Classical Showcase Fridays at 7 on Classical 101

You can hear our new series Classical Showcase 7 to 9pm beginning this Friday here on Classical 101. This weekly feature will showcase a different concert event each each Friday evening for your enjoyment. For the first program, we'll hear the San Francisco Symphony in concert with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting a 2013 concert from Carnegie Hall that begins with Beethoven's popular Leonore Overture No. 3. Jeremy Denck is the soloist for some great Mozart, his Piano Concerto No. 25. Less often heard, Eating Greens, a fantastical piece from about 20 years ago by Steven Mackey, contains a collage of sounds that includes party noise-makers, an untuned violin, and a taped recording of a telephone off the hook with an operator message following.  Aaron Copland's  rarely-heard Symphonic Ode from 1929, a work that was meant to evoke life in New York at the time, concludes the concert, but there will be a more familiar and rousing encore. In the weeks to come. we'll be hearing concerts from Arcangelo, a London-based period-instrument group with music of J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, and George Frederick Handel.  The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, led by Gustavo Dudamel, performs works by Chavez, Orbon, Revueltas and more at Carnegie Hall, and the Vienna Philharmonic will be heard in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 6. I hope you'll join us for our new weekly concert series, Classical Showcase, Fridays at 7 pm on Classical 101.  Here's the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas with music of contemporary American composer John Adams: http://youtu.be/j3xTdE1fnqM