Symphonies of Iowa

Symphonies of Iowa

with Jacqueline Halbloom

Monday | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This season will showcase music performed by Iowa's finest symphonies and feature a mix of pieces familiar and new, world-renowned artists and Iowa's best composers and artists. Join us Monday evenings at 7 PM for music sure to stir the soul.

Upcoming Shows
Symphonies of Iowa
  • Sunday May 20, 2012

    Orchestra Iowa Chamber Players

    Chamber Showcase
    Noon broadcast

    BAX           Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp
    IBERT       
    Entr’acte for Flute and Harp
    GRIFFES  
    Two Sketches on Native American Themes for String Quartet
    DVOŘÁK  
    Piano Quintet in A Major, No. 81

    Select Orchestra Iowa wind players open this Chamber Showcase concert with Arnold Bax’s Elegiac Trio, inspired by Ireland’s 1919 Easter Rebellion. The brief but brilliant Entr’acte for Flute and Harp by French composer Jacques Ibert follows, and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A, abounding with Bohemian folk melodies, closes the program.

    (Concert recorded April 14, 2012)

  • Monday May 21, 2012

    Orchestra Iowa Chamber Players

    Chamber Showcase
    7 p.m. broadcast

    BAX            Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp
    IBERT       
    Entr’acte for Flute and Harp
    GRIFFES  
    Two Sketches on Native American Themes for String Quartet
    DVOŘÁK  
    Piano Quintet in A Major, No. 81

    Select Orchestra Iowa wind players open this Chamber Showcase concert with Arnold Bax’s Elegiac Trio, inspired by Ireland’s 1919 Easter Rebellion. The brief but brilliant Entr’acte for Flute and Harp by French composer Jacques Ibert follows, and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A, abounding with Bohemian folk melodies, closes the program.

    (Concert recorded April 14, 2012)

  • Sunday May 27, 2012

    Des Moines Symphony Orchestra

    Joseph Guinta, Music Director
    Joshua Roman
    , cello

    Dvořák & Superman
    Noon broadcast

    DAUGHERTY        Red Cape Tango
    LALO                    
    Cello Concerto
    DVOŘÁK             
    Symphony No. 7

    The Des Moines Symphony opens with one of Iowa’s most celebrated composers—the three-time Grammy-winner Michael Daugherty. His brilliant and fun Red Cape Tango celebrates a certain superhero from his Metropolis Symphony, and there is nothing more American than being “able to leap tall buildings!” The young American cellist Joshua Roman makes his Des Moines debut and Maestro Guinta conducts his favorite Dvořák symphony.

    (Concert recorded April 14-15, 2012)

Program Feature
Play Jason Weinberger on The Rite of Spring

Jason Weinberger on The Rite of Spring

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.

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