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The Chicago Harp Quartet

January 12, 2015, 8:00 pm

(Photo: Clay Boutte)

The Chicago Harp Quartet returns to play music of Bach, Mchedelov, Handel, Granados, Massenet, Adams, Glass, Ortiz, Falla, and Offenbach live from the Levin Performance Studio. The program host and producer is Kerry Frumkin and the music producer is Mary Mazurek.

Listen 1:53:32

Brandenburg Concert No. 3, by J.S. Bach, arr. ML Williams
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, by Mchedelov, arr. ML Williams
Suite from the Water Music, by Handel, arr. ML Williams
Danzas españolas Nos. 12, 2, 5, 10, by Granados, arr. ML Williams
Ballet Suite from Le Cid, by Massenet, arr. ML Williams
China Gates, by John Adams, arr. ML Williams
Rubric from Glassworks, by Phillip Glass, arr. ML Williams
Cumbia Deliciosa and Cumbia Verde, by Ortiz
Spanish Dance No. 1 from La Vida Breve, by de Falla, arr. ML Williams
Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld, by Offenbach, arr. ML Williams

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Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.