90.5 Community Concerts
Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
on 90.5 WKAR
90.5 Community Concerts Return for a New Season
The 90.5 Community Concerts will return to WKAR-FM for a second season on Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. Performances will include selections from the MSU Symphony Orchestra, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. The weekly summer series is hosted by Dan Bayer.
Opening the series will be performances of Mendelssohn’s Overture Calm Seas and Prosperous Voyage by the LSO under the direction of Timothy Muffitt and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 as performed by the MSU Symphony Orchestra with Leon Gregorian conducting.
Other June highlights include:
June 10
Haydn’s Symphony No. 96, Miracle (Lansing Symphony Orchestra)
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (MSU Symphony Orchestra)
June 17
Debussy’s Danses sacree et profane (Ralph & Albertine Votapek)
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathetique (Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Osmond conducting)
June 24
Orff’s Scenic Canata, Carmina Burana (with soloists -- soprano Tharanga Goonetilleke, tenor Paul Appleby, and baritone Matthew Worth and the MSU Choral Union, the MSU Children’s Choir, the State Singers, and the University Chorale with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra)
July 1
Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 (MSU Symphony Orchestra)
Rossini’s William Tell Overture (Jackson Symphony Orchestra)
July 8
Foote’s Three Pieces for Flute and Piano (with flutist Richard Sherman and pianist Ralph Votapek)
R. Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (MSU Sympyhony Orchestra)
July 15
Weber’s Oberon Overture (MSU Symphony Orchestra)
Korngold’s Violin Concerto (with violinist Pip Clarke and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra
Saint-Saen’s Cello Concerto No. 1 (with cellist Suren Bagratuni and the MSU Symphony Orchestra)
July 22
R. William’s Overture to The Wasps (Jackson Symphony Orchestra)
Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber (Lansing Symphony Orchestra
Lieberman’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (with flutist Richard Sherman and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra)
July 29
Sibelius’ Violin Concerto (MSU Symphony Orchestra with violinist I-Fu Wang)
Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird.
Additional listings will be available in the August issue of the WKAR Radio Guide and on WKAR.org.
If you would like to be notified in advance by e-mail when 90.5 Classical schedules an LSO or MSU College of Music performance, join our local music mailing list. To subscribe, contact Gene Purdum, 90.5 music director, at gene@wkar.org.
Funding for this series is provided, in part, by a gift from Sarah Winans Newman, strong supporter of local classical performances on WKAR., and by a gift from the Marian Aldrich Schilling Endowment for Classical Music.
published: June 3, 2008
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