Every song featured on this followup program is a recommendation from a VPR listener, and includes songs from such diverse artists as The Sons Of The Pioneers, Tom Waits, and The 5th Dimension.
Haydn’s String Quartet in D, "The Lark", serenades the morning – and we’ll hear an austerely lovely piece by musician and amateur ornithologist Olivier Messiaen.
Vermont Edition intern and UVM music major, Wesley Christensen, describes the process of creating a senior performance – a culmination of his music studies.
There was only one W.A. Mozart. But scores of contemporaries thrived in
his large shadow, many of whom even enjoyed more fame than he did at
the time. This morning we’ll hear a Mozart-era Violin Concerto by
Guadeloupe-born composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
"Make way for the factotum!" sings the barber of Seville in Rossini’s
eponymous opera. We’ll make way for morning music with the opera’s
Overture, and then a guitar/violin version of the barber’s famous "Largo al factotum" aria.
In a surprising turn, our late-April world turned white today! The morning’s music is a reflective mix including a request for Beethoven’s "Moonlight" sonata, and a Rautavaara song that sings of snow-covered flowers.
On Monday night, 4/26, VPR Classical’s “In Concert @8” offers a prelude
to the VSO’s “Terezín Remembered” programs this week with "A Voice for
the Silenced", an exploration of the music that was created in the
Terezín concentration camp.
A listener request for Steve Reich’s Different Trains, and information about this week’s special events with the VSO commemorating the liberation of the Terezín concentration camp.
This week Joel Najman’s My Place program mines the vaults of contemporary popular music for songs that mention the telephone, including famous hits by The Big Bopper, Jim Croce, and the Marvelettes.