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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Classical Music Playlist, March 26, 2024

Valerie Coleman | photo: Kia Caldwell
 

Valerie Coleman | photo: Kia Caldwell

This Women's History Month CapRadio highlights a different woman in music each weekday. Today's classical spotlight is on American composer and musician Valerie Coleman.

  • Valerie Coleman is an American composer, GRAMMY®-nominated flutist and entrepreneur.
  • Highlighted as one of the “Top 35 Women Composers” by The Washington Post, she was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year.
  • Coleman is the founder and former flutist of Imani Winds, an ensemble whose 24-year legacy is documented in a dedicated exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
  • In orchestral and chamber music, Coleman has appeared with top tier classical music orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as performed with jazz musicians such as Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon Harris and more.
  • Committed to arts education, entrepreneurship and chamber music advocacy, Coleman has created music festivals and adjudicates competitions for young musicians. She has held flute and chamber music masterclasses at institutions in 49 states and over five continents, and has served on Boards of Advisors for many organizations.
  • Valerie Coleman’s full biography can be read on her website.

In the notes published with her music score, “Portraits of Langston” from 2007, Coleman wrote that the Harlem Renaissance of the early 1900s was the first time that the disciplines of visual art, music and literature celebrated African-American culture. Coleman continues:

“Langston Hughes was in the center of that cultural explosion... ‘Portraits of Langston’ is a suite in six short movements, and is my take on Hughes' poetic memories of Harlem and Europe (mainly Paris). Stylistically, this work incorporates many different elements that are translated into woodwind technique: the stride piano technique, big band swing, cabaret music, Mambo, African drumming, and even traditional spirituals.”

For her recording of the suite, Coleman enlisted actor Mahershala Ali to read a Hughes poem before the music it inspired. “Portraits of Langston” is this afternoon’s Midday Masterpiece.

 

6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Graun
Symphony for Strings in Bb major
Cappella Academica Frankfurt
6:08 a.m.
Pavel Vranicky
Symphony in D major Opus 52
Dvorak Chamber Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
6:44 a.m.
John Williams
1941 (march)
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
6:49 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 2 "The Night" (La Notte) in G minor Opus 10 RV 439
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:59 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major BWV 1054
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
7:00 a.m.
7:16 a.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Fur Elise in A minor WoO 59
John O'Conor, piano
7:48 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1: II. Vivacissimo in Bb minor Opus 1
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Seta Tanyel, piano
7:53 a.m.
Lalo Schifrin
from La Nouvelle Orleans
Imani Winds
7:58 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet: IV. Finale in Eb major Opus 47
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
8:00 a.m.
8:07 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:36 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Umoja
Imani Winds
8:40 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Humoresque No. 7 in Gb major Opus 101/7
James Ehnes, piano
8:44 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
"Military" Polonaise in A major Opus 40/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
8:51 a.m.
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy: IV. Finale Opus 46
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
8:59 a.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales
Imani Winds
9:00 a.m.
9:29 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria Variata in A minor BWV 989
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
9:45 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Zambra Granadina
David Russell, guitar
9:51 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor Nina Kotova, cello
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Joaquin Turina
Bullfighter's Prayer (Oracion del Torero) Opus 34
Los Romeros
10:24 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 31 "Hornsignal" in D major
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor
10:54 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
One Spring Morning (D'un Matin de Printemps)
Neave Trio; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas: Overture Opus 95
Bergen Philharmonic; Andrew Litton, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
The Birds (Gli Uccelli)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
11:28 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Shotgun Houses
Pacifica Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
11:47 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Carnaval Opus 9
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K 467
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
12:00 p.m.
12:28 p.m.
Kevin Puts
Contact: I. The Call
Philadelphia Orchestra; Xian Zhang, conductor Time for Three
12:38 p.m.
Adolfo Mejia
Bambuco en mi in E minor Bambuco in e minor
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
12:41 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E minor in E minor BWV 855
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
12:45 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Scottish March (Marche Ecossaise)
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio in C minor Opus 67
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Emil Mlynarski
Violin Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro vivace (Finale) in D major Opus 6
Polish Chamber Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
1:00 p.m.
1:09 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Imani Winds
1:15 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
1:39 p.m.
Emanuele Barbella
Concerto for Mandolin in D major
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin
1:48 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Gayne Ballet Suite
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston (w/Narration)
McGill/McHale Trio Mahershala Ali, narrator
2:27 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Andante Festivo
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor
2:33 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:49 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:02 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
3:13 p.m.
Joseph Wolfl
Piano Concerto No. 6 "The Cuckoo" Opus 49
S. W. German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Johannes Moesus, conductor Yorck Kronenberg, piano
3:32 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
3:37 p.m.
Aaron Copland
The Tender Land: Suite
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Aaron Copland, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Polish Concerto (Concerto Polonois) in G major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
4:00 p.m.
4:08 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
4:34 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Red Clay & Mississippi Delta
Imani Winds
4:40 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra in Eb major Opus 26
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Antony Pay, clarinet
4:51 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
5:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Earl Wild
Grand Fantasie on Porgy and Bess: Summertime (After G. Gershwin)
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
5:21 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals (Waltz) No. 4 in G major Opus 8/4
Jason Vieaux, guitar
5:27 p.m.
Friedrich Kuhlau
Elf-Mound Overture Opus 100
Odense Symphony Orchestra; Othmar Maga, conductor
5:39 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Concerto for Wind Quintet
Imani Winds
5:56 p.m.
Philip Glass
Symphony No. 3: Movement IV
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:01 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 82
National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.); Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
6:22 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood: Overture Wiener Blut
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra; Joseph Francek, conductor
6:32 p.m.
Armas Jarnefelt
Song of the Crimson Flower: Shooting the Rapids
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ilpo Mansnerus, conductor
6:44 p.m.
Wayne Shorter
Terra Incognita
Imani Winds

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