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May/June 2014
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Never Miss Your Favorite WWUH Programs Again!
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We are very excited to announce
that all WWUH programs are now available on-demand
using
the "Program Archive" link 
on our home page, 
 
  This means that if you missed one of your favorite shows, or if you want to listen to parts of it again, you can do so easily using the Archive link.  Programs are available for listening for two weeks after their air date.
 
Monday Night Jazz Returns to 91.3 This Summer!

 

Starting on July 7, WWUH will once again be broadcasting live the Monday Night Jazz series from Hartford's Bushnell Park. 
 
The series of free concerts, founded by Paul Brown and now produced by the Hartford Jazz Society, will be marking its 46th consecutive season. 

Regionally and internationally-recognized musicians regularly grace the stage of the park's Thomas D. Harris IV Pavillion. WWUH will pass along this season's lineup of performers as soon as it's announced, so stay tuned! 
 
 
 
Celtic Airs Concert News

Andy Irvine

 

                        
    Andy Irvine returns to the University of Hartford's Wilde Auditorium on Friday, June 6th at 7:30 PM. Andy's solo stage show "is a musical travelogue through time and space" said Frets Magazine. Not surprising since the man, who has been called "a tradition in himself", has been at this game for 50 years!

    In the mid-1960s he was a founding member of Sweeneys Men, one of the seminal bands of the Irish folk revival. His extensive knowledge of Irish traditional music was a boon to this trio. He also possessed a wanderlust born of his reverence for Woody Guthrie, a lifelong influence. This need to travel, explore, and expand caused him to leave Sweeneys Men after just two years. He spent the next five years in Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, absorbing the Balkan influences still evident in his music today.

    Eventually Ireland called him home, and in 1970 he joined forces with Christy Moore, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn to form the revered band Planxty. They were immensely popular and successful, but by 1975 had each decided to pursue individual goals.

    Andy joined forces with another young star of the Irish folk revival, Paul Brady, and in 1976 they recorded the classic album "Andy Irvine and Paul Brady". It's sustained popularity led to a one-off reunion at the 2008 Celtic Connections Festival for a "Classic Album Showcase" concert.

    The recollection of the magical performances and recordings of the past drew the members of Planxty back together in 1979, but once again they felt the need to "make new friends" and split up again in 1983.

    Between 1983 and 1985, Andy recorded his first solo album "Rainy Sundays .... Windy Dreams" and partnered with the great Scottish troubadour Dick Gaughan to record yet another classic album of traditional music, "Parallel Lines".

    But Andy still yearned for Balkan rhythms and in 1985, with Donal Lunny and Hungarian singer Marta Sebestyen, formed a trio called Mozaic that toured for one blissful summer.

    In 1986, American-based Irish fiddler Kevin Burke ( ex Bothy Band) convinced Andy to leave his solo touring to form another Irish supergroup. Joined by Jackie Daly (ex DeDannan) and Arty McGlynn they became Patrick Street. Though the personnel have changed over the years, Kevin and Andy are still the lynchpins of this ensemble that performs and records sporadically to this day.

    Andy continued to pursue other interests during his time away from Patrick Street. 1991 saw the release of his second solo album, "Rude Awakening", on Connecticut's own Green Linnet record label. He also joined with uillean piper Davy Spillane to record a hugely influential album called "East Wind." More solo albums followed at a comfortably slow pace with "Rain on the Roof" in 1995 and " Way Out Yonder" in 2000.

    In 2002, a new Mozaik was born, reminiscent of it's cross-cultural predecessor Mozaic. Once again, Donal Lunny was Andy's partner, this time joined by Rens van der Zalm (Netherlands) , Bruce Molsky (America) and Nikola Parov (Hungary). They toured the world entertaining huge crowds and found time to record two CDs "Live From the Powerhouse" in 2003 and "Changing Trains" in 2007.

    Those Planxty memories die hard and sure enough, the quartet got together again for 10 sold out concerts at Dublin's Vicar Street Theater in 2005 and another six sold-out shows at the immense Point Depot in Dublin in 2006. Those fortunate enough to attend one of these landmark shows have never forgotten the experience. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with a DVD/CD recorded during the 2005 tour.

    Andy is still a solo artist in the old-style at heart, a teller of tales and a maker of music. He loves to travel far and wide, experiencing all the world has to offer and touching audiences wherever he goes. In recent years, he has performed in Moscow, Mexico City, Newfoundland, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Japan, Iceland, the Farroe Islands, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand! Woody would have been proud!

    Andy's latest solo album "Paranchile" was recorded in Australia and will surely be featured prominently in his concert here on June 6th. Come to listen to the man "whose voice gets to the very soul of Ireland." This is a unique opportunity to see one of the legends of Irish traditional music right here at the University of Hartford. Don't miss it!  

