Day: June 7, 2025

7-10 p.m. EDT
2300-0200 UTC
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org

Sibelius: “Finlandia”
YT Male Voice Choir
Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
(BIS)

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rhenish”)
Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi
(Decca)

Vaughan Williams: “The Lark Ascending”
Iona Brown, violin
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
(Decca)

Johann Strauss II: “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Vienna Philharmonic/Josef Krips
(Decca Eloquence)

Brahms: “Liebeslieder-Walzer,” Op. 52
(string orchestration)
I Musici de Montréal/Yuri Turovsky
(Chandos)

Richard Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite
(Artur Rodzinski arrangement)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck
(Reference Recordings)

Chausson: “Poème de l’amour et de la mer” (“Poem of Love and the Sea”)
Véronique Gens, soprano
Orchestre National de Lille/Alexandre Bloch
(Alpha)

John Adams: “Harmonium”
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony/John Adams
(Nonesuch)

Brian DeMaris, who this summer concludes a three-year tenure as conductor of Charlottesville Opera, has been named president and general manager of Arizona Opera.

DeMaris, an Arizona native, is artistic director of the music theater and opera program at Arizona State University, and has held positions at New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and other companies. He also has taught at a number of collegiate music theater programs and workshops.

In his final season with Charlottesville Opera, he leads productions of Bizet’s “Carmen,” June 20-22, and the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta “The Pirates of Penzance,” July 11-13, both at the Paramount Theater. For more information, visit http://www.charlottesvilleopera.org/2025.html

DeMaris’ new role at Arizona Opera is primarily administrative, but he hopes to conduct productions as well, Cathalena E. Burch writes for the Arizona Daily Star’s tucson.com website:

http://tucson.com/life-entertainment/local/music/article_5f25497e-2127-4d1a-9fe7-0d8defca49e1.html