Maryland's All-Classical Music Station
British cellist Steven Isserlis and his long-time collaborator Connie Shih perform a program of Beethoven, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Vítězslava Kaprálová to close out the subscription season of Shriver Hall Concert Series‘ 60th anniversary. I spoke with him by phone from New York.
Continuing to mark the 60th anniversary of the Shriver Hall Concert Series with our decade-by-decade overview, I invited Executive Director Catherine Cochran to talk about the decade from the oughts to the teens of this century.
The New York City-based Isidore String Quartet, which, was formed in 2019 at Juilliard, will be joined by pianist Jeremy Denk for a program of works by Haydn, Billy Childs, and Schumann for the Shriver Hall Concert Series. I spoke to the group’s violist Devin Moore by phone from New York.
Angela Hewitt‘s performances of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters, and she returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series with two of his works, along with pieces by Rameau and Scarlatti on Sunday, February 22.
Having joined WBJC in February 1998, my personal experience with the Shriver Hall Concert Series began that year. I caught up on the decade from the mid 90s to the mid-aughts with Exceutive Director, Catherine Cochran.
Grammy Award-winning pianist, Emanuel Ax, returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series with a recital of fantasies by Beethoven, Corigliano, and Schumann. It was a great pleasure to speak with him.
Against the backdrop of the end of the Vietnam War; the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel; the election of Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra affair; and the emergence of personal computing, the Shriver Hall Concert Series continued to go from strength to strength. I looked back on another decade with Executive Director, Catherine Cochran.
The “all-star trio,” consisting of Tessa Lark, violin; Joshua Roman, cello; and renowned double bass player and composer Edgar Meyer, will perform a program at Shriver Hall on November 16 that blends bluegrass roots with classical virtuosity, along with a newly commissioned trio by Edgar Meyer. I gathered the players together on their phones.
To celebrate their 60th Anniversary Season, Executive Director Catherine Cochran and I are getting together once a month to talk about each decade. Here’s the episode about the 1970s.
Sphinx Virtuosi is the flagship performing ensemble of the Sphinx Organization. I spoke with violist and Director of Ensemble Advancement, Bill Neri about their Shriver Hall program featuring composers from the Americas.