Grant Llewellyn leads the Brevard Sinfonia in concert with trumpet soloist Neal Berntsen performing Alexander Arutunian's Trumpet Concerto. The concert also includes Rameau's Les fêtes d'Hébé, Bartók's rousing Dance Suite and one of Debussy's most admired orchestral works, La Mer.

Brevard Music Festival: La Mer

Keith Lockhart leads the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in an electrifying performance of Respighi's Roman Triptych — Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome, and the all-time favorite, Pines of Rome.

Brevard Music Festival: Respighi's Roman Triptych

Ken Lam leads the Brevard Sinfonia in an evening of music from the early twentieth century featuring works by Ravel and Walton. The concert opens with Ravel's orchestration of his own piano piece Alborada del gracioso, which beautifully blends demanding technical passages with Spanish musical themes. In a second offering from pianist Norman Krieger, he will perform the Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The concert will close with a performance of English composer William Walton's first symphony.

Brevard Music Festival: Walton & Ravel

Johannes Moser  performs Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G at the Brevard Music Center on August 4, 2013.

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Johannes Moser Encore at the 2013 Brevard Music Festival

Pianist Valarie Valois joins WDAV in the John Clark Performance Studio to perform selected works, including Danza de la moza donosa by Alberto Ginastera and Forest Murmurs by Franz Liszt.

Performance Chat: Valerie Valois

Regarded as one of the world’s top male-voice choirs, Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Oxford, England returns to Covenant Presbyterian Church to perform as part of the 2014 Ulysses Festival. The event was presented live by WDAV with host Theresa Woody and Matt Rogers.

Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Oxford Live

Open Air Brevard co-hosts Frank Dominguez and Dick Kowal end the first part of the show and then open the second half with an introduction to Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Open Air Brevard 2014, "Opening Night Sampler & A Look Back"

The Brevard Sinfonia, under Keith Lockhart, performs Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra 

Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra, Open Air Brevard 2014, "Opening Night Sampler & A Look Back"

This edition of the program pairs the headliner from the season’s gala opening concert with highlights from a concert featuring a venerable Swiss conductor. The superstar headliner is iconic violinist Itzhak Perlman, and the venerable and well-liked conductor is Matthias Bamert.

HAYDN: Symphony No. 60 in C Major, “Il distratto”—“The Distracted” - Brevard Sinfonia

Keith Lockhart and Itzhak Perlman discuss John Barry & John Williams

STRAUSS: Concerto in D Major for Oboe and Small Orchestra  Brevard Sinfonia

GARDEL: "Por una cabeza" from Scent of a Woman - Brevard Music Center Orchestra

MORRICONE: Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso - Brevard Music Center Orchestra

WILLIAMS: Theme from Sabrina - Brevard Music Center Orchestra

BARRY: Theme from Out of Africa - Brevard Music Center Orchestra

A podcast on Brahms’ German Requiem, featuring the Oratorio Singers and Dr. Scott Allen Jarrett, Director of Choruses and Assistant Conductor for the Charlotte Symphony.

Podcast: Backstory - Brahms

WDAV's Frank Dominguez talks with Charlotte Symphony bassoonist Joshua Hood

Arts Feature: Joshua Hood

Camerata Vocale Sine Nomine, a Cuban male a cappella group, perform live in WDAV’s John Clark Performance Studio prior to their Charlotte performance at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter.

Performance/Chat: Camerata Vocale Sine Nomine

On Biscuits and Bach, Gil Shaham joins Rachel Stewart for a conversation about playing Bach, and he tells us which breakfast food is his guilty pleasure.

Biscuit Chat: Gil Shaham

Chad Lawson plays Vladimir Horowitz's personal piano live from the John Clark Performance Studio at WDAV. Host Joe Brant talks with Lawson and Mark Love, of Steinway Piano Gallery-Charlotte, as part of the Steinway Horowitz piano tour. 

Performance/Chat: Chad Lawson

Rachel Stewart talks to Barbara Kopald of the Symphony Guild of Charlotte and Blake Hartwick, Executive Chef at Bonterra, about the Guild's upcoming Heart of the Home Kitchen tour.

