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Episode 42 – Sean Connors (Third Coast Percussion)
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg joins Third Coast Percussion’s Sean Connors in conversation about their new album.
Archetypes features a collection of collaboratively written musical portraits of twelve universal characters. Listen to learn more about this intriguing new collaboration between Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion and celebrated Brazilian musicians and composers Sérgio and Clarice Assad.
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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.