Playlist for Saturday, May 24, 2025

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

7:00 am

Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael

With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

11:00 am

Introductions

Chamber music for strings by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Beethoven, Casarrubios, Dohnányi, Brahms & Shostakovich. Performed by the Spizella Quartet (Merit School of Music), and the Luscinia Trio and Vermilion String Quartet (Music Institute of Chicago Academy).

12:00 pm

Metropolitan Opera

Adams's Antony and Cleopatra

Julia Bullock (Cleopatra); Gerald Finley (Antony); Paul Appleby (Caesar); Elizabeth DeShong (Octavia); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/John Adams.

3:30 pm

Music with Jan Weller

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

A preview of Chicago Opera Theater's "She Who Dared" with composer Jasmine Barnes.

5:00 pm

Music with Jan Weller

6:00 pm

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Verdi String Quartet in E Minor; Verona Quartet; Bartók String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102; Escher String Quartet.

7:00 pm

Sounds Classical

John Jeter

LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn talk with conductor John Jeter, music director of Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony, about his work to bring attention to underperformed music and artists.

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

From the archives: From the War of 1812 to WWII, family narratives and story songs are woven together in this live performance by Nell Robinson and Jim Nunnally with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott from 2015.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Remembrances of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on Memorial Day Weekend.