Enjoy music, interviews and insights from musicians who work in and visit Florida with these features heard on WUSF 89.7. http://www.wusf.usf.edu/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:57:22 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:57:22 -0400 Drupal 6 Views Florida's best classical and jazz music from WUSF 89.7 WUSF no no Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:37 -0400 Join Russell Gant for another live performance from the Sarasota Music Festival. Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley is currently the concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He’s a former student of the Sarasota Music Festival and now he’s on the faculty. Listen as Noah Bendix-Balgley plays music by Bach, Bloch, and some Klezmer selections from our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance Studio on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/30311 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:05:28 -0400 The Sarasota Music Festival is underway and we have another live performance featuring musicians from the festival. Join Bethany Cagle as she welcomes faculty members violinists James Buswell, and Dan Jordan, violist Barbara Westphal, and cellist Desmond Hoebig, as they play selections from the String Quartet by Verdi on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/30203 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:55:19 -0400 Join Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9 for some live music from our Sarasota Broadcast & Performance Studio. Bethany Cagle welcomes two Sarasota Music Festival alum, and now faculty members; flutist Christina Jennings, and pianist Cristina Valdes. They talk about the 2013 festival and play some great music! WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/29935 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:52:36 -0400 Chuck Owen, Distinguished Professor of Jazz Studies at USF, has released a fascinating new disc that was long in the making. ‘River Runs’ is a 5-movement concerto for jazz saxophone and guitar, performed by an orchestra of 60 musicians and featuring the solo work of USF’s Director of Jazz Studies Jack Wilkins and the school’s guitar instructor, La Rue Nickelson. Released nationally by Summit Records, the concerto is already receiving considerable acclaim for its blending of jazz with classical and American folk/roots elements. Bassist and Guggenheim Fellow Rufus Reid has called it ‘a tour de force in contemporary orchestral composition.’ A Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 gave Owen the time and resources needed to compose the concerto, each movement of which depicts one or more rivers on which he has traveled. Originally composed for the two soloists and string orchestra, the piece was re-written over a period of several weeks to include the Jazz Surge, the big band Owen founded in 1995. While that band’s recordings have featured some of the world’s great jazz artists as guests, Owen chose to feature founding Surge members and fellow USF faculty as the soloists on the new concerto. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/29005 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:37:04 -0400 Join Classical WSMR's Russell Gant and his guests from the Musica Sacra Cantorum led by Robert Parrish for some highlights from a work that hasn’t been performed in the Sarasota area for over 25 years. Dr. Parrish says that not hearing Ernest Bloch’s choral work “Sacred Service” for 25 years is like not hearing Handel’s Messiah for that amount of time. The “Sacred Service” along with selections from Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms will be performed at Sarasota’s St. Boniface Episcopal Church, but you’ll get a sneak preview on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/28905 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:33:28 -0400 Join Classical WSMR’s Russell Gant for a live performance from our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance Studio as he welcomes musicians from the 2013 La Musica International Music Festival. Each year the festival brings outstanding European and American chamber musicians to Sarasota to present exciting programs of familiar and seldom-heard chamber music. Russell welcomes pianist Derek Han, violinist Laura Zarina, and cellist Dmitri Atapine to talk about this year’s festival and play live! WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/28355 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:19:29 -0400 Join Classical WSMR's Bethany Cagle for some live music as she welcomes the famed American pianist William Wolfram to our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance Studio. William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions, a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He’s appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and he’s making a stop in Sarasota to play Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the Sarasota Orchestra. Live music and good conversation with William Wolfram from Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/27892 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:05:55 -0500 Join Classical WSMR's Russell Gant for some live music as he welcomes the Chroma Quartet to our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance Studio. The local ensemble performs their second concert in the series "First Tuesdays at First Church", featuring music of Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera. Here a preview of that concert at meet this new ensembles members; Christopher Takeda, Jennifer Best, Michael McClelland, and Abe Feder. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/27673 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:43:16 -0500 Join WSMR's Russell Gant for some live music as he welcomes singers from the Sarasota Opera to our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance Studio. Maestro Victor DeRenzi talks about this years’ season, and you hear live performances from this years’ repertoire including selections from Turandot, The Pearl Fishers, and Verdi’s A King for a Day. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/27574 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:42:19 -0500 Join WSMR's Bethany Cagle as she welcomes musicians from the Sarasota Orchestra for some live music. Violinists Dan Jordan and Chung-Yon Hong, and harpist Cheryl Losey stop by our Sarasota Broadcast and Performance studio to play for you! Listen as they play music from Bach's "Double Concerto," with the harp playing the role of the orchestra, and Massenet's, "Meditation," from the opera "Thais”. WUSF 89.7 http://www.wusf.usf.edu/node/27393