The Midday

Stevens Point high school junior Jane Story has performed with the Madison Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony, among others. She's performed on NPR's From the Top and has placed in the Finale Forte twice. She'll be performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra during the July 10 Concert on the Square. She returns to the Midday to perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Kreisler, and Wieniawski.

Flutist Emily Seaberry Graef, violinist Kristina Zlatareva, violinist and violist Julian Graef, and cellist Anita Graef perform works by Joseph Haydn, Isaac Albeniz, and Ernst von Dohnanyi and celebrate the upcoming second season of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival.

The charming cosmopolitan violinist, in Madison to perform The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, tells about the people who inspired him to become a musician.

The Lilies of the Midwest returned to the Midday to play several Irish and not-so-Irish tunes on their way to a weekend of performances for Saint Patrick’s Day.

In Wisconsin to perform with the Madison Symphony, the celebrated English cellist stopped by the Midday to share some thoughts about performing the Kabalevsky Cello Concerto No. 2 and speak of his admiration of...Harpo Marx

The Indianapolis-based pianist performs a program that pairs pieces by Debussy with compatible contemporary works by Amy Williams and Anthony R. Green.

Joyce Yang, in Madison to perform with the Madison Symphony, gives insights into a rare minor-key piano concerto by Mozart.

Duo guitarists Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque stop by the Midday to share their rich repertory of Romani, jazz, and classical music.

Maxim Lando came to WPR’s Buck Studio during the Midday and applied his considerable virtuosity to works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Lowell Lieberman and played excerpts […]