Music

November 14, 2003 5:00 PM

Drummer follows musical path from Austin to Africa

Percussionist Marc Anderson has followed a musical path that has taken him far from his hometown of Austin, Minnesota. From the foothills of the Himalayas to the steaming forests of west Africa, Anderson has spanned the globe in the spirit of musical and cultural exploration.

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November 14, 2003 9:00 AM

Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher was in the Twin Cities for a performance with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota on November 16, 2003. He's widely acknowledged as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Because of an injury to his right hand ( focal dystonia ), most likely caused by repetitive stress syndrome, his concert career came to an abrupt halt in 1965. He took that opportunity to regroup and take on the left-handed repertoire for the piano, in addition to becoming a conductor, an arts administrator and a renowned teacher. Minnesota Public Radio's Silvester Vicic talked with him about his career, his recent solo recital at Carnegie Hall, his philosophies on teaching, the arts and music, and his visit to the Twin Cities.

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November 13, 2003 9:00 AM

Music in Patrick O'Brian's novels

When I was a lad, books like Captains Courageous and Two Years Before the Mast, The Sea Wolf and later, Moby Dick, all gave me dreams of being a sailor. But after several Channel crossings and a sailing weekend on Lake Superior, I've found I don't have the stomach for it. It seems I'll have to keep my sailing adventures to the printed page, and the silver screen. But as a classical music broadcaster, I have to give O'Brian especially good marks for the way he treats music in his novels. How could you not love a writer who ends a rollicking sea adventure, The Letter of Marque, with everyone on deck singing an aria from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte!

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November 5, 2003 9:00 AM

Minnesota Opera performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppi Verdi

As the first scene opens, there is a lavish party is in progress at the duke's palace. The Duke tells his companion, Borsa, about a young woman who has caught his attention at church. No sooner has he finished describing her than he is talking about another woman, the Countess Ceprano. Borsa warns him to look out for her husband. But the Duke is unconcerned. He considers women to be his playthingsâhe claims he simply can't help himself when surrounded by so many pretty faces

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November 1, 2003 9:00 AM

Giving Thanks, 2003

Like your Thanksgiving Day feast, Giving Thanks combines traditional fare with unexpected delights. For Thanksgiving 2003, we've invited some wonderful guests to the program, including Wendy Wasserstein, Donald Hall, and highlights from the Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

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October 24, 2003 12:01 AM

Langlais plays Langlais

You've never heard the Piece Symphonique. But then, Jean Langlais never heard it either, and he composed it. Now its finally getting its world premier in Minnesota.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Eighty Years of composer Ned Rorem

Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him "the world's best composer of art songs," yet his musical and literary ventures extend far beyond this specialized field. Rorem has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and an array of other orchestral works, music for numerous combinations of chamber forces, nine operas, choral works of every description, ballets and other music for the theater, and literally hundreds of songs and cycles. He is the author of sixteen books, including five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

The House on Cedar Street: musical interactive environment

Remember that house where you went for your first piano lessons? Scary, eh? Well not as scary as what that house looks like now it has been empty for years and devoid of life, or at least, human life... hahahahahahaha. It lies abandoned there on Cedar and 7th Street among the derelict ruins of downtown Saint Paul. Some say there was once a radio station run out of the attic and ghostly sounds can be heard from the cobweb-ridden furniture. You only have to look and the green miasmic mist is illuminated and the songs of the undead assault your eardrums and shiver your spine into jelly and I don't mean blackcurrant.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Haunted organs and classical macabre

Brad Althoff, associate producer of Pipedreams, take listeners on a musical journey through classic Halloween and scary flavored music.

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October 20, 2003 9:00 AM

Interview with violinist Itzhak Perlman

He's one of the icons of modern-day Classical Music, a musician who's done the late-show circuit, first playing on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958 when he was just 13, won enough Grammy's to fill a wall-sized case and an individual performer in the mold of the great violinists who came before him. Itzhak Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, and since then has played with all the major orchestras of the world, giving thousands of concerts with orchestras or with a piano accompanist, solo on stage. Mr. Perlman was in the Twin Cities on October 21, 2003 to play a recital at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, the opening concert of the Schubert Club's International Artist Series. Accompanied by pianist Rohan da Silva, he played a program of Bach, Beethoven and Poulenc.

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