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| 6:08 am | The Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma conducted by Francesco La Vecchia: 'Concerto for Orchesra Op. 61 (1937)' | 5/23/2013 |
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Welcome to the Blog of Rich Samuels, Host of “Anything Goes”
Wednesday, 17 October 2012 | Rich Samuels
On the left is a photo of me (snapped by April 14, 2009, by Chicago Sun-Times photographer Brian Jackson) seemingly yelling at Rod Blagojevich. The former Illinois governor had just exited Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building where he had entered a “not guilty” plea to a wide variety of corruption charges, including the allegation that he had attempted to market, for personal gain, the seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant when Barack Obama was elected President.
I was part of the media scrum (a correspondent for the “Chicago Tonight” show which airs on WTTW, one of Chicago’s public television stations) that pursued Blago that day: and, to be quite frank, I only appear to be yelling at the disgraced former governor: in reality, I was trying to locate my camera operator who had disappeared into the crowd, nowhere to be seen.
A month short of three years after that picture was taken (it’s recently been recycled as the cover art for Natasha Korecki’s book “Only in Chicago”), Rod Blagojevich began serving a 14 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Center Englewood near Denver. I wasn’t around to witness the denouement of his prosecution: I retired from television journalism at the end of 2009 and, as Garrison Keillor once put it, “moved up to radio”.
Since November of 2010 I’ve been hosting WORT’s “Anything Goes” show, bringing my listeners classical music every Thursday morning between the hours of 5 and 8.
To the greatest extent possible, I try to feature the work of local artists and composers, especially those who are younger. When necessary, I have the capability of recording interviews and performances in the field.
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The WORT Madison Area Classical Music Calendar for the Week Beginning February 7, 2013 prepared by Rich Samuels
02/5/13 2:40 PM | Rich Samuels
Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 pm at the Verona High School Performing Arts Center, 300 Richard Street, Verona. The Verona Area Concert Band. Program includes: A.B.A. Symphonic March (Cheetham) Courtly Airs and Dances (Nelson) Huapango (Moncayo trans. Osmon) Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams) Pageant (Persichetti) Sleep (Whitacre) Friday, February 8, 12:15 at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison Noon Musicale présents thé Madison Bach Musicians. Music of Bach, Biber, Vivaldi and Scarlatti Friday, February 8, 7:30 pm (repeated Saturday 2/9, 8 pm and Sunday 2/10, 2:30 pm) at Overture Center-Overture Hall 201 State St. , Madison. The Madison Symphony Orchestra and Alban Gerhardt Works by Prokofiev, Ravel & Beethoven. John DeMain and the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) welcome German cellist Alban Gerhardt to the MSO stage to play Prokofiev’s expansive Sinfonia Concertante at the February 8, 9 and 10 concerts. Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole will open the concerts with four scenes of Spanish life and Beethoven’s lyrical Symphony No. 4 will lift winter spirits as a conclusion. Full concert details, music samples and links to buy tickets can be found on the MSO website at madisonsymphony.org/gerhardt. One of Prokofiev’s last completed works, the Sinfonia Concertante is also called a Symphony-Concerto, with an expanded role for the orchestra and many of the characteristics that define the work of one of the great 20th century composers. Soloist Gerhardt recently said of the concerto, “written for and partly by one of my great heroes, Rostropovich, this is for me the most impressive cello concerto because it combines pyrotechnics with gorgeous melodies, wit with drama, and poetry with sports. And…the last five minutes are just the best, with the most spectacular ending of any cello piece.” This will be Gerhardt’s third performance with the MSO, of whom BBC Music Magazine recently wrote, “this is cello playing of exquisite sophistication and bold imagination…Gerhardt has a honeyed, liquid tone all his own.” MSO program annotator Michael Allsen best describes the closing work: “The Symphony No. 4 is one of Beethoven’s shorter and more ‘Classical’ symphonies, particularly in comparison to the massive works that surround it…the third (‘Eroica’) and fifth symphonies.” In this gem audiences will hear all of the composer’s lyrical brilliance and his sly good humor. The concerts take place in Overture Hall at 201 State Street on Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM, Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 PM and Sunday February 10, at 2:30 PM. Concert tickets are $16.50 to $78.50, available at www.madisonsymphony.org and through the Overture Center Box Office at ….
