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Roger Ebert on Best of Studs
Hear movie icon and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert speaking with Studs Terkel in the first of a two-part interview from 1996, Friday night at 10:00 PM. more...
Alan Gilbert on Bach’s Mass in B minor
The B minor Mass was written over a 35-year span, and never performed as a complete and distinct work during Bach's lifetime. The original was preserved by the composer's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who made some editorial changes and had the work copied. In spite of intense curiosity from the likes of Haydn more...
Listen to NEIU Jewel Box Concerts On-Demand
Hear Susan Tang in a recital given during the 2012-2013 Jewel Box Concerts at Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Tang studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and currently teaches at NEIU. There will be four recitals offered for on-demand listening from NEIU’s 2012-2013 season. more...
All Wagner, All Day on Wednesday
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of music’s most loved, most influential, and most polarizing composers. With his music dramas, Richard Wagner boldly abandons convention; he pursues a vision that reaches beyond 19th century concepts of structure, harmony, orchestration (even inventing new instruments); beyond social mores—beyond anything that more... more...
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New Tunes, Old Friends and Poems Set to Song
The 70-voice New Amsterdam Singers ended its 45th season with a concert that featured poems set to song.
Via the Baroque, the Flip Side of Spring Frolics
The Repast Baroque Ensemble presented a decorous concert of works by Dietrich Buxtehede, Matthew Locke, Christopher Simpson and Johann Jakob Froberger.
Harold Shapero, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies at 93
Mr. Shapero was a composer and a central figure of American Neo-Classicism, a school of composition that thrived in the 1940s and ’50s.
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