Coming up in the 3:00 hour, it’s one more chance to catch Zhou Tian’s Concerto for Orchestra in advance of this Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony. Zhou’s piece is nominated in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition. We’ll hear the world premiere recording of the work, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Zhou was in Princeton last year for the U.S. premiere of his work, “Broken Ink,” with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

Prior to the airing of his Concerto for Orchestra, we’ll enjoy “An Exaltation of Larks” by one of his teachers, Philadelphia composer – and Pulitzer Prize winner – Jennifer Higdon. The work was written for the LARK Quartet (“exaltation” is the term for a collection of larks) of which Princeton Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Basia Danilow is a member.

Join me at 3:00 EST for an hour of outstanding contemporary music, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Zhou Tian with Basia Danilow of the PSO and the Lark Quartet