http://minnesota.publicradio.org/about/people/mpr_people_display.php?aut_id=115 en-us Copyright 2009 Minnesota Public Radio Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:51:37 -0600 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/standard/images/mpr003/logo_mpr.gif http://minnesota.publicradio.org/?refid=0 Stanley Drucker joined the New York Philharmonic in 1948 at the age of 19. He's retiring as the orchestra's principal clarinet at the end of the season. Tomorrow night, he will perform his last solo work, a concerto that's just as old as his tenure with the Philharmonic: Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/05/stanley_drucker_retires/?refid=0 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The popular notion is that any self-respecting ghost story must pack a nightmarish punch. But Bill Morelock tells a tale of two amusing and inspiring spectres. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/10/25/ghoststory/?refid=0 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:00:00 -0500 Classical music host Bill Morelock has never seen a prettier golf course than one in Salem, Oregon. He built it himself, at age 11. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/10/10/golf/?refid=0 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:00:00 -0500 Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 25, 1906. Years after his death, he remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century classical music and one of the most controversial. Under pressure from Soviet authorities, he compromised his art. At least that was how it seemed. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/25/shostakovich/?refid=0 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:28:09 -0500 To mark the centenary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, classical host Bill Morelock presented a program in Minnesota Public Radio's UBS Forum. Morelock discussed Shostakovich and his compositions with his guests, pianist Alexander Braginsky and cellist Tanya Remenikova. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/25/shostakovich_ubs_forum/?refid=0 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:00:00 -0500 How did Aaron Copland come to write music to accompany the balletic adventures of cowboys, desperadoes, and pioneer homesteaders? Open Air host Bill Morelock throws a lasso around the memory of this influential American composer. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/11/14_morelockb_copland/?refid=0 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:30:00 -0600 On Nov. 13, 1943, 25 year-old Leonard Bernstein heard his song cycle "I Hate Music" premiered in New York. A fine title by a young man who, the very next day, would become the most famous musician in America. Open Air host Bill Morelock follows Leonard Bernstein on perhaps the most remarkable day in a remarkable life in music. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/08/30_morelockb_bernstein/?refid=0 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:30:00 -0500 When Johann Strauss, Jr. came to America in 1872, concert promoters in Boston went all out. They built a great wooden hall which held an audience of 100,000, not to mention an additional 20,000 singers and musicians. Strauss conducted his own music, communicating with the multitudes through 100 assistant conductors. A sincere expression of our love of Strauss' music (or celebrity?), or a megalomaniacal lust for spectacle? Strauss was pretty sure he knew. Bill Morelock looks at the American sojourn of a reluctant Waltz King. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/08/09_morelockb_strauss/?refid=0 Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:00:00 -0500 Classical music host Bill Morelock remembers composer Edvard Grieg on his 162nd birthday. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/06/14_morelockb_grieg/?refid=0 Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:00:00 -0500 Classical host Bill Morelock looks at how a proto-marketing campaign in 1917 made infamous the composers Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, and Louis Durey. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/28_morelockb_lessix/?refid=0 Sat, 28 May 2005 09:00:00 -0500 When French composer Erik Satie wrote the music for "Parade" during World War I, he set in motion the attitude for Paris of the 1920s. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/28_morelockb_satie/?refid=0 Sat, 28 May 2005 08:45:00 -0500 Sydney Fortunato lived, and died, in what may have been the last snippet of time during which the light in a small storefront bookstore on an early autumn evening could still calm the soul. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/18_morelockb_mtsthelens/?refid=0 Wed, 18 May 2005 05:00:00 -0500 Aaron Copland has been synonymous with American music for more than 60 years. But during the McCarthy era, not even the composer of Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man--two WWII morale boosters--was immune from Sen. Joseph McCarthy's questions about political affiliations in the thirties and forties. Classical musical host Bill Morelock traces the activities of Aaron Copland the composer and Copland the citizen leading up to a cancelled performance and an offical grilling in 1953. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/03_morelockb_unamerican/?refid=0 Tue, 03 May 2005 18:31:00 -0500 Even geniuses have have not-so-great jobs like the common folk. Open Air host Bill Morelock wonders how J. S. Bach could have created so many well-crafted pieces while he labored long days in undesirable employment. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/04/26_morelockb_bachresume/?refid=0 Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:00:00 -0500 Classical music host Bill Morelock examines the music by French and English composers written during and in the immediate aftermath of The Great War. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/04/05_morelockb_ww1music/?refid=0 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 18:00:00 -0500 This month on "Open Air" we'll hear music that an enigmatic, hypnotizing play called "Pelleas and Melisande" coaxed out of four great composers. Classical Music host Bill Morelock examines why Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist manifesto fascinated composers as varied as Schoenberg, Sibelius, Faure, and Debussy. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/31_morelockb_pelleas-melisande/?refid=0 Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:00:00 -0600 Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 63 years ago, December 7th, 1941. A little over a week after that tragic event, President Franklin Roosevelt took the time to look past the immediate crisis, and wrote a letter to the future, with every faith there would be a recognizable future. Classical Music host Bill Morelock reads that letter. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/12/07_morelockb_fdrletter/?refid=0 Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:57:00 -0600