It’s an elegiac walk among portraits, surrounding the remembrance of JFK on Now Is the Time, Saturday, November 23rd at 9 pm—our new time, every Saturday night at 9 on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org.
In Gallery for solo cello, Robert Muczynski takes us past paintings, similar to how Mussorgsky does in Pictures at an Exhibition. A Kennedy Portrait for narrator and orchestra uses the words of President Kennedy and also some from the composer, William Kraft, in this work of exhilaration and hope.
From the CD Portraits & Elegies is Philip Lasser’s Vocalise, poignant music for violin and piano. Returning to the single cello, Andrew Waggoner’s Le Nom (Upperline) is a beautiful reminiscence of his hometown of New Orleans both before and after Hurricane Katrina. John Harbison walks us again through a gallery, but Six American Painters is more about the artists themselves—including Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer—rather than their work.
If you’re new to Now Is the Time, just go to wrti.org and click on the Listen: Classical button at the top. Day or night, that brings you the classical stream, and at 9 pm every Saturday, you’ll hear Now Is the Time. In the Philadelphia area with an HD radio? Dial us up at 90.1 FM, HD2, or find all the frequencies here, depending on where you are, from the Shore to the Poconos to Harrisburg to Dover. Thanks for supporting American contemporary music on WRTI!
from Philip Lasser: Vocalise
PROGRAM:
Robert Muczynski: Gallery
William Kraft: A Kennedy Portrait
Philip Lasser: Vocalise
Andrew Waggoner: Le Nom (Upperline)
John Harbison: Six American Painters
Every Saturday night at 9, Kile Smith brings you Now Is the Time, all styles of contemporary concert music by living American composers on WRTI-HD2 and the all-classical stream at wrti.org. Here are the recording details and complete schedule.
Filed under: American music, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI Tagged: Andrew Waggoner, John Harbison, Philip Lasser, Robert Muczynski, William Kraft
