The King of Siam is an absolute ruler. But he meets his match in Anna, the feisty Welsh teacher he’s hired to instruct his many wives and children in the ways of the “civilized” West and help him learn to lead his country into the modern world.
“The King and I”– Oscar Hammerstein II
Three singers who should have had bigger Met careers
Igor Gorin, Pavel Lisitsian, and Norman Treigle
Van Zweden and Shostakovich
Jaap van Zweden, conductor Simone Lamsma, violin Britten: Violin Concerto Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Christopher Martin, trumpet; Kirill Petrenko, conductor)
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN (4/13/1965)
Russian-born composer and pianist Alexander Tcherepnin visited with Studs Terkel in April 1965. A musical citizen of the world who was born to a cultured family, he is the son of composer Nikolai Tcherepnin.
Music from Eastern Europe
CONDUCTOR: Lorin Maazel SOLOIST: Jennifer Koh, violin TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet LUTOSŁAWSKI: Chain 2: Dialogue for violin and orchestra SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5
The Art of Violinist Oleg Kagan, Program 2
Vieru: Violin and Cello Concerto (with Natalia Gutman, cello) Olympia OCD-409 Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with USSR State Orchestra/Lazarev) Live Classics LCL-105 Shostakovich: Violin Sonata (with S Richter, piano) Olympia OCD-579 Szymanowski: Myths (with V Skanavi, piano) Live Classics LCL-192 Shostakovich: Polka (with Skanavi) Live Classics LCL-192
Mostly French
Riccardo Muti, conductor Xavier de Maistre, harp Chabrier: España Ginastera: Harp Concerto Charpentier: Impressions d’Italie Ravel: Bolero Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite
PASSOVER (4/11/1960)
Studs Terkel begins this program about Passover with Heinrich Heine’s description of the Jewish holiday: “It thrills the heart as though one heard the lilt of some sweet lullaby.”
Muti, Tchaikovsky, Debussy
Riccardo Muti, conductor Berlioz: Waverley Overture Debussy: La Mer Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Ravel: Rapsodie espagnol
AMERICAN REVOLUTION (c. 1970)
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachessets on April 19, 1775. In the 1970’s, Studs Terkel wove the tale in his customary, impressionisitic fashion. Words and music on the American Revolution… tonight on the BEST OF STUDS TERKEL.