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TUE. MAY 1 William Lawes (1602) / Hugo Alfvén (1872) / Felipe Boero (1884) / Leo Sowerby (1895) / Walter Susskind (1913)PRIVATE 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Komm, Lieber Mai «» The arrival of the beautiful month of May is ushered in with songs from different countries relating to this joyful event. 8 pm EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Eclectic Enthusiasms (Bob Mills, guest)
WED. MAY 2 Alessandro Scarlatti (1660) / Hans Christian Lumbye (1810) / Lorenz Hart (1895) / Bing Crosby (1904) / Alan Rawsthorne (1905) / Oivin Fjeldstad (1903) / Jan Hanus (1915) / Horst Stein (1928) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Story of the Sonata «» A continuation of the ongoing series (this time with a slightly international flair) on the evolution of the sonata. 9 pm Hanson: Merry Mount (“Maypole Dances”); Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet; Grieg: Peer Gynt (Incidental Music), op. 23 (Suite #1, op. 46 and Suite #2, op. 55) 10 pm Mozart: Piano Concerto #23 in A Major, K. 488; Mendelssohn: Symphony #5 in D Major, op. 107 “Reformation” 11 pm Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
THU. MAY 3 Johann Baptist Krumpholz (1742) / Richard d’Oyly Carte (1844) / Marcel Dupré (1886) / Virgil Fox (1912) / Betty Comden (1919) / Pete Seeger (1919) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Hold On to Your Hats «» It will be difficult to sit still for today’s program of works performed in an unforgettable manner. 6 pm Kalinnikov: Suite for Orchestra; Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major, S. 1048 7 pm Beethoven: String Quartet #8 in E Minor, op. 59/#2 (“Rasoumovsky” #2); Harty: With the Wild Geese (Tone Poem) 8 pm Thompson: Frostiana (Seven Country Songs) 9 pm GOOD FOLK «» New Folk «» Lucy Kaplansky: Over the Hills; Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby; David Bromberg: Try Me One More Time; John Margolis: Christine’s Refrigerator; Dry Branch Fire Squad: Live at the Newburyport Firehouse; Martha Scanlan: The West was Burning; Arlington Priest: Memory of Your Company; Mark Wayne Glasmire: Scrapbook; Putumayo: Folk Playground 11 pm NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Michael Hedges: Pure; Keola Beamer: The Coming of the Snow
FRI. MAY 4 Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655) / Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860) / Frederick Jacobi (1891) / Roberta Peters (1930) / Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931) / Marisa Robles (1937) 10 am Hummel: Piano Concerto #3 in B Minor, op. 89 11 am Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 in G Minor, op. 26 5 pm KARL HAAS «» That’s the Ticket: Spain «» A musical voyage to Spain.
SAT. MAY 5 Thomas Linley (1756) / Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819) / Hans Pfitzner (1869) / Charles Rosen (1927) 9 am Weber: Clarinet Concerto #1 in F Minor, op. 73 (J. 114) 10 am Field: Piano Sonata #3 in C Minor, op. 1/#3 11 am Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra noon Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, op. 104; Debussy: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune 1 pm Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 “Sinfonia Antartica”; Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusina (Concert Overture), op. 32 2 pm Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 “Emperor”; Lloyd Webber: Cats (Suite) 3 pm Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Loveland: Songs from a Secret Garden 6 pm ONE GREAT SONG «» Body and Soul «» Recordings by Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra, Errol Garner, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald (with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra), and John Coltrane
SUN. MAY 6 Giuseppe Petri (1886) / Jascha Horenstein (1899) / George Perle (1915) / Godfrey Ridout (1918) / Richard Stilwell (1942) 3 pm THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Sakari Oramo, conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, violin «» Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #1 in A Minor, op. 99; Sibelius: Symphony #6 in D Minor, op. 104; Sibelius: Tapiola (Symphonic Poem), op. 112
MON. MAY 7 Carl Stamitz (1745) / Johannes Brahms (1833) / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840) / Elisabeth Söderström (1927) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» A Classical Romantic «» On the composer’s birthday, a program featuring music of Johannes Brahms which underlines his double identity as a classicist and a romanticist. 6:55 pm Mario Lanza and Friends 7 pm Monday Evening Piano Concerto 8 pm GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Enrique Granados «» Original recordings featuring the music of Granados 9 pm Massenet: Hérodiade (Ballet Music); C. Stamitz: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in D Major; Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas 10 pm Harbison: Remembering Gatsby; Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, op. 83 11 pm Rossini: Sonata for Strings #1 in G Major; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 in E Minor, op. 64
