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Host Norman Gilliland provides listeners with a wide variety of classical music, presents a story from " Grace Notes ," and holds the popular "Midday Quiz." Musicians traveling through Wisco...

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Listen to The Midday, a Music podcast. Stream 19 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

19 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

19 episodes

Ariela Bohrod

The exciting pianist returns for Norman’s final Midday broadcast to perform works by Bartok, Liszt, Gershwin, and Debussy.

52:21Jun 19, 2026

Cel Canto

The Cello Quartet comes to the Midday to perform works by Gabrili, Wagner and Bach, among others.

52:00Jun 16, 2026

The Avanti Piano Trio

Pianist Allissa Freeman, violinist Hillary Hempel, and Cellist Hannah Wolkstein return to the Midday to perform Three Preludes by George Ger...

52:05Jun 10, 2026

Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society

BDDS co-founder Jeffrey Sykes, violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, and clarinetist Alan Kay perform Antonin Dvorak’s charming Vio...

52:10Jun 5, 2026

Cordelia Fredrickson

The 2026 Final Forte finalist and accompanist Jeff Stanek perform the first movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Elgar&#8...

30:47Jun 4, 2026

Anita and Julian Graef

The founders of the Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival return to the Midday to fill us in on this summer’s season and to perform works b...

May 26, 2026

Lorenz Fradkin-Annen

The Oregon High School sophomore and 2026 Final Forte finalist stops by the Midday to reprise her performance of the Cadenza and Finale from...

May 21, 2026

The Griffon String Quartet

Violinists Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violist Oryann Tsaig, cellist Jesse Nummelin perform Poem by Rebecca Clarke, two movements from Willia...

37:58May 19, 2026

The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras

Members of WYSO round out the school year with works for wind quintet and piano quartet by Paul Hindemith, Anton Reicha, Beethoven and Schum...

51:23May 8, 2026

André Peck

A student at Logan High School in La Crosse, André Peck has won the 2025 Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra 2025 Young Artist Concerto Competition...

51:32Apr 22, 2026

The Ancora String Quartet

Wes Luke and Robin Ryan, violins, Sahada Buckley, viola, and Benjamin Whitcomb, cello, with violist Kayla Schultz perform an all-English pro...

Apr 20, 2026

Ying Li

Ying Li stops by the Midday to describe the love letter that Robert Schumann wrote in the form of his one and only piano concerto. She&#8217...

Apr 16, 2026

Martin Luther Clark

In Mozart’s comic opera Cosi fan Tutte tenor Martin Luther Clark sings the role of Ferrando, who bets that his beloved will remain fai...

Apr 16, 2026

The Midday: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

In advance of their performances with the Madison Symphony, the globe-trotting foursome, John Dearman, Matt Grief, Bill Kanengiser and Dougl...

27:05Apr 10, 2026

Eric Silberger

The charismatic virtuoso discusses the upcoming “Dueling Violins” he’ll perform with Gilles Apap and the Wisconsin Chamber...

10:31Mar 26, 2026

Lilies of the Midwest

For St. Patrick’s Day the trio returns to the Midday to perform several traditional Irish songs and dances, including “Two Siste...

28:14Mar 18, 2026

Rachel Barton Pine

The famed violinist returns to the Midday to tell us about performing one of the 20th century’s greatest works–the Violin Concer...

19:37Feb 20, 2026

Colin Welford and Friends

Ephraim Wisconsin-based organist and music director Colin Welford brings St. Norbert College soprano Yi-Lan Nui, 16-year-old Milwaukee violi...

49:17Dec 9, 2025