Jun. 09 2026

Tuesday 6/09/26 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Felix Mendelssohn       Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61 Frederick Stock conductor Béla Bartók                 Piano Concerto No. 2 Maurizio Pollini piano Claudio Abbado conductor Edward Elgar             Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 Itzhak Perlman violin Daniel Barenboim conductor   Alexander Scriabin     Prometheus, Op. 60 Anatol Ugorski […]

Jun. 08 2026

Monday 6/08/26 New York Philharmonic

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11:00 PM BORODIN                               Symphony No. 2 in B minor Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor   SAINT-SAËNS                       Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor Leonard Rose, cello   KODÁLY                                Dances of Galánta Lorin Maazel, conductor   DVOŘÁK                                Symphony No. 7 in D minor Lorin Maazel, conductor

Jun. 07 2026

Music From Movies 06-07-26

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7:00 PM Elmer Bernstein National Geographic Theme RCA/BMG 60470 COND Harry Rabinowitz, M.B.E. ORCH United Kingdom Symphony Orch. 2:17 C 1 13-13 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:04 PM 54720 John Scott The Blue Whale JRB 106 COND John Scott ORCH Royal Philharmonic Orchestra SOLO Colin Purbrook, organ 15:04 C 1 1-2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:16 PM 34228 Morton Gould CBS […]

Jun. 07 2026

Toccata listings for 6/7/26

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On tonight’s program, a work written for pedal piano, played on the organ, a Royal Concert for 2 harpsichords, and a piano concerto from Canada.  Thanks for listening, and enjoy!   6:01 PM 38892 Charles-Valentin Alkan Impromptu (A Mighty Fortress…) Op 69/Nimbus 5089 SOLO Kevin Bowyer, organ 14:01 C 1 22-22 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:17 PM 13425 […]

Jun. 05 2026

The Goddess of Swizzle on BookNotes

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          Baltimore poet, Shirley J. Brewer—who says that she earned her MBA from the Maryland Bartending Academy!—is out with her fifth poetry collection. I invited her to read from and talk about it on BookNotes.    

Jun. 05 2026

A rose by any other name…

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On WBJC, we use the terms symphonic poem and tone poem interchangeably, and that tends to lead to confusion on the part of some of our listeners. In fact, they are the exact same thing. Whatever term we use, we are referring to a single-movement orchestral piece that tells a story or paints a musical […]

Jun. 04 2026

Thursday 6/04/26 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 LISZT: Dante Symphony   Manfred Honeck, conductor; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

Jun. 03 2026

Wednesday 6/03/26 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

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11:00 PM ORCHESTRA:           San Francisco Symphony CONDUCTOR:          Elim Chan   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:               Selections from Swan Lake, Opus 20   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:              Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, Pathétique  

Jun. 02 2026

Tuesday 6/02/26 Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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11:00 PM Paul Dukas                  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice   Francis Poulenc           Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani   Johann Sebastian Bach   Variation No. 20 from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Encore    Camille Saint-Saëns     Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, Organ Cameron Carpenter organ Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor   Maurice Ravel […]

Jun. 01 2026

LUMINOUS DEAD comes to life onstage at The Voxel

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An adaptation and staging of Caitlin Starling’s debut sci-fi/horror novel, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Luminous Dead, gets its world premiere at The Voxel in Baltimore June 2-7. It’s the brainchild of the creative imagination of Andrew Hungerford–who adapts and helms–along with Distance over Time Theater, and the result of one of the Voxel’s creative […]

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