     Tickets for the WWUH / Celtic Airs concert series are only available from the University of Hartford box office, now open Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM -5:00 PM. Call 1-800-274-8587 or 860-768-4228. On line purchases can be made at www.Hartford.edu/hartt. Better yet, use the direct links to purchase tickets for each show that you will find by clicking the benefit concert tab on the wwuh.org homepage, then scroll down until you see boxes labeled "Buy Tickets Now" next to the show of your choice. 

 

     Celtic Airs can be heard on WWUH 91.3 FM or streaming live at wwuh.org every Tuesday from 6:00-9:00 AM Eastern time. After 20 years and 1000+ shows, I continue to present you the best in Celtic music, new and old, as well as updates on our concert series and music from the featured artists. I look forward to talking to you on the radio and meeting you at the next concert!

 

Steve Dieterich, 

Producer/ Host of Celtic Airs

And promoter of the Celtic Airs Concert Series

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WWUH Classical Programming - May/June 2014 


Sunday Afternoon at the Opera... Sundays 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Evening Classics... Weekdays 4:00 to 7:00/ 7:30/ 8:00 pm

Drake's Village Brass Band... Mondays 7:00-8:00 pm  

  

May

Thurs

1

Gagliano: Mass for Double Choir; William Lawes: Consort Setts a 6 #4 in B Flat, #5 in c; Alfven: Aftonen, Prodigal Son - Ballet Suite, The Mountain King - Suite; Sowerby: Comes Autumn Time; Leifs: Icelandic Dances Op. 11; Loeb: Unkei;

Classical Happy Hour Mozart: Serenade in D K 320 'Posthorn "; Schumann: Papillons Op. 2

Fri

2

Hosts Choice

Sun

4

Stravinsky: Le Rossignol, Mavra; Grieg: Haugtussa.

Mon

5

Falla: El Amor Brujo; Bizet: Carmen Suites; New York Philharmonic - Latin Sounds; Villa-Lobos: Rudepoeme

Drake's Village Brass Band... From The Keyboard - United States Marine Band Part 1; Bach, Rakowski and Debuy.

 

Tues

6

C.P.E. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 3, Wq 43; Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (1940); D.Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas; Nicolas Gombert: Missa Tempore paschali; Erno Dohnanyi: Sextet in C, Op. 37 

 

Wed.

7

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat; Schubert: Lieder;
Marin Marais: Suite in D Minor; Schumann: Symphonic Etudes; Armand-Louis Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin; Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Lithuanian Rhapsody 

 

Thurs

8

Krumpholtz: Sonata for Flute and Harp in F Op. 8 #5; Carl Stamitz: Flute Concerto in G, Viola Concerto in D, Cello Concerto #2 in C; Gottschalk: Piano Music; Van Hoof: First Symphonic Suite; Van Vactor: Recitativo and Salterello; Jarrett: Elegy for Violin and String Orchestra. 

 

Fri

   9
Music for Classical Guitar
Sun
  11
Handel: Semele  

Mon

12

Paine: Symphony #1; Foote: Suite in E; Mctee: Symphony #1: Ballet for Orchestra
Drake's Village Brass Band...From The Keyboard - United States Marine Band Part 2; Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition

 

Tue

13

Husa: Music for Prague 1968; Britten: Les Illuminations, Op. 18; Pejačević: Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 43; Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Wed

14

Walton: Symphony No. 1; Johann Kerll: Missa Renovationis; Marco Dall'Aquila: Ricercars; Joseph Jongen: Sonata Eroica; Robert Volkmann: String Quartet No. 2: Boccherini: Cello Concerto in C

Thu

15

Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Virgine 1610 - Excerpts; Paradis: Sicilienne; Balfe: I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls; Heller: Piano Music; Nikolay Tcherepnin: Prelude Pour La Princesse Lointaine Op. 4; Lars-Erik Larsson: Concertino for Horn Op. 45 #5, Pastoral Suite Op. 19; Arthur Berger: Chamber Music for 13 Players; Eshpai: Oboe Concerto; Richard Wilson: Concert Piece for Violin and Piano.

