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Saturday on WQXR-FM
At 1:00 PM, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera brings you Gluck's Alceste in a new reissue of a 1981 recording featuring Sir Charles Mackerras leading a cast featuring Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, and Matthew Best with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus. From the Royal Opera House Heritage Series.

Tonight begins the annual summer series of broadcasts from the Music Mountain Summer Music Festival, bringing you chamber music recorded at this summer's festival in Falls Village, Connecticut, until September 27. Tune in at 9:00 to hear The Penderecki String Quartet performing Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, "Emperor"; and Janacek's String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer"; and, joined by cellist Mihai Tetel, Beethoven's Cello Quintet in A Major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer."

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Music with Bill Jerome: Dvorak's Slavonic Rhapsody, Op. 45, No. 2, performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur; and a performance of Mozart's Rondo for Piano in D Major, K. 485, by Vladimir Horowitz, in the 10:00 AM hour
Music with Clayelle Dalferes: Saint-Saens's Concerto for Piano No. 4 performed by Stephen Hough and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo; and David Diamond's Rounds for String Orchestra performed by the Seattle Symphony led by Gerard Schwarz in the noon hour
Music with Candice Agree: Haydn's Symphony No. 8, "Le Soir," performed by the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Antal Dorati in the 6:00 PM hour
From the Top features performances by soloists or ensembles ages 9-18 taped before a live audience in halls and centers across the country, at 7:00 PM. Tonight's program, recorded at Chandler Music Hall in the Green Mountains of Vermont, features French horn player Katie Jordan (17, Charlotte, VT) performing Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1, first movement; violinist Dorothea Talento (18, Woodstock, VT) playing Frizt Kreisler's Tempo di Minuetto; clarinetist Christopher Pell (16, Bronx, NY) playing a movement from Weber's Grand Duo Concertante; the Cerberus Trio (14-17, Chicago area) playing the Finale from Smetana's Piano Trio in G minor; and pianist Alvin Zhu (16, Pittsburgh, PA) a From the Top Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist, playing Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor.

Coming Up on WQXR
A WQXR.com Exclusive: Garrick Ohlsson's Beethoven Sonatas
A WQXR.com Exclusive: Garrick Ohlsson's Beethoven Sonatas - One of our most eminent pianists, 2008 Grammy Award winner Garrick Ohlsson has recently been performing and recording the Beethoven piano sonata cycle, and WQXR asked him to share his insights into the music in a project created exclusively for WQXR.com.

WQXR: Proud Partner of the City of New York
New York's classical station is the city's broadcast information source for culture. To learn more about our relationship with the City of New York click here.

People in the Arts: Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
The Frick Collection is exhibiting a selection of early Meissen porcelain from the collection of Henry Arnhold. WQXR’s Annie Bergen talks with curator Maureen Cassidy-Geiger about the rare works on display through June 29.

WQXR's Internet Audio Stream Now Available on iTunes Radio!
WQXR's internet audio stream is now available on iTunes Radio. The stream is accessible through the Radio option in the iTunes Player, as one of the choices in the "Classical" category. Click here for more details.

WQXR's New York Times reports
Did you miss the name of that restaurant in Frank Bruni's morning review on WQXR? Click here for the Restaurant, Theater Reviews and Health Times from New York Times correspondents.

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Spotlight on the 2007-2008 Classical Countdown!
WQXR thanks all of the listeners who voted in this year's Classical Countdown. You picked them, so we played them for you. We hope that you enjoyed listening and have a great year! Please click here to view the results! The 2007-2008 Classical Countdown sponsors are: Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Philharmonic and The Strand Bookstore.

Today's Question

Antal Dorati (6 PM hour) was from 1941 to 1945 the music director of which New York ballet company?
American Ballet Theatre
New York City Ballet
Joffrey Ballet
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