Call of the Mockingbird
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
If you enjoyed Mark O'Connor's recent visit to WNYC during the American Music Festival, then you'll love tonight's featured music by this gifted composer/violinist/fiddler. We'll hear his 'pastoral' piece for violin and orchestra, "Call of the Mockingbird," featuring O'Connor and the London Philharmonic.
Another work with pastoral themes on our playlist tonight is Edward MacDowell's "Woodland Sketches" — we'll hear a version orchestrated for winds as Frederick Fennell conducts the Dallas Wind Symphony. Today also marks the 39th birthday of Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen whose "Burning hands point towards the next millennium" (Berliner Morgenpost). We'll hear him in one of the showcases of the repertoire, Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor; Herbert Blomsted conducts the San Francisco Symphony.
Another work with pastoral themes on our playlist tonight is Edward MacDowell's "Woodland Sketches" — we'll hear a version orchestrated for winds as Frederick Fennell conducts the Dallas Wind Symphony. Today also marks the 39th birthday of Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen whose "Burning hands point towards the next millennium" (Berliner Morgenpost). We'll hear him in one of the showcases of the repertoire, Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor; Herbert Blomsted conducts the San Francisco Symphony.
