PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Tue 12.02 2pm
Native New Orleans jazz musicians pay tribute to the the jazz kings of the Crescent City on Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Wed 12.03 8pm
A study in contrasts as the Chicago Symphony Chorus sings Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mozart’s C Minor Mass, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Thu 12.04 8pm
Master of the short story, George Saunders, in conversation with writer Charles Bock on City Arts & Lectures.

Fri 12.05 2pm
Vernel Bagneris and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tell the music story of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast on Riverwalk Jazz.

Sat 12.06 1pm
Broadway Revisited explores the Broadway careers, from the ‘20s to the ‘60s, of lyricist Howard Dietz and composer Arthur Schwartz.

Sun 12.07 7pm
Claudio Monteverdi’s 364 year old Baroque masterpiece, The Coronation of Poppea, from the Houston Grand Opera on NPR World of Opera.

Mon 12.08 8pm
Joshua Bell is featured on violin as Leonard Slatkin conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tue 12.09 11am
Soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and pianist Kevin Murphy join the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in four of Rachmaninoff’s Six Songs.

Wed 12.10 2pm
Dee Dee Bridgewater hosts the Django Reinhardt Festival from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., on JazzSet.

Thu 12.11 6:30pm
Budget expert Linda Bilmes discusses the true cost of the Iraq conflict, as calculated with Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, on Cambridge Forum.

Fri 12.12 2pm
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band gives hot jazz treatment to rags, parlor songs and spirituals composed a century ago on Riverwalk Jazz.

Sat 12.13 7pm
Members of the all-star trio Ferintosh discuss their distinctive blend of Celtic and Baroque music on The Thistle and Shamrock.