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Alon Goldstein Interview NYC Recital & Mozart

Coming up in the 6:00 hour will be a brief conversation with pianist Alon Goldstein – if I can catch him between gate and baggage claim, that is. That’s right, my interview is literally up in the air.

Goldstein will be in New York for a recital at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue at 24th Street, tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. On the program will be works by Beethoven, Debussy, Scarlatti, Ginastera and Janáček.

Whether or not we manage to connect, you’ll definitely get to enjoy one of his Naxos recordings of the Mozart piano concertos as arranged for chamber ensemble by Ignaz Lachner.

The projected interview is scheduled to take place at 6:30 this evening. Listen live, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

October 21, 2019
Alexander Quartet’s NYC Concert: Mozart Penderecki Dvořák

There must be something in human nature that pleases us in the idea that good things come in threes.

Even so, this afternoon on The Classical Network, I’ll be interviewing violinist Frederick Lifsitz, one of four musicians that comprise the very fine Alexander String Quartet.

The Alexander Quartet will appear on Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York City. On the program will be works of Mozart, Penderecki, and Dvořák. The concert will cap a day of lectures and panel discussions on the topic of Poland and the Jewish people, to coincide with the observation of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. The Alexander’s recital will include Penderecki’s poignant String Quartet No. 3 “Leaves of an Unwritten Diary.”

The Alexander Quartet has been Baruch’s quartet-in-residence since 1986. My interview with Lifsitz will take place at 5:00 this afternoon.

But if “three” is indeed your thing, then there will be plenty else to satisfy your organizational impulses, including the observations of the birthdays today of three notable conductors – Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent, and Zubin Mehta – and three American composers – Wallingford Riegger, Harold Shapero, and Duke Ellington.

I hope you’ll join me today from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT (that’s THREE hours), with the interview at 5. We’ll take the time to count our musical blessings, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

April 29, 2019
Joshua Roman on The Classical Network

This afternoon on The Classical Network, it’s a Roman holiday, albeit it a whirlwind one.

Cellist Joshua Roman will join me by telephone to talk a little bit about his upcoming recital, with pianist Gilles Vonsattel, which will take place at New York’s Baruch Performing Arts Center tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. On the program will be works by Beethoven, Brahms, Janáček, Arvo Pärt, and Amy Williams. Our conversation will take place at 5:00 p.m. EST.

I’ll also celebrate the birthdays of two enormously talented pianists, Earl Wild and Eugene Istomin, and remember the late Harold Farberman. The revered conducting pedagogue died on Saturday at the age of 89.

Say ‘cello to Roman. Go wild for Wild. It will be more thrilling than a Colosseum full of lions, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

November 26, 2018

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