Performance Oklahoma

Producer/Host Kimberly Powell

This week on Performance Oklahoma

Performance Oklahoma offers an encore featuring programs seven and eight from the 2011 OK Mozart International Festival Chamber Music broadcast series. This year's Festival, just two weeks away runs from Friday, June 8th through Sunday, June 17th and offers performances in Bartlesville and in Oklahoma City.

Program Seven – Brahms’ Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op 78 opens the 7^th program of the series and features violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and violinist Kerry McDermott, clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott offer Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Bela Bartok a performance given on the “Evening in Budapest” gala concert.

Program Eight – Gustav Mahler’s Quartet for Piano and Strings in a minor opens this program featuring violinist Kerry McDermott, violist Paul Neubauer, cellist Peter Wiley and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. After that clarinetist David Shifrin, violist Paul Neubauer and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott present Max Bruch’s Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano Op 83, a work rarely heard in its entirety and heard on a stormy Thursday afternoon.

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Coming up on Performance Oklahoma

We'll hear performances of two trios from Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma's concerts honoring the legacy of Mae Ruth Swanson on March 12th and 13th. The programs, entitled Musical Exoticism included the Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major (Gypsy) by Franz Joseph Haydn, and the Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in g minor, Op 15 by Bedřich Smetana featuring violinist Gregory Lee, cellist Tomasz Zieba, and pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng.

We'll also hear the Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma's final program of the regular season. Offered in duo venues and entitled Musical Narratives, the program presents works that illustrate the capacity of instrumental music to convey narrative themes. Featured are Three Short Stories for clarinet and bassoon by Garnet Wolfgang, the String Trio in B-flat Major D581 by Franz Schubert, Serenata in Vano by Carl Nielsen and the Nonet for Winds and Strings Op 31 by Louis Spohr. And stay tuned to hear more about the Bach and Brahms Festival coming up in late May!

The season finale Classics concert presented by the OKC Philharmonic on Saturday, May 19th at the Civic Center Music Hall in downtown Oklahoma City will be offered on Performance Oklahoma on Sunday, June 10th. The concert featured pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in George Gershwin's Concerto in F Major the Alborada del Gracioso and Rhapsodie Espagnole of Maurice Ravel and Fontane di Roma by Ottorino Respighi. Almost 14 years after composing the Alborada del Gracioso for piano (the fourth of his five movement suite Miroirs) Maurice Ravel set about orchestrating it and though it remains a recital favorite of pianists, it has enjoyed even greater popularity in the concert hall. Ravel's few changes to the original score are subtle and effective use of woodwinds and percussion is striking.

Ottorino Respighi arrived in Rome when it was becoming Italy's center of orchestral concert-giving and that stimulated his creation of several sets of orchestral tone poems paying homage to the great city. His Fontane di Roma, based on the sentiments and visions suggested to him by four of Rome's fountains, the work is considered a turning point and his first great success as a composer. The kaleidscope from Maurice Ravel's 33rd year Rhapsodie Espagnole derives its inspiration from his Basque mother's memories of Madrid, where she spent much of her childhood. Lavishly scored with winds and brass and plenty of percussion it features a habanera from Cuba which was enjoying special but ephemeral popularity at the time of its composition.

George Gershwin successfully combined the sweep and mood of the typical Russian concerto with the blues, jazz, and rag elements he brought from his successful pop music career. Commissioned by the New York Symphony Society after the success of his Rhapsodie in Blue, the work is remarkably original and personally characteristic. Jean-Yves Thibaudet offers passionate commentary about the work and George Gershwin, film music, wine and his choice of works for a series of recitals devoted to the music of Claude Debussy noting the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth this coming August.

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Performance Oklahoma is KCSC’s weekly radio broadcast showcasing concerts and recitals presented across the state of Oklahoma. Airing each Sunday from 5:00-7:00pm CST, the program features the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's Classics Series concerts and performances from Chamber Music in Oklahoma, Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma, OK Mozart International Festival, Armstrong Auditorium, Rose State Live!, OCU's Distinguished Artist Series, OCCC's Cultural Arts Series, OU's Norton Visiting Artist Series, UCO's Faculty Artist Concert Series, the Canterbury Choral Society and others. The broadcasts are edited, produced and hosted by KCSC’s Director of Production & Syndication, Kimberly Powell.

