|
1) |
"Bayreuth
Festival Opera Presents Parsifal" on
Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00pm - 12:00 midnight.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
|
2) |
"A Chamber Music Spectacular with
the Cypress String Quartet, the Ahn Trio, & the Takacs String Quartet"
will air on Tuesday, December 9th at 8:00pm. |
| |
Click here for details |
| |
|
|
3) |
"Bayreuth
Festival Opera Presents Tristan und Isolde"
on Wednesday, December 10th at 7:00pm - 12:00 midnight.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
| 4) |
"Christmas
Glow with Renee Fleming” will
air on Thursday, December 4th at 10:00pm. |
| |
|
| 5) |
"A
Christmas Celebration with Bryn Terfel and Frederic von Stade” will air
on Thursday, December 4th at 10:30pm. |
| |
|
| 6) |
"Conspirare: Christmas at the
Carillon" will air on Thursday, December 11th, at 10:00pm. |
| |
|
| 7) |
"A Choral Christmas Card" will air
on Thursday, December 18th at 10:00pm. |
| |
|
|
8) |
"A
Paul Winter Solstice Concert" will air on
Saturday, December 20th at 8:00pm -
10:00pm. Click here for
details. |
| |
|
| 9) |
"Hanukkah
Lights" will air on Sunday, December 21st at 12:00noon. |
| |
|
| 10) |
"Chanukah
in Story and Song" will air on Sunday, December 21st at 1:00pm. |
| |
|
| 11) |
"Cantus:
All is Calm" will air on Monday, December 22st at 9:00pm. |
| |
|
| 12) |
"A
Chanticleer Christmas" will air on Monday, December 22st at 10:00pm. |
| |
|
| 13) |
"Happy
Joyous Hannuka"
will air on Tuesaday, December 23rd at 7:00pm. |
| |
|
| 14) |
"Choirs
& Carols: An NPR Christmas" will air on Tuesday, December 23rd at
10:00pm. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Christmas Eve
Specials |
| 15) |
Welcome Christmas 2008 will
air on Wednesday, December 24th from 9:00am - 10:00am. |
| |
|
| 16) |
"A
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" will air on Wednesday,
December 24th from 10:00am - 12:00am. |
| |
|
| 17) |
"Carols
for Dancing" will air on Wednesday, December 24th at 1:00pm. |
| |
|
| 18) |
"Songs
of Joy and Peace: The Yo-Yo Ma Holiday Party" will air Wednesday,
December 24th at 2:00pm. |
| |
|
| 19) |
"Magnificat
an American broadcast debut featuring the Yale Schola Cantorum" will air
on Wednesday, December 24th at 3:00pm. |
| |
|
| 20) |
"Christmas
Around the Country" will air on Wednesday, December 24th at 4:00pm. |
| |
|
| 21) |
"All Things
Considered will start at 5:00pm and run until 7:00pm" on Wednesday,
December 24th. |
| |
|
| 22) |
"Lessons and Carols from
Washington National Cathedral" will air on Wednesday, December 24th at
7:00pm |
| |
|
| 23) |
"Christmas
With Madrigalia hosted Jeanne Fisher" will air on
Wednesday, December 24th at 8:00pm. |
| |
|
| 24) |
"T'was
the Night Before Christmas" will air on Wednesday, December 24th at
9:00pm. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Christmas Day
Specials |
| 25) |
"A Harpist’s Christmas with
Yoland Kondonassis" will air on Thursday, December 25th at 5:00am. |
| |
|
| 26) |
"St.
