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89.7 WCPE’s member magazine • Fall 2010
Celebrate the 55th Birthday
of Yo-Yo Ma
Celebrate the 250th Anniversary
of the Birth of Luigi Cherubini
Join Us for Fall Festival 2010
October 11th–24th
table of contents
Home Sweet Home.................2
Fall Highlights.........................3
September Calendar................4
October Calendar....................5
November Calendar................6
Monday Night
at the Symphony.....................7
Meet Your Host:
David Faircloth
Opera House...........................8
A native North Carolinian, David
Faircloth has worked at WCPE since
November of 2009 and brings a great deal
of musical and radio experience to The
Classical Station. His degrees in music
from Florida Atlantic University and
Catholic University of America complement his performing experience in such
venues as New York City Opera and
Washington National Opera. Besides his
work at WCPE, David owns and operates Anytime Wines in Cary and is on the
music staff at a church in Raleigh.
Sundays This Quarter
Great Sacred Music, Wavelengths,
Peaceful Reflections, and Preview!.......9
Program Guide......................12
Thank-You Gifts....................16
Program Guide (continued). .....18
Eye on Education..................25
In the Community................26
Lately We’ve Read
Music for the Common Man: Aaron
Copland During the Depression and
War by Elizabeth B. Crist..............27
Lately We’ve Heard
A review of Candlelight.................28
Composer Notes
Luigi Cherubini: an Italian
in Paris....................................29
Classical Community............30
What You’re Saying...............32
In Memoriam
Franceine Perry Rees.....................32
Play Your Part........................33
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On the cover: On October 7, Yo-Yo
Ma celebrates his 55th birthday.
Make sure to tune in to WCPE to
hear him play Schumann and Elgar.
Read more on page 19.
Photo by: Michael O’Neill
How did you get involved in radio
broadcasting? My first job in radio
came in 1991 as the part-time recordings librarian at WETA in Washington,
DC, a flexible position that filled the gaps
during singing jobs while I was working
as a struggling opera/concert performer.
On-air fundraising led to a full-time radio
shift at WETA, which I started when I
returned home from a tour with the New
York City Opera in Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly (as Sharpless). Later I became the
assistant music director, and throughout
my years at WETA I had the honor of
interviewing numerous musical luminaries who visited Washington, DC—artists
like Bryn Terfel, Gian Carlo Menotti, and
Denyce Graves, to name a few. I’m honored and grateful that classical music and
radio have given me the opportunity to
share with widely diverse audiences some
of the best music humanity can offer.
What is your favorite music or musician? I love the music of Brahms,
Bernstein, Puccini, and Bach, and some of
my favorite performers are baritone Bryn
Terfel, soprano Renée Fleming, Elton
John, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Prima. q
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Vol. 32, No. 3
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fall highlights
Brothers and Sisters
September 14
What do these last names have in common:
Bach, Haydn, Labèque, Ahn, Claremont,
and Brown? They are all part of a family in
which siblings (some, if not all) are classical
musicians. WCPE explores music featuring
brothers and sisters on this day when we
celebrate the birth anniversary of Michael
Haydn, the younger brother of Josef Haydn.
Mexican Independence Day
Thanksgiving Day/New
World Weekend
November 25–28
Music to celebrate Thanksgiving Day
(Thursday, November 25), All-Request
Friday (November 26), and New World
Weekend (Saturday, November 27 and
Sunday, November 28) is a smorgasbord of
classical music with you, our listeners, acting
as music director on All-Request Friday.
Enjoy every tasty morsel!
September 16
Major Milestones
¡Viva Mexico! Mexican composers, conductors, and performers will be showcased in
celebration of Mexico’s independence
from Spain.
September 14: The 250th anniversary of
the birth of Luigi Cherubini
Great Ballet Days
October 7: 55th birthday of cellist and
composer Yo-Yo Ma
For the serious and casual ballet fans, the
music of ballet has inspired us all and is some
of the most renowned music in the world.
Whom do you imagine when you think of
ballet music? Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Bizet,
or any number of other composers too
numerous to mention. Break out the toe
shoes for Great Ballet Days!
Armchair Travelers
Weekend
October 9–10
Many composers were inspired by the
folk songs, vistas, food, and sounds
of other lands as they traveled about.
So, get your ticket and climb aboard
for a great weekend journey of classical
music from around the world!
October 9: The 175th anniversary of the birth of Camille
Saint-Saëns
photo: Fanny Schertzer
September 16–19
September 24: Composer/conductor John
Rutter’s 65th birthday
Great Nicknames Weekend
November 13–14
Prague, Jupiter, Moonlight, Appassionata,
Eroica—all nicknames of musical compositions. Some were named by the composer,
and some nicknames came after the deaths of
the composers. Musical nicknames are a fun
way to connect with Great Classical Music.
