Experience the music and meet the artists you'll be hearing at your Philharmonic concerts. The producer-hosts are Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York's 96.3 FM WQXR host Elliott Forrest and Mark Travis, a producer for the WFMT Radio Network since 1999. Enhance your concert experience through these previews that include musical selections and insights from performers and music experts.
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June 20–21, 2008
Mark Travis provides a detailed look at Bruckner’s masterful and often ravishingly beautiful Symphony No. 8, and Music Director Lorin Maazel discusses performing this colossal work on the Orchestra’s final program of the 2007–08 subscription season.
Published on: June 10, 2008
June 12–19, 2008
Music Director Lorin Maazel explains why the musicians of the Philharmonic are eager to perform Puccini’s Tosca, and Mark Travis gives a detailed summary of the dramatic and unforgettable story of one of the world’s most moving operas.
Published on: June 6, 2008
June 4–7 and 13, 2008
Mark Travis explores each movement of Mahler’s most intense and dramatic work, and Music Director Lorin Maazel discusses how he approaches conducting a piece that is laden with melancholia.
Published on: May 20, 2008
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Elliott Forrest

Mark Travis
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Photo of Elliott Forrest: Timonthy Greenfield-Sanders
Photo of Mark Travis: Amy K. Travis