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Friday, November 14, 2008 - Today Norman and Stephanie switch to WPR's performance studio to talk to Austrian pianist
Paul Badura-Skoda and hear him play WPR's Mason & Hamlin. Badura-Skoda will be
performing the last piano sonatas of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert at the First Unitarian Society
in Madison on Sunday, November 16th at 7:30pm. For ticket information, visit
Farley's Pianos.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie talk with violinist
Sarah Chang who will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
at Overture Hall starting November 7th. The program includes Barber, Brahms,
Tormis and Shostakovich. The conductor will be Anu Tali.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie talk with organist
Samuel Hutchison. Mr. Hutchison and the Rhapsodie String Quartet will be performing works of Handel, Bach, Mozart
and Vivaldi at Overture Hall in Madison on Tuesday, October 28th at 7:30pm. He
is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Friday, October 17, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie talk with composer
Philip Rothman, Composer in Residence for the Green Bay
Symphony Orchestra. The Symphony will perform his work Morningside Run on October 17th,
It had its premiere in 2002 with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Rothman holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie interview cellist
Alban Gerhardt who will play with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
this weekend, October 17-19th, 2008. He'll perform Elgar's Cello Concerto, Copland's An Outdoor Overture and
Holst's The Planets.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie interview pianist
Garrick Ohlsson. Ohlsson will perform Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 with the Madison Symphony Orchestra
in a program that also includes Respighi’s Pines of Rome and the Italian Symphony of Mendelssohn. The performances take place
on September 26-28, 2008 in Overture Hall. Garrick Ohlsson won a Grammy Award in 2008
for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie interview
John Harbison, composer and Artistic Director of the Token Creek Music Festival
which runs from August 23rd through the 31st. He discusses this year's program and plays several selections from their CDs.
Mr. Harbison has been the recipient of many prestigious awards in his career including the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie interview Christopher Ocasek,
Conductor & Music Director of The Savoyards 2008 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's
"The Mikado" along with Savoyard's board member Evan Richards. "The Mikado" will be performed Thursday evening July 24th, and this coming weekend
in the UW-Madison's Music Hall.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 - Norman and Stephanie interview organist
Frederick Swann who performs at Madison's Overture Hall as part of
the Madison Symphony's third annual Organ Festival on Friday and Saturday,
July 11th and 12th. Mr. Swann is president of the American Guild of Organists (2002-2008) and serves as Organist Emeritus of
the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
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Thursday, June 27, 2008 - Norman talks with composer and pianist
Aaron Jay Kernis who will be appearing this weekend with the
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society. Mr. Kernis is one of the youngest composers ever to be granted the Pulitzer Prize in Music awarded in 1998.
He currently serves as New Music Advisor for the Minnesota Orchestra.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - The Midday celebrates Vicki Nonn's retirement after 18 years with The Midday and 38 years with Wisconsin Public Radio
with a hour-long studio concert featuring pianist Christopher Taylor
and flutist Stephanie Jutt. They are part of this summer's performance series
by the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society.
Special Feature: View this as a video using Windows Media Player.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008 - Vicki and Norman talk with harpsichordist
Trevor Stephenson and conductor Bruce Gladstone about the J.S. Bach Mass
in b minor, being performed on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at Trinity Lutheran Church by the
Madison Bach Musicians with the UW Madrigal Singers.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Vicki and Norman interview
Drew Collins who is the new Artistic Director of the Festival Choir of Madison.
They discuss the choir's final performance of the season on Saturday, May 3rd as well as composing choral music and working with children's choirs.
Collins is also the Associate Director of Choral Studies and Music Education at Wright State University in Dayton.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Vicki and Norman interview
Vladimir Spivakov who is a renowned violinist and also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Philharmonic of Russia.
He will conduct the Madison Symphony Orchestra in the Shostakovich Festive Overture, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 and
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique).
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Friday, April 18, 2008 - Vicki interviews pianist
Anne-Marie McDermott who performs this evening with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra at the Overture Center's
Capitol Theater in Madison starting at 8pm.
They will perform Milhaud's La Création du Monde, the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor and Bizet's
Symphony No. 1 in C Major.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - Norman and Vicki interview pianist
Eugene Alcalay who performs live from Studio One with an audience of WPR staff members. He plays movements from
Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 and No. 3. Alcalay is an assistant professor of music at University of Wisconsin-Platteville and
was named a Steinway Artist in December 2005. SPECIAL FEATURE: View a video of this Interview using Windows Media Player V10 or later.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Norman and Vicki interview pianist
Peter Takács who will be performing at the Morphy Recital Hall on the
UW-Madison Campus on March 28th at 8pm. Takács is professor of piano and chair of the piano program at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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Friday, March 14, 2008 - Norman and Vicki interview Korean violinist Chee-Yun
who will be performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra on Friday,
March 14th at the Capitol Theater in Madison.
They'll be performing the Shostakovich Prelude and Scherzo and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 - Norman and Vicki interview violinist
Cho-Liang Lin who will be performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra the weekend of
February 15th - 17th, 2008. His recordings have won several Grammy nominations and The Gramophone’s Record of the Year award.
He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991 and also teaches at Rice University.
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