Concerts @ Ohio State, presenting performances by the students and faculty of the School of Music at Ohio State University, begins a new broadcast season at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7.
These Sunday afternoon programs through March will be devoted to concerts performed in Weigel Hall and Mershon Auditorium on Ohio State's campus. Ensembles represented include the Ohio State University Symphony Orchestra, Men's Glee Club, Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Flute Troupe and chamber music configurations from duets to small orchestras.
Season highlights include:
- CellOhio's performance of music by the iconoclastic "downtown" composer Julius Eastman
- A dynamite performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony
- A glorious all-Liszt piano recital by Ryan Behan
- Michael Rene Torres playing Charles Koechlin's Epitaphe a Jean Harlow
- Franz Schubert's Winterreise with Stanley Workman and Ed Bak
- The local premiere of Charles Wakefield Cadman's opera Ramala
I'm delighted to introduce to a wider audience William Ballenger, the new director of the Ohio State School of Music. His Flourish for Flutes opens the series, played by the OSU Flute Troupe and directed by Katherine Borst Jones.
Here's the Concerts @ Ohio State schedule for January. Tune in to Classical 101 Sunday afternoons at 1, or stream us.
Jan. 7
Ballenger: Flourish for Flutes
Flute Troupe conducted by Katherine Borst Jones
Grainger: Brigg Fair; Handel in the Strand
Holst: First Suite in E-flat
Symphonic Band conducted by Scott A. Jones
Liszt: Apres une Lecture de Dante
Ryan Behan, piano
Eastman: Stay On It
CellOhio
Jan. 14
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
OSU Symphony conducted by Mark Lane Swanson
Koechlin: Epitaphe de Jean Harlow
Ravel: Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques
Michael Rene Torres, saxophone
Thomas Wells, piano
Erin Helgeson Torres, flute
Gallus: Haec Dies
Brahms: O wusst ich doch den Weg zuruck
OSU Men’s Glee Club conducted by Robert Ward
Wells: A Festive Overture
Ainger: Music for Wind Symphony
OSU Wind Symphony conducted by Russel C. Mikkelson
Via: Appalachian Suite
OSU Flute Troupe conducted by Katherine Borst Jones
Jan. 21
Schubert: selections from Winterreise ("Gute Nacht," "Gefrorne Tranen," "Der Lindenbaum," "Die Post," "Der Leiermann")
Stanley Workman, tenor
Ed Bak, piano
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c, Op. 98
OSU Symphony conducted by David E. Becker
Jan. 28
Koors: Sonata for Xylophone
Susan Powell, xylophone
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
OSU Symphonic Choir conducted by Scott McCoy
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat suite
Liszt: Vallee d'Obermann
Ryan Behan, piano
