Literature in the Modern World
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64: St Paul CO/
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
7.35 Tchaikovsky Rose Adagio (Sleeping Beauty) Minneapolis SO/ Antal Dorati
7.41 Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead Minneapolis SO/
Dimitri Mitropoulos
8.01 Schubert Ballet No 2 (Rosamunde) Minneapolis SO/
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
8.09 Britten
The Young Person's
Guide to the Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra/
Neville Marriner. Records
Christopher Cook introduces the second day of Radio 3's visit to Minneapolis-St Paul.
(ends 12 midnight)
A special edition of Minnesota Public Radio's weekly survey of organ performance and recordings, presented by Michael Barone.
John Drummond introduces highlights from the past three seasons' concert-series of the Minnesota Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, with contributions from composer John Harbison and conductors Hugh Wolff and Stanislav Skrowaczewski.
Christopher Cook chairs a discussion about how money is sought by the arts in America and how patronage affects the resulting product.
Musical Roots In Minnesota
A diverse sampler of traditional music in Minnesota presented by Dale Connelly. host of MPR's Morning Show. Viewed in the US as a primarily Scandinavian enclave,
Minnesota is home to many ethnic communites, each with its own musical tradition.
Some of those traditions have been preserved, some mixed with popular musical styles, but all are representative of the region's past and present.
In Search of Betty Crocker Her image beamed from a million packets of cake mix, a byword for the domesticity of 50s America. Carol Ann Marling joins Beth Friend to find out what happened to America's queen of the kitchen.
Michael Berkeley meets two choral societies active in the Twin Cities area - the Plymouth Music Series. directed by Philip Brunelle , and the Dale Warland Singers.
Jonathan Raban 's Old Glory recounted his adventures on the Mississippi. His new book Hunting Mr Heartbreak follows the journeys of European emigrants to the new world. He talks to Beth Friend about the immigrant experience.
out of Mountains
Cray Research make computers for an average price of 13 million dollars. But these are not average computers. In one second a Cray can do two-and-a-half billion calculations.
Geoff Watts examines their effect on science.
Bill McGlaughlin introduces
MPR's weekly programme with today's guests - the Emerson String Quartet who play movements from works by Ives, Debussy and Ravel, and Shostakovich's Quartet No 10.
Minnesota used to be
Democratic Party heartland.
Now the party's prospects are faltering, John Tusa finds out whether the decline in the traditional labour vote and adverse reaction to the party's liberal stance on the Gulf War is affecting the future of the Democratic tradition.
Michael Berkeley talks to founders and members of this
500-strong organisation and introduces some of their music.
from the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minnesota.
Led by the Dean, the Very Rev Thomas Winkler , and the Rev Anne Miner-Pearson . Rector of St Anne's Episcopal Church. Sunfish Lake. Choirs of St
Clement's Episcopal Church, St Paul and the Cathedral
Choir. Musical director
Dr Stanford Lehmberg
Organist Dr Dean Billmeyer.
John Tusa reports on the BBC's American cousin and finds that the public radio is funded not by a licence fee but by fund-raising jamborees and 'sponsor credits' that sound suspiciously like adverts. At the public radio conference in New Orleans, he talks to the characters behind the many stations.
Bill Holm and Paul Gruchow reflect on what is left of the tall grass prairies, the flat silent lands that fell to the ploughs of the pioneers.
Christopher Cook samples the theatrical menu from the world renowned Guthrie Theatre to the Black Penumbra Theatre , taking in the French-based Theatre de la Jeune Lune.
St Paul Chamber Orchestra conductor Christopher Hogwood Stephen Hough (piano).
Introduced by MPR's regular host. Michael Barone.
John Becker Symphony No 5 (Homage to Mozart)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat (K 271)
8.55 John Drummond talks with the orchestra's president, Bill Vickery , and musical director, Christopher Hogwood.
9.15 Ibert Homage to Mozart Mozart Symphony No 28 in C (K 200)
Paul Eddington ,
Robert Foxworth , Hannah Gordon ,
Jerry Rubino , Joe Spano in an entertainment of prose, poetry and music before an audience in the World Theatre, St Paul , devoted to the people, writers and musicians associated with the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul as well as the theme of 'twins'.
Devised by David Benedictus. During the interval, memories of the building of the Guthne with Tanya Moiseiwitsch and the voice of Tyrone Guthrie.