 

Fri

16

Music by and for The Piano Man

Sun

18

McCartney: Liverpool Oratorio

 

Mon

19

Ravel: Miroirs; Messiaen: La Fauvette des Jardins; Frederica von Stade - Voyage a Paris; Imani Winds - Josephine Baker, A Life of Le Jazz Hot Drake's Village Brass Band... Canadian Brass - Joyful Sounds

Tue

20 

Vasks: String Quartet #4; Fibich: Symphony #3 in e, Op. 53; Dvoř�k: Piano Trio #3 in f, Op. 65; Strauss: Deutsche Motette, Op. 62

 

Wed

21 

Gliere: Symphony No. 1; Domenico Zipoli: Mass in F; Peter Philips: Galliards; Mendelssohn: String Quartet in D Major; Matthieu-Frederic Blasius: Suite d'Harmonie  #1; Eduard Tubin: Suite on Estonian Dances

 

Thu

22

Wagner: Piano Sonata in A flat, Die Meistersinger - Act 1 Prelude, Lohengrin - In fernem Land, Parsifal - excerpts; Fesca: String Quartet Op 1 #2; Cras: Ames d'Enfants; Brahms: String Quintet #2 in G Op 111.

 

Fri

23

Why did Gustav Holst include only seven planets in "The Planets? The answer and more as we explore outer space.

 

Sun

25

Britten: War Requiem

 

Mon

26

Memorial Day Special... E. Power Biggs - Stars and Stripes Forever, Two Centuries of Heroic Music in America

Foster: Songs; Daugherty: Mount Rushmore

Drake's Village Brass Band... Camphouse: A Movement for Rosa; Gillingham: Heroes Lost and Fallen: Gould: Symhony #4 "West Point"    

Tue

27

C.P.E. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 4, Wq 43; George Dyson: Violin Concerto (1941); D. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas; Music by Dobrinka Tabakova; Beethoven: Quintet, Op. 16 for Piano and Winds

 

Wed

28

Francois-Joseph Gossec:Symphony; Christopher Tye: Mass "Euge Bone": Alexander von Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2; Prokofiev: Cinderella Ballet Suite; Mauro Giuliani: Grand Sonata

 

Thu

29

Albeniz: Suite Espanola Op. 47; d'Erlanger: Poeme; Korngold: Die Tote Stadt Op 12 - O Freund ich werde Sie nicht wiedersehen, Piano Quintet in E Op. 15, Sursum Corda Op. 13; Sowande: African Suite; Xenakis: Evryali; Michael Berkeley: Coronach; Beaser: Mountain Songs.

 

 

Fri

30

 Host's Choice

June

Sun
1
Verdi: Rigoletto
Mon
2

Paul Sperry- Songs of an Innocent Age; James Adler Plays Syncopated Rhythms; Adams: Hallelujah Junction

Drake's Village Brass Band...U S Air Force Band of the Rockies: Fantasies and Heroes   

Tue

C.P.E. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 5, Wq 43; Moeran: Violin Concerto (1942); D. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas;

Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 43 "Slavic"; Purcell: Dido and Aeneas   

Wed

4

Karol Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4; Jacobus Vaet: Musica Dei Dominum; Shostakovich: Viola Sonata; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Kodaly: Suite for Solo Cello; Marcello: Concerti   

Thu

New Releases. A Sampling of New Acquisitions from the WWUH Library.

  

Fri

Commemorating D-Day 

 

Sun

Puccini: Tosca 

 

Mon

More Music for Shakespeare... Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
Drake's Village Brass Band...Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - Just Brass

Tue

10 

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33; Boieldieu: Concerto in C for Harp; Ravel: String Quartet in F; Liszt: A Faust Symphony

  

Wed

11 

Haydn: Symphony No. 99: Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces; Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Piano Concerto No. 4; John Corigliano: Creations; Charles-Auguste de Beriot: Concerto No. 5 in D Major; Wenzelaus Matiegka: Grand Sonata

 

Thu

12

New Releases. A Sampling of New Acquisitions from the WWUH Library.  

Fri

13

Benjamin David Goodman performs 

 

Sun

15

Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"; Martinu: "Fragments" from Juliette

 

Mon

16

Bolcom: Gospel Preludes 1; Dupre plays Franck 1; Selections from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project Drake's Village Brass Band... Focus on the P.J.B.E  

Tue

17

Parry: Symphony #3 in C; Pejačević: Piano Quintet in b, Op. 40; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #1 in a, Op. 77; Beethoven: String Quartet in C, Op. 59, #3  

 

Wed

18

Louis Theodore Gouvy: Symphony No. 4; Tigran Mansurian: Ars Poetica; Giovanni Maria da Crema: Ricercars; Napoleon Coste: Six Waltzes; Eugene Ysaye: Sonatas

 

Thu

19 

Janitsch: Sonata da camera for Flute, Oboe, Violin in C Op. 4; Johann Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto in B, Symphony in A, Viola Concerto in G; Ferdinand David: Bassoon Concertino in E-Flat Op. 12, Trombone Concertino in E-Flat Op. 4; Zeller: Der Vogelh�ndler - Arias; Catalani: La Wally: Ebben?...Ne andr� lontana, Ero e Leandro; Hristic: The Legend of Ohrid Suite #1; Dvarionas: By the Lake; Kuusisto: Finnish Prayer.  

