The Midday

The Midday

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The Midday episodes

  • Jane Story, violin
    Stevens Point high school junior Jane Story has performed with the Madison Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony, among others. She's performed on NPR's From the Top and has placed in the Finale Forte twice. She'll be performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra during the July 10 Concert on the Square. She returns to the Midday to perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Kreisler, and Wieniawski.
    52 min
  • The Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival Ensemble
    Flutist Emily Seaberry Graef, violinist Kristina Zlatareva, violinist and violist Julian Graef, and cellist Anita Graef perform works by Joseph Haydn, Isaac Albeniz, and Ernst von Dohnanyi and celebrate the upcoming second season of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival.
    51 min
  • Gilles Apap
    The charming cosmopolitan violinist, in Madison to perform The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, tells about the people who inspired him to become a musician.
    15 min
  • Lilies of the Midwest
    The Lilies of the Midwest returned to the Midday to play several Irish and not-so-Irish tunes on their way to a weekend of performances for Saint Patrick’s Day.
    26 min
  • Cellist Steven Isserlis
    In Wisconsin to perform with the Madison Symphony, the celebrated English cellist stopped by the Midday to share some thoughts about performing the Kabalevsky Cello Concerto No. 2 and speak of his admiration of...Harpo Marx
    0 min
  • Maxim Lando
    Maxim 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 […]
    52 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…