TUE. MAY 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829) / Ferenc Korbay (1846) / David Van Vactor (1906) / Keith Jarrett (1945) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Name the Composer «» The monthly mystery composer quiz, challenging you to identify a composer by listening to his music, ranging from the unfamiliar to the well-known. 8 pm EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Basso Alexander Pirogov and His Colleagues
WED. MAY 9 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525) / Giovanni Paisiello (1740) / Carlo Maria Giulini (1914) / Billy Joel (1949) / Anne Sofie von Otter (1955) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» A Magnificent Wardrobe «» A discussion of the concept of “theme and variations”. 9 pm Berlioz: King Lear (Concert Overture), op. 4; Joel: Suite for Piano, op. 8 “Star-Crossed”; Haydn: Symphony #45 in F-sharp Minor “Farewell” 10 pm Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète; Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129 11 pm Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques, op. 112; Argento: A Water Bird Talk (An Opera in One Act)
THU. MAY 10 Jean-Marie Leclair (1697) / Max Steiner (1888) / Dmitri Tiomkin (1894) / Milton Babbitt (1916) / Maxim Shostakovich (1938) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Unsung Heroes «» Examples of instrumental solos from within the orchestra from the symphony and concerto literature. 6 pm Rutter: Suite for Strings; Arensky: Variations on a Them of Tchaikovsky, op. 35a 7 pm Harris: Symphony #8; Rossini (arr. Britten): Soirées Musicales 8 pm Borodin: Prince Igor (Suite); Wood: Fantasy Concerto (for Strings) 9 pm GOOD FOLK «» Concerts «» Red Molly: Never Been to Vegas—Live; Gordon Bok: In Concert; Cosy Sheridan: Live at the Cedar House; Natalie MacMaster: Yours Truly; Trout Fishing in America: My Best Day 11 pm NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Elise Leber: Possible Dreams; various artists: Sundown (piano collection)
FRI. 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) 10 am Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, op. 64 11 am Gounod: Faust (Ballet Music) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Songs Mother Wouldn’t Teach Me «» A look at musical selections which were considered risqué at their first hearing.
SAT. MAY 12 Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739) / Giovanni Viotti (1755) / Jules Massenet (1842) / Gabriel Fauré (1845) / Sir Lenox Berkeley (1903) / Giulietta Simionato (1910) 9 am Massenet: Suite for Orchestra #3 “Scènes Dramatiques” 10 am Viotti: Violin Concerto #22 in A Minor 11 am Fauré: Quartet for Piano and Strings #2 in G Minor, op. 45 noon Schubert: Rosamunde (Incidental Music), D. 797 (op. 26) 1 pm Rameau: Dardanus (Suite) 2 pm Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 3 pm Rossini (arr. Britten): Matinées Musicales 6 pm ONE GREAT SONG «» Stardust «» Recordings by Willie Nelson, Django Reinhardt, Cal Tjader, Bing Crosby, Artie Shaw, Jon Hendricks, Nat “King” Cole, and Ben Webster
SUN. MAY 13 Wojciech Zywny (1756) / Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842) / Raoul Laparra (1876) 3 pm THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Julia Fischer, violin «» Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80; Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77; Brahms: Symphony #1 in C Minor, op. 68
MON. MAY 14 Johann Peder Hartmann (1805) / Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873) / Otto Klemperer (1885) / Lou Harrison (1917) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Precocious Peers «» Music written by famous composers in their earliest years. 6:55 pm Mario Lanza and Friends 7 pm Monday Evening Piano Concerto 8 pm GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Ignacy Jan Paderewski «» Music of Paderewski, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert, and Beethoven 9 pm Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla (Overture); Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings in D Minor, S. 1043; Harrison: Symphony #2 “Elegiac” 10 pm Sibelius: Karelia Suite, op. 11; Schubert: Sonata for Piano 4-Hands in C Major, D. 812 (op. 140) (“Gran Duo”) 11 pm Mahler: Symphony #4 in G Major
TUE. MAY 15 Claudio Monteverdi (1567) / Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759) / Michael Balfe (1808) / Lars-Erik Larsson (1908) / Arthur Berger (1912) / John Lanchbery (1923) / Brian Eno (1948) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» That’s an Imposition «» Works in which composers superimpose various melodies upon one another. 8 pm EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Verdi: Simone Boccanegra
WED. MAY 16 Richard Tauber (1892) / Woody Herman (1913) / Friedrich Gulda (1930) / Donald Martino (1931) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Portrait of a Cellist «» Today’s program is devoted to the artistry of Nathaniel Rosen, one of the outstanding cellists of our time. 9 pm Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix (Overture); Mendelssohn: Konzertstück for Clarinet, Basset Horn and Orchestra #1 in F Minor, op. 113; Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat (complete) 10 pm Debussy: Images (Set #3, for Orchestra) (#3 “Rondes de printemps”); Lieberson: Piano Concerto #1 11 pm Britten: Simple Symphony for Strings, op. 4; Kalinnikov: Symphony #2 in A Major
