This is the first in a projected three-volume set that will collect all of Emilie Mayer’s surviving orchestral works.
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October means a new month of library picks from our collection of music here at WPR!
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Jonathan Borja's latest release is a full album featuring the compositions of Arturo Rodríguez.
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WPR Music host Jason Heilman says it's the perfect album for quiet evenings alone with your thoughts.
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Screen legend Anthony Hopkins releases latest collection of classical music.
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Dinorah Márquez founded the Latino Arts Strings Program to help Latino children in Milwaukee access musical education that teaches the music of various Latino cultures. Márquez and an alum of the program explain why the program has such staying power.
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Country singer Lauren Alaina talks about her new album, “Stages,” motherhood and the longtime family ties that have made northern Wisconsin feel like home.
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The Munich Chamber Orchestra explores the connection between Beethoven's symphonies and the works of his Italian contemporaries.
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Maria Dueñas so reveres 20th-century violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz’s RCA Victor recording that she completely duplicates it in this project, featuring the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
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The first-ever Midwest Aloha Festival will showcase hula, fire dancing and Polynesian music at Village Park in Menomonee Falls on Saturday, Sept. 19.
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It’s just about halfway through September, which means I get to talk about fun music I find in WPR’s Music Library! Let’s get into it. ‘Every Day is a New […]
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The two symphonies by English composer William Walton are major twentieth century works, and have finally found a home in this new release.
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WPR and PBS Wisconsin present Madison Symphony at 100 at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10. The Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years with a concert of time-honored classics in a program that also honors John DeMain's distinguished tenure as music director.
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Eunice Kim and Jinwoo Lee, who make up the duo "Arco e Tasto" or "Bow and Fingerboard," have released an album featuring the music of two 19th century German composers.
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The album encompasses familiar favorites from the piano repertoire as well as folk tunes, Disney songs and more.
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The works on this album make for a complementary, powerful pairing; one that helps mark America’s 250th anniversary with skillfully composed and beautifully performed orchestral pieces created out of widely divergent lives.
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WPR Music producer Ava Kuredjian's picks for the month of August.
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A new recording of Brahms' Fourth Symphony by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
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Japanese composer, conductor and pianist Joe Hisaishi has been packing concert halls around the world performing his own music, much of it written for the anime films produced by Studio Ghibli.
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One of Wisconsin's largest music festivals is set to begin Thursday in Appleton, and organizers say they'll offer attendees ways to help the community recover after a devastating tornado struck the Fox Valley.
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