 

Fri

20 

It's all vinyl today  

 

Sun

22

Massenet: Herodiade  

 

Mon

23

Bolcom: Gospel Preludes 2; Dupre plays Franck 2; Ebony Band - Dancing; Ives: Symphony #4
Drake's Village Brass Band...Concert Music for Brass of Hindemith - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble 

Tue

24

Host's Choice 

Wed

25

Poulenc: Aubade; Chaminade: Piano Trio No. 2; Mozart:   Magic Flute/Harmoniemusik; Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra; Parry: Lady Radnor's Suite; Couperin: Concert Royaux 4; De Falla: Piezas Espanolas; Jacquet de la Guerre: Judith; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Ete; Foote: String Quartet; Ravel: Pieces for Piano  

 

Thu

26

Kozeluch: Symphony #5 in g, Piano Sonata #1 in C, Clarinet Concerto #1 in E Flat; Druckman: That Quickening Pulse; Bun-Ching Lam: Solitude d'automne; Greig: Symphonic Dances Op. 64; Handel: Ariodante Suite; Schubert: String Quartet #1 in g/B Flat D 18 

 

Fri

27

Listener's Choice - a program of music chosen by you. Please email your requests to [email protected] no later than June 21st.

Sun

29

Schreker: Die Gezeichneten  

Mon

30

Monday Night at the Movies - Music for Marilyn; Rozsa: The Last Embrace; Horner: Cocoon
Drake's Village Brass Band... Goodwin: Escape From the Dark - Grimethorpe Colliery Band

 

 Sunday Afternoon at the Opera

 

Your "lyric theater" program

with Keith Brown

programming selections

for the months of May and June, 2014 

Sunday 1-4:30pm

 

 

 

SUNDAY MAY 4TH
Stravinsky,Le Rossignol,Mavra,Grieg,Haugtussa
When we think of Spring, we immediately think of birds singing. Let that be my seasonal point of departure in this two-month round of programming. The most renowned of songbirds has got to be the nightingale. There's a symphonic poem by Igor Stravinsky called Le Chant du Rossignol ("The Song of the Nightingale," 1917), but before that its music was incorporated into a little opera,Stravinsky's first,Le Rossignol (1914). Its Russian language libretto is based upon a fairy tale of Hans Christian Anderson. The bird sings for the Emperor of China, who is charmed by its song, but ultimately he rejects the real bird and its song in favor of a mechanical nightingale. The real bird ends up saving the foolish emperor's life, then returns to Nature. Stravinsky was the best conductor of his own music. He directed the Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera Society of Washington, DC when the "lyric tale" in three short acts was recorded. In 1991 Sony Classical gathered together and reissued in CD format so many of the recordings Stravinsky had made of his own compositions for release on Columbia LP's back in the 1960's. Le Rossignol came in Vol. VIII of Sony's Stravinsky edition. In that same volume were 35 of Stravinsky's orchestrated songs and a mini-opera buffa in Russian language: Mavra (1922). The Russian author Pushkin supplied the tale of a young suitor who disguises himself as a serving maid in  order to sneak into the house of his beloved. The girl's mother discovers the ruse and the boy jumps out a window to escape. For Mavra Stravinsky led the CBC Symphony Orchestra with a cast of four singers.
    There's time remaining to listen to the songs of the Norwegian Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Particularly appealing are the eight songs that comprise the Haugtussa song cycle, Op. 67 (1897). Grieg worked on more than eight of the lyrics among the 71 poems in Arne Garborg's Haugtussa collection. These poems recount the wanderings of the visionary girl Veslemoy in the wild uplands of Southwestern Norway. Grieg's musical depictions of the landscape reveal him to be a nature mystic like his younger English colleague Frederick Delius. Mezzo-soprano Monica Groop is heard in the Haugtussa songs. You'll hear more of Grieg's songs as she interpreted them in a 1993 Swedish BIS label release,one of several BIS CD's that present the complete corpus of Grieg's vocal pieces with piano accompaniment. Thanks to Ira Braus, keyboard instructor at the Hartt School, for his programming suggestion.
                                          


