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*Morgan White Jr. filled in on NightSide*This year, composer John Williams celebrated his 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down! Last year he debuted his second violin concerto and currently, he's working on the score for the fifth Indiana Jones movie. Ron Della Chiesa, the voice of WCRB's Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts, joined Morgan to talk about the life and music of John Williams.
Ron Della Chiesa of WCRB radio joined Gene to discuss the passing of George Wein, a co-founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This podcast celebrates the lives of musicians, composers, lyricists and actors who faced lung cancer. Ron Della Chiesa is our distinguished guest. He’s a member of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, the voice of the Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcasts, host of the popular radio show, Simply Sinatra and author of “Radio My Way”. Both … Continue reading Celebrities: Ah Yes, We Remember Them Well →
Episode 253 we talk to Singer/Songwriter Linda Marks of Women In Music Gathering and Artists for the Environment. 8/28/18 Hosts Kinte @KinteF https://twitter.com/KinteF J Corina Francis @FollowingBliss1 https://twitter.com/FollowingBliss1 Guest: Linda Marks Singer/Songwriter www.lindamarksmusic.com ABOUT LINDA MARKS: http://www.lindamarksmusic.com/page10/index.html As a small child, Linda Marks, was passionate about music and felt a magnetic pull to pianos and all things musical. Her first word was piano, and she was placed in a Longy School of Music experimental program for gifted and talented kids at age 3. She started writing music in grammar school, and wrote the 8th grade graduation song. Linda holds a degree in Music with honors and distinction from Yale University, where she co-founded Something Extra, Yale's 3rd women's a capella singing group, as a 17 year old freshman. She ran Café Calhoun at Yale, and both sang and produced musical shows. In the 1980's, Linda performed in the Boston acoustic music scene and sang and co-wrote songs with Lisa Wexler. She appeared on "Music America" with Ron Della Chiesa, and released a tape of original music, "Dreams and Themes" in 1983. She founded and ran the Boston Arts Roundtable, a group of musicians and other artists who gathered for camaraderie and produced multimedia concerts. The Women In Music Gathering The Women In Music Gathering is an intergenerational artist-alliance of women in music: singer/songwriters and performing musicians, with the primary goals of collaboration and support, extending to both personal and professional aspects of being a woman in music. Artists for the Environment. Diane Cameron Elam founded this project, and I hope you get to talk with her too! A song I wrote for my 2019 In Grace album, called Enough, which was written in response to the teardown epidemic happening in my neighborhoods (both where and I live and work) was selected to be part of this project. I was also interviewed for the Boston Globe for an article on teardown, and my song will be referenced on an article that will be published in October.
Keith Lockhart and Ron Della Chiesa joined us for a musical news quiz.
The Boston Public Radio Full Broadcast from 2/23/18. Featuring: Trenni Kusnierek calling from the Olympics, we opened the lines to hear your thoughts on Trump's latest suggestions for gun reform, Boston Globe's Shirley Leung, WGBH's Emily Rooney, Economist Robert Reich, and Keith Lockhart and Ron Della Chiesa joined us for the news quiz.
WBZ's Jordan Rich talks with Matt Robinson of matts-meals.com about Ron Della Chiesa's 80th birthday party happening at Raffael's in Hingham, MA.
In an offspeed pitch, Bob is with Rob Della Chiesa, the voice of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. He can also be heard on on Boston's WCRB.
Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal Double Bassist Lawrence Wolfe talks with WCRB's Ron Della Chiesa about joining the BSO at age 21, becoming Principal Double Bass of the Boston Pops, and working with Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart, and Donald Greig of the Orlando Consort talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about singing and recording all of the chansons by Guillaume de Machaut.
Three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra - piccolo player Cynthia Meyers, trumpeter Thomas Rolfs, and trombonist Toby Oft - talk with Ron Della Chiesa and Brian McCreath about their paths to the BSO, what it takes to play in a major orchestra, and the excitement of performing with Music Director Andris Nelsons.