Biscuit Chat: Barbara Kopald and Blake Hartwick

Host Myelita Melton interviews clarinetest Oskar Espina Ruiz about the musical influence of composer Julian Menédez on his career.

Interview: Oskar Espina Ruiz

Ware speaks with WDAV about his performance as part of the Davidson College Concert Series, life and music.

Interview with Allan Ware

Host Rachel Stewart chats with author and nationally recognized authority on Southern cooking, Damon Lee Fowler. His latest book is Ham, A Savor the South Cookbook. Fowler explains why ham is a staple of the southern diet, what makes country ham so salty, and how to prepare the perfect ham biscuit.

Damon Lee Fowler on Ham

Biscuit Chat: Damon Lee Fowler on Ham

Tara Keith, associate professor of music at Davidson College and music director of the Davidson College Symphony Orchestra, spoke with WDAV about her experiences as a female conductor working in a field that has traditionally been dominated by men and about the importance of music education for girls.

Interview with Tara Kieth

Interview with Tara Keith

Rachel Stewart interviews Jennifer Stasack, professor of music at Davidson College, about what it is like being a female composer in today’s age and what female figures she used as role models to get to where she is today.

Interview with Jennifer Stasack

Rachel chats with Jamie DeMent, a North Carolina writer, chef, farmer and restaurant owner who has a new cookbook out called The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from my Carolina Farm. Listen to find out about the value in seasonal cooking and eating local.

Jamie DeMent on The Farmhouse Chef

Rachel talks with Dr. Anton Armstong, conductor of the renowned St. Olaf’s Choir, who visits Winston-Salem to guest conduct a couple of concerts in early May. He'll explain the importance of music in the liturgical year and let us in on his favorite breakfast joint in NYC.

Dr. Anton Armstrong

Dr. Anton Armstong

Rachel chats with Scott Allen Jarrett, artistic director of Bach Akademie Charlotte, a new organization in the Charlotte area devoted to the music of Bach and the baroque era. Although only in their first year of existence, they’re launching their inaugural Charlotte Bach Festival.

Scott Allen Jarret on the Charlotte Bach Festival

Biscuit Chat: Scott Allen Jarrett on the Charlotte Bach Festival

Stephen Darlington, Director of Music at Christ Church, Oxford, describes Francesco Durante’s Requiem Mass in C minor as one of the most important orchestral Requiem settings of the 18th century. He joins WDAV to talk about this somewhat overlooked work.

Biscuit Chat: Stephen Darlington on Francesco Durante's Requiem Mass

Violinist Anne Akiko Myers talks with WDAV about her performance at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC.

Biscuit Chat: Anne Akiko Meyers on the Eastern Music Festival

Biscuit Chat: Anne Akiko Myers on the Eastern Music Festival

Guitarist Jason Vieaux talks with host Rachel Stewart about his favorite breakfast foods. Vieaux may be a native of Buffalo, but he knows a thing or two about Southern breakfast.

Jason Vieaux

Biscuit Chat: Jason Vieaux

Composer Dan Forrest talks about how the music of Johann Sebastian Bach informs his own compositions. And what he would eat for breakfast on Sunday mornings if he weren’t so busy.

Dan Forrest on Being Influenced by Bach

Biscuit Chat: Dan Forrest on Being Influenced by Bach

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR's correspondent based in Paris, joins Rachel for a cosmopolitan breakfast discussion covering everything from croissants to cream of wheat.

Biscuit Chat with Eleanor Beardsley

Nicholas Britell on his approach to creating a score, what it’s like being nominated for an academy award, and upcoming projects.

Nicholas Britell on Being Nominated for Best Original Score

Reel Music: Nicholas Britell on Being Nominated for Best Original Score

Terence Blanchard talks about being nominated for an academy award, how he decides the direction of a score, working with director Spike Lee and the timeliness of a movie like BlacKkKlansman.

Terence Blanchard on Being Nominated for Best Original Score

Reel Music: Terence Blanchard on Being Nominated for Best Original Score

Davidson College music department chair Neil Lerner talks about the seminar he’s teaching on horror movie music.

Niel Lerner on Hearing Horror

Neil Lerner on the History of Horror Music

Mozart: A Little Night Music

Vivaldi: Spring

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