Week of May 13, 2013
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Chris Thile — Mandolin
SymphonyCast 05/13/2013 (Hour 1)
SymphonyCast 05/13/2013 (Hour 2)
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Program:
BERNSTEIN: Suite for Small orchestra from Trouble in Tahiti
THILE: Mandolin Concerto "Ad Astra per Alas Porci"
WELCH/RAWLINGS: My Dear Someone (encore)
NEEDHAM: When We Forget (Project 440 world premiere)
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (DG 449186) Pavane, Ravel, Satie and Faure, etc
Description:
You've never heard anything like this. A mandolin concert from arguably the best mandolin player: Chris Thile.
Enter this week's Encore Contest
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Chris Thile — Mandolin
SymphonyCast 05/13/2013 (Hour 1)
SymphonyCast 05/13/2013 (Hour 2)Listen live from your local public radio station
Program:
BERNSTEIN: Suite for Small orchestra from Trouble in Tahiti
THILE: Mandolin Concerto "Ad Astra per Alas Porci"
WELCH/RAWLINGS: My Dear Someone (encore)
NEEDHAM: When We Forget (Project 440 world premiere)
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (DG 449186) Pavane, Ravel, Satie and Faure, etc
Description:
You've never heard anything like this. A mandolin concert from arguably the best mandolin player: Chris Thile.
Enter this week's Encore Contest
Program archive page
About the Host
In addition to serving as host of SymphonyCast, Alison Young hosts weekday mornings on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. She also hosts Classical MPR's live Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra broadcasts and American Public Media's annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival. Before her career in radio, she enjoyed a successful career as a concert flutist. While an illness cut her performing career short, she made a vibrant artistic transition, making the natural move to broadcasting, becoming a host and producer. Young earned her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California and a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
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SymphonyCast is supported in part by The Huss Foundation, the Phyllis S. Poehler / Walter E. Stremel Trust, and Emily Anne & Gedney Tuttle, and the Friends of SymphonyCast: Cy and Paula DeCosse, Connie and Dan Kunin.
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In addition to serving as host of SymphonyCast, Alison Young hosts weekday mornings on Classical Minnesota Public Radio. She also hosts Classical MPR's live Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra broadcasts and American Public Media's annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival. Before her career in radio, she enjoyed a successful career as a concert flutist. While an illness cut her performing career short, she made a vibrant artistic transition, making the natural move to broadcasting, becoming a host and producer. Young earned her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California and a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Learn more about this program
The brass fanfare in SymphonyCast's opening is taken from Steve Heitzeg's Nobel Symphony. Click here for more information.
Your support makes our online services possible. Contribute Now.
SymphonyCast is supported in part by The Huss Foundation, the Phyllis S. Poehler / Walter E. Stremel Trust, and Emily Anne & Gedney Tuttle, and the Friends of SymphonyCast: Cy and Paula DeCosse, Connie and Dan Kunin.
SymphonyCast™ was created by
National Public Radio.
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