Enjoy a celebration of films and the folks in them who make us laugh. Great screen comedies and their music include Some Like It Hot, Chaplin, Jack Lemmon films, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and a lot more. Lynne Warfel hosts.
On this episode of Friday Favorites, for March 31, 2023, guest host Steve Seel plays a dedication to Minneapolis organist Daniel Chorzempa. Kathy in Cottage Grove requests a family favorite by Rossini, and Theresa gets her request for a tasty polka.
Randi Hacker exposes unreleased lyrics to all your familiar favorites.
For the first time since 2015, the North Dakota State University Challey School of Music performed its annual holiday tradition ‘Messiah’ at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis in late 2022. Listen now to that performance for Easter.
Composer and educator William Dawson dedicated his life to the promotion and cultivation of Black American music traditions. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.
This week, ‘From the Top’ will feature four talented young musicians who are disabled or neurodivergent. Acclaimed violinists Itzhak Perlman, who performs while seated following a childhood bout with polio, and Julia LaGrand will perform and guest-host alongside host Peter Dugan.
This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, is the second of two listener request shows this month and features listeners’ favorite tracks. Listen now!
The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz band with elements of classical music, comedy and clowning that performs music live to animation, both old and contemporary.
A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more.
On this episode of Friday Favorites, for March 24, 2023, guest host Steve Seel plays Adolf Shulz-Evler’s Arabesque on Themes of ‘On the Beautiful Blue Danube,’ continues St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with more Irish music and plays a request for ‘a short piece that will wake anyone up’.
