Windham Chamber Music Festival: Performance Today

PERFORMANCE TODAY BROADCASTS American Public Media's (formerly National Public Radio) "Performance Today" welcomes both longtime classical music lovers and newcomers to experience the creative vitality of classical music first hand. "Performance Today" recreates the thrill of live concerts by world-renowned artists in concert halls around the globe. The program features classical music in concert from across the nation and around the world, as well as classical music news, interviews and issues. "Performance Today" is America's most-listened-to classical music radio program, reaching 1.5 million listeners on 250 stations around the country. NPR first selected a Windham Chamber Music Festival performance for broadcast on August 1, 2000. It was the premiere of Three Joplin Rags, Scott Joplin piano pieces which were arranged for chamber ensemble by WCMF Co-Director Robert Manno and performed just a few weeks prior to the broadcast. Since 2000 there have been over 50 broadcasts of various WCMF performances and these have featured performers such as harpist Deborah Hoffman, flutists Nadine Asin, Tara Helen O'Connor and Elizabeth Mann, clarinetist Alan Kay, pianists Simone Dinnerstein, John Churchwell and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, trumpeter Mark Gould, English hornist Sharon Meekins, as well as the Aspen Ensemble, Lark Quartet, Zapolski Quartet, Meridian Quartet, Borealis Wind Quartet and the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Manno. The most recent WCMF broadcast (Haydn's Symphony no. 24 with Gretchen Pusch, flute and the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Manno) was aired on Thursday, April 10, 2014. All of the Windham performances have been recorded by Wayne Hileman and Richard Price of Candlewood Digital and Gregory Squires of Squires Productions. Here is a listing of some of the WCMF performances that have been broadcast on "Performance Today." Haydn, Symphony no. 24, 04/10/14 Dvorak, "Klid" ("Silent Woods") for Cello and Orchestra, 03/17/14 Finzi, A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3, 09/11/13 Finzi, A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3, 07/11/13 Dvorak, "Klid" ("Silent Woods") for Cello and Orchestra, 02/04/13 Brahms, Capriccio in b minor, 01/14/13 George Frideric Handel, "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba," from Solomon, 10/23/12 Gerald Finzi, A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3, 09/06/12 Francois Dompierre, Les Beautes du Diable, 07/28/12 Francois Dompierre, Les Beautes du Diable, 07/25/12 George Frideric Handel, "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba," from Solomon, 07/23/12 Claude Debussy, Preludes, Book 1, No 8, 04/17/12 Eric Ewazen, A River Valley Idyll for Chamber Orchestra, 04/06/12 Robert Manno, Three Scenes from the Mountains, 12-28-11 Aaron Copland, Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano, 11/29/11 Eric Ewazen, A River Valley Idyll for Chamber Orchestra, 09/30/11 Robert Manno, Three Scenes from the Mountains, 09-28-11 Robert Manno, Three Scenes from the Mountains, 07-05-10 Robert Manno, Seven Quiet Pieces for Eight Instruments, 12-11-09 Timo Alakotila, "Pelimanni's Revenge" (performed by Ethel),11-10-08 Ethel, 10-01-08 Ethel, 12-21-07 Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 23, 10-30-07 Ethel, 10-08-07 Britten, Simple Symphony, 07-14-07 Britten, Simple Symphony, 07-12-07 Josef Suk, Serenade for Strings, 06-26-07 Sir Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings, 04-03-07 Robert Manno, 09-04-06 Robert Manno, 04-21-06 Carl Maria von Weber, 12-07-05 Ralph Vaughan Williams, 10-28-05 Romeo Cascarino, 10-16-05 Romeo Cascarino, 10-13-05 Carl Maria von Weber, 08-14-05 Carl Maria von Weber, 08-13-05 Carl Maria von Weber, 08-08-05 Cavalleria Rusticana, 08-05-05 Gerald Finzi, 02-14-05 Gerald Finzi, 12-15-04 Gerald Finzi, 12-03-04 Ravel, 10-08-04 Windham Festival String Orchestra, 07-29-04 Unfinished Eclogue, 07-26-04 Windham Festival String Orchestra, 07-23-04 Bach Re-tooled, 05-06-04 Three Encores, 04-16-04 Ernst von Dohnanyi, 01-27-04 Camille Saint-Saens, 01-23-04 Bach Sonata, 10-27-03 Haydn Quartet from Windham, 09-17-03 Saint-Saens Romance, 09-04-03 Quiet Copland, 09-01-03 Dohnanyi Serenade, 03-12-03 Debussy's Faun, 02-25-03 Bach Trio Sonata, 01-03-03 Performance Today, 07-23-02 Performance Today, 12-18-01 Performance Today, 08-18-01 Performance Today, 08-01-00

Windham Chamber Music Festival Robert Manno & Magdalena Golczewski, Co-Directors Catherine Penna, Business Manager 740 County Route 32C, Windham, NY 12496 Phone: 518-734-3868 E-mail: info@windhammusic.com The 2014 Season is made possible in part by the Willow Springs Foundation, the Peter & Cynthia Kellogg Foundation, the Windham Chapter of the Catskill Mountain Foundation and with Public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts. The Windham Chamber Music Festival is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Yamaha is the Official Piano of the Windham Chamber Music Festival. Concert Recordings by Candlewood Digital.