to a recital Sunday afternoon, the 24th, at 3 PM central, on WFMT. If you have an internet connection, you can listen live at:
http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=4
The radio program is “Live from Levin Studio” (which used to be Studio 1, but was changed when they remembered they only have 1 studio) and the official billing is “The CSO Soloists Presented by National City– Nathan Cole, violin”. Jim Giles and I will play Preludio from Bach’s E-Major Partita, Brahms Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantella and Debussy-Heifetz Beau Soir.
The format, as I understand, is about 40 minutes of music with some fun talk mixed in. So you’ll hear my impromptu answers to whatever questions are put to me by the host. I did one of these a few years ago, with Jasmine Lin, and at one point the conversation turned to Jasmine’s upcoming composition for violin and vacuum cleaner!
I will post, when I receive it, the recording of last summer’s Wieniawski from the UBS Chamber Festival in Lexington. That was part of the Chamber Olympics, and Alessio and I attempted to “break the 4-minute Scherzo-Tarantella”. This is really not much of a feat, since the average performance is just over 4 minutes anyway. It did take a little going over, however, to get myself used to a tempo a few clicks faster than normal. On Sunday I’ll get to remove those few clicks again. I’ll aim for 4′15″. 