The Midday

Soprano Keeley Futterer joins Stephanie Elkins for conversation and music in advance of her appearance in the title role of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “Norma” with Madison Opera.

Composer and Pianist Stewart Goodyear joins Stephanie Elkins to share some of his compositions.

The exciting pianist returns for Norman’s final Midday broadcast to perform works by Bartok, Liszt, Gershwin, and Debussy.

The Cello Quartet comes to the Midday to perform works by Gabrili, Wagner and Bach, among others.

Pianist Allissa Freeman, violinist Hillary Hempel, and Cellist Hannah Wolkstein return to the Midday to perform Three Preludes by George Gershwin and pieces by French composers Mel Bonis and Rita […]

BDDS co-founder Jeffrey Sykes, violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, and clarinetist Alan Kay perform Antonin Dvorak’s charming Violin Sonata in F and the spicy Soldier’s Tale suite by Stravinsky.

The 2026 Final Forte finalist and accompanist Jeff Stanek perform the first movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Elgar’s “Salut d’amour” and Cordelia plays the solo piece “”Dissolve, […]

The founders of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival return to the Midday to fill us in on this summer’s season and to perform works by Stravinsky, Ravel and CPE Bach. […]

The Oregon High School sophomore and 2026 Final Forte finalist stops by the Midday to reprise her performance of the Cadenza and Finale from Dmitri Shostakovich’s dazzling Violin Concerto No. […]

Violinists Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violist Oryann Tsaig, cellist Jesse Nummelin perform Poem by Rebecca Clarke, two movements from William Walton’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, and […]