Jill Pasternak

Valentin Radu is the artistic director and conductor of Vox Ama Deus, featuring Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven.

They have an exciting series of concerts coming up for the holidays and the winter season.

• Website for Vox Ama Deus

Sopranos Ruby Elzy and Dame Joan Sutherland are featured this week.

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Philadelphia composer Margaret Garwood is Jill Pasternak's guest this week on Crossover. Her opera The Scarlet Letter receives its world premiere by the Academy of Vocal Arts on November 19th, 2010 at the Merriam Theater. In this interview with Jill, Ms. Garwood shares highlights of her composing career, and insights into her musical style.

American String Quartet violist Daniel Avshalomov is Jill's guest this week. The Quartet celebrates its 35-year anniversary with the release of a new CD, Schubert's Echo.

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• Schubert's Echo
• Watch and Listen: American String Quartet on their New CD
• About Daniel Avshalomov

Jill interviews pianist, recording artist, and composer Leon Bates as he gets set to kick off the inaugural season of performances at the newly restored Baptist Temple, on the campus of Temple University.

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• Leon Bates at Baptist Temple on October 7, 2010
• About Leon Bates

One of today's most respected conductors, James Conlon has cultivated a vast repertoire, and has worked with the world's most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses.

Currently music director of the Ravinia Festival, Los Angeles Opera, and the Cincinnati May Festival, Conlon is also an active and devoted advocate of reviving the lesser-known repertoire of composers affected by the rise of Nazism and the events of World War II.

Jill Pasternak interviews harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and composer George Fenton, who are as passionate about the environment as they are about their music.

Yolanda Kondonassis, harpist / George Fenton, composer

Grammy-nominated harpist Yolanda Kondonassis has authored Our House Is Round, a book that teaches children about the importance of protecting the Earth. She's also donating a portion of the proceeds from her album Air to the Environmental Defense Fund.

Jill's guest this week is flutist Robert Stallman. His new CD, The Nightingale in Love, features works for solo flute and ensemble from the late French Baroque era, and was recently released on the Bogner's Cafe label.

Mr. Stallman's unique sound has repeatedly captured the attention of music lovers, ever since his mentor, Jean-Pierre Rampal, judged him early on to be "one of the most gifted musicians I have ever encountered."

"Unmatched for their musicality and sheer ability to entertain" (The London Times), 2009 Grammy Award-winners The King's Singers have put forth the highest caliber of a cappella performance since the group's inception at King's College, Cambridge in 1968. Regularly performing over 100 concerts every season, complemented by recording and teaching, The King's Singers delight audiences around the world with their incomparable musicianship, charm and wit.

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Join Jill Pasternak for an encore presentation from 2004 featuring a national musical treasure: Ragtime pianist and raconteur Max Morath. "Mr. Ragtime" has been dedicated to early 1900s ragtime piano for many decades, keeping the essence of that era in the public eye with his numerous plays, television programs, books, and recordings. He has earned the moniker, "Mr. Ragtime," by being one of Ragtime's most ardent devotees.

Ragtime King Max Morath