Apr 21, 2020 | All Posts, Michael Christie's Jukebox
In this installment: On this Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Michael highlights magnificent works from composers who died in the brutal Nazi concentration camps. Many of these are the composers’ final works before their passing. This is only a small...
Apr 20, 2020 | All Posts, Michael Christie's Jukebox
In this installment: The number 9 is known as the number of universal love, eternity and faith. Many artists’ ninth works represented the height of their musical output. Dolly Parton: 9 to 5 Philip Glass: Piano Etude No. 9 Dvorak: Sym. 9, 2nd movement Kalevi...
Apr 17, 2020 | All Posts, Michael Christie's Jukebox
In this installment: Pulitzer prize-winning composer, Kevin Puts joins Jukebox host, Michael Christie for Kevin’s insights and musical choices in the midst of the global Covid lockdown. The heart of the playlist is a complete performance of Puts’ first...
Apr 17, 2020 | All Posts, Food For Thought
by Stephanie Wilson, Deputy Director, New West Symphony There’s a moment, just before the curtain goes up, when the performers are posed onstage holding their breath and knowing that just on the other side of that curtain, the audience is doing the very same thing. ...