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september calendar
15 Wednesday
Johann Pachelbel 1653
Engelbert Humperdinck 1854
Seiji Ozawa 1935 (75th birthday)
Leonard Slatkin 1944
2 Thursday
Bruno Walter 1876
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos 1933
Jessye Norman 1945
(65th birthday)
16 Thursday
3 Friday
Yom Kippur begins
17 Friday
Charles Griffes 1884
18 Saturday
Pietro Locatelli 1695
4 Saturday
Anton Bruckner 1824
Darius Milhaud 1892
5 Sunday
J.C. Bach 1735 (275th anniversary
of birth)
Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791
Amy Beach 1867
Marc-André Hamelin 1961
Labor Day
6 Monday
Yevgeny Svetlanov 1928
7 Tuesday
Jean-Yves Thibaudet 1961
8 Wednesday Rosh Hashana begins
Antonin Dvořák 1841
Christoph von Dohnányi 1929
9 Thursday
Girolamo Frescobaldi 1583
Kurt Sanderling 1912
Ádám Fischer 1949
10 Friday
Christopher Hogwood 1941
Patriot Day
11 Saturday
William Boyce 1711
Friedrich Kuhlau 1786
12 Sunday
brothers
and sisters
13 Monday
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Clara Wieck Schumann 1819
14 Tuesday
Michael Haydn 1737
Luigi Cherubini 1760 (250th
anniversary of birth)
19 Sunday
20 Monday
21 Tuesday
Gustav Holst 1874
22 Wednesday
Henryk Szeryng 1918
23 Thursday
Autumn begins
24 Friday
John Rutter 1945 (65th birthday)
All-Request Friday
25 Saturday
Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906
Sir Colin Davis 1927
Glenn Gould 1932
26 Sunday
Charles Munch 1891
George Gershwin 1898
27 Monday
Dmitry Sitkovetsky 1954
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
Václav Neumann 1920
(90th anniversary of birth)
Richard Bonynge 1930
(80th birthday)
30 Thursday
Johan Svendsen 1840
Václav Smetáček 1906
David Oistrakh 1908
great ballet days
1 Wednesday
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october calendar
1 Friday
17 Sunday
Paul Dukas 1865 (145th
Vladimir Horowitz 1903
2 Saturday
Michel Plasson 1933
3 Sunday
Stanisław Skrowaczewski 1923
4 Monday
6 Wednesday
Stanley Myers 1930
7 Thursday
Alfred Wallenstein 1898
Charles Dutoit 1936
Yo-Yo Ma 1955 (55th birthday)
8 Friday
armchair travelers
weekend
Miguel Llobet 1875
Wynton Marsalis 1961
19 Tuesday
Emil Gilels 1916
20 Wednesday
Charles Ives 1874
Ivo Pogorelić 1958
21 Thursday
5 Tuesday
9 Saturday
Giuseppe Verdi 1813
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835 (175th
10 Sunday
Evgeny Kissin 1971
11 Monday
Herbert Howells 1892
Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich 1940
(70th birthday)
18 Monday
Fall Festival begins
12 Tuesday
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872
Ton Koopman 1944
Luciano Pavarotti 1935 (75th
13 Wednesday
Peter Van Anrooy 1879
14 Thursday
Alexander von Zemlinsky 1871
15 Friday
Bernhard Henrik Crusell 1775
Dag Wirén 1905
16 Saturday
Sir Georg Solti 1912
Sir Malcolm Arnold 1921
22 Friday
Franz Liszt 1811
23 Saturday
Albert Lortzing 1801
24 Sunday
Malcolm Bilson 1935
25 Monday
Johann Strauss II 1825
Georges Bizet 1838
Midori 1971
26 Tuesday
Domenico Scarlatti 1685
27 Wednesday
Niccolò Paganini 1782
28 Thursday
Howard Hanson 1896
29 Friday
All-Request Friday
30 Saturday
Philip Heseltine (AKA
Peter Warlock) 1894
Frans Brüggen 1934
Shlomo Mintz 1957
31 Sunday
Halloween
Marin Alsop 1956
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november calendar
1 Monday
Eugen Jochum 1902
Election Day
2 Tuesday
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 1739
Giuseppe Sinopoli 1946
3 Wednesday
Samuel Scheidt 1587
Vincenzo Bellini 1801
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday
John Philip Sousa 1854
7 Sunday Daylight SavingTime ends
Dame Joan Sutherland 1926
8 Monday
Arnold Bax 1883
Simon Standage 1941
9 Tuesdays
Ivan Moravec 1930 (80th birthday)
Thomas Quasthoff 1959
Bryn Terfel 1965 (45th birthday)
10 Wednesday
François Couperin 1668
great nicknames
weekend
Alexander Borodin 1833
13 Saturday
George Whitefield Chadwick 1854
14 Sunday
Leopold Mozart 1719
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel 1805
Aaron Copland 1900 (110th
15 Monday
Jorge Bolet 1914
Daniel Barenboim 1942
16 Tuesday
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Sir Charles Mackerras 1925 (85th
birthday)
18 Thursday
Carl Maria von Weber 1786
Ignacy Paderewski 1860 (150th
Eugene Ormandy 1899
19 Friday
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov 1859
20 Saturday
Kenneth Schermerhorn 1929
21 Sunday
Francisco Tárrega 1852
22 Monday
W.F. Bach 1710
Joaquín Rodrigo 1901
Benjamin Britten 1913
Kent Nagano 1951
Stephen Hough 1961
23 Tuesday
Manuel de Falla 1876
24 Wednesday
25 Thursday
Thanksgiving
Wilhelm Kempff 1895 (115th
Jean-Claude Malgoire 1940
26 Friday
Earl Wild 1915 (95th anniversary
of birth)
Eugene Istomin 1925 (85th
All-Request Friday
27 Saturday
Franz Krommer 1759
Hilary Hahn 1979
28 Sunday
Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632
Ferdinand Ries 1784
29 Monday
Gaetano Donizetti 1797
Anton Rubinstein 1829
30 Tuesday
Charles-Valentin Alkan 1813
Radu Lupu 1945
new world weekend
Veterans Day
11 Thursday
Ernest Ansermet 1883
Vernon Handley 1930 (80th
12 Friday
17 Wednesday
monday night at the symphony
September
06 Minnesota Orchestra
13 Berlin Philharmonic
Mondays at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern)
20 English Chamber Orchestra
The New York Philharmonic is, to say the
least, an American institution. Founded
in 1842, it is our oldest symphony by
four decades. Musical giants Mahler and
Toscanini have been among its conductors.
