THU.

MAY 1 William Beale (1784) / Hugo Alfvén (1872) / Felipe Boero (1884) / Leo Sowerby (1895) / Walter Susskind (1913)

noon

Debussy: Petite Suite (for 3 Guitars)

1 pm

Chausson: Viviane (symphonic poem), op. 5

2 pm

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra in C Major, op. 56

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Foreground Music «» In an age of background music, today’s program looks at music which demands engaged attention for fullest enjoyment.

7 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

8 pm

Thursday Evening Piano Concerto

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «»«»«» New Folk «» Tony Trischka Band: New Deal; Barbara Ryman: Falling Down to Heaven; ani di franco: evolve; John Stewart: Havana; Louise Taylor: Velvet Town; Värtinä: Iki; Sara Hickman: Faithful; Jeff Talmadge: Gravity, Grace and the Moon

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «»«»«» Kitaro: Silk Road

FRI.

MAY 2 Alessandro Scarlatti (1660) / Hans Christian Lumbye (1810) / Lorenz Hart (1895) / Oivin Fjeldstad (1903) / Bing Crosby (1904) / Alan Rawsthorne (1905) / Jan Hanus (1915) / Horst Stein (1928)

10 am

Field: Piano Concerto #2 in A-flat Major

11 am

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48

1 pm

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 97 "Archduke"

3 pm

C. Halffter: Antiphonismoi

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» The Romantic Piano «» Another program of piano music of an especially romantic nature.

6 pm

Grieg: Symphonic Dances, op. 64

7 pm

Raff: Symphony #3 in F Major, op. 153 "Im Walde"

8 pm

Charismatic Concerto

9 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Classical Music Quiz

10 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall

11 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Just Jazz

SAT.

MAY 3 Johann Baptist Krumpholtz (1742) / Richard d’Oyly Carte (1844) / Marcel Dupré (1886) / Virgil Fox (1912) / Betty Comden (1919) / Pete Seeger (1919)

9 am

Handel: Concerto for Organ and Strings in G Minor, op. 4/#1

10 am

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #2 in G Major, op. 44

11 am

Saint-Saëns: Symphony #3 in C Minor, op. 78 ("Organ")

noon

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

1 pm

Bruckner: Symphony #9 in D Minor

2 pm

Mozart: Regina cœli in C Major, K. 108; Beethoven: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage", op. 112

3 pm

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664

SUN.

MAY 4 Bartolommeo Cristofori (1655) / Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860) / Frederick Jacobi (1891) / Roberta Peters (1930) / Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931) / Marisa Robles (1937)

3 pm

NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA«»«»«» Jung-Ho Pak, Music Director

MON.

MAY 5 Thomas Linley (1756) / Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819) / Hans Pfitzner (1869) / Charles Rosen (1927)

9 am

Copland: El Salón México

10 am

Chavez: Symphony #4 "Sinfonia Romantica"

11 am

Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A Minor, op. 53

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Hi-Fives «» The fifth day of the fifth month irresistibly brings to mind some fifth symphonies, concertos, and other musical categories.

6 pm

Haydn: Symphony #40 in F Major; Ysaÿe: Sonata for Violin in G Major, op. 27/#5; Borodin: Quintet for Piano and Strings in C Minor

7 pm

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F Minor, WoO 47/#2 ("Electoral" Sonata #2); Fauré: Quintet for Piano and Strings in D Minor, op. 89; Ponce: Two Concert Études for Piano

8 pm

Schubert: Rosamunde (incidental music), D. 797 (op. 26) (Overture); Revueltas: Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca (for Chamber Orchestra); Salazar: "Tarara, Tarara" (for Chorus): Debussy: La Mer

9 pm

Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620 (Overture); Elgar: Sea Pictures, op. 37; Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite)

10 pm

Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, op. 54; Schubert: Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, D 667 (op. 114) "The Trout"

11 pm

Roussel: Suite for Orchestra in F Major, op. 33; Liszt: Dante Symphony

TUE.

