Need something to listen to as you spend Wednesday preparing for Thanksgiving festivities? Tune into NPR’s “On Point,” on which the National Music Festival’s artistic director Richard Rosenberg will be a featured guest. The live broadcast, focusing on the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, will air this Wednesday, November 21, from 11:00 a.m. to noon.
Rosenberg is known in the music world for his research, rediscovery, performances and recordings of the music of the “Creole Romantic” composers (New Orleans composers who lived and worked in the 19th century), of whom Gottschalk is the most famous. Rosenberg’s two discs of Gottschalk’s music were nominated for Grammy Awards, and his editions of Gottschalk’s works have been performed all over the world.
“On Point” is carried by 240 stations nationwide, and has a weekly audience of 1.2 million. Regionally, the show is carried by WDDE 91.1 FM as well as WAMU 88.5 FM. The show can also be heard online via live streaming at www.onpoint.wbur.org.
On June 8, 2013, the National Music Festival will perform the overture to “La Chasse de Jeune Henri,” a work composed by Étienne Méhul and arranged by Gottschalk for three pianos (10 hands) and orchestra. This will be only its second performance since 1862.
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