Alison Young Feature Archive

You will be enchanted listening to this concert recorded at last season's Beethoven Festival in Winona. (06/18/2009)
The White Pine Festival, coming up next Wednesday in several towns along the St. Croix River Valley, celebrates the convergence of music, painting and poetry. The Miro Quartet is performing a new work in collaboration with poet Matthea Harvey. (06/11/2009)
Singing in a choir is not only good for your health, it's also healthy for the community. A recent study from Chorus America gives a big pat on the back to choral singers, while a new documentary puts the spotlight on the choral Mecca of Minnesota. (06/04/2009)
For 26 years, he's been associated with the "orchestra of voices," as singer, arranger, conductor, and the driving force in creating their signature sound. Now, Joseph Jennings will step down and let the next generation take over. (06/03/2009)
Minnesota Orchestra oboist Basil Reeve has been playing with the local Twin Cities chamber music group Musical Offering since the early 1970s. He'll end his tenure this weekend on a high note, by presenting the premiere of a work by James Bolle. (05/27/2009)
The New Zealand String Quartet plays an unusual work that includes an array of Maori instruments. Richard Nunns, the authority on "nga taonga puoro" (traditional Maori musical instruments) joined them in this performance. (05/27/2009)
St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis gives the world premiere of a student composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It's a piece he wrote for his Cambridge composition degree 115 years ago. (05/27/2009)
For this Memorial Day, the premiere of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Dominick Argento's memorial for his wife and muse of 51 years, soprano Carolyn Bailey Argento. (05/22/2009)
The three H's tonight at the Minnesota Orchestra: Haydn, Hanson and a new work by Jennifer Higdon. Grammy-award nominee Jennifer Koh plays an unusual concerto for violin, orchestra and chorus "Singing Rooms" tonight on the Minnesota Orchestra Broadcast. (05/22/2009)
The Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition winners. (04/26/2009)
Unless you're an opera buff, the name Eric Owens may not be entirely familiar to you. But it's only a matter of time before this up-and-coming young singer becomes a household name. Owens performs in St. Paul tonight, and he spoke with MPR classical music host Alison Young. (04/22/2009)
Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout shares his insights on playing Mozart with fresh energy in his new disc with violinist Petra Mullejans. (04/01/2009)
The Twin Cities Metropolitan Symphony mourns Bill Holm's death with a new work for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. (03/27/2009)
Classical MPR's Alison Young chats with flutist Lisa Beznosiuk. (02/23/2009)
Having just finished three years as a St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Artistic Partner, pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard reflects back on music making with such a willing group, from introducing new music and truly "partnering" in the complete cycle of Beethoven piano concertos. (02/13/2009)