MAY 6 Giuseppe Pietri (1886) / Jascha Horenstein (1899) / George Perle (1915) / Godfrey Ridout (1918) / Richard Stilwell (1942)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» After Thoughts «» Many compositions were re-scored for combinations of instruments other than those originally conceived by their masters; today’s program features both versions.

6 pm

Brahms: Serenade #1 in D Major, op. 11

7 pm

Haydn: Symphony #47 in G Major

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «»«»«» Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict

WED.

MAY 7 Carl Stamitz (1745) / Johannes Brahms (1833) / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840) / Elisabeth Söderström (1927)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Slavic Tchaikovsky «» On the composer’s birthday, music of Tchaikovsky with a significant Russian bent.

6 pm

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 (excerpts)

7 pm

Orff: Catulli Carmina

8 pm

Newman: The Robe (film score)

9 pm

Weber: Oberon (Overture); Respighi: Fantasia Slava (for Piano and Orchestra); Sibelius: Symphony #4 in A Minor, op. 63

10 pm

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (#5, for Soprano and 8 Cellos); Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 in B Minor, op. 74 "Pathétique"

11 pm

Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47; Brahms: Symphony #4 in E Minor, op. 98

THU.

MAY 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829) / Ferenc Korbay (1846) / David Van Vactor (1906) / Keith Jarrett (1945)

noon

Piazzolla: Milonga del Ángel

1 pm

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3 in C Major, op. 26

2 pm

Dvorak: Symphony #8 in G Major, op. 88

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Songs My Mother Wouldn’t Teach Me «» A look at musical selections which were considered risqué at their first hearing.

7 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

8 pm

Thursday Evening Piano Concerto

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «»«»«» Woody Revisited «» Woody Guthrie (the Asch Recordings): This Land is Your Land, Muleskinner Blues, Hard Travelin | Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue; Marvin Gaster: Uncle Henry’s Favorites

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «»«»«» various artists: Dreams of Peace; Bjorn Melander: Dolphin Song

FRI.

MAY 9 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525) / Giovanni Paisiello (1740) / Adolf von Henselt (1814) / Carlo Maria Giulini (1914) / Billy Joel (1949) / Anne Sofie von Otter (1955)

10 am

Aubert: Symphonies for Violins, Flutes and Oboes (Suite #5 "Le Carillon")

11 am

Brahms: Symphony #1 in C Minor, op.68

1 pm

Brahms: Quartet for Piano and Strings #1 in G Minor, op. 25

3 pm

Xenakis: Metastasis

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Tone Poetry «» Today’s program sheds some light on the evolution of the capacity of music to express poetry without words.

6 pm

Piazzolla: Concerto for Bandoneón, Piano, Strings and Percussion

7 pm

Tuukkanen: Symphony #3, op. 36 "The Sea"

8 pm

Charismatic Concerto

9 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Marching Along

10 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; An Evening with Danny Kaye

11 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Just Jazz

SAT.

MAY 10 Jean-Marie Leclair (1697) / Max Steiner (1888) / Dmitri Tiomkin (1894) / Milton Babbitt (1916) / Maxim Shostakovich (1938)

9 am

Mendelssohn: Serenade and Allegro for Piano and Orchestra in B Minor, op. 43

10 am

Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor

11 am

Rangström: Symphony #2 in D Minor "Mitt land"

noon

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in D Minor, op. 30

1 pm

Strauss: »Also Sprach Zarathustra«, op. 30; Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada (Suite)

2 pm

Beethoven: Egmont (incidental music), op. 84 (Overture); Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem

3 pm

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (fantasy-overture), op. 67

SUN.

