Tonight on Critical Thinking from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Chicago and via free steaming at wfmt.com, I talk with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti about working on Puccini's Manon Lescaut, working with Anna Netrebko, with his daughter, rising stage director Chiara Muti (above, with Muti, 2012) orchestras of young musicians, this week's Italian government, and Gerard Mortier. Then available indefinitely for podcast, steaming, download at wfmt.com/criticalthinking. See you on the radio!
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March 2014
Monday, 24 March 2014
My (radio) guest tonight -- Riccardo Muti: on "Manon Lescaut," Netrebko, young musicians, Italy, and Gerard Mortier
Tonight on Critical Thinking from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Chicago and via free steaming at wfmt.com, I talk with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti about working on Puccini's Manon Lescaut, working with Anna Netrebko, with his daughter, rising stage director Chiara Muti (above, with Muti, 2012) orchestras of young musicians, this week's Italian government, and Gerard Mortier. Then available indefinitely for podcast, steaming, download at wfmt.com/criticalthinking. See you on the radio!
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- Detritus Review, The: Empiricus and Sator Arepo
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- Timothy Andres
- Tonic Blotter
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