Music

December 24, 2002 6:00 AM

Help wanted: Maestro

Two major regional orchestras in the Upper Midwest are searching for a new Music Director. The Fargo/Moorhead Symphony is interviewing five possible conductors. In Sioux Falls the South Dakota Symphony will form a committee in January to begin a search. Music Director Susan Haig abruptly left during her second season in Sioux Falls.

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December 23, 2002 6:00 AM

A new gift of old music

Many churches around Minnesota boast fine pipe organs. Most of them also have a piano they can wheel out for certain occasions. But rarely can a church add its own harpsichord to Sunday services. Now a Lutheran Church in St. Cloud has unveiled a harpsichord it will use for worship services.

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December 13, 2002 10:00 AM

Remembering Dave Ray

Dave Ray was a third of Koerner, Ray, and Glover -- the trio that few people outside of Minnesota now know. Yet everyone from John Lennon, and the Doors to Bonnie Raitt and Beck cite them as influences. Dave Ray died on Thanksgiving after a battle with cancer.

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December 12, 2002 3:00 PM

Norwegian opera may come to Twin Cities

Some 130 years ago, Norwegian Edvard Grieg started composing music for an opera about Norway's famous Viking King Olav Tryggvason. But after a falling out with his text writer, work on the opera stopped. A team of Norwegians finally completed the opera two years ago, and now they want to bring it to the Twin Cities next May.

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December 11, 2002 2:00 PM

Modern technology helps solve instrument mysteries

Modern violin makers want to unravel the mysteries of how the old great instruments, such as Stradivari violins, were made. One St. Paul violin maker is taking CT scans of 17th and 18th century stringed instruments in hopes of unraveling some of the mysteries.

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December 10, 2002 9:00 AM

Morning Show Holiday Pageant and Variety Show, 2002

The Morning Show presented an evening of holiday comedy and song at the Fitzgerald Theater on December 6, 2002. Canadian folk diva Connie Kaldor performed some holiday favorites, and the Jaztronauts warmed things up with a bit of swing, jive, and modern jazz. The centerpiece of the evening was The Morning Show Holiday Pageant Players' unique version of A Christmas Carol, with local actor and director Peter Moore as Ebenezer Scrooge, Genway founder Dr. Larry Kyle as Jacob Marley, lyrically challenged vocalist Mel Lightner as the Ghost of Christmas Past, international fugitive Captain Billy as the Ghost of Christmas Present, and beloved journalist Bud Buck as Bob Crachit.

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November 29, 2002 11:00 AM

Ooh la la! Flops flip for a new kind of musical storytelling

Two Twin Cities rock and rollers help out with a new type of storytelling project, and end up forming a band.

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November 28, 2002 3:00 PM

Pilgrim on a musical journey

Matthew Fox plays guitar, and mandolin. Until recently now he's played in bands, either in ensembles, or backing someone else. Now he has a CD of his own, featuring some of the local folk scenes biggest names.

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November 18, 2002 9:30 AM

Ann Reed: "Gift of Age"

Singer-songwriter Ann Reed has released a new CD called "Gift of Age." Over the last decade, Reed has won several times at the Minnesota Music awards including Artist of the Year, and Folk Singer of the Year. She says she got the inspiration for the name "Gift of Age" as she was turning 40. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Reed who explains that the inside of the CD cover includes a picture of herself and her mother.

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November 15, 2002 5:00 PM

Old, new, borrowed and blues

Charlie Parr has a new CD, but it sounds old. It's called "1922." A few of the songs were actually written in the '20s, but most of them are new, and written by Charlie Parr. If you added some scratches and pops, you'd almost believe the music came from a 70-year-old field recording. It's a surprising sound for a guy and a guitar in Duluth.

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