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A youthful Maxim Lando stepped before the Farley’s audience on November 11 wearing a shiny green shirt to announce his Hallowe’en themed program. The concert showcased mainly 20th Century compositions, ranging from pop music to gospel to jazz fusion to Russian Romanticism, and is one of many in the wonderful Salon Piano Series held at Farley’s […] […]
WORT Monday classical host Paul Baker interviewed violinist Dawn Wohn in her studio at UW-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. She discussed many aspects of teaching and performing, including encouraging student curiosity, learning from recorded performances, interpreting composers’ intentions and challenging oneself with new pieces. Paul Baker is the host of Listen Adventurously, airing Mondays […] […]
For his September 18 concert, Swedish virtuoso Niklas Sivelöv strode out in long tails and gray ascot looking not a little like a clean-shaven Beethoven. As he sat at the vintage Mason & Hamlin 1906 model AA piano I appreciated that nod to sartorial tradition. His concert of Bach, Beethoven, Schonberg, Scriabin, and his own […] […]
Madison’s Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society now enters its third decade and they have a dynamite festival in store for us this year! Co-Artistic Director Stephanie Jutt provides an inside look at the concerts in an interview with WORT’s Listen Adventurously host Paul Baker. The 2022 Festival Season runs June 10-26 at the new Hamel […] […]
Since we’ve (hardly) no place to go; unheard are cries of “Let it snow!” – Maybe you’re thinking you’d like to hear a wintry mix of holiday and Christmas tunes to light up your nights? You are in luck! Here’s a list of the shows on WORT that featured some or all holiday music this […] […]