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Michael Christie Jukebox #11
In this installment: Ricky Ian Gordon, OBIE and Stephen Sondheim Award winning song and opera composer joins Michael for a fascinating Jukebox Playlist. Hindemith: Piano Sonata No. 3, 4th movement Weill/Brecht: Mahagonny "Benares Song" Henze: Fantasia for Strings, 4th...
Don’t forget The Met
New York's Metropolitan Opera is still streaming past performances from its library, a different opera every night. Don't miss Tocsca, the thriller from legendary Italian songsmith Giacomo Puccini. Watch it on The Metropolitan Opera's website here.
Anton Eberl: the ‘Beethoven’ that might have been
You know the masters who make up the canon of standard orchestral works. There's Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, and many more: household names in classical music, and for good reason. Their music stands the test of time. But if you...
Concert cancelled, so Kanneh-Mason family live streams Beethoven from their living room
You may recognize the Kanneh-Mason family because of young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. His sister Isata Kanneh-Mason is a concert pianist herself, and Saturday, April 18 she was scheduled to perform...
Michael Christie Jukebox #10
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 sampling...
Michael Christie Jukebox #9
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 Aho:...
Michael Christie Jukebox #8
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 opera, "Silent...
The Shared Experience of Live Performance
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. ...
KUSC hosts still broadcasting from home
Don't know about you, but we appreciate a steady stream of classical music while we're all staying safer at home. Our friends at KUSC have kept up their programming with hosts working from home. Listen online and enjoy music all day! Click here to tune in.
Michael Christie Jukebox #7
In this installment: John Browne - Stabat Iuxta Christi Crucem - The Sixteen Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Radiohead - 15 Step Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You Górecki Symphony No. 3, II. Lento e Largo...