MAY 11 Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791) / Anatol Liadov (1855) / Joseph Marx (1882) / Alma Gluck (1884) / Irving Berlin (1888) / William Grant Still (1895) / Bidu Sayão (1902)

3 pm

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «»«»«» Kurt Masur, conductor; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Ewa Podles, mezzo-soprano; Stanford Olsen, tenor; The New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, director) «» Bach: Suite for Orchestra #3 in D Major, S. 1068; Foss: Concertino, "Passacaglia, BACHanalia, Passacaglia"; Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

MON.

MAY 12 Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739) / Giovanni Viotti (1755) / Jules Massenet (1842) / Gabriel Fauré (1845) / Sir Lenox Berkeley (1903) / Giulietta Simionato (1910)

9 am

Fauré: Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, op. 111

10 am

Mercadante: Flute Concerto in D Major

11 am

Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-flat Major, op. 6

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Story of the Concerto «» The second installment in the new series illuminating the development of the concerto from its earliest beginnings to our time.

6 pm

Haydn: Symphony #41 in C Major; Bach: Suite for Orchestra #3 in D Major, S. 1068; Ernst: "The Last Rose of Summer" (for Violin and Piano)

7 pm

Bach: Italian Concerto in F Major, S. 971 (for Piano); Glazunov: Piano Concerto #1 in F Minor, op. 92; Beethoven: Variations on Grétry’s Air "Une fièvre brûlante" for Piano in C Major, G. 184

8 pm

Sullivan: Henry VIII (incidental music); Shostakovich: Ballet Suite #3; Stanford: Irish Rhapsody #3 in D Major, op. 137 (for Cello and Orchestra)

9 pm

Massenet: Suite for Orchestra #7 "Scènes alsaciennes"

10 pm

Fauré: Quartet for Piano and Strings #2 in G Minor, op. 45

11 pm

Fauré: Messe Basse

TUE.

MAY 13 Wojciech Zywny (1756) / Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842) / Raoul Laparra (1876)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Name the Composer «» The monthly mystery composer quiz, which calls upon you to identify the master through his music, ranging from the unfamiliar to the well-known.

6 pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 "Emperor"

7 pm

Schubert: Symphony #5 in B-flat Major, D. 485

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «»«»«» 8 Acts in 4 Hours

WED.

MAY 14 Johann Peder Hartmann (1805) / Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873) / Otto Klemperer (1885) / Lou Harrison (1917)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Contradistinctive Concertos «» Today’s program affords a look at concertos in rare settings, and often without orchestra.

6 pm

Poulenc: "Matelote provençale" for La Guirlande de Campra

7 pm

Rossini: Cantata in Onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono

8 pm

Newman: The Prisoner of Zenda (film score)

9 pm

Berlioz: Waverley (concert overture), op. 1; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Prelude to Act 1 and "Liebestod"); Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’or (Suite)

10 pm

Dvorak: The Water Goblin (symphonic poem), op. 107; Beach: Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, op. 45

11 pm

Mahler: Symphony #4 in G Major

THU.

MAY 15 Claudio Monteverdi (1567) / Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759) / Michael Balfe (1808) / Lars-Erik Larsson (1908) / Arthur Burger (1912) / John Lanchbery (1923) / Brian Eno (1948)

noon

Ravel: Menuet Antique (for Orchestra)

1 pm

Finzi: Concerto for Clarinet and Strings in C Minor, op. 31

2 pm

Korngold: Symphony in F-sharp Major, op. 40

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Are We There Yet? «» Today’s program illustrates the dramatic importance of the coda in musical composition.

7 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

8 pm

Thursday Evening Piano Concerto

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «»«»«» New Folk «» Karen Matheson: Time to Fall; Ronnie Bowman: Starting Over; Kate Rusby: Ten; Buddy Miller: Midnight and Lonesome; Kate Campbell: Monuments; Open Road: Cold Wind; Water Sign; Tanglefoot: Agnes on the Cowcatcher; Rudy Perrone: Guitar in the Kitchen

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «»«»«» Monica Robelotto & David Darling: Tranzdance; various artists: The Heart Aid Project

FRI.

