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Tell Me A Story

On this episode of Concerts Plus, host Robert Sherman and guests treat listeners to an evening of musical storytelling in a program of live music and conversation. Martin Bookspan hosts the intermission feature.

This program was broadcast live before a studio audience in the WQXR Concert Theater.

Note: This recording contains an additional fifty minutes of performances and conversation which were never broadcast.

From host Robert Sherman's notes:

Children of all ages love a good story, and when it has good music too, our delight is doubled. Multiply that by our three broadcast fables and a couple more in our bonus pertod, and it should be an evening of astronomically high pleasure. Anyway, once upon a time...

Chee-Yun Kim, violin
Richard and John Contiguglia, piano
Nimet Habachy, narrator
The Sylvan Wind Quintet
Svjetlana Kabalin, flute
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Alan R. Kay, clarinet
Charles McCracken, bassoon
Alan Spanjer, horn

Bob Sherman tells three stories for children.

Alan Ridout: "Ferdinand The Bull" (a fairy tale for violin solo and narrator, text by Munro Leaf). With Chee-Yun Kim

Seymour Barab: "Bigger and Better" (a children's story for narrator and woodwind quintet, text by Seymour Barab). With The Sylvan Wind Quintet

Maurice Ravel: "Mother Goose Suite" (for piano 4 hands). With Nimet Habachy and Richard and John Contiguglia

BONUS

Jacques Ibert: 5 Pièces en trio. With members of he Sylvan Wind Quintet

Selection to be announced (Contiguglia Brothers)

[Franz Schubert: The Fantasia in F minor, D. 940]

WNYC archives id: 152104

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Part of Concerts Plus.

Concerts Plus began as a recital series at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall on November 11th, 1982. Its Artistic Director, the cellist Simca Heled, organized each concert around a specific theme —love, the influence of jazz on classical music, works for guitar, etc.— and featured performances and conversation with renown performing artists. The hosts for the events included WQXR’s Robert Sherman and Live from Lincoln Center’s Martin Bookspan.

In 1986, after four sold-out seasons, Concerts Plus moved its home from Merkin Concert Hall to the WQXR Concert Theater. With this new partnership with WQXR, the first hour of each monthly Concerts Plus program was produced for radio and broadcast live on WQXR. Sherman became the show’s permanent host and Bookspan presented a weekly intermission feature quiz.

Guests on the series included violinist Chee-Yun, actor Werner Klemperer, the Orford String Quartet, composer-pianist-conductor Lukas Foss, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera, to name just a few. The series debuted on WQXR on September 18th, 1986 and concluded its run on May 19th, 1988.

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