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02/2/13 9:13 AM | Rich Samuels
5:09 am: The beginning of “The Winter Solstice Mystery” by Aldonis Kalnins, performed by the New York Latvian Concert Choir, the “Ausrums” Chamber Choir, the “Balsis” Youth Choir and the Latvian National Opera Chamber Orchestra. 5:35: am: Conclusion of The Winter Solstice Mystery” by Aldonis Kalnins, performed by the New York Latvian Concert Choir, the “Ausrums” Chamber Choir, the “Balsis” Youth Choir and the Latvian National Opera Chamber Orchestra. 5:58 am: “Winter Scenery”, a traditional Japanese melofy arranged by Yui Kitamura, performed by Lewis Wong (violin) and Chelsea Chen (organ). 6:08 am: “Solstice Suite” by Paul Ferguson, performed by the Almeda Trio. 6:22 am: Concerto in D Major dor Two Flutes and Bassoon and Continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann, performed by the Hanoverian Ensemble. 6:40 am: Sonata No. 5 in G Minor for three oboes, bassoon and basso continuo, performed by principal playor of the Dallas and Houston Symphonies and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. 7:08 am: The 3rd movement from William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 (“Afro-American) performed first by the piano duo of Meisha Adderly and Stacey Holliday, then by the Detroit Symphony conducted by Neeme Järvi. 7:16 am: Paul Robeson (accompanied by Lawrence Brown) sings the spiritual “Deep River” )recorded in March, 1927), followed by “String Quartet on Negro Themes” by Daniel Gregory Mason, performed by the Budapest Quartet (recorded in March, 1942). 7:43 am: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings” performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta conducted by Paul Freeman. 7:58 am: The spiritual “Oh Freedom” performed by Chicago A Capella directed by Jonathan Miller.
read article »The WORT Madison Area Classical Music Calendar for the Week Beginning January 31 2013 Prepared by Rich Samuels
01/30/13 8:44 AM | Rich Samuels
Friday February 1 at 12:15 pm at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Dr., Madison. Noon Musicale. Edvard Grieg sonatas for violin and piano featuring Steven Bjellam violin, and Michael Keller, piano Friday February1 at 7 p, at the St. John the Evangelist Church, Spring Green. Sing Out, a Gospel Celebration featuring the Mount Zion Gospel Choir. Call: (608) 588-5851 Web: www.ruralmusiciansforum.org Lively, passionate, lifting the spirit and consoling the weary soul, music…especially GOSPEL music… sits in the heart of the African American experience. Honoring the unique place of GOSPEL music in the life of African Americans, the RuralMusicians Forum invites Southwest Wisconsin to share in “Sing Out: A Gospel Celebration,” February 1, 2013, featuring the renowned Mt. Zion Gospel Choir of Madison. The concert begins at 7:00 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church in Spring Green. Under the direction of Leotha Stanley, the Mt Zion Gospel Choir, which performs annually as part of the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s holiday concert, is known for its ability to infuse traditional gospel harmonies with vigor, joy and inspiration.Year after year, the choir has combined jazz, blues and gospel harmonies to “raise the roof” in captivating, spiritually transporting experiences throughout Wisconsin, and it has toured in Germany and France, as well. The choir performed for the Chazen Museum of Art expansion opening, and recent seasons have included performances at Overture Center for the Arts, Middleton Performing Arts Center, Nicolet College and with the UW Varsity Band. Their performances are accompanied by an instrumental ensemble that includes saxophone, flute, bass, percussion, drums and keyboards. In announcing the Mt. Zion Gospel Choir concert, RMF Artistic Director, Kent Mayfield, said “This is an exciting event for young and old, a richly spiritual experience, and an important dimension of our shared life as Americans!” Tickets for priority seating are available free of charge at the Dodgeville Public Library, Arcadia Books in Spring Green and online at the Rural Musicians Forum website: www.ruralmusiciansforum.org. A dessert reception open to all will follow the concert to meet, greet and honor the Mt. Zion Gospel Choir. A free-will offering will be received. The concert is underwritten in part by generous contributions from Grassroots Citizens of Wisconsin and the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition. Saturday. February 2 at 7 pm at Oakwood Village-University Woods Auditorium (repeated Sunday February 3 at 1:30 pm at the UW Arboretum Visitor Center) The Oakwood Chamber Players present a concert called “The Americas”. Music of Paquito d’Rivera, Morten Lauuridsen, Amy Beach, Antonin Dvorak, and Ignacio Cervanted ….
