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Tien Hseih makes her career as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. She has performed in all corners of the world and made her New York Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. She has a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and her latest recording is "Bach and Beethven: Mostly Transcriptions 2" which hit #1 Best Srller on Amazon.com twice in the year it was released and remained on the bestseller list for two consecutive months in the classical keyboard and instrumental categories.Tonight, Hseih plays transcriptions and other piano favorites, in-between talking with Steve about everything from Skagway, Alaska, to cruise ships, to television appearancesSpecial thanks to Hana Janatova and the Mundi Project for helping arrange tonight's performance.Follow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89LINK:
Desiree Gonzalez Garza and Job Salazar play selections from the work of Mexican composer Manuel Ponce.
Desiree is an Associate Private Instructor at the University of Utah's Preparatory Division and currently serves as the OC Tanner Scholar. Job Salazar has graduate degrees from the Boston Music Conservatory and has played with the Orchestra of Indian Hill, Cape Ann Symphony, and Boston Lyric Opera. Recently he's moved to Salt Lake where he teaches provately and plays with various ensembles.
Desiree: PianoJob: violinRepertoire: PONCE; Cancion de Otono (Autumn Song), Romanzetta, Jeunesse, Sonata Breve, Estrellita - Follow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89
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A pianist with "discipline and poetry at his fingertips" [Bachtrack], Chi Ho Han most recently completed and ranked in the 2016 Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, but has won awards and competitions all over the world, all throughout his career. He's currently a postgraduate student at the University for Music, Theater and Media in Hannover Germany.
Tonight Chi Ho plays beautiful music, some of which from his brand new album "Chopin and Schumann: Piano Works", and chats with Steve about festivals, practicing, and the toy pianos of childhood.Special thanks to the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and Joanne Rowland for helping arrange this performance.Repertoire:
SCHUMANN Widmung; CHOPIN Prelude Op. 24 No. 15 "Raindrop"; SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 No. 2
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This performance is the last hurrah for the choir before they jet off to Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic on tour. They’ll be gone a little over a week and perform in a different historical church each night. This isn’t the first time the choir’s packed up and crossed an ocean. They’ve previously toured in England (where they sung at London’s St. Paul Cathedral), in France (where they sung at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris) and in Israel (where they performed with the Israel Chamber Orchestra). They’ve also toured stateside in Utah and Idaho; and California at the invitation of the Crystal Cathedral. Barlow Bradford founded the ensemble in 1991 and has conducted the choir ever since. Repertoire: BUCHENBERG Du bist der Herr, unser Gott; LAURIDSEN En Une Seule Fleur; ESENVALDS Evening; BRADFORD All Through the Night; HOGAN The Battle of Jericho; BRAHMS Lullaby Follow Highway 89 on twitter @byuH89
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Michael Lucarelli is a classical guitarist and composer who has been performing throughout the United States for more than 30 years. His music videos on YouTube have garnered more than 20 million views collectively, an amount unheard of for a classical guitarist. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Utah and a Masters in guitar performance from the University of Arizona.In our studio tonight he chats with host Steven Kapp Perry about what it means to be an artist and composer, some of the locations of his videos, and some of the greatest comments his videos have received. We took some of our own, too! Repertoire: PIAZZOLLA Verano Porteno (Buenos Aires Summer); SCHUBERT Ave Maria; TARREGA La Paloma; LUCARELLI (original compositions) Red Sky, Starting Over, RondoFollow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89
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If you’re a viola player, a lover of musical history, or even just a fan of baroque music, then today is your lucky day! We’ll be hearing not just one, not just two, but three different kinds of violas—including one with way more strings than you think it could have. We’ll also feature some baroque vocals and a harpsichord for good measure.
Our guests include Dr. Robert Baldwin, Director of Orchestral Activities and professor of music at the University of Utah, and Music Director of the Salt Lake Symphony. He’ll be playing viola and viola d’amore, and he’s brought with him:Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano), Pamela Palmer Jones (harpsichord), Leslie Richards (viola da gamba) and special guest, viola d'amore exper, Gordon Childs.
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BACH Sonata No. 3 Mvt. 1 & 3; VIVALDI Concerto for viola d’amore in D minor Mvt. 2; ARIOSTI Cantata: Pur al fine gentil viola Mvt. 1 & 3; SESSA Occhi io vissi di voi
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Tonight we've left our usual home at Studio 6 for a field trip to Brigham Young University's Museum of Art! The Island homes of Ireland, Scotland and England have given us music both sublime and silly, enthralling and thoroughly entertaining. In an intimate concert setting with an audience made up of sustaining members of Classical 89, we showcase this music performed by musicians of all kinds.
From Celtic cello to four-hand piano to opera to "Danny Boy," enjoy this musical journey to the British Isles, courtesy of Classical 89's Sustaining Members.