Olaf Christmas Festival"
will air on Thursday, December 25th at 9:00am. |
| |
|
| 27) |
"Christmas
with Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs" will air on Thursday, December
25th at 10:00am. |
| |
|
| 28) |
"Christmas
with the Philadelphia Singers" will air on Thursday, December 25th at
1:00pm. |
| |
|
| 29) |
"Echoes
of Christmas"
will air on
Thursday, December 25th at 2:00pm. |
| |
|
| 30) |
"The Rose Ensemble: An Early
American Christmas"
will air on
Thursday, December 25th at 3:00pm. |
| |
|
| 31) |
"Tinsel
Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites" will air on Thursday, December 25th at
4:00pm. |
| |
|
| 32) |
"All Things
Considered will start at 5:00pm and run until 6:30pm" on Thursday,
December 25th. |
| |
|
| 33 |
"One Silent Night with Walter
Cronkite" will air on Thursday, December 25th at 6:30pm. |
| |
|
| 34) |
"Music of
the Baroque Brass and Choral Holiday
Concert" will air on Thursday, December 25th at 7:00pm - 9:00pm.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
| 35) |
"Messiah with Apollo's Fire" will
air on Thursday, December 25th at 9:00pm - 11:00pm. |
| |
|
| 36) |
"Leroy
Anderson Christmas" will air on Thursday, December 25th at 11:00pm.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Friday, December
26th |
| 37) |
"A Seasons
Griot" will air on Friday, December 26th at 4:00pm. |
| |
|
| 38) |
"All Things
Considered will start at 5:00pm and run until the normal 6:30pm" on
Friday, December 26th. |
| |
|
| 39) |
"Jazz From
Lincoln Center's Red Hot Holiday Stomp with Wynton Marsalis and
friends!" airs Friday, December 26th at 8:00pm.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
| 40) |
"Jazz
Piano Christmas XIX" will air on Friday, December 26th at
10:00pm. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Saturday, December
27th |
| 41) |
"Golden Days & Friendly Faces - A
Musical Voyage to America's Emerald Isle" will air on Saturday, November
29th at 8:00pm. Click here for details. |
| |
|
| 42) |
"The NEA
Opera Honors" will air on Saturday, December 27th at 12:00noon.
Click here for details. |
| |
|
| 43) |
"The Pleasures of Winter
2008" will air on Saturday, December 27th at 8:00pm. |
| |
|
| 44) |
"Watch Night" will air on
Saturday, December 27th at 9:00pm. |
| |
|
| 45) |
"Songs of Joy and Peace:
The Yo-Yo Ma Holiday Party" will air on Saturday, December 27th at
10:00pm. |
| |
|
| 46) |
"Sing We Now of Christmas
with Gladys Knight" will air on Saturday, December 27th at
11:00pm. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Sunday, December
28th |
| 47) |
"The Christmas Revels: In
Celebration of the Winter Solstice 2008" will air on Sunday, December
28th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
Wednesday, December
31st - Thursday, January 1st. |
| 48) |
"Toast
of the Nation" will air on Wednesday, December 31st from 10:00pm -
5:00am. |
| |
|
|
Wednesday, December 3rd
at 7:00pm - 12:00 midnight |
|
Bayreuth
Festival Opera Presents Parsifal |
|
|
|
For the duration of the Richard Wagner Festival,
Bayreuth, a medium-sized city in northern Bavaria, has
the eyes and ears of the world trained on it. It all
began with a dream: Wagner, composer, playwright and
theater director all rolled into one, conceived the
Gesamtkunstwerk
(“total work of art”), a
perfect combination of singing, drama and staging. The
established theaters in the big cities of his time were
completely inadequate for these plans, so along with the
artistic dream came the dream of his own festival and
theater. In early 1871, Richard Wagner, joined by his
wife Cosima, traveled to Bayreuth. He later wrote, “...
the unique charm and the location of the friendly city
itself were what I had been desiring. An utterly
beautiful and generous plot of land not far from town
was given to me as a gift and for the purpose of
building the theater I had in mind.” The cornerstone to
the Festspielhaus was laid in 1872. |
 |
|
|
|
Since 1876 the Bayreuth Festival has
accompanied every high and low point of German history.