read article »Music Featured on the January 31, 2013 Edition of “Anthing Goes” Hosted by Rich Samuels on WORT89.9 fm Madison, Wisconsin
01/25/13 3:16 PM | Rich Samuels
5:09 am: Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” arranged and performed by organist Florence Mustric on the Rudolph von Beckrath instrumeny at Trinity Lutheran Church, Cleveland Ohio. 5:48 am: “Ballade in F minor for Viola and Piano” by Minna Leal, performed by Hillary Herndon (viola) accompanied by wei-chun Bernadette Lo (piano). 6:08 am: Robert Rumbelow’s “Soundscape for Organ and Percussion” performed by organist Jonathan Ryan with the Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble conducted by Robert Rumbelow. 6:18 am: Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Sonata NO. 3 for Violin, Oboe and Continuo performed by an ensemble of principal players for the Houston, Dallas and Monnesota Orchestras. 6:47 am: “Serenade for Woodwind Quimtet” by Steven Stucky, performed by the Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet of Ball State University. 7:08 am: “The King of Instruments: by WIlliam Albright, performed by organist David Craighead on the Holtkamp instrumeny in Sacred Heart Church at the University of Notre Dame. Eugene Haun is the narrator. 7:29 am: Steve Reich’s “New York Counterpoint” (for 11 clarinets) performed by Michael Rowett. 7:41 am: Percussionist Anthony Di Sanza peforms performs “Portrait of Forest” by Toshi Ichiyanagi. 7:51 am: The Collumbus State University Wind Ensemble conducted by Robert Rumbelow performs David Gillingham’s “Concerto for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble”. ;
read article »The WORT 89.9 fm Madison Area Classical Music Calendar for the Week Beginning January 24 prepared by Rich Samuels
01/21/13 12:26 PM | Rich Samuels
Friday January 25, 12:15 at the First Unitarian Society Auditorium, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison. Noon Musicale featuring Dawn Lawler, flute; Laura Medisky, oboe and Vincent Fuh, piano. The program includes rios by Telemann, Alec Templeton, Madeleine Dring & Brian Duford. Friday, January 25, 4:30 pm at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St. , Madison. Pianist Stefano Guaresi: ” From Mantova to Madison, Music in the Sister Cities” Call: (608) 262-3907 Web: www.union.wisc.edu/WUD/performingarts-about.htm Gueresi is an accomplished composer and pianist, having performed in dozens of cities in 14 different countries. At the age of 15, he won an interregional competition for emerging artists, organized by radio stations in northern Italy. After studying with the concert pianist Elizabeth Muller Vivanti and the composer John Paynter, Gueresi was the keyboardist for the band “Supergruppo,” and his single, “Never Fall in Love” was in the top ten charts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 1983. His music, which he describes as “evocative of distant and fantastic times and places,” is rooted in the classical tradition, but also in the pop romantic-symphonic sounds of the seventies. His work was featured in fashion shows, ballets, concerts, and soundtracks. “The Gates of Twilight” inspired by the French poet Arthur Rimabud, was donated Rimbaud’s birth city, Charleville-Meziers. Gueresi is a member of the board of representatives for the Lucio Campiani Conservatory in Mantua. Friday January 25, 7:30 pm at Farley’s House of Pianos, 6522 Seybold Road, Madison. Pianist Daniel del Pino. Program: Granados Andaluza Oriental Rondalla Aragonesa Albéniz Asturias Sevilla Albaicín Herrarte – Tres Danzas Falla – Ritual Fire Dance Messiaen – Le Baiser de l’Enfant Jésus (from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus) Mollicone – Misteria Liszt – Totentanz Call: (608)-271-2626 Web: farleyspianos.com Friday, January 25, 7:30 pm at the First Unitarian Society Auditorium, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison. Madison Savoyards annual winter concert of Gilbert & Sullivan songs. Call: 231-9005 Web: www.madisonsavoyards.org Friday, January 25, 7:30 pm at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 1833 Regent Street, Madison. Suzanne Beia and Laura Burns, violinists, Chris Dozoryst, violist, Karl Levine, cello and Nancy MacKenzie, clarinetist. Music of Mozart and Brahms. Call: 233-3249 Web: www.standrews-madison.org Friday January 25, 7:30 pm at the Rhapsody Arts Center of Verona, 271 S. Main St. , Verona. Pianist Leo Van Asten. The program will include: Variations on “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman” K. 265 by Mozart Fantasie in C minor K. 475 by Mozart The Tempest Sonata in D minor by Beethoven Ecoissaise by Beethoven Saturday, January 26, Noon, at Grace Episcopal ….
read article »Music Featured on the January 24 Edition of “Anything Goes” Hosted by Rich Samuels on WORT 89.9 fm Madison
01/20/13 10:27 AM | Rich Samuels
Note: This morning’s broadcast features a complete performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio” by Candid Concert Opera, recorded live at Chicago’s Edgebrook Lutheran Church on December 2, 2012. The performance was repeated on December at Capitol Lakes in Madison. This morning’s broadcast is a pre-birthday celebration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who was born on January 27, 1756. Cast: Leila Bowie, Soprano (Kostanze) Diana Stoic, Soprano (Blonde) Scott J. Brunscheen, Tenor (Pedrillo) Neil A, Edwards, Bass (Osmin) Tom Kastle, Narrator Codrut Birsan, Conductor. —————————– 5:08 am: Act I of “The Abduction from the Seraglio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 5:42 am: Beginning of Act II of “The Abduction from the Seraglio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 6:08 am: Conclusion of Act II of “The Abduction from the Seraglio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6:50 am: First movemebt of Symphony No. 25 in G minor K. 183 by Wolfgang Amadeuz Mozart. Performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner. 7:08 am: Act III of “The Abduction from the Seraglio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 7:41 am: Kyrie from the Mass in C minor K.427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart featuring Felicity Lott, soprano with the Chorus of Saint Martin in the Fields directed by Laszlo Heltay. 7:48 am: Third movement from Piano Concerto in E flat K, 482 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pianist Ivan Moravec is accompanied by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner.
read article »The WORT 89.9 fm Madison Area Classical Music Calander for the Week Beginning January 17 Prepared by Rich Samuels
01/15/13 2:57 PM | Rich Samuels
Friday, January 18 12:15 pm at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison. Pianist Karlos Moser. “Everything You Wanted to Know about Bach Fugues” Friday, January 28, 7:30 pm (repeated Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2:30 pm) ay Overture Center-Overture Hall: The Madison Symphony Orchestra conducted by John DeMain with pianist Gabriela Montero who will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6. John DeMain and the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) celebrate the first concert of the New Year with the MSO debut of Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, who will perform Beethoven’s playful Piano Concerto No. 1. The January 18-20 concerts open with blue cathedral by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon and close with Dvořák’s sunny Symphony No. 6. Many will remember Montero as the pianist who joined legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman and popular cellist Yo-Yo Ma at President Obama’s 2008 inauguration. “Simplicity and joy of life are the essence of her music making,” said Ma of Montero’s artistry on that occasion. Montero has enchanted audiences on CBS’s “60 Mintues” and National Public Radio with her powerful playing and fearless improvisations that echo the skill of great classical masters like Mozart and Beethoven, who commonly improvised their own cadenzas. In fact, Beethoven wrote his Piano Concerto No. 1 during his early days in Vienna, where he had arrived just months after Mozart departed. He poured all his youthful power and enthusiasm into it. Although Montero will play Beethoven’s cadenza for his concerto, she will take suggestions from the audience to improvise on for her encore. Raised in El Sistema, the same groundbreaking Venezuelan music education program that produced conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s charismatic music director, Montero was forced to keep her improvisational skill a secret until the great pianist Martha Argerich “discovered” her and put her on the path to an international career. DeMain continues his highly successful mission of bringing new works to light for MSO audiences with his choice of the opening piece for this concert. Jennifer Higdon, one of America’s most popular composers, has won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her Violin Concerto. blue cathedral has been one of her most successful works, composed shortly after the death of her brother. Higdon said she thought of cathedrals as places of “thought, growth, spiritual expression, serving as a symbolic doorway into and out of this world.” The work was commissioned for the 75th Anniversary of the ….
read article »Music Featured on the January 17, 2013 Edition of “Anything Goes” Hosted by Rich Samuels on WORT 89.9 fm Madison
01/15/13 2:00 PM | Rich Samuels
5:09 am: Concerto in E minor for Flute, Bassoon, Strings and Continuo TWV 52.e2 by Georg Philipp Teleman. Performance by the Hanoverian Ensemble featuring John Solum (flute) and Thomas Sevcovic (bassoon). 5:21 am: The Trio Settecento (Rachel Barton Pine, John Mark Rozendaal and David Schrader) plt the Sonata in G major of Jean-Marie Leclair. 5:39 am: Sonata Two for Two OBoesm Bassoon and Continuo by Jan Dismas Zelenka. Performed by principal players from the Dallas and Houston Symphonies. 5:58 am: “Valse carresante” by Ricardo Castro, performed by pianist Jorge Federico Ossorio. 6:08 am: Organist Florence Mustric performs three organ chorals of César Franck composed in 1890. 6:55 am: “Mazurca melancolica” by Ricardo Castro performed by pianist Jorge Federico Ossorio. 7:08 am: “Ghost Ranch” by Michael Daugherty (inspired by Georgia O’Keefe. Performed by The Bournemouth Symphony conducted by Marin Alsop. 7:34 am: “The River Cam” by Eric Whitacre, performed bt the Strings of the London Symphony Orchestra and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. 7:47 am: “I Shudder to Think” by Nico Muhly. Perormed by the Columbus State University Percussion Ensemble. 7:57 am: Organist Cameron Carpenter plays Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” on the Marshall & Ogletree Opus 5 digital organ.
