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August 13, 2010
Bugs, Bombast, and a Beloved Bus Driver
On today's show, music inspired by the grand as well as the grotesque. We'll hear the finale from one of the grandest symphonies ever written, Mahler's Fifth. And our weekly 21st century work, Michael Gandolfi's "As Above," was inspired, at least in part, by water bugs. Plus, we'll hear about one of the most important folks at the Aspen Music Festival: veteran bus driver and classical music fan Dick Miller, who drives the musicians from venue to venue during the festival. PT continues its residency at Aspen all next week.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Moritz Moszkowski
Two Etudes for Piano, Op. 91
Esther Budiardjo, piano
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to Oberon
The Bellingham Festival Orchestra, Michael Palmer, conductor
Bellingham Festival of Music, Bellingham, Washington
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Moritz Moszkowski
Suite for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71
Robert McDuffie and Elizabeth Fayette, violins, Fei-Fei Dong, piano
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
The Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Teton Village, Wyoming
hour 2
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Michael Gandolfi
First movement from Caution to the Wind
The Griffin Music Ensemble
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Ecloghes, Op. 206
Elizabeth Mann, flute, Robert Walters, English horn, Masakazu Ito, guitar
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo in G Minor, RV 157
The Venice Baroque Orchestra, Luca Mares, conductor
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
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Michael Gandolfi
As Above
The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Sydney Hodkinson, conductor
Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colorado
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Gustav Mahler
Fifth movement from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
The World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