Its current director is a grandson of the
composer: Wolfgang Wagner, 88 years old, festival director since 1951. |
|
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus is both
a world cultural monument and a highly modern theater. It is reserved
for the works of Richard Wagner, which are based on Germanic myths. In
the evening, gods, giants and Nibelungs act out their eternal dramas
onstage. In the early morning, the grounds outdoors are populated by
people seeking tickets. Taking the official route to festival admission
can last seven years or longer. The number of ticket seekers outnumbers
the number of tickets available by a factor of ten to one. On opening
day, Bayreuth is a spectacle of myth, fashion and media. Presidents and
party chairmen bump shoulders with show business celebrities. Less
apparent are the many music critics, but they do in fact convey every
nuance of the performances inside to the world outside, upholding
Bayreuth’s status as a nerve center of the world of music theater. |
|
The performances in the unique acoustic of Wagner’s Festspielhaus,
perfectly suited for his music dramas and never replicated anywhere
else, are captured in all their vibrancy by the recording engineers of
Radio Bavaria and transmitted your way in these radio productions by
Deutsche Welle. Host Rick
Fulker talks with conductors and soloists in the intermissions and
conveys the excitement and
authenticity of this most unique and renowned opera festival in the
world. |
|
This season opens on July 25 with a new production of Parsifal
staged by the Norwegian director Stefan Herheim. The Italian Daniele
Gatti is the conductor. We also bring you
Tristan und Isolde,
conducted by Peter Schneider and directed
by Christoph Marthaler. |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
PARSIFAL by Richard Wagner
(1813-1883) |
|
|
|
| |
CAST: |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Parsifal Christopher Ventris |
|
|
|
| |
Gurnemanz Kwangchul Youn |
|
|
|
| |
Kundry Mihoko Fujimura |
|
|
|
| |
Amfortas Detlef Roth |
|
|
|
| |
Klingsor Thomas Jesatko |
|
|
|
| |
Titurel Diógenes Randes |
|
|
|
| |
1st Knight Arnold Bezuyen |
|
|
|
| |
2nd Knight Friedemann Röhlig |
|
|
|
| |
1st Page Julia Borchert |
|
|
|
| |
2nd Page Ulrike Helzel |
|
|
|
| |
3rd Page Clemens Bieber |
|
|
|
| |
4th Page Timothy Oliver |
|
|
|
| |
Alto Soloist: Simone
Schröder |
|
|
|
| |
Klingsor’s Magical Maidens Julia
Borchert, Martina Rüping, Carola Guber, Anna Korondi, Jutta
Maria Böhnert, Atala Schöck |
|
|
|
| |
CONDUCTOR: Daniele Gatti,
CHORUS: Bayreuth Festival Chorus,
ORCHESTRA: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra,
STAGE DIRECTOR: Stefan Herheim |
|
|
|
| |
Performed in the Bayreuth
Festspielhaus on July 25, 2008 Recorded by Radio Bavaria, Munich
(BR |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Tuesday, December 9th at 8:00pm |
A Chamber Music
Spectacular with the Cypress String Quartet, the Ahn
Trio, & the Takacs String Quartet"
|
|
|
|
Cypress String Quartet |
Ahn Trio |
Takacs String Quartet |
|
Recorded
live at University Memorial Auditorium, these
three great ensembles perform works by
Griffes, Tsontakis, Anger, Balakrishnan,
Wreede, Yedidia, Otero, Bunch, and Schumann
|
|
|
| |
|
The Cypress String Quartet has brought
audiences to their feet for over a decade
with virtuoso performances at major concert
venues around the world, including the
Kennedy Center, Library of Congress,
Detroit, Columbus and Honolulu Chamber Music
Societies, Stanford Lively Arts, Krannert
Center, Ravinia Festival, and many more.
Widely celebrated for their passionate
dedication to the genre and for the
exuberance and power of their performances,
Quartet members Cecily Ward and Tom Stone,
violins; Ethan Filner, viola; and Jennifer
Kloetzel, cello, combine technical precision
with imaginative programming to create truly
unforgettable concert experiences.
