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THE MIDDAY INTERVIEWS
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larger view	Friday, November 13, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie interview Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway who will perform with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center on Saturday, November 14th at 8pm. The repertoire includes Copland, Stravinsky, Bach and Ibert. The tour celebrates Mr. Galway's 70th birthday. Studio Photo Listen Using Windows Media (45:23)
	Friday, November 6, 2009 - Live from WPR's Studio One, Norman Gilliland and Stephanie Elkins talk and listen to the Perlman Trio. The trio includes violinist Eleanor Bartsch, pianist Thomas Kasdorf and cellist Maureen Kelly. The trio was formed in 2007 at the UW-Madison. Listen Using Windows Media (32:47)
larger view	Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to violist Matt Haimovitz who also plays live in the WPR studio. He will be performing at Café Carpe on Friday, October 30th in Fort Atkinson, WI. The program will bring together a wide range of new music for cello and electronics by leading and emerging North American composers. For this performance, he will be accompanied by Du Yun on keyboard, laptop and vocals. Wikipedia Entry Listen Using Windows Media (39:19)
larger view	Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg who will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall this Friday through Sunday. The performance will include Glinka’s Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla, Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Mahler's Symphony No. 1. Her professional career began in 1981 when she won the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. In 1999 she received the Avery Fisher Prize. Wikipedia Entry Listen Using Windows Media (20:29)
larger view	Friday, October 9, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to violinist Augustin Hadelich who will be performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra this evening. Mr. Hadelich is the winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Gold Medalist of the 2006 International Violin Competition. He made his Carnegie Hall orchestral debut in January 2008, performing the Brahms Double Concerto and recently performed with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony and Tokyo Symphony. Wikipedia Entry Listen Using Windows Media (13:34)
larger view Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcome John Harbison to the studio. Mr. Harbison is a composer and the artistic director of the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival The festival consists of four concerts between Saturday, August 29th and Sunday, September 6th as well as a special program of music, art and local history as part of Sun Prairie's annual "Discover O'Keefee" celebration. Listen Using Windows Media (18:17)
larger view Friday, July 31, 2009 - Live from WPR's music studio in Madison, Norman and Stephanie talked to the members of The Kat Trio and heard them perform music by Gottschalk, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Drdla, Kreisler, Kern and Schickele. They talked about their music and their extensive Wisconsin Tour which will include performances in Madison, Stevens Point, Green Bay, Lodi, Amery, and Oregon, Wisconsin. The members of the "Ekaterinburg Classical Trio" are Clarinetist Vlad Gorbich, violinist Vikki Gorbich and pianist Mauricio Arias. View studio photo Listen Using Windows Media (24:24)
larger view Monday, July 13, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcome Paul Rowe, Professor at the UW-Madison and member of the Waverly Consort, and Grant Herreid, lutinist and member of Piffaro - The Renaissance Band about the annual Madison Early Music Festival held from July 11-17, 2009. Others performing include The Venere Lute Quartet, Quicksilver and The Newberry Consort as well as recordist Marion Verbruggen. Listen Using Windows Media (20:56)
larger view	Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk by phone with internationally renowned Baritone Thomas Hampson about the Song of America Project, and his appearance at Music by the Lake in Williams Bay, WI on Sunday, July 12th. View Thomas Hampson singing Copeland's The Little Horses on this YouTube Video. Listen Using Windows Media (13:34)
larger view Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcome two members of the Amelia Piano Trio who will be performing on July 3, 2009 at the Thrasher Opera House as part of the Green Lake Festival. The program will include Haydn's Trio #14 in A flat Major and Trio in G Major, Cowell's Four Combinations of Three Instruments, and the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor. View a YouTube Video of the trio playing Beethoven. Listen Using Windows Media (14:00)
larger view	Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - Stephanie and Norman interview Bass-Baritone David Pittsinger. Mr. Pittsinger has just completed a starring role in the revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center in New York City and is now playing the lead in the Madison Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust on the stage of Overture Hall in Madison on May 15th and 17th, 2009 Listen Using Windows Media (24:30)