Liz Davis Maxfield (cello), Lori Weiss & Jayne Galloway (piano), Brian Stucki (tenor, cello), Clara Hurtado Lee (soprano), Massimiliano Frani (piano)
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TRADITIONAL Arr. MAXFIELD Garret Barry's, I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave, Roaring Barmaid; MAXFIELD Statue; TRADITIONAL The Winding Roads of Advance, The Galway Piper; ELGAR Salut d'amour; HANDEL Semele: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love; DOWLAND Flow My Tears; SULLIVAN Capriccio; PARRY Jerusalem; WEATHERLY Danny Boy
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We’ve had 85 pianists on the show so far and not one has played Claire De Lune. Thank goodness it finally gets played in this episode thanks to Robin Hancock! As well as the theme music from the rip-roaring rootin’ tootin’ western: The Magnificent Seven; the creepy Die Erlkonig; and classical compositions of Bach and Brahms and Tchaikovsky.Dr. Hancock is a member of the renowned American Piano Quartet and is part of the Piano Faculty at the BYU School of Music. Professor Hancock is active as a soloist with a knack for putting together entertaining programs. For example, one concert of his featured ALL the music in the Gershwin Songbook from 1932 along with the piano transcription of An American in Paris. Follow Highway 89 on twitter @byuH89
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BACH (transcription BRAHMS) Chaconne for the Left Hand; SHUBERT (arr. Franz Liszt) Die Erlkonig; TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty pas de duex (arr. Mikhail Pletnev); BACH Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (arr. Robin Hancock); Theme music from the movie The Magnificent Seven (arr. Robin Hancock); DEBUSSY Clair de lune
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Highway 89 Extra with the Kings Singers!
The King's Singers are celebrating their 50th year as an ensemble with a world tour and a 3-CD album titled “Gold.” They performed at BYU this week and we sat down for a conversation and music with tenor Julian Gregory and 2nd baritone Christopher Gabbitas.
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HENRY LEY Prayer of King Henry VI; CHILCOTT We Are, JOEL (arr. Chilcott) And So it Goes; TRAD. (arr Lovatt) The Little Green Lane; TRAD. (arr Chilcott) Shenandoah; FRANCES (arr. Bruerton) Don’t Worry About Me; TRAD. (arr. Gabbitas) Scarborough Fair
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Vedrana Subotic (piano), Claude Halter (violin), Anne Lee (cello)
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BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3
Vedrana Subotic is a pianist and the director of the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series of Salt Lake City. In this hour she performs Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 with Utah Symphony musicians: Anne Lee (cello) and Claude Halter (violin).
There was a time when piano trios were the genre of amateur musicians. You wrote a piano trio because you were an up-and-coming artist making your way through beginner coursework. Mozart and Haydn both dutifully contributed to the genre, and naturally did well, but it was Beethoven (in his classical rock star style) that turned this musical “chore” into an astonishing, money-making, and entertaining genre. His set of three piano trios (opus 1) broke rules. He instigated equality between the instruments—the cello and violin were no longer mere accompaniment. He also added another movement and stretched the length from a 10 or 12 minute piece to nearly 30. He debuted his three trios during a soiree at Prince Lichnowsky’s estate. Joseph Haydn was in the audience along with a lot of other wealthy and well-connected people and they left impressed with what they’d heard. When the trios were ready for printing the publisher had 241 orders for scores. Of his three piano trios, Beethoven’s third, in C minor, was the one that broke the most rules and that’s the one we’re hearing today!
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The Richter Uzur Duo features Acoustic Guitar and Cello
The Richter Uzur Duo is a one-of-a-kind guitar and cello duo that plays a whimsical mix of rock, world, and classical music. Comprised of world-renowned musicians Viktor Uzur and Brad Richter, the Duo has composed and arranged the largest repertoire of guitar/cello duets in existence and has performed hundreds of concerts in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States the RUDuo is known for its regular appearances on NPR’s Performance Today as well as frequent national and international broadcasts on programs such as PBS’s WoodSongs and NPR’s Classical Guitar Alive. Their debut CD entitled "String Theory" was released in 2013.Between original compositions and arrangements of classic favorites, the musicians chat with host Steven Kapp Perry about their backgrounds and passions and musical experiences.
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RICHTERUZUR Iron Wood, La folia, Kolo Fugato, Facing East; LENNON/MCCARTNEY I am the Walrus
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Eugene Watanabe is the founder of Salt Lake City's Gifted Music School, a non-profit children's music school committed to creating a new standard for music education in the US. With him are a number of the school's students here to perform, and they switch in and out of chairs during the performances -- sometimes between movements -- so that everyone has a chance to play!Also here is Bill McGlaughlin, the Peabody Award-winning host of Saint Paul Sunday and Exploring Music on WFMT in Chicago.Host: Steven Kapp PerryRepertoire: Piano Quintet in A major "The Trout Quintet", 4th &5th mvts - Franz Schubert; Violin Sonata - Aaron Copeland; Piano Quartet in E-flat major, 1st mvt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Piano Quartet, Vivace mvt - Robert Schumann;Follow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89
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Violinist David Park plays 10 of Pagnini's notoriously difficult caprices for violin.
