Baryshnikov is 67-years-old today.
“Dancing is my obsession. My life.”
Jan 272015
Jan 272015
All day today Radio Bach will celebrate the birthday of WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)!! He was such an incomparable genius, we won’t be able to play everything he wrote, but you’ll outstanding examples of his chamber music, symphonies, sacred music, operas, piano concertos and concertos for other instruments. Please join us!! www.RadioBach.com.
Jan 222015
She started in vaudeville and became a star of the Metropolitan Opera.
“The greatest singer of us all.” – Maria Callas
“The Queen of Queens in all of singing.” – Luciano Pavarotti
Jan 222015
Perhaps Balanchine’s greatest work is his full-length ballet JEWELS. It’s in three parts, Emeralds, Diamonds and Rubies.Just watch Emeralds set to the music of Gabriel Fauré and be swept away. Art does not get more sublime than this.
“Ballet is Woman.”
Jan 222015
One of his greatest films was a collaboration with the composer Sergei Prokofiev. Below is the famous “Battle on the Ice” from ALEXANDER NEVSKY.
Today is the birthday of the great Russian composer ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872-1915)!!
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Jan 062015
Scriabin wrote some of the greatest piano music ever, and his orchestral pieces are sumptuous romanticism at its best. He was also a mystic, and toward the end of his life he was working on a massive symphony called MYSTERIUM which he wanted to be performed in a temple surrounded with bells in the Himalayan mountains. The performance would include dancing, colored lights and perfume. Scriabin thought that Mysterium would usher in the end of the world. Below is a sample of this amazing work. While it may not cause the end of the world, it’s still pretty mind-blowing.
Dec 272014
And all the best in 2015!!!
It’s now all Christmas music all the time on Radio Bach through midnight Christmas Day.
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Dec 222014
We’ll be playing the best Christmas music performed by the world’s finest musicians, like the King’s College Choir, Cambridge conducted by David Willcocks, the Robert Shaw Chorale, Chanticleer, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, vocalists like Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Barbara Hendricks, Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. You’ll hear everything from medieval miracle plays to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s the greatest variety of Christmas music you’ll ever hear. Please join us and make Radio Bach your Classical Home for the Holidays!!
Coming up at 7 p.m., Radio Bach will rebroadcast Gian Carlo Menotti’s AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus.
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Dec 212014
NBC commissioned Menotti to write a Christmas opera and it was first aired on the network on Christmas Ever 1951. (Can you imagine a commercial television network commissioning an opera today?) This is the painting that inspired Menotti to write his opera, THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI by Hieronymous Bosch. Please join us tonight at 7 and make Radio Bach your Classical Home for the Holidays!
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Here’s a look at the special holiday programming coming up today on www.RadioBach.com.
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Dec 202014
HALLELUJAH HANDEL (Classical Kids)
1 PM: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (Complete Opera)
3 PM: THE NUTCRACKER (narrated by Kevin Kline)
7 PM: THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST (a recreation of what it was like to listen to British radio during Christmastime in the 1940s.
And, of course, lots of other beautiful Christmas music throughout the day. Please join us and make Radio Bach your Classical Home for the Holidays.
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