Orchestra of St. Luke's Broadcasts Concert From DiMenna Center

Starting today, American Public Media will broadcast the first studio concert recorded from Orchestra of St. Luke's new home, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. The one-hour concert, conducted by Maestro Iván Fischer and hosted by Fred Child, will broadcast on American Public Media's Performance Today, the most-listened-to classical music radio show in America.

The broadcast features OSL performing two works that redefined music from the Classical era: Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4. Between performances, Child and Fischer provide insight into the program through a Q&A session.

With spaces that are specially designed for rehearsal and recording, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music offers OSL new capabilities to host a wide range of programs through its OSL@DMC series-including studio concerts, open rehearsals and arts education programs. This Performance Today broadcast was recorded in the 3,395 square foot Mary Flagler Cary Hall, whose large size and state-of-the-art broadcast connectivity allowed Performance Today to record its very first "performance chat" with both orchestra and in-studio audience.

Performance Today will air this concert over two successive days on public radio stations throughout the country-today, Thursday, April 21 and Friday, April 22 (check local listings). WQXR listeners in New York City can hear the broadcast in its entirety over Performance Today's evening hours on Sunday, April 24 beginning at 7PM ET. The program will also be posted on performancetoday.org and OSLmusic.org.

OSL@DMC
Recorded Friday, April 8, 2011
Premiere broadcast Thursday, April 21 (part 1) and Friday, April 22 (part 2)

Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL)
Iván Fischer, conductor

PROGRAM PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 "Classical"
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, op. 60

About Orchestra of St. Luke's
Now in its 36th year, Or­chestra of St. Luke's (OSL) is one of America's foremost and most versatile ensembles. Dedicated to engaging audiences throughout New York City and beyond, OSL performs approximately 75 orchestral, chamber, and educational concerts each year-including an annual chamber music series at The Morgan Library & Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Dia:Beacon, an orchestra series at Carnegie Hall and summer concerts as Orchestra-in-Residence at Caramoor International Music Festival. The Orchestra collaborates regularly with the world's great artists, such as Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Anna Netrebko, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mark Morris Dance Group, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Elton John, and many more. In March 2011, OSL opened The DiMenna Center for Classical Music-its first permanent home, and New York City's first rehearsal and recording facility dedicated to classical music. Committed to community-building, OSL produces free concerts in each of the five boroughs, and has engaged more than one million children in its arts education programs. OSL's stellar 70+ discography includes four acclaimed releases on its own label, St. Luke's Collection, and four Grammy Award-winning recordings. For the Orchestra of St. Luke's calendar of events, tickets, and more information, visit OSLmusic.org.

About The DiMenna Center
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, located at 450 West 37th Street, is New York City's first space dedicated to classical music rehearsal, recording and education. In addition to serving as Orchestra of St. Luke's first permanent home, The 20,000+ square foot DiMenna Center offers local and touring musicians unprecedented access to high-quality rehearsal and recording space in midtown Manhattan at affordable rental rates. Designed by Hugh Hardy and Geoff Lynch of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture and acousticians Paul Scarbrough and Russell Todd of Akustiks, The DiMenna Center's building is also home to Baryshnikov Arts Center. For more information, visit DiMennaCenter.org.

About Performance Today ®
Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.4 million weekly listeners on 243 stations around the country. Performance Today features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. The list of concert performers and studio guests on Performance Today is a Who's Who of the classical music world: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yo Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Midori, Maxim Vengerov, Itzhak Perlman, Andrew Manze, Pierre Boulez, John Adams, John Tavener, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Cecelia Bartoli, the Emerson Quartet, the Eroica Trio, Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ravi Shankar, Mikhail Pletnev, Emanuel Ax, and Alfred Brendel, to name just a few. Several times each year, Performance Today also features young American soloists with the potential for great careers, as "Young Artists in Residence."