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The Midday

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Host Norman Gilliland provides listeners with a wide variety of classical music, presents a story from "Grace Notes," and holds the popular "Midday Quiz." Musicians traveling through Wisconsin often stop by the studio for live performances, discussions about their most recent works, and upcoming shows.

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Ariela Bohrod 19.06.2026 52:21

The exciting pianist returns for Norman’s final Midday broadcast to perform works by Bartok, Liszt, Gershwin, and Debussy.

Cel Canto 16.06.2026 52:00

The Cello Quartet comes to the Midday to perform works by Gabrili, Wagner and Bach, among others.

The Avanti Piano Trio 10.06.2026 52:05

Pianist Allissa Freeman, violinist Hillary Hempel, and Cellist Hannah Wolkstein return to the Midday to perform Three Preludes by George Gershwin and pieces by French composers Mel Bonis and Rita […]

Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society 05.06.2026 52:10

BDDS co-founder Jeffrey Sykes, violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, and clarinetist Alan Kay perform Antonin Dvorak’s charming Violin Sonata in F and the spicy Soldier’s Tale suite by Stravinsky.

Cordelia Fredrickson 04.06.2026 30:47

The 2026 Final Forte finalist and accompanist Jeff Stanek perform the first movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Elgar’s “Salut d’amour” and Cordelia plays the solo piece “”Dissolve, […]

Anita and Julian Graef 26.05.2026

The founders of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival return to the Midday to fill us in on this summer’s season and to perform works by Stravinsky, Ravel and CPE Bach. […]

Lorenz Fradkin-Annen 21.05.2026

The Oregon High School sophomore and 2026 Final Forte finalist stops by the Midday to reprise her performance of the Cadenza and Finale from Dmitri Shostakovich’s dazzling Violin Concerto No. […]

The Griffon String Quartet 19.05.2026 37:58

Violinists Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violist Oryann Tsaig, cellist Jesse Nummelin perform Poem by Rebecca Clarke, two movements from William Walton’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, and […]

The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras 08.05.2026 51:23

Members of WYSO round out the school year with works for wind quintet and piano quartet by Paul Hindemith, Anton Reicha, Beethoven and Schumann.

André Peck 22.04.2026 51:32

A student at Logan High School in La Crosse, André Peck has won the 2025 Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra 2025 Young Artist Concerto Competition and the 2026 Final Forte competition. During […]