larger view	Thursday, May 7, 2009 - Bruce Gladstone is the new Artistic Director of the Festival Choir of Madison. The Choir will be performing a concert they call "Cantate: Sing of Spring" on Saturday, May 9th at 7:30pm in the Atrium Auditorium of the First Unitarian Society of Madison, and also on Sunday, May 10th at the Stoughton Opera House in Stoughton, WI. Listen Using Windows Media (25:15)
larger view	Friday, April 24, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Paavali Jumppanen who will be performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra tonight at the Capitol Theater in Madison. The program will include Rossini's Overture to II Signor Bruschino, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major ‘Emperor’, and Haydn's Symphony 104 in D Major. The guest conductor for this "Masterworks" concert program will be Julian Wachner. Listen Using Windows Media (37:34)
larger view Friday, April 17, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcome four members of the UW Russian Folk Orchestra to our studios including Dan Cobb on Prima domra, Fred Middleton on Prima Balalaika, Don Becker on Bayan and Victor Gorodinsky on Guitar. Gorodinsky is the conductor and founder of the orchestra. They're playing on Sunday, April 19th at 7:30pm in the Mills Concert Hall on the UW Campus. See Video Clip. Listen Using Windows Media (27:27)
larger view	Thursday, April 9, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to Trevor Stephenson about the St. Matthew Passion to be performed this Easter weekend in the Atrium Auditorium of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Stephenson is the Artistic Director of the Madison Bach Musicians using period instruments for the performance, which will also include the Madison Youth Choir. There will also be a lecture at 6:15pm before each performace. Ticket information can be found at www.madisonbachmusicians.org. Listen Using Windows Media (35:48)
larger view	Friday, April 3, 2009 - The Midday welcomes pianist André Watts to the studio. He will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on April 3rd, 4th and 5th. The program will include music by Saint-Saëns, Wagner and Brahms. In 1962, at the age of 16, he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic. 24 years later, Mr. Watts received the Avery Fisher Prize. Today he is one of the most celebrated classical musicians in the world. Listen Using Windows Media (17:34)
larger view	Friday, March 13, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcome violinist Eleanor Bartsch with pianist Stanislava Varshavsky to WPR's Studio One in Madison. At just 19 years old, Bartsch plays with the Perlman Piano Trio, Madison Bach Musicians, Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and the Madison Symphony. Live in our studio, they play the Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano in G, the Bach gavotte & rondo from Partita #3 in E Major, Beethoven's Romance in F, and Fritz Kreisler's 'Love's Sorrow'. Studio Photo A   |   Studio Photo B Listen Using Windows Media (50:02)
larger view	Thursday, March 5, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talked to violinist Julian Rachlin who regularly performs with the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and many others. He will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on March 6th-8th, 2009. He will perform Borodin's "Overture to Prince Igor" as well as works by Stravinsky and Dvorák. Listen Using Windows Media (18:29)
larger view	Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie welcomed soprano Danielle de Niese to the WPR studios. She made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with Los Angeles Opera and became the youngest singer ever to participate in the Young Artists Studio at the Metropolitan Opera. She performs at the UW-Madison's Wisconsin Union Theater on Thursday, February 19th. Listen Using Windows Media (22:06)
larger view	Friday, February 6, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to pianist Olga Kern who will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall in Madison on February 6-8, 2009. The program is billed as a "Feast of Beethoven" including his Leonore Overture No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Symphony No. 7. In the past year, she made her debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin and presented recitals throughout the U.S. Listen Using Windows Media (18:39)
larger view	Friday, January 23, 2009 - Cellist Amit Peled will play with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra on Friday evening, January 23rd. The program will include Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds & Orchestra, Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major and Respighi's Gli Uccelli (The Birds). Peled talks about how he became, at 28, one of the youngest music professors at a music conservatory. His CD "The Jewish Soul" will be released in March. View a YouTube performance of Amit Peled with pianist Daniel Del Pino playing Rachmaninov. Listen Using Windows Media (15:28)
larger view	Thursday, January 15, 2009 - Norman and Stephanie talk to Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud who performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at Overture Hall on January 16-18, 2009. He played music by Mozart, Sibelius and Prokofiev. Kraggerud performs both on violin (with a 1744 Guarneri del Gesu) and on viola at major international chamber music festivals. Listen Using Windows Media (15:28)

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