MAY 16 Richard Tauber (1892) / Woody Herman (1913) / Friedrich Gulda (1930) / Donald Martino (1931)

10 am

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor

11 am

Dvorak: Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22

1 pm

Dvorak: Piano Trio #1 in B-flat Major, op. 21

3 pm

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (excerpts)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» You Can Count on Me «» Today’s program explores the importance of timing, tempo and rhythm in classical composition.

6 pm

Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, S. 1043

7 pm

Tan Dun: Symphony 1997

8 pm

Charismatic Concerto

9 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Shakespeare in Music

10 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; Wright/Forrest (aft. Borodin): Kismet

11 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Just Jazz

SAT.

MAY 17 Erik Satie (1866) / Werner Egk (1901) / Fausto Cleva (1902) / Zinka Milanov (1906) / Birgit Nilsson (1918) / Peter Mennin (1923) / Gabriel Bacquier (1924) / Paul Crossley (1944)

9 am

Falla: La Vida Breve (Interlude and Dance)

10 am

Chopin: Variations on "Non piú mesta" from Rossini’s La Cenerentola for Flute and Piano in E Major

11 am

Rubinstein: Rêve angelique (for Orchestra)

noon

Massenet: Suite for Orchestra #5 "Scènes napolitaines"; Beethoven: Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27/#2 "Moonlight"

1 pm

Dvorak: Symphony #9 in E Minor, op. 95 "From the New World"

2 pm

Rutter: Magnificat; Handel: Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in F Major, op. 1/#11

3 pm

Copland: An Outdoor Overture; Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" (concert overture), op. 27

SUN.

MAY 18 Karl Goldmark (1830) / Bernard Zweers (1854) / Ezio Pinza (1892) / Clifford Curzon (1907) / Boris Christoff (1918) / Rick Wakeman (1949)

3 pm

TOSCANINI AT NBC WITH MORTIMER FRANK «»«»«» The NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini, conductor

MON.

MAY 19 Johann Froberger (1616) / Johann Friedrich Peter (1746) / Alice Mary Smith (1839) / Dame Nellie Melba (1861) / Sandy Wilson (1924) / Pete Townshend (1945) / David Helfgott (1947)

9 am

d’Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air for Piano and Orchestra, op. 25

10 am

Handel: Concerto Grosso in D Major, op. 6/#5 (HWV 323)

11 am

Lalo: Suite norvegienne (for Orchestra)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Fisher Fiesta «» Today’s program celebrates the birthday of Avery Fisher, that great friend of music whose engineering genius and love of music gave the world a new way to hear music.

6 pm

Haydn: Symphony #42 in D Major; Mendelssohn: Symphony for Strings #3 in E Minor; Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques (Suite for Orchestra), op. 112

7 pm

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Major, WoO 47/#3 ("Electoral" Sonata #3); Hahn: Piano Concerto in E Major

8 pm

Elgar: The Starlight Express (incidental music), op. 78 (Suite); Clementi: Symphony in D Major, op. 18/#2; Schubert: Symphony #1 in D Major, D. 82

9 pm

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé (film score) (Suite, op. 60)

10 pm

Haydn: The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3

TUE.

MAY 20 Ion Dumitrescu (1913) / Hephzibah Menuhin (1920)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» I’d Like to Touch on That «» An exploration of the keyboard form known as toccata, from various time periods.

6 pm

Janacek: Taras Bulba (Rhapsody for Orchestra)

7 pm

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, op. 54

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «»«»«» Today’s Baritones and a Basso (guest: Dolores Sebastian)

WED.

MAY 21 Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904) / Gina Bachauer (1913) / Heinz Holliger (1931) / Maurice André (1933)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» By Leaps and Bounds «» Today’s program illustrates some interesting intervallic leaps used by composers in their thematic material.

