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November 14, 2012
Eric Whitacre
Choral composer Eric Whitacre says, "I thought I was going to be a pop star. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I'd be a classical composer." Now at age 42, Whitacre has achieved the kind of star status he once dreamed of. But not in the pop world. He's a kind of rock star of contemporary choral composers. He has nearly 100,000 Facebook fans. Has his own choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers. Some young fans have even gotten Eric Whitacre tattoos. In today's show, Whitacre leads a choir of over 100 singers in one of his own works, "Sleep."
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
First movement from Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
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Eric Whitacre
Sleep
The St. Olaf Choir, VocalEssence, and Minnesota High School Honors Choir, Eric Whitacre, director
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Steve Hester from Macon, Georgia
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Wq. 170 (H. 432)
Hidemi Suzuki, cello, the Holland Baroque Society, Stefano Rossi, director
Regensburg Early Music Days, Regensburg, Germany
hour 2
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Fourth movement from String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 4
The Miro String Quartet
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Michael Gandolfi
Opal, from Winter Light
The Alexander String Quartet and San Francisco Choral Artists, Magen Solomon, director
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude No. 5 (Feux Follets)
Zhang Zuo, piano
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas
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Donald Grant
Lament for Mulroy
The Elias String Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London, England
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19
Martha Argerich, piano, the Swiss-Italian Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura, conductor
Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
