The Midday

The Midday

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The Midday episodes

  • Faith Weigand and Lydia Morency
    The 2025 Racine Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition winners share their competition-winning music on the Midday. Faith performs the first movement of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Bassoon Concerto and Lydia begins […]
    0 min
  • Tallgrass Chamber Music Performers
    It’s a family affair! Tallgrass Chamber Music performers flutist Emily Seaberry Graef, violinist Kristina Zlatareva, violist Julian Graef, and cellist Anita Graef perform works by Mozart, Kodaly, and Salina Fisher […]
    53 min
  • Indre Raghavan
    The First Place 2025 Final Forte winner performs works by Sibelius and Bach and discusses how her civic activities and weight training fit into her musical life.
    35 min
  • Philippe Bianconi
    The world renowned pianist stops by the Midday to provide insights into George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F before his performances with the Madison Symphony and introduces four distinctive Debussy […]
    0 min
  • Atticus Coen
    2025 Final Forte finalist Atticus Coen talks about the pleasures of playing jazz and classical music and performs familiar and rarely-heard preludes by George Gershwin, Debussy’s L’ile joyeuse, and variations […]
    49 min
  • WYSO Ensembles
    The Lelita Honors Woodwind Quintet and the Pondrom Piano Quartet apply their youthful energy to music by Malcolm Arnold, Jacques Ibert, and Luciano Berio. And the Pondrom Piano Quartet play […]
    53 min
  • The Ancora String Quartet
    Quartet members Wes Luke, Robin Wright, Benjamin Whitcomb, and Sahada Buckley plus cellist Trace Johnson (center) perform the first two movements of Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C and a […]
    48 min
  • Time for Three
    Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble, Time For Three (TF3), defies conventions with genre-bending excellence. They stopped by the Midday to tell about their their dynamic approach to classical music and their […]
    0 min
  • Rebecca Zhang
    The poised and talented 13-year-old pianist won the 2025 Milwaukee Concord Chamber Orchestra concerto competition and comes to the Midday to play several works by Mozart.
    44 min

About The Midday

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Host Norman Gilliland provides listeners with a wide variety of classical music, presents a story from "Grace Notes," and holds the popular "Midday Quiz." Musicians traveling through Wisconsin often…