THU. 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) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Post Scripts «» A comparison of various endings used by different masters. 6 pm Gibbs: Miniature Dance Suite, op. 124; Holmes: Poland (Symphonic Poem) 7 pm Bruch: Symphony #2 in F Minor, op. 36; Balakirev: Tamara (Symphonic Poem) 8 pm Brahms: Rhapsody for Piano in B Minor, op. 79/#1; Rheinberger: Organ Concerto #2 in G Minor, op. 177 9 pm GOOD FOLK «» Remembering Kate Wolf «» Kate Wolf: Gold in California, Wind Blows Wild, Evening in Austin; various artists: Treasure Left Behind—Remembering Kate Wolf | Harvey Reid: Fruit of the Vine 11 pm NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Marshall Styler: The Twilight Concertos; Ken Townshend: Serene Healing
FRI. MAY 18 Karl Goldmark (1830) / Bernard Zweers (1854) / Ezio Pinza (1892) / Clifford Curzon (1907) / Boris Christoff (1918) / Rick Wakeman (1949) 10 am Chopin: Piano Sonata #3 in B Minor, op. 58 11 am Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, op. 46 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Miniature Concertos «» A look at the many short concertos, knows as concertinos, for various instruments.
SAT. 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 Muczynski: Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 14 10 am Quantz: Horn Concerto #3 in E-flat Major 11 am Torelli: Sonata in D Major noon Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Suite) 1 pm Vaughan Williams: Symphony #3 “A Pastoral Symphony” 2 pm Saint-Saëns: Phaëton (Symphonic Poem), op. 39 3 pm Marais: La Sonnerie de Saint Geneviève du Mont à Paris 6 pm ONE GREAT SONG «» All the Things You Are «» Recordings by the Clifford Brown Sextet, Kiri Te Kanawa, Charlie Parker, Billy Taylor, Jimmy Heath, Michael Jackson, and John Lewis
SUN. MAY 20 Ion Dumitrescu (1913) / Hephzibah Menuhin (1920) 3 pm THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Glenn Dicterow, violin; Carter Brey, cello «» Brahms: Tragic Overture, op. 81; Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, op. 102; Brahms: Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 73
MON. MAY 21 Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904) / Gina Bachauer (1913) / Heinz Holliger (1931) / Maurice André (1933) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Whales of Scales «» Scales can be a powerful ingredient of large-scale compositions, as today’s program will attest. 6:55 pm Mario Lanza and Friends 7 pm Monday Evening Piano Concerto 8 pm GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Dinu Lipatti «» Music of Chopin, Grieg, Brahms, Schubert, and Liszt 9 pm Wagner: Tannhäuser (Overture and “Venusberg Bacchanale”); Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Prokofiev: Symphony #1 in D Major, op. 25 “Classical” 10 pm Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country (Symphonic Impression); Paganini: Violin Concerto #2 in B Minor, op. 7 “La Campanella”; Brahms: A German Requiem, op. 45
TUE. MAY 22 Thomas Walmisley (1783) / Richard Wagner (1813) / Joachim Raff (1822) / Jean Cras (1879) / John Browning (1933) / Peter Nero (1934) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Volks-Wagner «» A program centering on Wagner’s fairly rare folk elements. 8 pm EVENING AT THE OPERA «» More Highlights from Mozart Operas
WED. MAY 23 Johann Kaspar Vogler (1696) / Johann Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759) / Ignaz Moscheles (1794) / Rosa Raisa (1893) / Edmund Rubbra (1901) / Artie Shaw (1910) / Jean Francais (1912) / Alicia de Larrocha (1923) / Robert Moog (1934) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Double Exposure «» Compositions written for two orchestras or two choirs, with a look at the phenomenon of echo effects. 9 pm Thomas: Mignon (Overture); Shaw: Clarinet Concerto; Delius: Appalachia 10 pm Dvorak: The Water Goblin (Symphonic Poem), op. 107; Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-flat Major 11 pm Verdi: Adagio for Trumpet and Orchestra; Beethoven: Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 “Eroica”
THU. MAY 24 Richard Hoffman (1831) / Paul Paray (1886) / Bob Dylan (1941) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Body Music «» A sampling of music used for choreographed dances. 6 pm Haydn: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in F Major, Hob. XV:39; Bridge: Enter Spring (Rhapsody for Orchestra) 7 pm Poulenc: Les Biches (Suite); Schubert: Symphony #6 in C Major, D. 589 (“Little”) 8 pm Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9; Holst: A Fugal Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings, op. 40/#2 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 «» Dan Siegel: Colors of the Land—American Spirit; David Arkenstone: Sketches of an American Journey
FRI. MAY 25 Sverre Jordan (1889) / Miles Davis (1926) / Beverly Sills (1929) 10 am Hummel: Piano Concerto #2 in A Minor, op. 85 11 am Bizet: Symphony in C Major 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Cards, Anyone? «» An exploration of card games both played and described in music.