Kimberly has met and interviewed a number of the world's leading musical artists and composers for the program including Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough, Marc-André Hamelin, André Watts, James Ehnes, Jon Kimura Parker, The King's Singers, Midori, Peter Wiley, Rachel Barton Pine, Libby Larsen, Phillip Ying, Vladimir Feltsman, Michael Daugherty, David Kim, Carter Brey, The Eroica Trio, Paul Neubauer and colleagues from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, members of Chanticleer and a number of exciting young international artists including Stefan Jackiw, Sarah Coburn, Shai Wosner, Julie Albers, Orion Weiss, Susanna Phillips, Andrew von Oeyen, Alexander Sitkovetsky and the co-gold medalists of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Competition Haochen Zhang and Nobuyuki Tsujii. In August of 2009, Kimberly and Performance Oklahoma were profiled in the Sunday edition of the Daily Oklahoman by Fine Arts Editor, Rick Rogers and in April of 2010 a feature article by Terry Clark appeared in Oklahoma's Journal Record. Her program showcasing the American Organ Institute's Gala Weekend Celebration in September 2009 was nominated for a Governor's Award. The 2010 and 2011 OK Mozart International Festival chamber music broadcast series were presented by KXMS Fine Arts Radio International in Joplin, Missouri and by KWTU Classical in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2011 and again in 2012, Performance Oklahoma was awarded a grant from the Kirkpatrick Foundation and has secured sponsorship from locally owned Homeland Grocery Stores, Hudiburg Subaru of Oklahoma and Armstrong Auditorium.

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05/27/12

Performance Oklahoma featured encore broadcastsfrom the 2011 OK Mozart International Festival Chamber Music Series. Program Nine included Mozart's Fantasie K475, the Brahms Sonata for Viola and Piano Op 120, No. 2, the Liszt Romance Oubliee and Three Cypresses for String Quartet by Antonin Dvorak. Program Ten featured Kodaly's Intermezzo for String Trio, the Overture on Hebrew Themes by Sergei Prokofiev the Sextet Op 37 by Ernst von Dohnanyi.

05/20/12

Two performances offered by faculty and colleagues on the University of Central Oklahoma's Faculty Artist Concert Series this Spring featured flutist Emily Butterfield joined by pianists Samuel Magrill and Sallie Pollack in works by Samuel Zyman, Georg Phillip Telemann, Francis Poulenc and four contemporary French composers and pianist David Forbat in the Klavierstucke Op 118 by Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland's Piano Variations and The Holberg Suite Op 40 by Edvard Grieg.

05/13/12

Cellist Sergey Antonov & pianist Maxim Mogilevsky appeared on the final concert of Chamber Music in Oklahoma's current season, presenting Robert Schumann's Drei Fantasiestücke, the Sonata in F Major by Richard Strauss & the Sonata in g minor by Sergei Rachmaninov. Also heard: the Ballade in g minor of Frederic Chopin & three transcriptions made by Franz Liszt of works by Franz Schubert & Camille Saint-Saens played by pianist Valery Kuleshov, gueston the 29th Annual Piano Artist Series.

05/06/12

On Sunday, November 13th the Ariel Quartet appeared in the second concert offered this season by Chamber Music in Oklahoma. In this encore broadcast we heard the Quartet in d minor, K421 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Five Pieces for String Quartet by Anton Webern, and the Quartet in c minor, Op 51, No. 1 by Johannes Brahms. We also enjoyed a performance given by the pianist Jin Ju on the 29th Annual Piano Artist Series of Robert Schumann's Fantasie in C Major, Op 17.

04/29/12

In a solo recital program offered by pianist Menahem Pressler on Sunday, March 11th, presented by Chamber Music in Oklahoma, we heard Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op 110, Debussy's Estampes Schubert's Piano Sonata D 960, the Chopin Op Posthumous Nocturne in c-sharp minor and Debussy's Clair de Lune. Mr. Pressler is one of the world's most distinguished musicians and was a founding member and the long time pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio.

04/22/12

On Sunday, April 22nd Performance Oklahoma presents Joel Levine and the OKC Philharmonic in its March 31st concert, the 7th Classics concert of the season. Entitled "Sumptuous Strings" the program features guest violinist David Kim, and guest cellist Carter Brey in the Concerto for Violin and Cello by Johannes Brahms. The concert also included American Rhapsody by Ernst von Dohnányi, Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 orchestrated by Claude Debussy and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.

