Dennis Russell Davies (04/15/1997)

January 17, 2025, 11:00 pm

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Dennis Russell Davies c. 2023 (Photo by Benno Hunziker via wikimedia)

In 1997, Studs Terkel welcomed pianist and conductor Dennis Russell Davies to his WFMT radio program. This historic hour holds music by Cambodian conductor Chinary Ung, a Philip Glass symphony inspired by David Bowie, Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music, and more. At the end of the show, Dennis Russell Davies tells Studs, “Life without Mozart is completely unimaginable.”