December 10. 2016: Tonight is a special night for both KKRN and Intermountain Classics! Tonight’s Intermountain Classics program features “Classical Blues”; “How the classics have influenced jazz and blues music styles, and how jazz and blues have influenced modern classical music styles”. You will hear selections by familiar classical and jazz composers George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as jazz composers William Grant Still, George Antheil, Constant Lambert and one of my personal favorites, the Turtle Island String Quartet. In the second hour of tonight’s program you will hear a sampling of the musical treats awaiting you at the upcoming holiday concerts by our own North State Symphony, including a sneak preview of this year's “New York New Year’s Eve Gala” concert.
Hour 1:
Intro: Morton Gould: Boogie Woogie Etude for solo piano(Benjamin Grosvenor, piano) [1.58]
George Gershwin: Variations on I Got Rhythm (Ama Deus Ensemble/Valentin Rudu with Peter Donahue, piano) [9.25]
George Antheil: A Jazz Symphony (NDR Radiophilharmonic/Eiji Oue with Markus Becker, piano) [7.52]
Shostakovich: ‘Polka’ from the Suite for Jazz Orchestra (National Symphony of Ukraine/Theodore Kuchar) [7.53]
Constant Lambert: Elegiac Blues for solo piano (Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, piano) [3.20]
Leonard Bernstein: Three Dances from Fancy Free: Galop, Waltz and Danzon) (Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler) [6.28]
William Grant Still: Blues from Lenox Avenue (The Los Angeles WPA Symphony Orchestra/William Grant Still) [8.43]
Turtle Island String Quartet: Blue Rondo a la Turk (Turtle Island String Quartet) [6.28]
Stravinsky: Ragtime for 11 Instruments [4.35]
Hour 2:
Vivaldi-Concerto for strings RV 155 in G minor (I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis) [8.29]
Schoenberg-Weinachtsmusik (Christmas music) (Taverner Chamber Players/Andrew Parrott) [5.07]
Christmas Carols from St. John’s: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol (Rutter); Silent Night (Gruber); Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn (Choir of St. John’s College Cambridge/George Guest with Philip Kenyon, organ) [10.25]
Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blue (Slovak National Philharmonic Orchestra with Libor Pesek, piano) [16.25]
