Jeffrey Blair hosts free “Concert Conversations” at 7:10 in the concert hall for Masterworks Series performances only. These can be entertaining and enlightening, offering information about the composers and works for the evening. He will often have guest soloists, conductors or composers of a featured work for that concert.

Schedule

“Virtuosity”
September 23 & 24, 2022
Music of John Estacio, Maurice Ravel, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
7:10 pm

“Oktoberfest of Sound”
October 21 & 22, 2022
Music of Robert Schumann, Albert Dietrich and Johannes Brahms
7:10 pm

“Masters of Music”
November 18 & 19, 2022
Music of Jessie Montgomery, Paul McCartney, Felix Mendelssohn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
7:10 pm

“The Colors of France”
January 13 & 14, 2023
Music of Maurice Ravel, Marcel Tournier, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Faure
7:10 pm

“Rach Star II”
February 17 & 18, 2023
Music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, and Joseph Schwantner
7:10 pm’

“Song of the Night”
March 24 & 25, 2023
Music of Gustav Mahler
7:10 pm

“Eroica”
April 14 & 15, 2023
Music of Miguel de Aguila, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Ludwig van Beethoven
7:10 pm

“Eastern Winds”
May 19 & 20, 2023
Music of Yasushi Akutagawa, Chen Gang, He Zhanhao, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
7:10 pm