New Classical Tracks - Amit Peled (Extended)

New Classical Tracks - Amit Peled

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.


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In this week’s New Classical Tracks, Israeli-born cellist Amit Peled talks about making music in his isolated bubble during the pandemic. He explores what it means to be alone and together on his latest album, ‘Solus Et Una.’ 


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Amit Peled loves the warmth of his new cello

Saddle Up, Kid!

Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.  She was the first woman staff announcer in the station's history, and it was such big news back then, it made the LA newspapers and national radio publications.  She is thrilled women in radio is no longer newsworthy.


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Music from some of the great, and lesser, known, horse films:  Seabiscuit, Black Beauty, Hildago and a surprise ending.


Saddle Up the Horses, Kid!

Listen to the Story

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A decade ago, Costanzo had surgery that threatened to destroy his singing voice. Now he stars as a gender-fluid Egyptian pharaoh in the Met Opera's production. Originally broadcast Oct. 7, 2019.


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Anthony Roth Costanzo nearly lost his voice to cancer. Now he's back as 'Akhnaten'

Featuring some of the most popular music ever to grace the opera stage, Minnesota Opera’s ‘Carmen’ brings every aspect of Georges Bizet’s thrilling tale to life, from its tantalizing beginning to its devastating climax. Listen to audio from YourClassical MPR’s recent broadcast now.


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Listen: Minnesota Opera performs Bizet's 'Carmen'

An ecstatic exploration of classical music that’s aesthetically and uncompromisingly Black.

Rhapsody in Black - May  5, 2022

Singer Paul Robeson had a commanding physical presence, but it was his intense bass voice that led him to popularity. His successful career as an actor, singer and Socialist activist came to an end during the Cold War. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.


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 Singer Paul Robeson risked it all for social change

Andrea Blain - Final Hour - May 10, 2022

Classical host Andrea Blain is leaving after more than seven years with our listeners to return to Ireland. Find out what she’ll miss most about hosting and what she has planned for the future. (Hint: You’ll be hearing her again soon on YourClassical MPR.)


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Wishing classical host Andrea Blain a fond farewell

Elizabeth Blair

California musician Skylar Tang, 16, is the winner of a Jazz at Lincoln Center contest. She'll accept the award in New York this weekend.


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Who says big band jazz is for old people? Not this teenage composer.

Rhapsody in Black - Adolphus Hailstork

Composer Adolphus Hailstork has had his music performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world since the 1970s. He often uses his music to amplify Black voices. Find out more in the latest episode of the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.


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Composer Adolphus Hailstork amplifies Black voices with his music

Indonesian Inroads

Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense.  In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.


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Colin McPhee’s “Tabuh Tabuhan” was a groundbreaking introduction of Balinese Gamelan music to the West. On the latest episode of Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel features McPhee’s work, as well as music by Caroline Shaw, Anna Clyne and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.


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Colin McPhee’s 'Tabuh Tabuhan' makes Indonesian inroads

Concert with world premiere of Lament of the Earth

National Lutheran Choirs Present The Earth Sings Beauty

Minnesota composer Steve Heitzeg’s new work, ‘Lament of the Earth,’ premiered May 1 at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota. Performers included the National Lutheran Choir, the Minnesota Boychoir, soloist Clara Osowski and conductor David Cherwien. Listen to the concert now.


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