SUNDAY MAY 11TH
Handel,Semele
Is George Frideric Handel's Semele (1744) a "secular oratorio" or is it an opera in disguise? Handel gave up writing Italian opere serie for the London stage in 1741. In preserving his Italianate style in Semele, Handel created what is arguably the first great English opera. Its hit song "Where'er You Walk," has been a vocal soloist's vehicle for generations, but the complete work has been infrequently performed or recorded. That's difficult to understand, because the splendid choral numbers certainly recommend it for performance by choral societies. Perhaps it was the story, taken from the Latin poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, which seemed rather silly. The Restoration dramatist William Congreve gave a comic treatment to the love triangle between the mortal maiden Semele, the goddess Juno and her divine philandering husband Jupiter. Handel wrought wonders in bringing Congreve's verse to life. Baroque specialist John Eliot Gardiner put in a fine interpretation of Handel's score, with only a couple of cuts. Gardiner directed his own period instrumental ensemble, the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir. The  1981 studio taping found its way onto two Erato compact discs in 1993. Gardiner's Semele went over the air on Sunday,June 1,2008. Another fine recording of Semele is the one with Johannes Somary conducting the English Chamber Orchestra and Amor Artis Chorale. The cast of vocal soloists included the best English singers of the time. Released in 1973,it was available in the US on Vanguard LP's. It was reissued in CD format in 2007 through another later American label Alto/Musical Concepts. In this recording Semele is soprano Sheila Armstrong, Juno contralto Helen Watts and tenor Robert Tear is Jupiter. Somary's interpretation is historically informed, although the instrumentalists don't play baroque period instruments. The continuo keyboard stylings of Harold Lester, playing harpsichord and organ,are particularly noteworthy. Somary also gives us Handel's complete score.



SUNDAY MAY 18TH
McCartney,Liverpool Oratorio
Paul McCartney of Beatles fame decided to accept the commission to compose something for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society,partly in order to force himself to master the system of Western musical notation. A natural, if unlettered musician from the first, he had never actually learned to read or write music properly until circa 1989,when he began work on the Liverpool Oratorio (1991). The oratorio deals in part with the story of Paul's life in the city of his birth: coming into the world in wartime, his schooldays, his parents and meeting his wife Linda. Carl Davis, then the conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, acted as Paul's mentor in the composition of this monumental work for full orchestra, five vocal soloists (one of whom is Dame Kiri Te Kanawa), adult choir and the boy choristers of Liverpool Cathedral. (As a lad Paul auditioned to be a chorister there, but was turned down.) The Liverpool Oratorio was recorded in the cathedral live in performance. Carl Davis conducted the Royal Liverpool Phil. And Choir. McCartney himself produced the recording for EMI. I broadcast the two EMI silver discs on Sunday, November 22,1992. It's worthy of note that Sir Paul's oratorio has over the years come to be considered a "classic," and certainly all those memorable pop tunes he wrote have also become classics,too, in their own way. Liverpool  Oratorio has been reissued in the EMI Classics line. I work from the two-CD reissue today.



SUNDAY MAY 25TH   
Britten, War Requiem has gone over the air on this program twice before on the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend (Sundays May 29,1988 and May 27,1990.) The memorial behind Britten's requiem has more to do with the Armistice ending World War One on November 11,1918. That's why I last broadcast it on Sunday, November 6,2005. Britten was a pacifist. He declined to fight in World War Two. The poetry of Wilfred Owen,killed at the tender age of 25 just before the Armistice, served as a constant reminder to Britten of the horror and futility of war. "All a poet can do is warn," so Wilfred Owen wrote. Britten's settings of his poems are a ghastly, monumental musical warning to the world of what war should have taught us, but which it seems we still refuse to learn. Owen's verse is interwoven with the Latin text of the Mass for the Dead. Britten's War Requiem was recorded for the British Decca/London record label shortly after its concert premiere with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the London Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble and Highgate School boys' choir, with distinguished vocal soloists of fully half a century ago. In the lineup are Britten's longtime lover and musical partner tenor Peter Pears, German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. Again this Sunday you'll hear the Decca CD reissue of that defining 1963 recorded interpretation.



SUNDAY JUNE 1ST  
Verdi,Rigoletto
This is the one Verdi opera that,surprisingly, I have never previously broadcast in the three decades I've handled the Sunday afternoon timeslot. What you'll hear today is an historic recording of Rigoletto (1851), recorded live in performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, February 22,1964. This is actually an airtape of a radio broadcast from the stage of the Met,capturing for posterity the voices of the Met's house singers from a period that many opera aficionados regard as the Golden Age of opera singing. Sony Classical has been priviledged to take these airtapes from the Met's audio archive,digitally enhance their sonic quality (often monoaural sound) and present them to the public on compact disc in Sony's recent "The Metropolitan Opera" series. Heading the cast in the title role is tenor Robert Merrill as the hunchbacked court jester of Mantua. Rigoletto is an operatic tragedy ultimately derived from a drama by the French author Victor Hugo, the same author who created the deaf hunchback character Quasimodo in his famous novel. Rigoletto's daughter Gilda is portrayed by another one of the Met's reigning stars of that era,soprano Roberta Peters. The Duke of Mantua is yet another one of the Met's luminary house tenors, Richard Tucker. Fausto Cleva conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.



