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Episode 36 – Lisa Kaplan / Singing in the Dead of Night
On this episode of Cedille’s Classical Chicago podcast, Jim Ginsburg interviews Eighth Blackbird‘s Lisa Kaplan on their upcoming album! Listen to learn more about the intriguing collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird and the innovative composer collective Bang on a Can (Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon) on Singing in the Dead of Night.
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Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet’s critically acclaimed epic traversal of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets, including Vol. 1: The Opus 18 Quartets (2020), Vol. 2: The Middle Quartets (2021), and Vol. 3: The Late Quartets (2022), is now available as a specially priced 8-disc boxed set (price of 3 CDs).
For the month of Thanksgiving, 50 pieces whose lyrics (actual or implied) give thanks to or praise God. Especially featured is mid-20th century Chicago composer Leo Sowerby’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning hymn of praise, The Canticle of the Sun, whose movements are interspersed through the playlist.
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On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg talks with Chicago a cappella Artistic Director John William Trotter about his experience recording Cedille’s latest release, Miracle of Miracles — Music for Hanukkah. The album features a collection of songs from more than 25 years of Chicago a cappella performances, arranged into a single program that replays the story of Hanukkah.