6 pm

Ibert: Escales

7 pm

Britten: Spring Symphony, op. 44

8 pm

Warbeck: Shakespeare in Love (film score)

9 pm

Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal, op. 5; Bruch: Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra in E Minor, op. 88; Haydn: Symphony #45 in F-sharp Minor "Farewell"

10 pm

Takemitsu: "A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden"; Stravinsky: Petrouchka (original 1911 version); Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

THU.

MAY 22 Thomas Walmisley (1783) / Richard Wagner (1813) / Joachim Raff (1822) / Jean Cras (1879) / John Browning (1933) / Peter Nero (1934)

noon

Enescu: Roumanian Rhapsody #1 in A Major, op. 11/#1

1 pm

Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major, S. 1042

2 pm

Gounod: Symphony #2 in E-flat Major

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Volks Wagner «» A program centered on Wagner’s fairly rare folk elements.

7 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

8 pm

Thursday Evening Piano Concerto

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «»«»«» Songs from the Heart of America «» Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America; Sing, America; Lee Greenwood: American Patriot; Phil Coulter: American Tranquility

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «»«»«» Peter Kater: Red Moon; Tim Kueij: A Place Somewhere

FRI.

MAY 23 Johann Kaspar Vogler (1696) / Johann Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759) / Ignaz Moscheles (1794) / Rosa Raisa (1893) / Edmund Rubbra (1901) / Artie Shaw (1910) / Jean Françaix (1912) / Alicia de Larrocha (1923) / Robert Moog (1934)

10 am

Gounod: Symphony #1 in D Major

11 am

Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano #1 in A Major, op. 13

1 pm

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, op. 50

3 pm

Crumb: Mundis Canis

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Means and Ways «» A goodly helping of arrangements of famous melodies, both by performers and the composers themselves.

6 pm

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite)

7 pm

Delphine Marcus welcomes Hans Fantel back to the WMNR studios for another two hours of reminiscences on Viennese operetta.

8 pm

Charismatic Concerto

9 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Sergei Diaghilev

10 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; Kander/Ebb: Chicago

11 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Just Jazz

SAT.

MAY 24 Richard Hoffman (1831) / Paul Paray (1886) / Bob Dylan (1941)

9 am

Mozart: Piano Concerto #9 in E-flat Major, K. 271 ("Jeunehomme")

10 am

Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor

11 am

Beethoven: Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36

noon

Strauss: Don Quixote (Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character), op. 35

1 pm

Brahms: Symphony #3 in F Major, op. 90; Tchaikovsky: Sérénade mélancolique for Violin and Orchestra in B Minor, op. 26

2 pm

Poulenc: Gloria for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra in G Major; Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto #3 in G Major, S. 1048

3 pm

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, op. 43

SUN.

MAY 25 Sverre Jordan (1889) / Miles Davis (1926) / Beverly Sills (1929)

3 pm

COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL «»«»«» Ernest Ansermet, conductor (Program #1) «» Bizet: Symphony in C Major (L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) (Japanese Decca UCCD 3042) | Stravinsky: Pulcinella (Suite) (L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) (Japanese Decca UCCD 3012) | Rossini (arr. Respighi): La Boutique Fantasque (London Symphony Orchestra) (Japanese London POCL 4634) | Lalo: Le Roi d’Ys (Overture) (L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) (Japanese London UCCD 3017)

MON.

