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Music

Kohl aims for the finals in the Met's March Madness

Kohl aims for the finals in the Met's March Madness

As the NCAA basketball tournament field narrows from the Sweet 16 to the Final Four this weekend, the Metropolitan Opera's annual vocal competition reaches its semi-final stage. Minnesota Opera resident artist Joshua Kohl is one of the singers still in the running.

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Maintenance man rocks his office building after hours

Maintenance man rocks his office building after hours

Maintenance man doesn't sound like a dream job for an aspiring rock star, but Twin Cities songwriter Jason Shannon was able to marry his day job with his music.
by Curtis Gilbert

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Skylark gets Lost in the Stars

Skylark gets Lost in the Stars

For its debut as Skylark Opera, the former North Star Opera company is staging Kurt Weill's 1949 musical tragedy, "Lost in the Stars," which is set in South Africa. In a Minnesota Public Radio studio session, members of the cast sing selections and discuss the musical's contemporary relevance.
by John Birge

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Eric Tretbar raises The Horrible Flowers

Eric Tretbar raises The Horrible Flowers

For more than a decade, Eric Tretbar has been making movies filmed in and set in Minneapolis. His movies feature characters hanging out in the local music scene, which Tretbar knows pretty well from playing in bands like The Funseekers in the 1980s and The Spectors in the early '90s.
by Mary Lucia

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Odds are against graduating orchestra hopefuls

Odds are against graduating orchestra hopefuls

U.S. colleges and conservatories graduate 3,000 music performance majors each year, but the number of orchestra positions is less than 300. University of Minnesota music students are aware of of the difficulties of finding an orchestra position, they're still willing to work hard and buck the odds.
by Karl Gehrke

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Joy, faith, and music

Joy, faith, and music

A Grammy award winning choir from South Africa brings their music to Minnesota. Midmorning talks with the director of Soweto Gospel Choir.

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Han-Na Chang carries on a cello "Romance"

Han-Na Chang carries on a cello "Romance"

Young Korean cellist Han-Na Chang paints with the soft, rich colors of the Romantic era on her new CD release, "Romance."
by Julie Amacher

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Moorhead orchestra students rock

Moorhead orchestra students rock

Moorhead orchestra students learn to rock and roll.
by Dan Gunderson

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A man of many talents

A man of many talents

Midmorning welcomes composer William Bolcom, who started out as a piano prodigy and became one of America's greatest composers. He'll discuss his career, his collaboration with wife Joan Morris, and his epic work "Songs of Innocence and of Experience."

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Local musicians hope to go national in Austin

Minnesota musicians hoping to get 'discovered' head to Austin, TX to play at the South by Southwest Music Festival.

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