Lorin Maazel made his conducting debut in
front of the Philharmonic at age 12. New
music director Alan Gilbert, with both
parents performing in the orchestra, literally
grew up in its presence.
27 Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Join WCPE on November 22 as we feature
the New York Philharmonic performing
Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, led
by the charismatic Leonard Bernstein.
November
01 Philadelphia Orchestra
WCPE spotlights one of the world’s great
orchestras each week on Monday Night at
the Symphony.
October
04 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
11 Dallas Symphony Orchestra
18 Show your support for Monday Night at
the Symphony during WCPE’s Fall Membership Drive
25 London Philharmonic Orchestra
08 Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra
15 BBC Philharmonic
22 New York Philharmonic
29 Stuttgart Radio Symphony
Leonard Bernstein
featured November 22
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opera house
Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. with host
Bob Chapman
Cornelius’s Der Barbier von Bagdad
September 2 and Lortzing’s Die Opernprobe
The barber, Abdul Hassan (Czerwenka), conspires
with Nureddin (Gedda) to arrange a meeting with
the caliph’s daughter, Margiana (Schwarzkopf).
Lortzing’s last opera involves a row over the marriage of a young baron (Gedda) and rehearsals
for the performance of an opera hosted by a
count (Hirte).
Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino
and La Scala di Seta
Sofia (Battle), ward of Gaudenzio (Ramey), is being forced to marry the son (Arévalo) of Bruschino
(Desderi), whom she’s never seen. Her lover
Florville (Lopardo) passes himself off as Bruschino’s son. In The Silken Ladder, the ladder is
used nightly by Dorvil (Matteuzzi) to rejoin Giulia
(Serra), to whom he’s secretly married, but who is
living in the house of her father (Di Credico).
September 9
September 16 Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Zurga (G. Quilico) is chosen as chief by his tribe
of Ceylon fishermen. He and his friend Nadir (Aler)
are initially estranged because they’re both in love
with the same priestess, Leila (Hendricks), who is
under a vow of chastity—punishable by death if
she breaks it. (From the Ruocchio Archives.)
September 23 R. Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
A wealthy gentleman hires an opera company and a
commedia dell’arte troupe, led by Zerbinetta
(Streich), to provide entertainment. The majordomo (Neugebauer) says they must perform simultaneously, but the composer (Seefried) protests
cuts in the opera. Ariadne (Schwarzkopf) complains
that Theseus has abandoned her and believes that
Bacchus (Schock) is the god of death.
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Britten’s Peter Grimes
In a Suffolk fishing village, Grimes (Vickers) has
lost an apprentice at sea in suspicious circumstances and is warned not to take on another.
Schoolmistress Ellen Orford (Harper) stands by
Grimes, despite the town’s general disapproval.
September 30
Gomes’s Il Guarany
The Guarany Indian prince Peri (Domingo) rescues
Cecilia (Villarroel) from the Spaniards, who have
planned to hand her over to the rival Aymoré tribe.
Cecilia’s father, Antonio (Tian), rescues them. The
lovers reach safety and freedom, but Antonio is
killed—along with the Spanish villains.
October 14
Fall Membership Drive
Enjoy a delightful evening of opera highlights and
show your support for WCPE’s Opera House in our
Fall Membership Drive. Bob Chapman features
selections from Cecilia Bartoli’s Maria, her tribute
to the famed mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran. It is
one of our fall thank-you CDs.
October 21
Fall Membership Drive
We’ll bring you highlights from Gounod’s Roméo et
Juliette, a DVD starring Rolando Villazon and Nino
Machaidze as the star-crossed lovers, along with
lots of your favorite arias and choruses as our Fall
Membership Drive continues. This DVD is one of
our thank-you gifts.
October 7
Joseph Haydn’s Armida
To prevent the crusading knights of Godfrey of
Bouillon from recovering Jerusalem, the Prince of
Hell has sent the enchantress Armida (Norman)
to ensnare the knights with her magical powers.
She captivates Rinaldo (Ahnsjö) but cannot bring
herself to destroy the knight, with whom she’s
fallen in love.
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opera house/sundays this quarter
Massenet’s Don Quichotte
A gentle, melancholy, and autumnal work, whose
title role (Ghiaurov) has attracted great basses,
Massenet’s opera contains a number of episodes
from Cervantes, but Dulcinée (Crespin) is changed
into a beautiful courtesan. The knight errant is
faithfully served by Sancho Pança (Bacquier).
November 11
Verdi’s I Masnadieri
Carlo (Bergonzi) is disinherited by his father, Massimiliano (Raimondi), through the machinations of
his younger brother, Francesco (Cappuccilli). Carlo
forms a robber band, is reunited with his beloved
Amalia (Caballé), saves his father from death in
prison, and stabs Amalia to death rather than
allow her to become a bandit.
November 4
Beethoven’s Fidelio
Florestan (Kollo) has been imprisoned for political
reasons by Don Pizarro (Sotin). His wife, Leonore
(Janowitz), disguised as a young man, is hired
by the jailer Rocco (Jungwirth), whose daughter
Marzelline (Popp) quickly falls in love with “him.”
When Pizarro attempts to murder Florestan,
Leonore saves him. (From the Ruocchio Archives.)
