We're pleased to present live, full-length Minnesota Orchestra broadcast concerts at 8 p.m. on (most) Friday nights, with host Melissa Ousley.
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The Minnesota Orchestra's 2020 season is being broadcast on TPT and Classical MPR on select Fridays at 8 p.m. Tune in online to bring the concert experience to your home!
Welcome Melissa Ousley as the new host of Classical MPR's live broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra. She takes over at 8 p.m. Fridays from longtime host Brian Newhouse.
To celebrate National Radio Day (Aug. 20), Classical MPR offers a special presentation of our live March 13 broadcast of the Minnesota Orchestra, with remastered audio and new commentary from host Melissa Ousley, as a gift to listeners. On that historic night, the orchestra performed to an audience-less hall amid concerns surrounding the coronavirus.
The Minnesota Orchestra announced this week that it will play its entire fall season in an empty hall, but will make the concerts available live on the radio, online and on TV. Watch a live preview concert here at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Saying it can't present concerts inside Orchestra Hall under coronavirus safety guidelines, the Minnesota Orchestra has canceled performances scheduled in August and early September.
Listen to a new recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 from the Minnesota Orchestra on Friday night at 7 p.m. central with host Melissa Ousley.