Category Archives: Classical

New Classical Special Celebrates JFK

Available April 29 – May 31, “From Casals to Camelot: Classical Music and John F. Kennedy” features performances by musicians invited to the White House during JFK’s presidency, as well as music composed in response to the Kennedy assassination, and for JFK events and anniversaries. Preview audio is available April 15.

Hosted by Andrea Blain, this new, one-hour special commemorates the 100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s birth, and explores how classical music featured during his presidency has become a potent means of remembering an American era that was both hopeful, and tinged with tragedy. Learn more.

New Memorial Day Music Special

Available May 5-31, “Dreams of the Fallen: Music of Honor and Remembrance for Memorial Day,” presents a broad variety of music, spoken remembrances, and poetry. Hosted by Steve Seel, this one-hour special features pieces by Jake Runestad, Trinity Choir, Dallas Wind Symphony, the U.S. Marine band, and more; music of Samuel Barber, J.S. Bach, Benjamin Britten, and others; poetry of Brian Turner and Walt Whitman. Learn more.

“Dreams of the Fallen: Music of Honor and Remembrance for Memorial Day,” is a new offering from APM Honors. This subset of the APM Celebrates package covers topics that require more reflection than ‘celebration’, such as Veterans Day. These programs are available as part of the larger package.

Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Listeners

Just in time for Oscars season, our new special celebrates movie music.

“The Movies & The Music: A history of Oscar-winning film music,” is a three-part, three-hour series featuring the greatest Oscar-winning scores – from the first statuette in 1934 to the present day.

Available through March 1, “The Movies & The Music” offers audiences musical history and context before the red carpet rolls out for The Academy Awards on February 26. Learn more about this latest offering in our APM Celebrates package.

New specials celebrate movie music, honor survivors

This month, we’re pleased to share two new classical music specials:

Available now through March 1, “The Movies & The Music” features movie history and Oscar-winning film scores from the 1930s to today.

Available January 22 through May 1, “Kaddish” features conversations with Holocaust survivors, and works by composers whose lives were, in some way, touched by the Holocaust.

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Performance Today Celebrates 30 Years!

On January 5, 2017, Performance Today will celebrate 30 years at the forefront of classical music. In that time, the show has featured over 65,000 live concert performances, as well as hundreds of rising stars and established headliners from around the world.

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American Public Media is pleased to showcase some of the most memorable performances of the 2016 BBC Proms. Share up to 10 weeks of programs with your audience, whether you carry the BBC World Service, SymphonyCast®, Performance Today®, or C24®. This year’s highlights include Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, a gospel ‘superchoir,’ a Brazilian night, and more.

UPDATE: Please note that BBC World Service programs WILL NOT follow the standard BBC program clock. There will be no posts or news updates at the bottom of the hour. There will be no posts or news updates at the bottom of the hour. Please see the Partners Site Proms page for more clock and program details

BBC World Service will also broadcast the episodes on the seven consecutive weekends from July 30 – September 16. Broadcast times are Saturday at 2:00pm ET and repeated Sunday at 7:00am ET.
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Classical Minnesota Public Radio and Dallas present “A Bridge of Song”

The cities of Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul drew international attention last week with shocking violence. As part of many community-wide efforts to begin healing, these two cities are creating tandem community singing events. Why? No simplistic solutions exist to wipe away all the issues behind the violence and subsequent unrest in our cities, but singing together holds unique power to break barriers. Singing creates community. Continue reading

Carnegie Hall Live February Performances

February includes an all start line-up for Carnegie Hall Live with three worldclass concerts.

  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Bernard Haitink take center stage on Tuesday, February 11 at 8:00 pm EST, for Brahms Symphony No. 4 and Funeral Music for Queen Mary by Steven Stucky (after Henry Purcell).
  • On Sunday, February 23 at 2:00 pm EST, we will showcase the superstar duo of Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax performing cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms.
  • And the February concerts conclude with Franz-Welser Most leading the Vienna Philharmonic in symphonies by Mozart and Bruckner, and Johannes Maria Staud’s On Comparative Meteorology on Wednesday, February 26 at 8:00 pm EST.

Jeff Spurgeon and Fred Child will co-host the program. Lengths and the broadcast windows will be announced in each performance’s week out reminder email.