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Beautiful Music NOW – February 7, 2024

British musician Wayne Marshall is a pianist, organist, and conductor. The versatile performer has had a wide variety of prominent positions in the international classical music world, including Chief Conductor of WDR Funkhaus Orchestra Cologne and Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; and conductor of the first performance of Chineke! at the […]

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Beautiful Music NOW – February 5, 2024

The Grammy-winning, multi-talented singer/songwriter/conductor Bobby McFerrin is the son of musicians — his father, Robert McFerrin Sr. was a prominent opera singer. The Arkansas-born baritone debuted with New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1955, becoming the first African-American man in the company. Mr. McFerrin Sr. also sang with the National Negro Opera Company and the New York

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Beautiful Music NOW – February 4, 2024

One of today’s most exciting and talented chamber groups is Imani Winds. The Grammy-nominated ensemble was founded in 1997 by flutist Valerie Coleman. They have cultivated a reputation for their broad repertory that ranges from standard woodwind quintet music, to adaptations of classic works, to contemporary commissions. Today’s Beautiful Music features Imani Winds performing a

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Beautiful Music NOW – January 30, 2024

Today’s Beautiful Music is by innovative American composer Michael Torke. Born in Milwaukee in 1961, Torke’s genre-blending style includes classical, jazz, and minimalism, and many of his compositions are regularly performed and recorded. However, when this performance of his 1997 BRICK SYMPHONY was made in 2017, there was no commercially available recording of this composition.

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