November 18
Smetana’s Dalibor
The 15th-century Czech knight Dalibor (Vodic̆ka)
has killed a burgrave in revenge for killing his
friend Zdenĕk and is sentenced to prison for
life. The burgrave’s daughter, Milada (Urbanová),
moved to pity and then love, disguises herself as
a boy and gets a job in the prison, where they
plan Dalibor’s escape. As opposed to Fidelio, there
is no happy ending.
November 25
Sundays at 8:00 a.m. with host
Rob Kennedy
St. Augustine eloquently observed, “He
who sings prays twice.” In that spirit, Great
Sacred Music attempts to offer music which
will resonate with you. The music can be a
single line of plainchant which evokes the
atmosphere and surroundings of an ancient
monastery, or it can be something as typical
of the 21st century as Eric Whiteacre’s virtual choir on YouTube. Or perhaps a setting
of the Mass from the Tudor era by William
Byrd. Or one of the world’s best-loved sacred
compositions, George Frederick Handel’s
Messiah. It doesn’t matter from which age or
style the music comes, as long as it transports you and touches you.
That is what we try to do each Sunday morning on Great Sacred Music. Incidentally, all
of our playlists are now online. In addition,
I post short program notes about each work
on Facebook and Twitter. Please make us
part of your Sunday morning routine. Enjoy!
Preview!
Sundays at 6:00 p.m. with
host Paul Jordan
From symphonies to oratorios, from ballet
to chamber ensembles, you’ll get a sneak
preview of upcoming classical events in the
Triangle and around the nation. We sample
great performances from new classical
releases on a variety of labels and talk to
great names in the world of classical music.
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sundays this quarter
Great Sacred Music will feature the following
vocal ensembles in the months of September
through November 2010. Our playlists are
published online each Sunday so that you
can see what each choir will be performing.
October 31
September 5
November 7
Chanticleer is the only full-time classical singing
group in the U.S. This male choir is based in San
Francisco and has over 22 recordings to its credit,
including Colors of Love, which won a Grammy
Award in 2000.
September 12
The Monteverdi Choir was established by Sir John
Eliot Gardiner in 1964 for a performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s Solemn Vespers. It performed
and recorded all the Bach cantatas in over 60
churches in a project which began in 2000.
September 19
Noel Edison is the director of the Elora Festival
Singers as well as Toronto’s Mendelssohn Choir.
The Elora Festival Singers was founded in 1980 as
the main chorus for the festival.
What began as an effort to introduce Japanese audiences to early performance practices has resulted
in the Bach Collegium Japan and its founder/director Masaaki Suzuki becoming one of the world’s
most highly regarded early music ensembles.
November 14
The Gabrieli Consort and Players was founded in
1982 by its director, Paul McCreesh. The group
performs music from the Renaissance to the present day and has over 28 recordings to its credit.
November 21
Chor Leoni is a men’s chorus from Vancouver,
British Columbia. Diane Loomer, who is highly
regarded as one of Canada’s finest choral conductors, directs the choir.
Canty is Scotland’s only professional medieval
music ensemble. Rebecca Tavener founded the
group in 1998, which coincidentally was the
900th anniversary of the birth of the Christian
mystic, abbess Hildegard von Bingen.
September 26
November 28
Trio Medieval hails from Oslo, Norway. Its three
female singers produced Words of the Angel,
which was a bestseller in 2001.
October 3
Andrew Parrott founded the Taverner Consort in
1973. Its performances of the larger Bach choral
works using one singer per part blazed new trails
in early music performance practice.
October 10
Anonymous 4 is famous for its recordings of
medieval chant. But these four New York women
are just as comfortable singing Shaker hymns and
other early American music.
October 17
Our Fall Festival 2010 edition of Great Sacred Music will ask for your support of this special program.
October 24
You can count on the fingers of one hand the
number of radio stations which offer sacred music
programming. Great Sacred Music relies on its
loyal listeners for their continued support during
Fall Festival 2010.
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Harry Christophers has been the director of The
Sixteen since its founding in 1979. While the
ensemble is renowned for its stylish early music
performances, its repertoire includes 20th and
21st century music as well.
Sundays at 9:00 p.m. with host
Kenneth Bradshaw
An exciting new one-hour program hosted by
Kenneth Bradshaw will showcase composers
from the mid-20th and 21st centuries beginning Sunday, September 5, at 9:00 p.m. ET.
This will be the first program on WCPE to
be available on podcast. As time goes by we’ll
hear composers from all over the world. It is
the aim of this program to play the works of
composers with whom you may not yet be
familiar but, upon hearing, will cause you to
want more. You may be pleasantly surprised
by the beauty of the compositions written
now and in the recent past.
sundays this quarter
September
Hear the works of composers from the state of
North Carolina. North Carolina is home to WCPE
and seemed a great place to start. It has proven
to be a gold mine!
October
Compositions from those living and working west
of the Mississippi River.
November
We move back east to sample composers of this
side of the Mississippi.
Enrique Granados, from whose pen came Six
Pieces from Spanish Popular Songs, performed
by Alicia de Larrocha (who died on September
25, 2009).
October 3
American composer George Whitefield Chadwick
is part of what was known as the New England
School of American composers of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. String Quartet no. 4
shows a Chadwick who had been influenced by
Antonín Dvořák’s music, including the use of
hymn-like passages.
October 10
20th-century Austrian composer Alexander von
Zemlinsky was good friends with composer Arnold
Schoenberg, even though they were so musically
different. The Beaux Arts Trio performs Zemlinsky’s
Piano Trio in D minor.
