It's beginning to look a lot like time for the Tucker Gala

and you can catch it from afar tonight at 6pm ET right here. (h/t Tara Erraught for Best Tucker Gala Headsup on Twitter)

Saturday night Christmas tree 🎄 building! #HannaElisabethMüller who sang a stunning Pamina today @MetOpera and this Hansel had a lovely evening! Time to sleep and be bright and bushy for @RTuckerMusicFdn Gala @carnegiehall tomorrow 🎄🎉 pic.twitter.com/XUy3qjw4LT

— Tara Erraught (@TaraErraught) December 10, 2017

radio dial

WCRB has posted last May's Saul from Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, with Iestyn Davies, Jonathan Best, Joelle Harvey, et al. We recognize that not everybody is a fan of this oratorio, but we think it shows Handel at the peak of his metal phase (C'mon! Witch of Endor! \m/).  Moreover, as with many Jennens librettos when combined with less than pristine choral diction, it's a great Mondegreen generator.


Meanwhile, WQXR has Ian Bostridge's Winterreise from Carnegie Hall, with luxury accompanist Thomas Adés, from last Sunday afternoon, to celebrate the cold, wet, raw, dreary end of our bright sunny days.

last night's fun

Tried to embed this but it's a pretty widget with no sound, so here's the link to last night's JDD/LB/LC bel canto concert at Carnegie Hall.

WQXR, in all its awesomeness,

has posted up Theodora from Carnegie Hall



Feel free to encourage this kind of behavior.