The Midday
Wisconsin Public Radio
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,...
Location:
United States
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Networks:
Wisconsin Public Radio
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.wpr.org/shows/midday
Episodes
Anita and Julian Graef
5/26/2026
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
5/21/2026
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
5/19/2026
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 […]
Duration:00:37:57
The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras
5/8/2026
Members of WYSO round out the school year with works for wind quintet and piano quartet by Paul Hindemith, Anton Reicha, Beethoven and Schumann.
Duration:00:51:19
André Peck
4/22/2026
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 […]
Duration:00:51:11
The Ancora String Quartet
4/20/2026
Wes Luke and Robin Ryan, violins, Sahada Buckley, viola, and Benjamin Whitcomb, cello, with violist Kayla Schultz perform an all-English program of music by Arnold Bax, Benjamin Britten, and Ralph […]
Duration:00:51:45
Ying Li
4/16/2026
Ying Li stops by the Midday to describe the love letter that Robert Schumann wrote in the form of his one and only piano concerto. She’ll be playing the Piano […]
Duration:00:10:43
Martin Luther Clark
4/16/2026
In Mozart’s comic opera Cosi fan Tutte tenor Martin Luther Clark sings the role of Ferrando, who bets that his beloved will remain faithful. A good deal of confusion and […]
Duration:00:12:47
The Midday: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
4/10/2026
In advance of their performances with the Madison Symphony, the globe-trotting foursome, John Dearman, Matt Grief, Bill Kanengiser and Douglas Lora, played their arrangements of popular pieces by Aaron Copland […]
Duration:00:27:02
Eric Silberger
3/26/2026
The charismatic virtuoso discusses the upcoming “Dueling Violins” he’ll perform with Gilles Apap and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and shares insights into his recordings of works by Astor Piazzolla and […]
Duration:00:10:31