04/15/12

The connection between music and hearing loss was explored in Canterbury Choral Society's season final concert entitled "Experiences with Sound." The evening featured pianist Sergio Monteiro, mezzo soprano Lori Bade, OCU's Ad Astra Womens Chorus and University Men's Chorus and the OKC Philharmonic in Beethoven's Meerestille und Glückliche Fahrt and the Choral Fantasy, the Alto Rhapsody by Johannes Brahms, Tundra and Gloria for Womens' Chorus by Ola Gjeilo and Stephen Paulus' Voices of Light.

04/08/12

Celebrating the release of the 2012 OKM Festival brochure, Performance Oklahoma offered a special program of performances from the 2011 Festival. The Amici NY Orchestra was featured in Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait with guest narrator Joe Sears and Callen Clarke's Wiley Post, Tone Poem for Violin and Orchestra (world premier) featuring violinist Kyle Dillingham. The Chamber Music All Stars offered Bernard Herrmann's Souvenirs de Voyage and Music for viola and Gypsy Band.

04/01/12

Chamber Music in Oklahoma's third concert of the season presenting the Stradivari Quartett was the featured program on Performance Oklahoma April 1st. . The ensemble offered the Quartet in g minor, Op 8, No. 4 by Luigi Boccherini, I Crisantemi by Giacomo Puccini, Verdi's Dream, Imaginary Scenes from the opera MacBeth by Martin Wettstein and the String Quartet in e minor by Guiseppe Verdi.

03/25/12

On Sunday, March 25th, Performance Oklahoma offer "Musical Surprises" featuring the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in their 6th Classics' concert of the season. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine joined the ensemble for the Chaconne from The Red Violin by John Corigliano and the Tzigane Concert Rhapsody by Maurice Ravel. Sergei Prokofiev's suite from his film score to Lieutenant Kije, Mikhail Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla and Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major were also featured.

03/18/12

Performance Oklahoma featured pianist Ann Schein in recital at UCO's Mitchell Hall offering a program in the great romantic tradition of the piano with the Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op 81a by Ludwig von Beethoven, the Sonatine by Maurice Ravel, L'Isle Joyeuse by Claude Debussy, the Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli by Franz Liszt, the Sonata No. 3 in b minor by Frédéric Chopin and the Prelude in B-flat Major, Op 23, No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninov.

03/11/12

Performance Oklahoma offered the inaugural concert for the newly formed Norman Philharmonic given on Sunday, January 15th. Richard Zielinski led the ensemble in Mozart's Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, Selections from Meditations on Ecclesiastes by Norman Dello Joio, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto featuring trumpeter Karl Sievers, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in the 1924 Jazz Band version with guest pianist Richard Dowling and the world premiers of the new Norman Anthem and Symphony by Libby Larsen.

03/04/12

This week Performance Oklahoma presented Los Romeros who appeared at Armstrong Auditorium on Thursday, November 3rd in a concert celebrating the rich tradition of music for the guitar and included works by Michael Praetorius, Tomás Bretón, Manuel de Falla, Lorenzo Palomo, Federico Moreno Torroba, Enrique Granados, Joaquin Rodrigo, José Muñoz Molleda and Pepe and Celedonio Romero. And soprano Paul Malone joined the ensemble for six canciones.

02/26/12

Performance Oklahoma offered the OKC Philharmonic in their 5th Classics concert entitled "Great Moments of Opera" featuring guest soprano Sarah Coburn. Sarah offered selections from operas and songs by Rossini, Donizetti, Floyd, Massenet, Delibes and R Strauss and the orchestra in turn offered overtures by Rossini and J Strauss Jr, the Notturno by Martucci and three excerpts from Act III of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Wagner.

02/19/12

Performance Oklahoma offered an encore from the 2011 OK Mozart broadcast series. The program opened with the Sonata for Cello and Piano Op 99 with Peter Wiley and Amy Jiaqi Yang. Paul Neubauer and Anne-Marie McDermott presented The Hebrew Melodies of Joseph Joachim and the program ended with a special encore. Eric Ruske opened the 2nd hour with Mozart’s Concert Rondo in E-flat Major, K371 and Ida Kavafian and Anne-Marie were the featured soloists in Chausson's Concerto Op 21.

02/12/12

Performance Oklahoma offered a program from the third set of concerts this season presented by the Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma. Entitled “Café Music” the program opened with the Piano Trio Op 70, No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven (Ghost.) We also heard the Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano by Jean Françaix the Five Fantasy Pieces "Schilflieder" (Reed Songs) by August Klughardt and Café Music by the American composer and pianist Paul Schoenfield.