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PAGANINI Caprice No. 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 16, 19 - 21, 24
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The BYU Singers, directed by Andrew Crane.
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JAMES O Come and Sing Unto the Lord; ARNESEN Flight Song; TRADITIONAL I Don' Feel No Ways Tired Arr. GIBBS; TRADITIONAL No Time Arr. BRUMFIELD; Estrela E lua Nova Arr. VILLA-LOBOS; WILSON Till There was You Arr. SHAW; RUNESTAD Alleluia
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Pianist Anton Nels performs piano classics.
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HANDEL Air and Variations from Suite No. 5; DEBUSSY Suite Bergamasque; SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien; BEETHOVEN Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
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University of Utah piano Students - Kate Poulton, Sasha Bainson, Candace Winterton
Repertoire:
DEBUSSY Suite Pour le Piano (Mvts. 1, 3); COLERIDGE 24 Negro Melodies (No. 22, 23); RAVEL Sonatine pour le piano
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Lisa Lee (violin), Angela Lee (cello), Melinda Lee Masur (piano)
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HAYDN Piano Trio in C Major Mvt. 1,3; SCHUMANN Piano Trio in F Major Mvt. 2; PULKKIS Fern Flowers Mvt. 1; MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in D Minor Mvt. 3
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Soprano Diane Reich, baritone Robert Brandt, and pianist Scott Holden share an hour's worth of classical humor.
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LAITMAN I'm Nobody; BOLCOM Amor; MOLLICONE Mrs. Noah's Aria; SATIE Embryons Desseches; FLANDERS & SWANN The Warthog; The Spider; The Sloth; MOORE I'm Glad I'm Not a Tenor; Content to be Behind Me; LAITMAN Dreaming
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Pianist Julian Gargiulo performs classical greats, and puts a classical spin on "Mission Impossible."
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CHOPIN Etude Op. 10 No. 12; PIAZZOLLA Oblivion Arr. GARGIULO; GARGIULO Puerto Rican Day Parade, Lullaby, Mission Impossible, Cello Sonata No.1 Mvt. 3, GARDEL Por una Cabeza; BEETHOVEN Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 in C sharp minor “Moonlight Sonata”
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Rob Brandt (baritone), Michael Shutze (piano)
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SCHUMANN Selections from Liederkreis: In der Fremde, Waldesgespräch, Mondnacht, Zwielicht, Frühlingsnacht; Two Ballad settings of poet Heinrich Heine: Belsatzar, Die beiden Grenadiere
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From the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City, Eugene Watanabe (director), Megan Mason (Assistant Conductor), Shenae Anderson, Alden Durham, Rebecca Epperson, Chase Ferry, Kaylee Romrell, Ethan Sherman, Camille Stanley, Will Yavornitzky, Bree Fotheringham, Kana Yoshigi
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MENDELSSOHN Octet E-flat major, Op. 20, Mvts 1, 4; BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin in A major; LIGETI Etude No. 13 L’escalier du diable; JACKSON Smooth Criminal
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Music by Utah composer Marden Pond with the Clarion Festival Orchestra and featuring Daron Bradford, various Native American flutes.
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To Hallowed Ground (4 movements), Kokopelli Sketches
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Classical duo Dustin Gledhill and Lucas Pullin are in Utah to perform a special musical program that they recently played at a sold-out show in New Orleans. Sponsored by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, "Taste of Brazil" is a multi-medium repertoire that explores the mixed rhythms and movements that make up the core of Brazilian musical classics. Featuring food, dancing, and plenty of music, the pair is taking the show next to New York, and then on to Brazil itself!Dustin and Lucas are both multi-instrumentalists and graduates of the Julliard performance conservatory in New York City.Dustin Gledhill: Piano and vocalsLucas Pullin: Classical GuitarSongs featured: Prelude No. 1 in E minor - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat minor - Gabriel Fauré, "Lua Branca" - Chinquinha Gonzaga; "Sons de Carrilhoes" - Joao Pernambuco, Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim, "Her Elegy" Part 1 - Dustin Gledhill;Follow Highway 89 on twitter: @byuh89 and on instagram: @byuh89Link:
An ensemble designed expressly to bring people together, the NEXT Ensemble out of Salt Lake City, Utah is a rotating group of musicians that pushes the boundaries of what it means to play classical music. Featuring a blend of time periods and styles, each with unique expression, tonight in-studio the ensemble features a traditional string quartet along with a clarinet and an upright bass.
Repertoire:
MOZART Clarinet Quintet 1st Mvt; GLASS String Quartet Company; BARTOK String Quartet No. 4; MOZART Clarinet Quintet 4th Mvt
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Clarinetist Sam Noyce and pianist Larry Gee feature music for clarinet by French composers, as well as a bit of Paris-inspired Gershwin.
Repertoire:
SAINT-SAENS Sonata for Clarinet Mvt. 1; JEANJEAN Andantino from Deux pieces pour clarinette et piano; MESSAGER Solo de Concours; MANGANI Blues from An American in Paris
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