SUNDAY JUNE 8TH
Puccini,Tosca
When this immortal work of Puccini's first reached the stage in 1900 there were certain critics who weren't impressed with the bloodshed of the story and the overblown passions of the protagonists. Some complained that the plot,adapted from the play by the French playwright  Victorien Sardou, was totally substandard. George Bernard Shaw thought of Sardou's La Tosca as an empty-headed shocker,yet he confessed prophetically,"Oh.if it had but been an opera!" Puccini's Tosca fulfilled Shaw's expectations. Today nobody minds it that this opera is really "over the top." I have presented Tosca four times before over going-on three decades of opera broadcasting. The title role has been the vehicle for many an ambitious soprano. The esteemed Hungarian soprano Eva Marton took it on for the Sony Classical recording I aired on Sunday,May 5,1991,with superstar tenor Jose Carreras as Cavaradossi. Michael Tilson Thomas was conducting. Then on Sunday,September 14,1997 it was the Iranian-born Alexamder Rahbari conducting and Miriam Gauci as the heroine in a Belgian National Radio and TV production (a Koch International CD release). On Sunday, June 1,2003 that greatest of twentieth century divas Maria Callas was heard opposite her tenor of choice Giuseppe DiStefano portraying Cavaradossi. The recording was the historic 1952 Mexico City stage production (Opera  D'Oro CD reissue of the old mono  tapes). That same year on November 2 I aired the EMI Classics CD reissue of the 1953 La Scala production in Milan. Callas and DiStefano were back together again,this time joined by that greatest of Italian baritones Tito Gobbi as the villain Baron  Scarpia. Listen today for another historic recording of Tosca coming to us from Sony Classical in its recent "The Metropolitan Opera" series of issues of airtapes of live broadcasts from the Met. Kurt Adler was conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra during the broadcast on April 17,1962. The distinguished African-American soprano Leontyne Price is the singer Floria Tosca,with Italian tenor Franco Corelli as the painter and revolutionary Mario Cavaradossi.



SUNDAY JUNE 15TH
Mahler, Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection,"
Martinu,Juliette,"Fragments."
From the year 2006 onwards I got in the habit of programming the Mahler song cycles and symphonies around the time of the Summer solstice. You've heard all the song cycles:Das Lied von der Erde, Kindertotenlieder, Rueckert Lieder, Das Knaben Wunderhorn, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Das Klagende Lied in both their orchestrated and piano versions. You also got to hear Mahler symphonies that have significant writing for solo singers and chorus. I've broadcast the Symphony No. 8,the gargantuan "Symphony of A Thousand" twice before. Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (1894)  I have broadcast once before on Sunday,June 26,2011. Even his symphonies have an operatic quality;they are really symphonic cantatas. (Remember, Gustav Mahler was primarily an opera conductor. He conducted at the Met in New York City in his later career.) Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony No. 2 in C Minor sets a text drawn from the 18th century German poet Friedrich Klopstock's Resurrection Ode. ( The composer himself, however, never designated it as having anything to do with resurrection.) The British conductor Sir Simon Rattle directed the Berlin Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Chorus in an EMI recording of the Mahler Second made live in performance in 2010 in Berlin's Philharmonie concert hall. Heard in solo capacity are the English soprano Kate Royal and the Czech mezzo Magdalena Kozena. This is Rattle's second recording of Mahler's second symphony for EMI. For him it has become a signature showpiece of his conducting style. Writing for Fanfare magazine (July/August,2011) reviewer Christopher Abbot says the new EMI Classics issue equals or surpasses Rattle's 1986 interpretation,which was intensely dramatic. Abbot gives the 2010 recording his very highest recommendation, and the EMI sonics he calls,"...the most impressive stereo recording that I've heard in some time."
    Recognizing that some listeners won't be satisfied until they hear some actual opera,I have an additional aural feature:three 'fragments," which are actually extended excerpts from the 20th century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's dream opera Juliette (1938),with Magdalena Kozena in the title role. These fragments come along with the orchestral suite from Juliette on a 2008 Supraphon compact disc release. Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Czech  Philharmonic Orchestra. I have broadcast the complete Juliette opera twice before,in 1986 on Supraphon LP's (back when it was the Czechoslovak state record label) and again in 2004 in CD reissue.



SUNDAY JUNE 22ND
Massenet,Herodiade
This opera,which premiered in Brussels in 1881 with great success,is Massenet's take on the story of Salome, and while his source material is the same (Gustav Flaubert's 1877 novella), Massenet's musical treatment is completely different from the Salome opera of Richard Struass. Massenet's Herodiade went on to triumph in Paris in 1884 and elsewhere,but it fell out of the repertoire in the 1920's,then disappeared until the general of Jules Massenet's operas in the 1970's. San Francisco Opera revived Herodiade in 1994. Valery Gergiev led the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus,with a stellar cast of the era. Soprano Renee Fleming tops the bill as Salome. John the Baptist is superstar tenor Placido Domingo. The recording of the SF Opera production came back into circulation in 2013 on two CD's courtesy of Newton Classics of the UK.



