Zero Crossings – March 16, 2015, featuring an interview with conductor Leslie Dunner

dunner2Today’s show featured an interview with Leslie Dunner, who is a finalist candidate for the post of Music Director with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
On Saturday, March 21 at 8PM Dunner will lead the Orlando Philharmonic through a program that includes Samuel Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra, Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto (featuring Rimma Bergeron-Langlois) and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable” at Orlando’s Bob Carr Theater.

The music aired during the program included:
Leslie Dunner – Motherless Child Songs I. Motherless Child; II. I Gave My Love a Cherry; III. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen; IV. Deep River, from Open Boundaries (Innova)
Mary Watkins – Five Movements in Color I. Once Upon a Time; II. Soul of Remembrance; III. Urban Suave and Dance Survivalist; IV. Slow Burn; V. Drive By Runner, from Recorded Music of the African Diaspora (Albany)
Jean Sibelius – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47, I. Allegro moderato, Hilary Hahn and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Listen to the show here:

      Zero Crossings – March 16, 2015, Leslie Dunner, Conductor

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