Events

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

I follow up the modern music of the Americans Bolcom, Musto and Mercurio with an operetta from an earlier period in the history of the Americam lyric theater: Leo Fall's The Rose of Stambul (1916).

Join Accent on Creative Music host Maurice D. Robertson, this Wednesday, July 16, 2014 from 9:00 p.m. to midnight.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Join Accent on Creative Music host Maurice D. Robertson Wednesday night July 23, 2014 from 9:00 p.m. to midnight.

At 9:30, Maurice will interview percussionist/bandleader Ray Mantilla. Then at 10:30 Maurice will interview percussionist/bandleader Steve Kroon.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Normally this would be the Sunday in the Summer seasonal lineup that I reserve for one or another of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The 19th annual Litchfield Jazz Festival takes place August 8-10, 2014 at the fairgrounds in Goshen, CT.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Host Chuck Obuchowski airs an interview with Canadian saxophonist/flutist Jane Bunnett during Out Here & Beyond, his Tuesday morning jazz program, August 5, 2014 at 10 a.m. Bunnett will perform at the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Sunday, August 10.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Way back in late Summer of 1982, I remember broadcasting on two London LPs the complete music for the comic opera Hary János (1926) by Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). Kodály's orchestral suite derived from the opera is much more frequently performed and recorded.