Archive for the ‘Host Blogs’ Category

Apr. 29 2026

Marie Taglioni: The Revolutionary Sylphide

By Dyana Neal | Posted in Host Blogs | Comments Off on Marie Taglioni: The Revolutionary Sylphide

Marie Taglioni was practically fated to be an artist. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1804 to Italian choreographer Fillipo Taglioni and Swedish ballet dancer Sophie Karsten, she came from a family that included other dancers and choreographers as well as at least one opera singer. The family moved to Vienna when Marie was very young […]

Apr. 28 2026

Avila Home Care shares the power of music with senior citizens

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews | Comments Off on Avila Home Care shares the power of music with senior citizens

    Avila Music Makers offers a concert series of  internationally acclaimed classical and jazz musicians to Senior Living Communities in the Baltimore-Annapolis areas. I invited Gretchen Maneval, Director of External Affairs at Avila Home Care, to tell me more.     For more information about Avila Home Care and its Avila Music Makers programming, […]

Apr. 26 2026

Music From Movies 04-26-26

By Kati Harrison | Posted in Host Blogs, Music From Movies | Comments Off on Music From Movies 04-26-26

7:00 PM Mikis Theodorakis Zorba the Greek: Zorba’s Dance Silva 5006 COND Nic Raine ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 4:21 C 2 10-10 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:06 PM 51316 Andre Previn Elmer Gantry: Selections Ryko 10732 COND Andre Previn AHN dray PREH vihn ORCH Studio Orchestra 15:50 C 1 0-0 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:23 PM 28795 Frederick Loewe Gigi: […]

Apr. 24 2026

Story Fest 26 puts community out front

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Story Fest 26 puts community out front

With its third-annual festival landing at Theatre Project May 1-3, Baltimore Story Fest’s 2026 incarnation offers a new twist on their usual routine. Rather than simply showcase the finished work of accomplished local storytellers, Creative Director Phill Branch has decided to open up the process and the results directly to the community at large. The […]

Apr. 24 2026

Toccata listings for 4/26/26

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on Toccata listings for 4/26/26

On tonight’s program,a trio sonata by Bach, a sonata for 2 pianos by soldier/poet/composer Mark Maarder, and a piano concerto by well known conductor Evegeny Svetlanov.  Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 539 Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat BWV 525 Nimbus 5280 SOLO Kevin Bowyer, organ 13:24 C 1 6-8 […]

Apr. 23 2026

Shriver Concerts’ 60th season draws to a close

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews | Comments Off on Shriver Concerts’ 60th season draws to a close

    I have so enjoyed meeting up with Shriver Hall Concert Series Executive Director, Catherine Cochran, from time to time this season to look back on the six decades that the series has been bringing great artists to Baltimore. You can hear our sixth and last episode here:      

Apr. 20 2026

Steven Isserlis closes Shriver’s 60th subscription season

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | Comments Off on Steven Isserlis closes Shriver’s 60th subscription season

    British cellist Steven Isserlis and his long-time collaborator Connie Shih perform a program of Beethoven, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Vítězslava Kaprálová to close out the subscription season of Shriver Hall Concert Series‘ 60th anniversary. I spoke with him by phone from New York.  

Apr. 20 2026

Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure

When is a revival also a premiere? When the piece in question is a landmark classic of the Romantic ballet repertoire that has rarely been seen on European or American stages in more than a century. Such is the case with Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s current production of La Esmeralda, an action-packed but also sweetly […]

Apr. 20 2026

Beloved novel takes center stage

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Beloved novel takes center stage

Louis Sachar’s stage adaptation of his own crowd-pleasing, critically celebrated young adult novel Holes digs in at Baltimore Center Stage through May 10th, in a production directed by Baltimore-area director Johanna Gruenhut and featuring several locally based cast members. Holes follows a diverse band of misfit youngsters thrown together willy-nilly under the punishing desert sun and […]

Apr. 19 2026

Music From Movies 04-19-26

By Kati Harrison | Posted in Host Blogs, Music From Movies | Comments Off on Music From Movies 04-19-26

7:00 PM Alan Silvestri Back to the Future Telarc 80146 COND Erich Kunzel Erik KUN zl ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 3:18 C 1 2-2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:05 PM 36065 Miklos Rozsa Spellbound:Dream Sequence/Mountain LodgeTelarc 80708 COND Erich Kunzel Erik KUN zl ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:16 C 1 3-3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7:14 PM 54796 Dave Grusin The […]

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