Sundays at 10:00 p.m. with host
Kenneth Bradshaw
October 17 and 24
September 5
October 31
Enjoy Variations on Balkan Themes by late 19th–
mid-20th century American pianist and composer
Amy Beach. Beach was, by all estimations, the first
successful American female composer of largescale art music.
It’s All Hallow’s Eve—and tonight’s playlist will be
frightfully good. You’ll also have an opportunity
to enjoy 20th century Czech composer Vítĕzslav
Novák’s Slovak Suite.
September 12
Johannes Brahms used all of his considerable
skill in creating String Quartet no. 1 in C minor.
He infused the entire composition with the main
musical motif. Its driving, lusty opening theme
prefaces everything that follows.
Leoš Janáček was a late 19th–early 20th century
Czech composer whose compositions reflect the
influences of Moravian and Slavic folk music. His
Idyll for String Orchestra shows the influence from
another Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák, who was
in the audience at its premiere.
September 19
Membership week.
November 7
November 14
I confess to being a huge fan of Ralph Vaughan
Williams’s Symphony no. 2, the London Symphony.
Frederick Delius wrote Concerto for Cello and
Orchestra in 1921 while in London, with its premiere performed by the Russian cellist Alexandre
Barjansky. Since the 1930s, this work has been
neglected, probably owing to the exacting nature
of the solo part. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is doing his best to turn that situation around.
November 21
September 26
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Moorish Rhapsody is
one of the few compositions he was able to compose during a time of “being stuck” creatively for
just over 10 years after meeting Richard Wagner.
Gershwin and Granados. It is the anniversary of
George Gershwin’s birth (September 26, 1898),
with his Three Preludes played in tribute. The
second G this evening is for Spanish composer
Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Fairyland will
be performed by two faculty members from Duke
University: violist Jonathan Bagg and pianist Jane
Hawkins.
November 28
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program guide (september)
September Featured Works
All programming is subject to change. For
a complete list of a specific day’s music, go
to theclassicalstation.org.
1 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C
Minor
11:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
in C
12:00 p.m. Pachelbel: Canon in D
2:00 p.m. Copland: Four dance episodes
from Rodeo
3:00 p.m. Respighi: The Pines of Rome
5:00 p.m. Pachelbel: Suite in B-flat for
Strings
7:00 p.m. Humperdinck: Overture from
Hansel and Gretel
9:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no.
3 in D Minor
2 Thursday
8:00 a.m. Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody no. 1
(Midsummer Vigil)
9:00 a.m. Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F, op.
6, no. 9
10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in
E Minor
12:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 in D
(Classical)
2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 101 in D
(Clock)
3:00 p.m. Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D
5:30 p.m. Strauss II: “Tales from the Vienna
Woods”
10:00 p.m. Sibelius: “The Swan of Tuonela”
12:00 p.m. Milhaud: Scaramouche (Suite for
Two Pianos)
2:00 p.m. Dvořák: “Carnival” Overture
3:00 p.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.
5 in D
4:00 p.m. Bruckner: Symphony no. 4 in E-flat
(Romantic)
5 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Bach, J.C.: Quintet in D
11:00 a.m. Meyerbeer: The Skaters
1:00 p.m. Bach, J.C.: Grand Overture in E-flat
for Double Orchestra
2:00 p.m. Schumann: Carnaval
4:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The
Golden Cockerel
5:00 p.m. Beach: Dreams of Colombine
10:00 p.m. Beach: Variations on Balkan
Themes
6 Monday
8:00 a.m. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no. 1
in F Minor
10:00 a.m. Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite
12:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 22 in E-flat
(The Philosopher)
2:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 in A
Minor (Scottish)
3:00 p.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 2 in B
Minor
5:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
7:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 25 in G
Minor
10:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Romance, op. 37
7 Tuesday
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, op. 64
Locatelli: Concerto in E-flat
Dvořák: “Silent Woods”
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G
Minor
7:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 3 in D
(Polish)
9:00 p.m. Elgar: Enigma Variations
10:00 p.m. Puccini: Intermezzo from Suor
Angelica
9:00 a.m. Chopin: Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat
Minor
10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A
12:00 p.m. Respighi: The Birds
2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 104 in D
(London)
3:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in
F Minor
7:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B
Minor
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G
10:00 p.m. Gluck: “Dance of the Blessed
Spirits” from Orpheus and
Eurydice
4 Saturday
8 Wednesday
3 Friday
9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. Telemann: Paris Quartet no. 1 in G
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 3 in
E-flat
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8:00 a.m. Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 8 in A
Minor
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12:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B
Minor (Unfinished)
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E Minor
(From the New World)
5:30 p.m. Dvořák: Prague Waltzes
6:00 p.m. Rosh Hashanah special
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor
10:00 p.m. Beethoven: Septet in E-flat
9 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 99 in E-flat
10:00 a.m. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A
Minor
12:00 p.m. Schumann: Papillons
2:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 9 in C
(Great)
3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite no. 4
in G (Mozartiana)
5:00 p.m. Wagner: Overture from The Flying
Dutchman
10:00 p.m. Debussy: “Clair de Lune” from
Suite Bergamasque
Camille Saint-Saëns
b. 1835
5:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 7 in D
Minor
10:00 p.m. Janáček: Idyll for String Orchestra
13 Monday
9:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C
(Jupiter)
11:00 a.m. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
12:00 p.m. Grieg: Holberg Suite
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 in D
3:00 p.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 3 in A
Minor (unfinished)
7:00 p.m. Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne
8:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1
in B-flat Minor
10:00 p.m. Humperdinck: Moorish Rhapsody
9:00 a.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 1 in A
Minor
11:00 a.m. Schumann, C.: Piano Trio in G
Minor
12:00 p.m. Massenet: Alsatian Scenes
2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 100 in G
(Military)
3:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 in
A (Italian)
5:00 p.m. Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
7:00 p.m. Schumann, C.: Piano Concerto in
A Minor
10:00 p.m. Puccini: “Chrysanthemums”
11 Saturday
14 Tuesday
9:00 a.m. Vaughan Williams: “Romanza”
from Symphony no. 5 in D
11:00 a.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no.
2 in C Minor
12:00 p.m. Dvořák: American Suite
2:00 p.m. Brahms: Double Concerto for
Violin and Cello in A Minor
4:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 29 in A
5:00 p.m. Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
8:00 a.m. Cherubini: Overture from Medea
10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn-Hensel: Piano
Sonata in G Minor
11:00 a.m. Telemann: Paris Quartet no. 10
1:00 p.m. Haydn, M.: Symphony no. 19 in C
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Concerto no. 10 in E-flat
for Two Pianos
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin
and Piano
4:00 p.m. Cherubini: Overture from Le
Crescendo
7:00 p.m. Grainger: “Hill Song no. 1”
9:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no. 1 in
D Minor
10 Friday
12 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Bach: “Sheep May Safely Graze”
11:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1
in C
1:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F
3:00 p.m. Telemann: Suite in D for Viola da
Gamba and Strings
4:00 p.m. Respighi: Fountains of Rome
15 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Handel: Ballet music from Alcina
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E-flat
12:00 p.m. Nedbal: “Valse Triste”
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2:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E
Minor
3:00 p.m. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of
Spain
6:00 p.m. Wagner: “Dich, Teure Halle” from
Tannhäuser
7:00 p.m. Turina: Symphonic Rhapsody
Minor (Choral)
16 Thursday
8:00 a.m. Offenbach: Overture to La Belle
Hélène
9:00 a.m. Schumann: Introduction and
Allegro Appassionato in G
10:00 a.m. Copland: Four dance episodes
from Rodeo
12:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphonic Variations
2:00 p.m. Adam: Giselle
5:00 p.m. Berlioz: “Le Corsaire” Overture
10:00 p.m. Vaughan Williams: “The Lark
Ascending”
17 Friday
8:00 a.m. Nicolai: Overture to The Merry
Wives of Windsor
9:00 a.m. Delibes: Coppelia
12:00 p.m. Borodin: Nocturne from String
Quartet no. 2 in D
1:00 p.m. Bach, C.P.E.: Flute Concerto in G
2:00 p.m. Khachaturian: Gayne
6:00 p.m. Yom Kippur special
7:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
10:00 p.m. Griffes: Three Tone Pictures
18 Saturday
9:00 a.m. Rossini: The Fantastic Toyshop
11:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21
in C
12:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C
3:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
5:00 p.m. Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin
and Orchestra
19 Sunday
“
7:00 a.m. Handel: Organ Concerto no. 9 in
B-flat
When you learn something from people,
or from a culture, you accept it as a gift,
and it is your lifelong commitment to
preserve it and build on it.
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(Yo-Yo Ma)
11:00 a.m. Copland: Appalachian Spring
12:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F
2:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 1 in
B-flat (Spring)
3:00 p.m. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
5:00 p.m. D’Indy: Symphony on a French
Mountain Air
11:00 p.m. Delius: Cello Concerto
20 Monday
9:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: String Symphony
no. 8 in D
10:00 a.m. Telemann: Suite in A Minor for
Flute and Strings
12:00 p.m. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on
“Greensleeves”
2:00 p.m. Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor
3:00 p.m. Mozart: Divertimento no. 11 in D
(Nannerl Septet)
5:00 p.m. Meyerbeer: Coronation March
from Le Prophète
7:00 p.m. Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat
10:00 p.m. Copland: “Our Town”
21 Tuesday
8:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Holst: First Suite in E-flat
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 19 in F
Fauré: Pavane
Holst: St. Paul’s Suite
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 in F
Minor
7:00 p.m. Smetana: The Moldau
8:00 p.m. Holst: The Planets
10:00 p.m. Foote: Suite in E for Strings
22 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Telemann: Overture in D from
Tafelmusik
10:00 a.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 3 in D
12:00 p.m. Grieg: Old Norwegian Folk Song
with variations
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat
(Archduke)
3:00 p.m. Ravel: Noble and Sentimental
Waltzes
4:00 p.m. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 2 in
E-flat
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 5 in F
9:00 p.m. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
23 Thursday
8:00 a.m. Glazunov: Autumn from The
Seasons
9:00 a.m. Grieg: “In Autumn” (a Concert
Overture)
10:00 a.m. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
12:00 p.m. Bruch: Serenade on Swedish
Melodies
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
(orchestrated version)
3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F
(Pastoral)
5:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: “Hebrides” Overture
10:00 p.m. Debussy: Two Arabesques
24 Friday
8:00 a.m. Brahms: Five Hungarian Dances,
Nos. 17–21
9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday
10:00 p.m. Mahler: Adagio from Symphony no.
