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Music

Composers competition has ears on the prize

Composers competition has ears on the prize

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's first-ever Emerging Composers Competition culminates this weekend. Following a concert featuring the four finalists, the judges will choose a winner. What are they listening for?
by Karl Gehrke

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Wright puts on a slide show

Wright puts on a slide show

For the past month, Minnesota Orchestra Principal Trombone R. Douglas Wright has locked himself in his basement, trying master an antique ancestor of his instrument. sweating away to master the sackbut. To get ready for the piece he's performing this weekend, he's had to learn how to play the Renaissance- and Baroque-era horn called a sackbut.
by Brian Newhouse

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Strings add color to hypnotic Bach

Strings add color to hypnotic Bach

J.S. Bach would probably have appreciated the transformation of his "Goldberg" Variations from a keyboard piece into a string trio. These deceptively simple little pieces have mesmerized music lovers for centuries, and a new recording of the trio version will do nothing to break the spell.
by Julie Amacher

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Cantus' collaboration

Cantus' collaboration

The up-and-coming male choir, Cantus, performed and talked about their work and their new collaboration with poet Robert Bly. The show first aired March 9.

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Red House Records enters a new era

Red House Records enters a new era

More than a year after the death of its founder and president, Bob Feldman, St. Paul-based Red House Records is still going strong, and embracing the digital age.
by Chris Roberts

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The Web paves the way for a pianist named Wunder

The Web paves the way for a pianist named Wunder

Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder earned his American debut in an audition over the World Wide Web. It takes place Sunday at Macalester College in St. Paul.
by Alison Young

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Pachanga Society brings a new sound to polka country

Pachanga Society brings a new sound to polka country

This weekend, a group called the Stearns County Pachanga Society will offer St. Cloud a unique musical experience that's homegrown, but it doesn't sound like it. The society blends Latin music with a heavy dose of audience participation.
by Tim Post

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Playing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto the right way

Playing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto the right way

English pianist Stephen Hough says it's all too easy to upset the emotional balance of Johannes Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. He aims to avoid that pitfall in his performances this weekend with the Minnesota Orchestra.
by Brian Newhouse

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Clarinetist finds universal meaning in klezmer-inspired piece

Clarinetist finds universal meaning in klezmer-inspired piece

A Methodist from Maryland is the champion of a klezmer-inspired work by Osvaldo Golijiov. Clarinetist Todd Palmer talks with Minnesota Public Radio's Karl Gehrke about his ten-year fascination with "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind."
by Karl Gehrke

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Minneapolis organist premieres 70-year-old symphony

Minneapolis organist premieres 70-year-old symphony

A 70-year-old organ symphony will receive its Midwest premiere this weekend in Minneapolis. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Barone talks with Raymond Johnston, the organist who'll perform the piece.
by Michael Barone

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