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.
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)
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)
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)
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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