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After returning to Paris from a working trip in Brazil, French composer Darius Milhaud wrote a piece filled with Brazilian rhythms and styles. We’ll hear it on today's show: The Ox on the Roof by Darius Milhaud, from a concert by the English Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kenneth Woods.
It's a portrait painted with music, an incredibly colorful and inventive picture of the sea: La Mer by Claude Debussy. On today's episode, we'll hear a chamber orchestra performance of La Mer at a concert presented by ROCO in Houston, Texas.
Concertos require great main character energy. On today's show, we'll travel to Shanghai to hear a bassoon concerto that expects its soloist to be sweet, agile, mysterious, and a little bit sassy: the Bassoon Concerto by Czech composer Jiri Pauer.
Clarinetist David Shifrin served as Artistic Director of Chamber Music Northwest for 40 years, and composer David Ludwig wrote a concerto to celebrate Shifrin's artistry and legacy. We'll hear it today—David Shifrin plays the world premiere of Ludwig's Les Adieux at a Chamber Music Northwest event in Portland, Oregon.
Sometimes it's not so much the content as the package it comes in—and Sergei Prokofiev was great at repackaging his own material. In the late 1920s, he took a fiery opera destined for dust and turned it into a mighty symphony he dearly loved. On today's show, we'll take you to a concert in Cincinnati to hear Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3.