Classical Connections

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Classical Connections tell stories about the vast classical music experience in Massachusetts and examines what classical music has meant, and continues to mean, to those living and working in the Commonwealth. (Author: WGBH Educational Foundation)
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Recent episodes from Classical Connections

  • Michael Gandolfi
    Published: Apr 23, 09
    Boston area composer Michael Gandolfi's ever growing Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It's a piece of music, and a garden.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • The Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition
    Published: Apr 16, 09
    Interesting and ancient instruments abound at the Boston Early Music Festival’s Exhibition.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Opera
    Published: Apr 9, 09
    Think a night at the opera's not for you? The Directors of Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Boston share some of the reasons so many people are so passionate about opera. Music excerpts heard in today's Classical Connection are from the following operas: 1) Puccini's La Boheme 2) Bizet's Carmen 3) Puccini's Madame Butterfly 4) Adams's Nixon in China 5) Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris 6) Lully's Psyche 7) Mozart's Don Giovanni 8) Verdi's ErnaniClassical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Timothy Swan
    Published: Mar 26, 09
    Nym Cooke, expert on the early sacred music of New England, talks about one of his favorite composers-Timothy Swan.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • William Billings
    Published: Mar 19, 09
    Friend of Paul Revere and Sam Adams, William Billings was a colonial era composer who wrote some of the earliest American music. Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Gunther Schuller's Guide To Contemporary Music Listening
    Published: Mar 12, 09
    Many classical music fans are still put-off by music written within the last century. Composer and conductor Gunther Schuller has some suggestions for listening to contemporary classical music.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Orpheus Performing Arts Treasures
    Published: Mar 5, 09
    The small independent music store isn't totally extinct. Classical Connections pays a visit to one of the remaining classical music specialty shops, located in Boston's Back Bay.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Roland Hayes
    Published: Feb 26, 09
    Tenor Roland Hayes paved the way for African American performers into the concert hall. Meet this great artist who made history breaking the "color barrier" in Boston, Massachusetts.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Third Stream
    Published: Feb 19, 09
    Composer Gunther Schuller has been bringing people and ideas together for over 50 years. He first did it with classical and jazz when he created a new genre of music called Third Stream.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Bmop Sound
    Published: Feb 5, 09
    Boston Modern Orchestra Project Artistic Director Gil Rose talks about the orchestra's remarkable first year of their new indepentdent record label, BMOP Sound.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • El Sistema Usa
    Published: Jan 29, 09
    New England Conservatory has been a partner with Venezuela's mammoth music program, El Sistema for over a dozen years now. Hear about how they are now trying to transfer that success to a program here in the US.
     
  • Wgbh's Richard Knisely Interviews Jos Antonio Abreu
    Published: Jan 29, 09
    Hear Richard Knisely's discussion with El Sistema founder, José Antonio Abreu, from November 2007, after the Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra performance at Boston's Symphony Hall.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Mozart In Massachusetts
    Published: Jan 22, 09
    Roger Hall, curator of the website AmericanMusicPreservation.com, shares six pieces by Wolfgang Amadues Mozart that had their US premiere performances in Massachusetts.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Nicolas Slonimsky
    Published: Jan 15, 09
    There's a little known conductor who made a big breakthrough in the world of contemporary music with a now defunct Boston Orchestra-discover the achievements of Nicolas Slonimsky.Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
  • Classroom Cantatas
    Published: Dec 19, 08
    The Cantata Singers mark 15 years of helping kids compose music through their program called Classroom Cantatas. Classical ConnectionsSupport WGBH
     
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