SAT. MAY 26 Stan Golestan (1875) / Sir Eugene Goosens (1893) / Ernst Bacon (1898) / Gerard Bertouille (1898) / William Bolcom (1938) / Teresa Stratas (1939) 9 am Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, op. 58 10 am Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14 11 am Enescu: Suite for Orchestra #2 in C Major, op. 20 noon Grieg: Peer Gynt (Incidental Music), op. 23 (Suite #2, op. 55); L. Mozart: Trumpet Concerto in D Major; Tchaikovsky: 1812 (Festival Overture), op. 49 1 pm Nielsen: Symphony #6, op. 116 “Sinfonia Semplice”; Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Major, K. 454 2 pm Smetana: Má Vlast 3 pm Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11; Fauré: Pavane, op. 50 6 pm ONE GREAT SONG «» I’ll Remember April «» Recordings by Errol Garner, Bobby Darin, George Shearing, Julie London, Charlie Parker, and Chet Baker
SUN. MAY 27 Jacques Fromental François Halévy (1799) / Louis Durey (1888) / Claude Champagne (1891) / Thea Musgrave (1928) 3 pm THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC «» Lorin Maazel, conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin «» Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3, op. 72a; Berg: Violin Concerto (“To the Memory of an Angel”); Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Suite #2)
MON. MAY 28 Josiah Flagg (1737) / Thomas Moore (1779) / Giovanni Sgambati (1841) / Václav Talich (1883) / José Padilla (1889) / György Ligeti (1923) / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925) 6:55 pm Mario Lanza and Friends 7 pm Monday Evening Piano Concerto 8 pm GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY with Mike Shakinovsky «» Solomon «» Music of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bach, and Liszt 9 pm Ives: Holidays Symphony (“Decoration Day”); Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48 10 pm Ligeti: Requiem; Dvorak: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano #1 in B-flat Major, op. 21 11 pm Wagner: Götterdämmerung (“Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music”); Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
TUE. MAY 29 Isaac Albéniz (1860) / Riccardo Zandonai (1883) / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897) / Iannis Xenakis (1922) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Little by Little «» An illustration of devices used to create mounting excitement, such as the increase of volume and tempo. 8 pm EVENING AT THE OPERA «» Verdi Baritones
WED. MAY 30 Benny Goodman (1909) / George London (1920) / Gustav Leonhardt (1928) / Pauline Oliveros (1932) / Olivia Stapp (1940) / Zoltán Kocsis (1952) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Interaction of Ideas «» In a program featuring outside influences, the emphasis is on compositions based on a mutual sphere of interest between and among painters, poets, and composers. 9 pm Rossini: Semiramide (Overture); Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Piano and Harp) 10 pm Brahms: Four Serious Songs, op. 121; Prokofiev: Symphony Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E Minor, op. 125 11 pm Bartók: 14 Bagatelles for Piano, op. 6 (Sz. 38); Schubert: Symphony #1 in D Major, D. 82
THU. MAY 31 Cesare Pugni (1802) / Frances Alda (1883) / Alfred Deller (1912) / Shirley Verrett (1931) / Peter Yarrow (1938) 5 pm KARL HAAS «» Alla Polacca «» A program of Polish dances, both from within compositions and as miscellaneous pieces. 6 pm Mozart: Symphony #35 in D Major, K. 385 “Haffner”; Verdi: Jérusalem (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata) (Ballet Music) 7 pm F. Strauss: Horn Concerto in C Minor, op. 8; Bach: Suite for Orchestra #1 in C Major, S. 1066 8 pm Schubert: Mass in G Major, D. 167 9 pm GOOD FOLK «» World «» Putumayo: One World, Many Cultures, Music from the Wine Lands; 30 Years of ARC Music; Techung: Songs from Tibet; Swap: du da 11 pm NEW MUSIC GALLERY «» Strunz & Farah: Fantaseo; Jeff Peterson: Slack Key Guitar
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