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WQXR to Broadcast BBC Proms Concerts in 8-Week Series

WQXR is taking listeners to the world's biggest classical music festival this summer.Starting on July 20 and continuing for the following eight weekends, the station will air full concerts from the BBC...

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Top Five Reasons Why The Proms is the Greatest Classical Music Festival On...

For those caught unawares of what WQXR's broadcasts of The Proms are, here is a short list of reasons these concerts and broadcasts are so special. WQXR's coverage this year of The Proms is hosted by...

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Pick the Piece that Gets You Pumped For the BBC Proms

This Saturday, July 20, at 5 pm, WQXR brings you the first in a series of broadcasts from the BBC Proms festival in London. To get ready for this British invasion, this week's Showdown offers up a...

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Listen: Britten, Lutoslawski and Thomas Adès

Beginning Saturday, July 20 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms kicks off with a program featuring the music of two centenarians: Benjamin Britten, born on November 22, 1913 in Lowestoft, United Kingdom;...

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A Sea-Inspired Start to the BBC Proms

At 5 pm on Saturday, July 20, WQXR will broadcast the first in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London. The opening night of the Proms from Royal Albert Hall features the BBC...

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Listen: David Matthews World Premiere and Les Siècles's Stravinsky

On Saturday, July 27 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms presents a special highlights show of recent premieres from the 2013 Proms in London.Hosted by BBC Radio's Clemency Burton-Hill, the show opens with...

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National Youth Orchestra of the US Makes UK Debut

At 5 pm on Saturday, July 27, WQXR will broadcast the second in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London. This concert features the UK debut of the newly formed National Youth...

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Colin Matthews Premiere and Prokofiev with Violinist Daniel Hope

Continuing Saturday, August 3 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms presents decorated English composer Colin Matthews's Turning Point, commissioned in 2003 by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and presented...

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Jan Lisiecki Makes Proms Debut in Schumann Piano Concerto

On Saturday, Aug. 3 at 5 pm, WQXR broadcasts the third in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London.Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, begin...

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Listen: Aurora Orchestra Presents Frank Zappa and Philip Glass Premiere

On Saturday, August 10, Q2 Music at the Proms featured a performance by the Aurora Orchestra led by conductor Nicholas Collon. The ensemble makes its BBC Proms debut with two works by American composer...

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales Plays Elgar, Walton and Tchaikovsky

On Saturday, Aug. 10 at 5 pm, WQXR broadcasts the fourth in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London. Conductor Jac van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales launch the...

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Listen: London Sinfonietta Performs Varèse, Martland...and The Stranglers

On Saturday, August 17 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms continues with highlights from Monday's London Sinfonietta performance featuring the music of Steve Martland, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis,...

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Daniel Harding and Mahler Chamber Orchestra Play Mozart, Schumann and Sibelius

On Saturday, Aug. 17 at 5 pm, WQXR broadcasts the fifth in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London. After 10 years, conductor Daniel Harding returns to the BBC Proms to direct...

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World Premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto

Saturday, August 24, at 7 pm Q2 Music at the Proms features the world premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto and the UK premiere of Irish composer Gerald Barry's No Other People alongside music...

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BBC Proms: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Beethoven

On Saturday, Aug. 24 at 5 pm, WQXR broadcasts the sixth in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London. Mitsuko Uchida returns to the Proms after an absence of almost 20 years as the...

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Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Plays Lutoslawski, Shostakovich &...

Saturday, August 31 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms presents conductor Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic in performance of Witold Lutoslawski's groundbreaking 1954 Concerto for...

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BBC Proms: Brahms's A German Requiem

On Saturday, Aug. 31 at 5 pm, WQXR broadcasts the seventh in a series of performances from the BBC Proms festival in London.American conductor Marin Alsop, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,...

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Four World Premieres and Gorecki's Epic Symphony No. 3

Saturday, September 7 at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms presents a smorgasbord of world premieres from the BBC Proms season, as well as a performance of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of...

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Marin Alsop Breaks Glass Ceiling for Last Night of the Proms

Marin Alsop becomes the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in its 118-year history. She leads a program that includes a celebratory new work by Anna Clyne and a rare performance of...

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