The WFMT Radio Network is very pleased to celebrate the centenary year (2012) of the great conductor and
 educator Erich Leinsdorf.  His legacy as a perfectionist conductor of operas, orchestral music and concertos, a
 passionate educator of performing musicians and a devoted advocate of an enormously wide-ranging arena of
 composers, is discussed by distinguished artists and others who worked with him.

In this pair of 2-hour programs we'll hear Gunther Schuller, Phyllis Curtin, Marilyn Horne, Joseph Silverstein, Vic
 Firth, John Oliver, Henry Fogel, Dan Gustin, Anthony Fogg, Deborah Borda, Costa Pilavachi and Michael Skinner,
recall Maestro Leinsdorf's powerful impact at the Metropolitan Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood
Music Centre and the New York Philharmonic. Maestro Leinsdorf himself is heard speaking about the interpretation
and also the teaching of some repertoire for which he became especially celebrated and revered.

These two programs celebrating Erich Leinsdorf 100th birthday will be available on December 15, 2012.  Stations
may broadcast these programs twice within the next year.

For more information regarding this free special, please contact Tony Macaluso at 773-279-2114, email:
 tmacaluso@wfmt.com or Carol Martinez at (773) 279-2112, e-mail: cmartinez@wfmt.com

Program Schedule

PROGRAM #:  LNS 12-01
RELEASE:  December 15, 2012

Music includes excerpts from the following:

Beethoven:  Symphony No 3
Beethoven:  Symphony No 9
Berg:   Wozzeck (Phyllis Curtin)
Brahms:  Piano Concerto No 2 (Sviatoslav Richter)
Britten:  War Requiem
Copland:  Music for the Theatre
Dvorak:  Symphony No 6
Ginastera:  Varaciones Concertantes
Korngold:  Die Tote Stadt (Carol Neblett; Renee Kollo)
Lanner:  Die Mozartisten
Mahler:  Symphony No 1
Mahler:  Symphony No 3
Mozart:  Symphony No 10
Mozart:  Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Mozart:  Die Zauberflöte (George Shirley; Judith Raskin; John Reardon;
Beverley Sills)
Prokofiev:  Symphony No 2
Rachmaninov:  Piano Concerto No 3 (Van Cliburn)
Schoenberg:  A Survivor from Warsaw (Sherrill Milnes)
Strauss:  Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Leontyne Price)
Strauss:  Three Hymns (Phyllis Curtin)
Verdi:   Macbeth (Leontyne Price)
Wagner:  Tristan und Isolde (Lauritz Melchior; Helen Traubel)
Wagner:  Die Walküre (Jon Vickers;  Birgit Nilsson)