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Bethany Cagle welcomes three more musicians from the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival to our Tampa studio to perform live on WSMR. The performances include: Jean Park, playing the first and third movements from Lowell Liebermann's Gargoyles, Op. 29; Sung-Soo Cho, playing Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1; and Munkhshur (Shuree) Enkhbold, playing the fourth movement, "Young Ju...

The Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival is in full swing at the USF School of Music in Tampa, and Bethany Cagle welcomes to our Tampa studio two participants. Alexander Bui plays two etudes by Frederic Chopin and Priscila Navarro plays a fugue from Samuel Barber. They're also joined by Student Coordinator, Tabitha Boxerman.

The Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival takes place each July at the USF School of Music in Tampa, and we give you a little sneak peek into the festival as Russell Gant welcomes to our Tampa studio the festival's namesake; Rebecca Penneys, and faculty member Eunmi Ko. They play some Mozart and Dvorak for 4 hands and give us a glimpse into this international festival that takes place right in our own ba...

The Perlman Music Program Suncoast brings to town two musicians to play at their Art of the Violin event. First, they stop by our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast studio first to play for you live! Join Russell Gant and his guests; violist Molly Carr and pianist Yannick Rafalimanana for good music and conversation on Classical WSMR.

The Perlman Music Program Suncoast brings to town two musicians that were handpicked by the Pearlmans to play at the Sarasota Opera House. First, they stop by our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast studio first to play for you live! Join Bethany Cagle and her guests; violinist Rachel Lee Priday and pianist David Kaplan for good music and conversation on Classical WSMR.

The Ariel Quartet was in Sarasota for part of The Perlman Music Programs Education Outreach Program. In addition to playing at a number of Manatee County Schools, they joined us for a performance and conversation with WSMR's Russell Gant.

Violinist Giora Schmidt’s musical journey has included tutelage with some of the greatest violin pedagogues of our day, including Itzhak Perlman. Schmidt is a graduate of the Perlman Music Program and gained his first teaching experiences here in Sarasota through the PMP. He gave a sneak peek into his performance with Sarasota Orchestra of the tango-influenced “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” and p...

Join Classical WSMR's Bethany Cagle for live music with violinist Philippe Quint. He performed the Barber Violin Concerto with Sarasota Orchestra and stopped by our Sarasota Performance and Broadcast studio to play live! Quint shares Bach and even some of his own music from a film called Downtown Express … a movie he acted in! Learn more about this GRAMMY-nominated violinist and enjoy his music an...

Enjoy this interview from the WSMR archives. This interview and accompanying performance has not been edited from its original broadcast version. Any conversation regarding upcoming live performances are not applicable.

Robert McCormick joins Tyler Kline on Modern Notebook to talk about his career and newest CD with Strings & Hammers. Bob, as many know him by, recently retired as a Professor of Music in percussion at the University of South Florida after 45 years of teaching. He also served as principal percussionist and assistant timpanist with the Florida Orchestra for 20 seasons; he is a former member of t...

Dr. Eunmi Ko is a champion of contemporary music, and is currently a member of the piano faculty at the University of South Florida where she also serves as co-advisor of the New-Music Consortium at USF. She is also co-founder and co-director of the group Strings & Hammers, and artistic director of the annual new music festival Dot The Line, which takes place in Korea. Eunmi has just released...

This week’s Modern Notebook is another special edition of the show highlighting artists whose livelihoods have been disrupted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Tyler Kline will share music from 23 composers, plus ways that you can support them and others at this time.

The following is a list of ongoing artist relief funds accepting donations to distribute to composers and performers affected by the COVID-19 crisis:   https://www.wsmr.org/modern-notebook-for-april-12-special-marathon/