Exploring Music takes you deeper into great music in a uniquely engaging way. Each five-program series builds off a single theme ranging from composer biographies to explorations of various cultures, musical styles, and time periods.
Tune in Thursday at 7 pm to hear a concert performance of the work one expert called Mozart's "first unequivocal masterpiece" - his 9th Piano Concerto, K. 271, written when he was 21. It's played by a giant of the keyboard (both literally and figuratively), Garrick Ohlsson, an American who early in his career won first prizes in several of the most prestigious of competitions and has gone on to record acclaimed complete Beethoven and Chopin cycles. Conducting is Herbert Blomstedt, a revered Swedish maestro, who also directs the powerful Fifth Symphony of Tchaikovsky.
Iowa Public Radio’s Symphonies of Iowa features the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony concert dedicated to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Their program was recorded on April 14, 2012 at UNI’s Great Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. In the first half of the concert, music director, Jason Weinberger discussed the work’s historical significance with photographs and musical examples.
Enjoy Jason’s comments about Stravinsky’s world-shattering work, The Rite of Spring.