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Columbus in Concert Saturday, May 10, 8pm Columbus Symphony live from The Ohio Theatre
Junichi Hirokami, conductor Anton Kuerti, piano
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, "Scottish"
Sunday, 10am Sunday Baroque features the soothing peace of baroque music, Sundays 10am to noon. Host Suzanne Bona brings a variety of enchanting and beautiful works of Baroque and early music, like Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel. Sunday Baroque celebrates this wealth of music with performances from yesterday and today’s best artists, providing a perfect soundtrack for this unique day of the week. Visit the show's web site
Pipedreams
Sunday, May 11, 10pm on WOSU 89.7 A Minnesota Organ Book In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Minnesota Statehood (May 11, 1858), we share varied works by Minnesota composers of today.
From the Top
Sunday, May 11, 7pm on WOSU 89.7 Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD This week's program comes from The Music Center at Strathmore, in Bethesda, Maryland. Highlights include a teenage baritone from New Jersey singing from Vaughn Williams' "Songs of Travel," a 15-year-old local violinist plays Saint-Saens, and audiences will meet the mother of the nationally famous "girl who drove over her violin!"
Saturday on Stage
Saturday, May 10, 1:30pm on WOSU 89.7 Bellini, La sonnambula A bel canto masterpiece about a hapless young woman who sleepwalks to exquisite music with Natalie Dessay, Francesco Merli and Carlo Colombara, conducted by Evelino Pido
Music in Mid-Ohio with Christopher Purdy
Sunday, May 11, 6pm on WOSU 89.7 Jefferson Academy of Music: Biava String Quartet
SCHUBERT: Cello Quintet in C, Op. 163
The Biava Quartet is Juilliard based and was formed honoring Luis Biava’s father, longtime concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Luis Biava, Jr. appears in this concert as a guest artist.
Serenata
Saturday, May 10, 1pm, on WOSU 89.7 First Songs The first attempt at the art song by Schubert, Faure, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky
SymphonyCast
Sunday, May 11, 8pm on WOSU 89.7 Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
WEBERN: Five Pieces for Orchestra MAHLER: Symphony No.7
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