Nashville Symphony concert to be broadcast nationwide via NPR on Thursday, January 6, at 7 p.m.
WHAT: Performance Today and NPR broadcast the Nashville Symphony's first concert of 2011 live via Internet and radio
WHEN: Thursday at 7 p.m. CST
WHERE:
http://www.npr.org/music/genres/classical/Nashville Symphony presents its first concert in the newly reopened Schermerhorn Symphony Center this Thursday. Part of the SunTrust Classical Series, the concert will be broadcast live by NPR in conjunction with American Public Media's Performance Today®. In addition to airing on 237 stations around the country, the program will stream live on the NPR website. Following the concert, there will be a live chat where listeners can speak with Nashville Symphony musicians.
Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan will lead the concert, which opens with Mendelssohn's Overture to The Fair Melusine. Pianist Robert Levin, one of the world's foremost Mozart scholars, will be featured in Mozart's Concerto for Piano No. 22. The evening will conclude with Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. This live webcast of Nashville Symphony's concert celebrates the resilience and spirit of Nashville, a great American city.
Performance Today reaches more than 1.2 million listeners every week. For more information about the program, including local broadcast times, visit
http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/.
Nashville public radio station WPLN-90.3 FM will also re-air this concert during the summer as part of its regularly scheduled broadcasts of Nashville Symphony concerts.
Photo Credit:
Harry Butler
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