Tonight, 1 February 2020 at 8PM EST (GMT -5) the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present a live concert broadcast. The concert will feature mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. James Gaffigan will conduct. You can see the program at dso.org/live.
Here’s the program:
Mozart: Overture from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Alex Temple: Liebeslied
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Enjoy!
Today, May 24, 2019, at 19:00 CET (2 PM EDT, UTC -1), OperaVision will present Verdi’s La Traviata from the Icelandic Opera. You can see it here.
Tomorrow, May 25, 2019 at 8PM EDT (GMT -4), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Kent Nagano will conduct, and the program will feature pianist Beatrice Rana. You can see it here.
On May 31, 2019 at 10:45 AM (GMT -4) the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. Also on the program is Webern’s Passacaglia, and Haydn’s Concerto for Two Horns. You can see it here.
Tonight, April 27, 2019 at 8PM EDT (GMT -4), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present a Vivaldi-rich concert webcast. Nicholas McGegan will conduct. You can see the concert here. The program also includes a concerto by Anna Clyne. Here is the program:
Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings, RV 114
Anna Clyne: Concerto for Mandolin and Strings, “Three Sisters”
Vivaldi: Concerto for Mandolin, R 425
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso, RV 565 (from L’estro armónico)
Vivaldi: Gloria, R 589
On Saturday, November 17 at 8:00 EST (GMT-5) the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present a free live webcast of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. John Storgårds will conduct. The webcast will also feature violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The webcast can be seen at https://www.dso.org/live. Here’s the program.
George Antheil: Over the Plains
Daniel Bjarnason: Violin Concerto
By the way, you should really read George Antheil’s bio. It’s rare to find a composer who developed a radio guidance system for torpedoes (with actress Hedy Lamarr, no less; I am not making this up), and who was a friend of the poet Ezra Pound.
Decisions, decisions! There are two live concert webcasts tonight. Which will you pick?
Tonight, April 7, 2018, at 8PM EDT (GMT-4) the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and violinist Yoonshin Song will present Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2. There will be a pre-concert interview with composer Steven Bryant at 7PM. You can view the DSO concert here. Here’s the full program:
Steven Bryant: Zeal (world premiere!)
Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
At 9PM EDT (GMT-4) The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and violinist Maureen Nelson will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending. You can view the SPCO concert here. Here’s the full program:
Charles Gounod: Petite symphonie for Wind Instruments
Lembit Beecher: The Conference of the Birds
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for Strings
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has a free app available for iPhone, iPad, and iTouch so you can enjoy their live concert webcasts and concert library wherever you go. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has a free DSO To Go app which is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
What if you can’t make either concert? The SPCO has a free concert library that you can watch on demand. The DSO has their Replay performance archive, which is available for a year with a $50 donation to the DSO.
I hope you will enjoy the concerts!
This weekend, April 1 and 2, 2017, The Opera Platform presents two live webcasts.
Today, April 1, 2017 at 12:55 EDT (GMT -4) The Opera Platform will present Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti from the stage of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia Spain.
Tomorrow, April 2, 2017 at 12:55 EDT (GMT -4) see the opening performance of Sorochintsy Fair by Modest Mussorgsky and Vissarion Shebalin (who finished the incomplete opera) from the stage of the Komische Oper in Berlin.
If you can’t make it, you will be able to view the webcast for a limited time on the website. Check out the website for other operas available for viewing on demand.
On February 11, 2017 at 8:00PM EST (GMT-5), medici.tv will present a concert by Joshua Bell and the National Symphony Orchestra. The live webcast is free. Here is the link.
The program will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole. The latter will include a dance performance by the Dance Heginbotham dance company.
The performance will also be streaming on the medici.tv Facebook channel.
If you won’t be able to watch the live webcast, it will be available on demand at medici.tv for 90 days.
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