According to the liner notes, the purpose of this release is to “uncover the fine thread of cultural exchange between high art music and popular music tradition.” Sure, I could hear that. You can also enjoy this release as a great collection of early music hits. I use the word “hits,” because many of these […]
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Classical Interviews – Robby Brown
Classical Guitarist Robby Brown has been working at the Heifetz summer institute for four years. He’s currently getting his doctorate in music at Florida State University. He talked to us about what sets the classical guitar apart from what you might hear in a folk or rock act and played Fantaisies by Francesco Da Milano […]
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Classical Interviews – Maya Buchanan
Maya Anjali Buchanan has been spending the summer at the Heifetz institute concentrating on chamber music. Hailing from South Dakota, she is currently studying violin at the Curtis Institute of Music. She spoke with us about her very special Guarneri violin and her recent exploration of Indian classical music and its improvisational tradition. For more […]
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Classical Interviews – Cong Quartet
Formed at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in the US, Cong Quartet is a professional string quartet performing around Asia, Europe, and the United States. They’re currently studying at the Heifetz Institute in Staunton and they stopped by WTJU to perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1, Opus 59 IV. “Théme Russe,” Tchaikovsky’s String […]
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Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Music in Good Hands With Joanna Sochacka
Pianist Joanna Sochacka is a woman on a mission. And that mission is for Grazyna Bacewicz’s compositions to receive the performances they deserve. Bacewicz is already recognized as one of Poland’s musical geniuses. She was both a virtuoso violinist and pianist. Her compositions won numerous awards and critical acclaim. And yet, sixty years after her […]
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#ClassicsaDay #NAFTAclassics Week 3
The Classics a Day team once again made NAFTA Classics the theme for July. Two of the three countries in North America have significant holidays in the month — Canada Day (July 1), and Independence Day (July 4). As always with this theme, I simply alternated between Canadian, American, and Mexican composers. And the process […]
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Les Escapades revive Georg Christoph Strattner sacred music
Georg Christoph Strattner is best remembered today for some of his hymn tunes. But in the late 1690s, he was a well-respected composer of many forms of sacred music. Strattner spent most of his professional life at the court chapel at Weimar. Like Heinrich Schutz, who was of the previous generation, Strattner blended the ideals […]
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Robert Simpson Symphonies 5 & 6 – worth a listen
I first became aware of Robert Simpson through The Symphony. This two-volume work, edited by Simpson, was a collection of essays about the great symphonists and their music. Simpson not only knew how to write about symphonies, he knew how to write them. This release features two of his eleven symphonies, both dating from the 1970s. […]
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Classical Interviews – Jeanette Fang
Jeanette Fang is a pianist and Co-Artistic Director at the Garth Newel Music Center. She talks about some of her favorite pieces, what she’s learned from focusing on Chamber Music and working with Garth Newel’s student fellows in the summer. For more on the Garth Newel Music Center, visit: garthnewel.org These interviews air as part […]