“While turning even the most difficult
phrases with virtuosic aplomb, it was the
group’s tonal warmth, musical breadth and
ESP-like phrasing that carried the day.
Regardless of style or period, the Quartet
successfully found and transmitted each
composition’s emotional core.” —Topeka
Capital-Journal
|
|
|
Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in New
York City, the members of the Ahn Trio "sisters Maria,
Lucia, and Angella" are redefining the art and
architecture of chamber music, breathing new life into
the standard piano-trio literature with commissioned
works from visionary composers like Kenji Bunch, Maurice
Jarre, Nikolai Kapustin and Michael Nyman. The trio's
latest CD, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac (recorded
by their own label, L.A.M.P), is a showcase of this
vibrant and original music. |
|
Lucia, Angella, and Maria thrive on dissolving the
barriers between art forms. They have fused their
work with that of dancers, pop singers, DJ's, painters,
installation artists, photographers, lighting designers,
ecologists, and even kite makers...
............................................................................................................. |
|
|
Recognized as one of the world's premiere string
quartets, the Takács Quartet is renowned for the ability
to fuse four distinct, expressive musical personalities
into gripping, unified interpretations. Commenting on
their latest Schubert recording for Hyperion, Gramophone
magazine noted; "The Takács have the ability to make you
believe that there’s no other possible way the music
should go, and the strength to overturn preconceptions
that comes only with the greatest performers." |
|
Based in Boulder at the University of Colorado, the
Takács Quartet perform eighty concerts a year worldwide,
performing throughout Europe as well as in Australia,
New Zealand, Japan and Korea. The quartet are Associate
Artists at the South Bank Centre in London, performing
concerts there each year. ......................
...................................................................... |
|
|
| |
Read More |
Read More |
Read More |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Works Performed |
Works Performed |
Works Performed |
|
| |
Griffes
- Two Sketches for String Quartet Based on Indian Themes |
Darol
Anger (arr Balakrishnan) - You Noticed Too |
Schumann - Piano Quintet
in E-flat Major Op 44 - |
|
| |
Tsontakis - String Quartet # 5 ( In Memorium George Rochberg ) |
David
Balakrishnan - Skylife |
With Joyce Yang Piano |
|
| |
|
Katrina Wreede
- Mr Twitty's Chair |
|
|
| |
|
Ronn Yedidia -
The Song on the Land |
|
|
| |
|
Fernando Otero
- Contacto Permanente |
|
|
| |
|
Kenji Bunch -
Concerto for Piano Trio and Percussion |
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
Wednesday, December 3rd
at 7:00pm - 12:00 midnight |
|
Bayreuth
Festival Opera Presents
Tristan und Isolde |
|
|
|
For the duration of the Richard Wagner Festival,
Bayreuth, a medium-sized city in northern Bavaria, has
the eyes and ears of the world trained on it. It all
began with a dream: Wagner, composer, playwright and
theater director all rolled into one, conceived the
Gesamtkunstwerk
(“total work of art”), a
perfect combination of singing, drama and staging. The
established theaters in the big cities of his time were
completely inadequate for these plans, so along with the
artistic dream came the dream of his own festival and
theater. In early 1871, Richard Wagner, joined by his
wife Cosima, traveled to Bayreuth. He later wrote, “...
the unique charm and the location of the friendly city
itself were what I had been desiring. An utterly
beautiful and generous plot of land not far from town
was given to me as a gift and for the purpose of
building the theater I had in mind.” The cornerstone to
the Festspielhaus was laid in 1872. |
 |
|
|
|
Since 1876 the Bayreuth Festival has
accompanied every high and low point of German history.