read article »The WORT 89.9 fm Madison Area Classical Music Calendar for the Week Beginning January 10 2013 Prepared by Rich Samuels
01/8/13 1:07 PM | Rich Samuels
Friday January 11, 12:15 pm at the First Unitarian Society Auditorium, 900 University Bar Drive, Madison. Scott Ellington, oboe; Ted Reinke, piano. Music of Eric Ewazen and Jean Berger. Web: www.fusmadison.org. Friday January 11, 8 pm at the Overture Center-Capitol Theater 201 State St., Madison. Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with Claude Delangle, saxophone. French Saxophonist, Claude Delangle returns for two major works for the instrument – the Villa-Lobos Fantasia and Glazunov Concerto for Alto Saxophone in E-flat. Claude’s fine playing in 2007 brought new meaning to the words “brilliant and breath taking.” His sublime skill and creamy sound evoke gasps of delight from his audiences. Be prepared for encores! Also featured on the program is Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants, Op.22 (Children’s Games). Originally a set of twelve pieces for piano for four hands, he later orchestrated the piece into this delightful suite of five movements, which celebrates youth. Beethoven’s rarely heard Twelve Contradances, and Mozart’s lively Symphony No. 31 (Paris) promise an evening of delightful discovery. Soloist, researcher and pedagogue, Claude Delangle, one of the greatest contemporary saxophonists, stands out as the master of the French saxophone. Privileged interpreter for classic works, he enriches the repertoire and encourages creation by collaborating with the most renowned composers, including L. Berio, P. Boulez, Toru Takemitsu, A. Piazzolla, and promoting the youngest. Since 1986, he is an invited saxophonist in the Ensemble Intercontemporain, he also appears as soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (London BBC, Radio France, Radio of Finland, WDR Köln, Berlin Philharmonic, Kioi Tokyo) and works with D. Robertson, P. Eötvös, K. Nagano, E.P. Salonen, Miung Wung Chung, G. Bernstein and many other conductors. Saturday January 12 at 7:30 pm, Overture Center-Overture Hall, 2012 State Street, Madison. Madison Symphony Orchestra Concert Organ Series continues with the Westminster Choir of Westminster College of Princeton, NJ. The Westminster Choir of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, has set the standard for choral excellence for nearly nine decades. The choir is in residence every summer at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. Its 40 members also form the core of the 175-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir, which performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and major European orchestras. THE PROGRAM: “APPEAR & INSPIRE” I. TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA Missa Alma Redemptoris: Kyrie GUSTAV HOLST Nunc Dimitis II. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 III. BENJAMIN BRITTEN Hymn to St. Cecilia IV. ANNE WILSON Toccata CHARLES MARIE WIDOR Andante sostenuto from Symphony Gothique, Op. 70 LEO SOWERBY Pageant ….
read article »Music Featured on the January 10, 2013 Edition of “Anything Goes” Hosted by Rich Samuels on WORT 89.9 fm Madison
01/4/13 12:15 PM | Rich Samuels
5:00 am: Symphony No. 3 (composed 1939-1940) by Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) performed by the ORchestra sinfonica di Roma conducted by Francesco La Vecchia. 5:55 am: “La Nuit” by Félicien David (1810-1876) performed by James ehnes on a 1676 Andrea Guareri viola from the collection of David Fulton. 6:08 am: String Quartet No. 5 (1991) by Philip Glass, performed by the Kronos Quartet. 6:37 am: “Ciranda Das Sete Notas” (“Seven-note Round”) by Heitor Villa-Lobos, performed by Joseph Polisi (bassoon) and Thomas Schmidt (piano). 6:49 am: “From Afar” by Josepg Schwantner (b. 1943) performed by guitarist Nicholas Goluses. 7:08 am: “Meanwhile”, incidental music for an imaginary puppet show, by Stephen Hartke (b. 1952), performed by Eighth Blackbird. (This work has been nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category). 7:28 am: Piano Concerto Op. 32 (1940) by Rudolph Ganz (1877-1972), performed by pianist Ramon Salvatore and the Chicago Sinfonietta conducted by PAul Freeman. 7:54 am: “Ebeli: Mazurka de Salon” by Gelipe Villanueva (1862-1893). Performed by pianist Jorge Federic Osorio.
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