MAY 26 Stan Golestan (1875) / Sir Eugene Goosens (1893) / Ernst Bacon (1898) / Gérard Bertouille (1898) / Louis Hardin ("Moondog") (1916) / William Bolcom (1938) / Teresa Stratas (1939)

9 am

Bolcom: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

10 am

Gottschalk: Escenas Campestras (Cuban Country Scenes)

11 am

Ives: March with the Air of "Old Kentucky Home"

6 pm

Haydn: Symphony #43 in E-flat Major "Mercury"; Howells: Suite for String Orchestra; Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances (Suite #2 "Bergamasca")

7 pm

Beethoven: Variations on "God Save the King" for Piano in C Major, WoO 78; Holbrooke: Piano Concerto #1 in F Minor, op. 52 "The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd"; Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano, op. 20 (#1, #2, #6, #7, #8)

8 pm

Goldmark: Im Frühling (In the Spring) (concert overture), op. 36; Tchaikovsky: Fatum (symphonic poem), op. 77; Rodrigo: Concierto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra

9 pm

MacDowell: Piano Sonata #1 in G Minor, op. 45 "Sonata tragica"

10 pm

Barber: "Dover Beach"

11 pm

Copland: "Lincoln Portrait"

TUE.

MAY 27 Jacques Fromental François Halévy (1799) / Louis Durey (1888) / Claude Champagne (1891) / Thea Musgrave (1928)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Ask and You Shall Learn «» A discussion and illustration of the equivalent of question marks in music.

6 pm

Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F Major, op. 93

7 pm

Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G Minor

8 pm

EVENING AT THE OPERA «»«»«» Singers from Italian Puglia, Umbria, and Abruzzo (guest: Pio Bonvicini)

WED.

MAY 28 Josiah Flagg (1737) / Thomas Moore (1779) / Giovanni Sgambati (1841) / Václav Talich (1883) / José Padilla (1889) / György Ligeti (1923) / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925)

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Unbuttoned Mozart «» A selection of works showing Mozart in a particularly joyful mood.

6 pm

Gershwin: Cuban Overture

7 pm

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

8 pm

film scores of Miklós Rózsa

9 pm

Brahms: "Academic Festival Overture", op. 80; Dvorak: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, op.11; Delius: Florida Suite

10 pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34; Williams: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film score) (Suite); Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, op. 58

11 pm

Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; Lloyd Webber: Requiem

THU.

MAY 29 Isaac Albéniz (1860) / Riccardo Zandonai (1883) / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897) Iannis Xenakis (1922)

noon

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

1 pm

Pierné: Ramuntcho (incidental music) (Suite)

2 pm

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Basically in a Chord «» Today’s program focuses on compositions which are based on various steps of chords, rather than on scale patterns.

7 pm

Mario Lanza and Friends

8 pm

Thursday Evening Piano Concerto

9 pm

GOOD FOLK «»«»«» Featuring John Denver «» John Denver: The Country Roads Collection | Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: Harvest Home

11 pm

NEW MUSIC GALLERY «»«»«» Nassiri: Return to Paradise; Mehdi: Instrumental Revolution

FRI.

MAY 30 Benny Goodman (1909) / George London (1920) / Gustav Leonhardt (1928) Pauline Oliveros (1932) / Olivia Stapp (1940) / Zoltán Kocsis (1952)

10 am

Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K. 581

11 am

Borodin: Prince Igor (excerpts); Borodin: Symphony #2 in B Minor

5 pm

KARL HAAS «»«»«» Mostly Moscheles «» Today’s program features little-performed compositions by a little-known master, Ignaz Moscheles.

6 pm

Copland: Billy the Kid

7 pm

de Sabata: Juventus (symphonic poem)

8 pm

Charismatic Concerto

9 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Classical Music Hour «» Theme: Let’s Have Chinese!

10 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Broadway and Film Scores «» Mystery Voice Quiz; Cole Porter at the Movies

11 pm

MIXED BAG «»«»«» Just Jazz

SAT.

MAY 31 Cesare Pugni (1802) / Frances Alda (1883) / Aldred Deller (1912) / Shirley Verrett (1931) / Peter Yarrow (1938)

noon

Telemann: Overture in F Major (TWV 55:11) ("Alster Echo")

1 pm

Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K. 250 "Haffner"

2 pm

Beethoven: Mass in C Major, op. 86

3 pm

Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country (symphonic impression); Svendsen: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major, op. 26