong. Tune in and eavesdrop on the process of writing blockbuster movie music.

5PM From the Top: From the Top visits the great state of Iowa to meet a wonderful group of young musicians including a 17-year-old baritone singing an aria from the Marriage of Figaro and a guitar quartet from Minnesota.

6PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Italian conductor Fabio Luisi leads the CSO in a program that spotlights principal flutist Mathieu Dufour and a gamelan-inspired work by ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee.

8PM Club Mod: Two Times Fifty
This week on Club Mod we’ll hear music by two very different composers whose 50th birthdays are next week: the Scotsman James MacMillan and the Barcelona-born music director of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Salvador Brotons. Included are two works performed locally, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie by MacMillan and the Catalanish Concerto by Brotons.

10PM Night Music: Our own late night/overnight program, airing 10PM Saturday through 6AM Sunday, features classical music with the night in mind with hosts Edmund Stone and Andrea Murray.