SUNDAY JUNE 29TH
Schreker, Die Gezeichneten
Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was associated with the Viennese school of late Romanticism. He was a colleague of Schoenberg and Zemlinsky.Early in his composing  career Schreker wrote songs,setting some of the same poems that Mahler drew upon in his own Das Knaben Wunderhorn. On Sunday, June 14,2009 I broadcast a Bridge CD of Schreker's Lieder,including the cycle of six songs called the Mutterlieder ("Songs of A Mother," 1897),which are reminiscent of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Later in his career Schreker wrote operas. Die Gezeichneten  ("The Stigmatized," 1918) established his reputation as the preeminent opera composer of his generation in Central Europe. "The Stigmatized" is the tragedy of an ugly,misshapen man who is deceived by those around him. Schreker came up with the story and wrote his own German language libretto. The scene is sixteenth century Genoa,and the central character,the hunchbacked nobleman Alviano Salvago,has some of the traits of Shakespeare's Othello and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. LA Opera revived Die Gezeichneten in 2010. "The Stigmatized" was recorded live in performance in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,Los Angeles,with James Conlan conducting the LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Tenor Robert Brubaker portrays Alviano. Bridge Records released Die Gezeichneten on three compact discs in 2013.

In these broadcasts over the months of May and June most of the recordings I will be employing come from our station's ever-growing library of classical music on disc. The BIS disc of Grieg songs, including the Haugtussa song cycle, comes on loan from the Allen Memorial Library,the music library of the Hartt School here on the campus of the University of Hartford.Britten's War Requiem was loaned for broadcast by a private collector,Rob Meehan,who is a former WWUH classics deejay. Thanks as always goes to Kevin O'Toole,our WWUH operations director,for mentoring me in the preparation of these notes for cyber- publication. 
Hartford Symphony Orchestra - Upcoming Events
May - July 2014

 

SUNDAY SERENADES SERIES: WHISTLER & IVES 
Sunday, May 4, 2014│2:00 p.m. 
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 
Program: Horatio Parker: Suite, Op. 35; Ingolf Dahl: Concerto � Tre; Charles Ives: Violin Sonata No. 2; Peter Schickele: Quartet for Piano, Clarinet, Violin & Cello 
Sunday Serenades chamber music concerts are presented in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's special exhibitions and permanent collections. Concerts take place in the museum galleries and feature Concertmaster Leonid Sigal and Hartford Symphony Orchestra musicians.

MASTERWORKS SERIES: EDWARD CUMMING CONDUCTS BRAHMS' DOUBLE CONCERTO 
Thursday May 8, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
Friday May 9 & Saturday May 10, 2014 | 8:00 p.m.
Sunday May 11, 2014 | 3:00 p.m. 
Belding Theater│The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts 
Edward Cumming, conductor; Leonid Sigal, violin; David Finckel, cello 
Program: Dvoř�k: 
Slavonic Dances; Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Violoncello, "Double Concerto"; Dvoř�k: Symphony No. 6 
Edward Cumming conducts music that defined his signature style. Slavonic Dances catapulted Dvor�k to fame - while Symphony No. 6 showcased his experimental technique. Brahms combined violin and cello for the solo portions of his final orchestral work to create a "super" instrument of sonority and range.

LINK UP, THE ORCHESTRA ROCKS (for students, Grade Level: 3-5) 
Tuesday, May 13, 2014| 10:30 a.m.
Mortensen Hall | The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts
Link Up, a program of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, guides students and teachers in grades 3-5 through a yearlong exploration of orchestral repertoire. The Hartford Symphony will discover what makes music rock as we look at how composers and musicians play with rhythm, creating patterns of sound and silence that are expressive and exciting.

In collaboration with Hartford Public Schools

AROUND THE WORLD WITH MOZART (for secondary school students) 
Thursday, May 22, 2014 | 10:00 a.m.
Belding Theater | The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts
Not only did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travel throughout Europe as a child prodigy and renowned composer, but his legacy and influence has reached far and wide across the globe. Come hear some fantastic music by Mozart himself and find out how his music has impacted other composers from around the world.
The Chamber Orchestra Series provides secondary students the opportunity to connect to professional musicians and experience a live performance of symphonic music. Each performance begins with a pre-concert talk with our conductor which is then followed by a 50-minute performance.