02/05/12

On February 5th Performance Oklahoma offered “Present Beauty” with America’s postclassical music string quartet ETHEL. Appearing on OCU’s Distinguished Artist Series on Sunday, January 15th, the concert featured the quartet’s arrangement of a suite from “The Hours” by Philip Glass, as well as To Whom It May Concern: Thank you by Mark Stewart, Huang Ruo's The Flag Project, Wed by David Lang, Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector byTerry Riley and Julia Wolfe's Early That Summer.

01/29/12

Performance Oklahoma presented the OKC Philharmonic in their fourth concert of the season. Entitled Commoners and Kings the program featured pianist Andrew von Oeyen (who replaced the injured Louis Lortie) in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the Royal Fireworks Music by George Frideric Handel and the Russian Easter Overture of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

01/22/12

This week Performance Oklahoma offered an encore of programs from the 2011 OK Mozart International Festival Chamber Music Broadcast Series. On the program: The Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op 78 by Johannes Brahms, Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Bela Bartok, Gustav Mahler’s Quartet for Piano and Strings, and Max Bruch’s Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op 83.

01/15/12

Clarinetist David Shifrin & pianist Amy Jiaqi Yang performed the Sonata for Clarinet & Piano in f minor, Paul Neubauer talked about programming & the hour ended with Beethoven’s Trio for Strings in D Major featuring violinist Jennifer Frautschi, violist Paul Neubauer & cellist Peter Wiley. Bill McGlaughlin talked about the Festival & finding passion in his daily work in radio. Musical works: The Octet for Strings by Georges Enescu and Schumann/Liszt's Widmung with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott.

01/08/12

From the 2011 OK Mozart Chamber Music Series: Mozart's String Quartet K157 featuring the Amphion Quartet & from the "Brahms in the Morning Series," Sonata Op 100 featuring violinist Jennifer Frautschi & pianist Amy Jiaqi Yang. And to close, Brahms' 3 Hungarian Dances for Piano 4-hands with Anne-Marie McDermott & Amy Jiaqi Yang. Bernhard Herrmann's Souvenirs de Voyage with clarinetist David Shifrin opens the 2nd hour which also includes Music for Viola & Gypsy Band featuring Paul Neubauer.

01/01/12

On Sunday, January 1st, Performance Oklahoma celebrated the new year with a performance from the Ariel Quartet presented by Chamber Music in Oklahoma on Sunday, November 13th. . The Quartet presented Mozart's Quartet in d minor K421, Five Pieces by Anton Webern and the Quartet in c minor, Op 51, No. 1 by Johannes Brahms. Listeners also enjoyed Robert Schumann's Fantasy Op 17 played by pianist Jin Ju who appeared on Sunday, November 20th, presented by the 29th Annual Piano Artist Series.

12/25/11

Performance Oklahoma presented Chanticleer live in concert, appearing on Tuesday, October 25t at Armstrong Auditorium. The ensemble offered a program entitled Love Story and the broadcast included songs by Sebastián de Vivanco, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Claude Le Jeune, Richard Strauss, Steven Sametz, Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers.

12/18/11

This week Performance Oklahoma was pleased to offer Christmas Vespers, Songs of Comfort and Joy from Oklahoma City University. An ensemble of more than 260 singers and orchestral musicians gathered in the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel on the OCU campus to present the 2011 service, celebrating its 33rd season on Friday, December 9th and Saturday, December 10th. The program featured great choral works, songs and carols of many traditions, instrumental works, and readings of poetry and scripture.

12/11/11

Performance Oklahoma offered the Third Classics' concert of the season presented by the OKC Philharmonic on Saturday, November 19th. The program, entitled "Mozart & Mahler" featured guest pianist Shai Wosner, guest soprano Shari Gruber and music director Joel Levine in performances of the Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K488 by Mozart and Mahler's Symphony No. 4.

12/04/11

Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma celebrated their history with a Founders' Concert featuring special guests violist Matthew Dane and flutist Christina Jennings who joined the Society's current co-artistic directors clarinetist Chad Burrow and pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng. The concert featured Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Edward Knight's INBOX, Benjamin Britten's Lacrymae: Reflections on a Song of Dowland, Francois Devienne's Duo No. 3 and Eight Pieces Op 83 by Max Bruch.