100 Years of Radio Broadcasting
February 3: Rapsodie Espagnole
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12m
YourClassical MPR host Melissa Ousley talks with retired music librarian and music director John Michel, Minnesota Public Radio Technical Director Michael Osborne, and former YourClassicalMPR host Brian Newhouse about the 100 years of broadcasting Minnesota Orchestra concerts.
Up Next in February 3: Rapsodie Espagnole
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Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel grew up familiar with traditional Spanish music, and he drew on this for his Rapsodie. An understated Malagueña and a vigorous Habanera lead to a vigorous finale that overflows with melodic invention.
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Gabriela Montero's Piano Concerto No....
Venezuelan-born Gabriela Montero’s Latin Piano Concerto—performed this week with the composer as soloist—merges the European classical concerto form with idioms, traditions and characteristics of her native continent. Montero notes that her concerto reflects South America’s complexities and contr...
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Carlos Chávez's Symphony No. 2, Sinfo...
Carlos Chávez’s one-movement Sinfonía India is based on traditional melodies of Indigenous tribes from the western states of his home country of Mexico, fused with European classical elements. Of special note are a solo horn singing a tune from the Yaqui people of Sonora and a percussion section ...
