“Performance Today” Featured Composer Richard Toensing, Jan. 8, 2010

Performance Today on Jan 8, in its weekly feature of 21st century composers, included excerpts from the “Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ,” an Orthodox Christmas choral concerto, along with comments from its composer Richard Toensing. The “Kontakion” was performed by Cappella Romana, with conductor Alexander Lingas, St. Agatha’s Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon.

 

The program is archived and can be heard online. To listen, go to http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/, click on Program Archive, Jan 8, Hour 2.

 

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