With Steve Seel
This week on Symponycast, A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra gives us two concerts in one. First, it presents a celebration of women’s strength inspired by Sojourner Truth’s famous “Aint I a Woman” speech. Then A Far Cry performs its signature work, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Listen now with host Julie Amacher.
This week on SymphonyCast, host Julie Amacher welcomes back the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In this concert, our sensibilities are challenged with experimental celebrations of imperfection. Then functional harmony and technique guide us through an emotional expedition.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast, the Minnesota Orchestra welcomes back a fan-favorite guest, Karina Canellakis. She returns to the podium to lead a program that features Richard Strauss’ musical depiction of ‘Don Quixote.’ Listen now with guest host Melissa Ousley!
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast, we’ll hear a concert from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Karina Canellakis conducts the concert, which features soloist Nicola Benedetti in Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Listen now with guest host Steve Seel.
Violinist Augustin Hadelich joins the WDR Symphony Orchestra for ‘Violin Concerto in a minor’ by Antonin Dvorak and conductor Cristian Macelaru leads the orchestra in a fan favorite ‘Symphony No. 2’ by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast with guest host Valerie Kahler, a new fanfare by Wynton Marsalis shows off the orchestra’s brass. Then, ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ completes the concert with a delirious dream fueled by Berlioz’s obsessive passion and unrequited love.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast with host Julie Amacher, Ludovic Morlot leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a concert that features Shostakovich’s epic 10th Symphony.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast with host Julie Amacher, JoAnn Falletta leads the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra and Time for Three in a new composition by Jennifer Higdon.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast with host Julie Amacher, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra performs a concert that is anchored in hope. In this program, we will hear emotional pieces by composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Johannes Brahms.
On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast with guest host Valerie Kahler, the Nashville Symphony shares a program that combines two beautiful statements of late Romanticism with music by one of the most exquisite orchestrators, Maurice Ravel.
SymphonyCast®, with host Steve Seel, is a two-hour weekly radio program featuring a full-length concert by a major orchestra. Material is drawn from Europe’s premier symphony orchestras, along with U.S. orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Steve Seel 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.
Daniel Nass is the producer of SymphonyCast®. He is responsible for creating the sound of the show, including choosing music programming and conducting artist interviews. In his nonproducer life, he is an avid runner and an award-winning composer.
Michael "Ozzie" Osborne is the Technical Director for SymphonyCast®. He masters the live and recorded music recordings that are programmed for each SymphonyCast® show. He also enjoys photography, listening to music and bicycling.
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It’s the opening trumpet fanfare from Steve Heitzeg’s Nobel Symphony.
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