Each month on the YourClassical Favorites stream, we host a vote and a countdown of your musical favorites. In April, we're asking you to tell us your favorite violin concertos (or 'concerti', if you prefer). We've put together a ballot to help you make your selections, and you can also write in your choice. Then, on April 20 on our Favorites Stream, we'll count down the top 20, as voted by you.
We're airing our top 10 'Saint Paul Sunday' programs, hosted by Bill McGlaughlin, as part of the MPR 50th anniversary. The first in the series will feature Dorothy Delay, the longtime pedagogue who taught so many amazing artists, including Itzhak Perlman.
Earlier in March, we asked you to tell us who your favorite conductors are. We've tallied the results, and on Monday, March 20, starting at 10 a.m. Central Time on our Favorites stream, we'll count down the top 20 favorite conductors -- as voted by you.
Each month on the YourClassical Favorites stream, we host a vote and a countdown of your musical favorites. In March, we're asking you to tell us who your favorite conductors are. As an added bonus this month, when you vote, you'll be entered for a chance to win the 'Karl Bohm: Great Recordings 1953-1972' box set from Deutsche Grammophon. Be sure to vote by Monday, March 13.
As part of Minnesota Public Radio's 50th-anniversary celebration, we asked you to select the pieces of music you think are essential to an appreciation of classical music. We've tallied your votes, and from Tuesday, Feb. 28, to Thursday, March 2, we'll count down the Top 50 Classical Favorites -- as voted by you.
Each month on the YourClassical Favorites stream, we host a vote and a countdown of your musical favorites. In February, we asked you to tell us your favorite pieces that evoke feelings of love and romance. We've tallied the votes, and now we'll count them down on Monday, Feb. 20, on the Favorites stream, starting at 10 a.m. Central Time.
Today, a giant sculpture of a hippopotamus in the pose of Degas's 'Little Dancer' is being unveiled across the street from Lincoln Center.
Starting Tuesday, Jan. 31, and continuing until the end of day on Monday, Feb. 6, we're asking you to vote for your favorite pieces of 'romantic' (small R) music. On Friday, Feb. 20, starting at 10 a.m. Central, listen to the Favorites Stream as we count down the top 20 favorite pieces that evoke feelings of love and romance, as voted by you.
Each month on the YourClassical Favorites stream, we host a vote and a countdown of your musical favorites. In January, we asked you to tell us your favorite overtures. We've tallied the votes, and now we'll count them down on Friday, Jan. 20, on the Favorites stream, starting at 10 a.m. Central Time.
Composer/producer Grant Woolard has come up with a new 'Classical Mashup' in which he weaves 52 composers and 31 classical themes into one six-minute piece of music.
