BEA 2020 Musical Programming - Beethoven Week by 90.9 WRCJ

BEA 2020 Community Involvement - Detroit Memorial Day by 90.9 WRCJ

Like all musicians, Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine isn’t doing the things to which she is most-accustomed these days. But her new digital project, 24 in 24 is exploring her favorite masterworks in new ways. Rachel speaks with WRCJ’s Peter Whorf…

WRCJ remembers the late Mike Whorf, longtime Detroit radio host of the award-winning series “Kaleidoscope.” This holiday edition from 1997 explores the life of George Frederick Handel and the writing of “Messiah.”

WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with International Symphony Orchestra executive director Anthony Wing about their new digital series. Wing begins their conversation recalling the ensemble’s initial post-Covid response...

After a decades-long career with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, violinist Joseph Striplin recently retired from the DSO. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with the current Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra maestro about the next chapter in his musical life, and the beginning of his path to the violin...

Nearly 200 years after Beethoven (1770-1827)wrote the Grosse Fuge, his fiendishly difficult masterpiece for string quartet still sounds fresh and contemporary.

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Mack the Knife by Kurt Weill (1900-1950), one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, has its origins in The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay (1685-1732), one of the most popular plays of the 18th century.

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The Concerto for Orchestra, one of the last works of Bela Bartok (1881-1945), quotes Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad" of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), in what appears to be a jeering parody of Shostakovich’s theme.

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Chick Corea (b. 1941) is one of the most versatile and innovative artists gracing concert stages today.

Photo Attribution: Tore Sætre / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)