Its current director is a grandson of the
composer: Wolfgang Wagner, 88 years old, festival director since 1951. |
|
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus is both
a world cultural monument and a highly modern theater. It is reserved
for the works of Richard Wagner, which are based on Germanic myths. In
the evening, gods, giants and Nibelungs act out their eternal dramas
onstage. In the early morning, the grounds outdoors are populated by
people seeking tickets. Taking the official route to festival admission
can last seven years or longer. The number of ticket seekers outnumbers
the number of tickets available by a factor of ten to one. On opening
day, Bayreuth is a spectacle of myth, fashion and media. Presidents and
party chairmen bump shoulders with show business celebrities. Less
apparent are the many music critics, but they do in fact convey every
nuance of the performances inside to the world outside, upholding
Bayreuth’s status as a nerve center of the world of music theater. |
|
The performances in the unique acoustic of Wagner’s Festspielhaus,
perfectly suited for his music dramas and never replicated anywhere
else, are captured in all their vibrancy by the recording engineers of
Radio Bavaria and transmitted your way in these radio productions by
Deutsche Welle. Host Rick
Fulker talks with conductors and soloists in the intermissions and
conveys the excitement and
authenticity of this most unique and renowned opera festival in the
world. |
|
This season opens on July 25 with a new production of Parsifal
staged by the Norwegian director Stefan Herheim. The Italian Daniele
Gatti is the conductor. We also bring you
Tristan und Isolde,
conducted by Peter Schneider and directed
by Christoph Marthaler. |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE by Richard
Wagner (1813-1883) |
|
|
|
| |
CAST: |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Tristan
Robert Dean Smith |
|
|
|
| |
Isolde
Iréne Theorin |
|
|
|
| |
König
Marke Robert Holl |
|
|
|
| |
Brangäne
Michelle Breedt |
|
|
|
| |
Kurwenal
Jukka Rasilainen |
|
|
|
| |
Melot
Ralf Lukas |
|
|
|
| |
A Young
Sailor Clemens Bieber |
|
|
|
| |
A
Shepherd Arnold Bezuyen |
|
|
|
| |
A
Helmsman Martin Snell |
|
|
|
| |
CONDUCTOR:
Peter Schneider
CHORUS: Bayreuth Festival Chorus,
ORCHESTRA: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra,
STAGE
DIRECTOR: Christoph Marthaler |
|
|
|
| |
Performed in the Bayreuth
Festspielhaus on July 26, 2008 Recorded by Radio Bavaria, Munich
(BR |
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday, December 27th at 12:00noon |
|
The NEA Opera
Honors |
|
Dana Gioia,
chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced the first
recipients of the NEA Opera Honors, the highest award our nation bestows
in opera, and the WFMT Radio Network is pleased to bring you this award
ceremony. |
The
award goes to luminaries who have made extraordinary contributions
to opera in the United States. The honorees are soprano Leontyne
Price; composer Carlisle Floyd; administrator Richard Gaddes,
general director of the Santa Fe Opera and co-founder of Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis; and maestro James Levine, music director of
the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Also
participating in the event was Plácido Domingo, renowned tenor and
general director of the Washington National Opera, which partners
with the NEA in this inaugural year.
The 2008
NEA Opera Honors are being given in four categories.
|
| |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Carlisle Floyd |
Richard Gaddes
|
James
Levine |
Leontyne Price |
|
|
|
|
| - Carlisle
Floyd, who receives the award for composer, has had a long and
distinguished career & has written such memorable operas as
Susannah and
Of Mice and Men. |
|
- In the category
of advocate, Richard Gaddes has been the trailblazing director of two
important festival companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis. |
| - As
conductor, James Levine has led Metropolitan Opera premieres of works by
many composers, from Mozart to Weill, as well as the world premieres of
American |
|
operas by John Corigliano and John Harbison, and is responsible for
building the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra into one of the greatest
orchestras in the world. |
| - As the
2008 honoree for singer, Leontyne Price is known for her elegant musical
style, great recording legacy, and generosity to young artists.
|
| - The
National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors, honors those visionary
creators, extraordinary performers, and other interpreters who have made
a lasting impact |
| on
our national cultural landscape. |
ity, the 25th-anniversary broadcast of
a public radio tradition:
