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TODAY'S PLAYLIST: Jul 2, 2009 (Click for full day)
6:43pm FAURE: Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, Op 19
8pm MOZART: Symphony No 1 in E flat, K 16
Fog/Mist and 74 F at New York City, Central Park, NY Fog/Mist
On 96.3 FM WQXR

Naumburg Orchestral Concert Season Continues July 7
The second concert of the 104th season presents the Naumburg Orchestra playing Schubert's Symphony No. 5, a work for strings by Leo Weiner, and - with 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Alexander Fiterstein - Mozart's clarinet concerto. Stephen D'Agostino conducts. Tuesday, July 7th at 7:30 P.M in Central Park. Enter at 72nd Street, walk to the middle of the park, and then south a bit to the Band Shell. Get more Naumburg Orchestral Concert info here.


Violinist Philippe Quint Visits WQXR
Philippe Quint has a busy summer ahead, with concerts in Mexico City and Durango, Colorado. He'll be part of Mark O'Connor's inaugual String Camp here in New York, too. Philippe's new Korngold concerto recording has just been released. He performed Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge, and visited WQXR yesterday, too. Click here for Phillipe's conversation with Jeff Spurgeon, and part of the new Korngold recording.

Music Mountain's Gordon Hall
Music Mountain Returns. WQXR presents a weekly series of chamber music concerts from this summer’s Music Mountain Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut. Music Mountain, the oldest continuing summer chamber music festival in the United States, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Tuesdays at 9:05 PM

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Coming Up on WQXR
  • Saturday Afternoon at the Opera at 1 pm
  • CinemaScore - Saturdays at 8 pm
  • Live at the Concertgebouw - Saturdays at 9 pm
  • Performance Today Weekend - Sundays at 7 pm
  • SymphonyCast - Sundays at 9 pm
  • Pipedreams - Sunday at 11 pm
    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'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.

    People in the Arts: Kevin Spacey
    Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of comedies "The Norman Conquests", is now on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with the original Old Vic cast. Annie Bergen talks with Kevin Spacey, Artistic Director of the Old Vic, about bringing the plays to New York and producing them as they were originally intended, "in the round". .

    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.

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    Today's Question

    On this date in 1900, the orchestral version of Finlandia received its first performance in Helsinki. Who wrote Finlandia?
    Carl Nielsen
    Marti Talvela
    Toivo Kuula
    Jean Sibelius
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