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? 
Saturday, May 31, 2014 | 7:30p.m,
Mortensen Hall | The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts
with performers, the Hartford Chorale (Richard Coffey, music director)
Do You Hear the People Sing celebrates the music of two of the world's most prolific writers of musical theatre, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, in an epic Broadway-style event. This ultimate concert experience features music from Les Mis�rables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, The Pirate Queen, and many more.

BOLERO! 
Thursday June 5, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
Friday June 6 & Saturday June 7, 2014 | 8:00 p.m.
Sunday June 8, 2014 | 3:00 p.m.
Belding Theater | The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts
Program: Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien; Mozart Concerto for Flute No. 1 in G Major, K. 313;  Bates Alternative Energy for Orchestra and Electronica; Ravel Bolero
with guest performers:
The University of Connecticut Drumline (David Mills, director)
Carolyn Kuan (conductor)
Greig Shearer (flute)
The 70th season finale is a not-to-be missed, blockbuster celebration! Join the HSO as we perform musical selections both new and timeless, grand and intimate to highlight the versatility and power of the HSO's musicians to unite our community through live performance.

MIDSUMMER MOZART 
Friday, June 27, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
Rain Date: Saturday, June 28 | 7:30pm
The Performing Arts Center | Simsbury Meadows
Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Robert Blocker, piano
Suzanne Lis, soprano
Barbara Hopkins, flute
    
CELEBRATE AMERICA - THE ANNUAL RED, WHITE & BLUE TRADITION 
Thursday, July 3, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
The Performing Arts Center | Simsbury Meadows
Rain Date: Friday, July 4 | 7:30 p.m.
Eric Dudley, conductor
(there will be fireworks after the concert)

BROADWAY ROCKS! 
Friday, July 11, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
Rain Date: Saturday, July 12 | 7:30 p.m.
The Performing Arts Center | Simsbury Meadows
Morgan James, Capathia Jenkins, and Rob Evan, guest vocalists
Randall Craig Fleischer, conductor
Featuring music from Hairspray, Wicked, Lion King, Dreamgirls and More.
    
THE MUSIC OF THE WHO 
Friday, July 18, 2014|7:30 p.m.
Rain Date: Saturday, July 19 | 7:30 p.m.
Brody Dolyniuk, guest vocalist
    
ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS ARMSTRONG: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE 
Friday, July 25, 2014 | 7:30 p.m.
Rain Date: Saturday, July 26 | 7:30pm
Byron Stripling, trumpet and vocals; Marva Hicks, vocals; Benjamin Rous, conductor 
 

For tickets and more information, visit 

http://www.hartfordsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/ 

or call HSO Ticket Services at 860.244.2999.

Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
Opened in December of 1955, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is the largest college-based presenting program in New England. Each season, Jorgensen events attract more than 70,000 students, faculty and staff from the University of Connecticut, as well as residents from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Jorgensen presents 25-30 nationally and internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles annually, ranging from classical music to world music and dance, classical and contemporary dance, comedy, family programming and contemporary entertainment. Box Office: 860.486.4226 or http://jorgensen.uconn.edu.

 

The Musical Club of Hartford

The Musical Club of Hartford, Inc., is a non-profit Connecticut organization celebrating its 123rd anniversary this year. Each year, from October to May, ten or more concerts are presented by performing members, featuring soloists and vocal or instrumental ensembles. These concerts usually take place on Thursday mornings at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT.  For more information, visit:
Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra

 
The Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, a non-profit Community Orchestra, presents numerous concerts in the Greater Hartford area, performing works from all periods in a wide range of musical styles. The members of Hartford's only community orchestra are serious amateurs who come from a broad spectrum of occupations. Besides commissioning and performing new works, the CVCO has made concert tours to Romania, Spain, Hungary, Austria and Poland 
under the sponsorship of organizations such as the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation.

  

The Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra
concludes its' 2014 Concert Season on
Sunday June 8, 2014
with "Dance"
"Dance" will be a collaboration with a local dance company, performing many beloved dance pieces from all over the world. The program is still being determined, but we hope to highlight the orchestra in music from countries such as Mexico, Hungary, Romania, America, Russia, and Vienna, including excerpts from some of Tchaikovsky's famous ballets.

The program will take place at Trinity Episcopal Church at 120 Sigourney Street in Hartford on Sunday June 8, 2014 at
3:00 pm
For more information, visit the CVCO website.
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra
For over ten years, the West Hartford Symphony has been providing a musical outlet for residents of West Hartford and the Greater Hartford Area. Musicians from the ages of 14 to 86 come together once a week to play a variety of pieces and perform four concerts each year. For tickets and information, 860-521-4362 or http://whso.org/

 

Upcoming Event 

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Pops Concert (The finale of their current season) 
at West Hartford Town Hall Auditorium 

8:00 pm


Who Else
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