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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 s... more
FAQs about The Midday:How many episodes does The Midday have?The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.
November 24, 2023Goran Ivanovic and Fareed HaqueDuo guitarists Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque stop by the Midday to share their rich repertory of Romani, jazz, and classical music....more50minPlay
November 09, 2023Maxim LandoMaxim Lando came to WPR’s Buck Studio during the Midday and applied his considerable virtuosity to works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Lowell Lieberman and played excerpts […]...more52minPlay
September 21, 2023Terrence WilsonPianist Terrence Wilson, in Wisconsin to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, gives Norman some insights into the piece that “made a lady out of jazz” […]...more23minPlay
September 13, 2023Ariela BohrodNew York-based Madison native Ariela Bohrod performed works by Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexander Scriabin on the Midday and shared some of her experiences as […]...more52minPlay
August 23, 2023Joseph Lulloff and Yu-Lien TheMichigan-based saxophonist Joseph Lulloff and pianist Yu-Lien The join Norman on the Midday to perform works by Carter Pann, Claude Debussy, Dorothy Chang, Stacy Garrop, and Cesar Franck....more52minPlay
August 03, 2023The Madison SavoyardsMembers of the Madison Savoyards stop by the Midday to sing some songs from their upcoming production of the Gilbert & Sullivan favorite The Pirates of Penzance.....more25minPlay
July 27, 2023The Washington Island Music FestivalStefanie Jacob, Emmy Tisdel and Scott Tisdel play works by J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Astor Piazzolla and fill us in about this summer’s Washington Island Music Festival....more52minPlay
July 07, 2023Sophia JiangMadison Memorial Hight School senior and 2021 Final Forte winner Sophia Jiang performs works by Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and Margaret Bonds and tells us how she approaches each piece....more51minPlay
June 22, 2023Mark ValentiChicago-based pianist Mark Valenti plays preludes by Debussy. How literally should we take those titles?) plus an Intermezzo and a Rhapsody by Brahms....more52minPlay
June 13, 2023Joshua BellOn Friday, June 20, Joshua Bell will perform two works with the Milwaukee Symphony–Ernest Chausson’s Poem for Violin and Orchestra and Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. He shares some insights into both works....more21minPlay
FAQs about The Midday:How many episodes does The Midday have?The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.