4 in G
25 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Bach: French Suite no. 2 in C
Minor
10:00 a.m. Shostakovich: Suite from The
Gadfly
12:00 p.m. Bach: Goldberg Variations
2:00 p.m. Shostakovich: “Festive Overture”
4:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C
Minor
5:00 p.m. Shostakovich: Piano Concerto
no. 1
26 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Saint-Saëns: “Omphale’s Spinning
Wheel”
11:00 a.m. Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
12:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 in C
Minor (Organ)
2:00 p.m. Gershwin: “An American in Paris”
Minor
5:00 p.m. Gershwin: “Porgy and Bess
Fantasy for Piano Trio”
10:00 p.m. Gershwin: Three Preludes
11:00 p.m. Granados: Six Pieces on Spanish
Popular Songs
28 Tuesday
9:00 a.m. Haydn: Horn Concerto no. 2 in D
10:00 a.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
12:00 p.m. Mozart: Adagio in E for Violin and
Orchestra
2:00 p.m. Schumann: Kreisleriana
3:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 31 in D
(Paris)
5:30 p.m. Strauss, Josef: “My Life is Love and
Laughter”
8:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 in
E Minor
10:00 p.m. Schubert: String Quartet no. 14 in
D Minor (Death and the Maiden)
29 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 3 in E-flat
11:00 a.m. Beethoven: Octet for Winds
1:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a
Rococo Theme
2:00 p.m. Massenet: Le Carillon
4:00 p.m. Mozart: Overture to The Magic
Flute
7:00 p.m. Delius: Florida Suite
8:00 p.m. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A
(Trout)
9:00 p.m. Grieg: Suites 1 and 2 from Peer
Gynt
30 Thursday
8:00 a.m. Svendsen: “Norwegian Artists’
Carnival”
10:00 a.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 2 in E
12:00 p.m. Schubert: Impromptu in A flat, D.
899 no. 4
27 Monday
8:00 a.m. Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Die
Meistersinger
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
6 in B-flat
2:00 p.m. Berlioz: Harold in Italy
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Czech Suite in D
4:00 p.m. Borodin: Overture from Prince Igor
7:00 p.m. Schumann: Overture, Scherzo, and
Finale
10:00 p.m. Schubert: Sonatina in A Minor
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program guide (september/october)
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 in G
Minor (Winter Dreams)
3:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C
(Jupiter)
2 in F
10:00 p.m. Arensky: Variations on a Theme of
Tchaikovsky
October Featured Works
1 Friday
10:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 45 in
F-sharp Minor (Farewell)
12:00 p.m. Schubert: Overture from
Rosamunde
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 20 in
D Minor
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Bagatelles
5:00 p.m. Strauss II: Overture from A Night
in Venice
7:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 3
in C Minor
10:00 p.m. Debussy: Dances Sacred and
Profane for Harp and Orchestra
5 Tuesday
9:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 11 in A
11:00 a.m. Donizetti: Ballet music from La
Favorita
12:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: “Calm Sea and
Prosperous Voyage”
2:00 p.m. Handel: Water Music
3 in D Minor
5:00 p.m. Dukas: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
(Prague)
9:00 p.m. Dukas: La Péri
9:00 a.m. Bach: Italian Concerto in F
10:00 a.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 5 in B-flat
12:00 p.m. Massenet: “The Last Sleep of the
Virgin”
2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 103 in E-flat
(Drum Roll)
3:00 p.m. Ravel: “La Valse”
7:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in
E Minor
9:00 p.m. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition
10:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Fantasy Pieces,
Op. 3
2 Saturday
6 Wednesday
8:00 a.m. Smetana: Overture and Dances
from The Bartered Bride
10:00 a.m. Purcell: Suite from The Fairy
Queen
12:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in
E-flat (Eroica)
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
4:00 p.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in
B-flat
5:00 p.m. Gounod: Symphony no. 1 in D
3 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Holst: Second Suite in F for
military band
11:00 a.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D
1:00 p.m. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
1 in F
4:00 p.m. Ravel: “Alborada del Gracioso”
(“Morning Song of the Jester”)
5:00 p.m. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D
10:00 p.m. Chadwick: String Quartet no. 4
4 Monday
8:00 a.m. Brahms: “Academic Festival
Overture”
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8:00 a.m. Strauss II: Overture from Die
Fledermaus
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 35 in D
(Haffner)
12:00 p.m. Myers: “Cavatina” from The Deer
Hunter
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 23 in
F Minor (Appassionata)
3:00 p.m. Delibes: Suite from Sylvia
5:00 p.m. Copland: “El Salón México”
8:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B
Minor (Pathétique)
10:00 p.m. Brahms: Variations on an Original
Theme
7 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A
Minor
10:00 a.m. Handel: Occasional Suite in D
11:00 a.m. Bizet: Children’s Games (Jeux
d’Enfants)
12:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: “The Swan” from
Carnival of the Animals
2:00 p.m. Liszt: Piano Concerto no. 1 in
E-flat (Triangle)
3:00 p.m. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
5:30 p.m. Strauss II: “Accelerations”
program guide (october)
10:00 p.m. Dvořák: Piano Quartet no. 2 in
E-flat
8 Friday
9:00 a.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.
4 in G
11:00 a.m. Berlioz: “Love Scene” from Roméo
and Juliet
12:00 p.m. Mozart: Serenade no. 13 in G
(Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
3:00 p.m. Chopin: Andante Spianato and
Grand Polonaise in E-flat
5:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: “Africa” Fantasy
7:00 p.m. Sibelius: “Finlandia”
8:00 p.m. Smetana: Má Vlast (My
Fatherland)
10:00 p.m. Liszt: “The First Year: Switzerland”
from Years of Pilgrimage
9 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Elgar: Bavarian Dances
10:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Saint-Saëns: Algerian Suite
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Strauss II: “The Blue Danube”
Verdi: Gloria all’Egitto (Grand
March) from Aida
5:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 in C
Minor (Organ)
10 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Grieg: Norwegian Dances
11:00 a.m. Moszkowski: Spanish Dances,
Book 1
C Minor
2:00 p.m. McEwen: Scottish Rhapsody
(Prince Charlie)
4:00 p.m. Strauss, R.: From Italy (Aus Italien,
Symphonic Fantasy)
5:00 p.m. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
10:00 p.m. Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D Minor
Hapv Birthday!
Virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma just might have
the best-known face in classical music today.
He is a tremendous international star, no
doubt, but also a real guy prone to the
occasional oops...like leaving a priceless
instrument in the back of a cab. (He got
it back.)
He has played for presidents, real and
imagined (remember when he was on
The West Wing?). He’s a pal of Elmo on
Sesame Street.
Yo-Yo Ma is virtually untouchable in the
traditional cello repertoire, the Boccherini
and Beethoven, Dvořák and Elgar, and he is equally at home with music of today.
He has worked with Tan Dun and Edgar Meyer, John Williams and Bobby McFerrin.
And he is committed to exploring the rich diversity of music from other cultures
through his Silk Road Project.
He has said: “When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept
it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.”
After a career of more than 30 years, you get the impression that he’s just getting
warmed up.
Join WCPE on October 7 as we salute Yo-Yo Ma on his 55th birthday. We’ll feature
his performances of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor at 9:00 a.m. and the
Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor at 3:00 p.m., with other surprises along the way.
And be sure to look for our online features at theclassicalstation.org.
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program guide (october/november)
11 Monday–24 Sunday
Fall 2010 Membership Drive
Call 800.556.5178
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classical radio. Please do your
part to help continue this vital
service.
25 Monday
8:00 a.m. Strauss II: “Tales from the Vienna
Woods”
10:00 a.m. Bizet: Symphony in C
12:00 p.m. Bach: Flute Sonata in E, BWV 1035
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4
in G
5:30 p.m. Strauss II: “Emperor Waltz”
7:00 p.m. Bizet: Carmen Suite no. 1
10:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Elegiac Trio no. 2
in D Minor
26 Tuesday
9:00 a.m. Scarlatti, D.: Six sonatas
10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Selections from
Incidental Music to A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
12:00 p.m. Avison: Concerto Grosso no. 4 in
A Minor
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 3 in G
3:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B
Minor (Unfinished)
5:00 p.m. Mozart: Overture to The Marriage
of Figaro
8:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the
Animals
10:00 p.m. Schumann, C.: Four Fugitive Pieces
27 Wednesday
8:00 a.m. Borodin: “In the Steppes of Central
Asia”
10:00 a.m. Paganini: Violin Concerto no. 1
in D
12:00 p.m. Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A
3:00 p.m. Paganini: Terzetto Concertante
5:00 p.m. Rossini: Overture from William Tell
7:00 p.m. Brahms: Hungarian Dances nos.
1–6
10:00 p.m. Mozart: String Quintet in C
28 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 104 in D
(London)
10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14 in
C-sharp Minor (Moonlight)
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12:00 p.m. Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet
Fantasy Overture”
3:00 p.m. Hanson: Symphony no. 2
(Romantic)
5:00 p.m. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2
10:00 p.m. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
29 Friday
8:00 a.m. Balakirev: “Islamey, an Oriental
Fantasy”
10:00 p.m. Puccini: Intermezzo from Suor
Angelica
30 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Sibelius: Karelia Suite
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 38 in D
(Prague)
1:00 p.m. Lehár: Waltz from The Merry
Widow
3:00 p.m. Warlock: Capriol Suite
4:00 p.m. Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor
5:00 p.m. Beethoven: Romance no. 2 in F
for Violin
31 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Bazzini: “The Dance of the
Goblins” (Scherzo Fantastique)
11:00 a.m. Mussorgsky: “Night on Bald
Mountain”
12:00 p.m. Tartini: Sonata in G Minor (The
Devil’s Trill)
2:00 p.m. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz no. 1
3:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: “The Isle of the
Dead”
4:00 p.m. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
5:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: “Danse Macabre”
11:00 p.m. Novak: Slovak Suite
November Featured Works
1 Monday
8:00 a.m. Suk: Toward A New Life (festival
march)
10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D
12:00 p.m. Delius: “On Hearing the First
Cuckoo in Spring”
2:00 p.m. Elgar: Enigma Variations
3:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B
Minor
5:00 p.m. Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody no.
1 in A
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program guide (november)
7:00 p.m. Haydn: Piano Concerto in D
10:00 p.m. Gershwin: “Lullaby” for Strings
2 Tuesday
9:00 a.m. Dittersdorf: Symphony in F (The
Rescuing of Andromeda by
Perseus)
10:00 a.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 9 in C
(Great)
1:00 p.m. Telemann: Concerto in E Minor for
Flute, Violin, and Strings
3:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C
5:30 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Sleeping
Beauty
7:00 p.m. Handel: Music for the Royal
Fireworks
8:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2
in G Minor
9:00 p.m. Strauss, R.: “Don Juan”
(symphonic poem)
3 Wednesday
8:00 a.m. Scheidt: Battle Suite
10:00 a.m. Weber: Piano Concerto no. 2 in
E-flat
12:00 p.m. Haydn: Violin Concerto no. 1 in C
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C
Minor (Little Russian)
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G
6:00 p.m. Bellini: “Casta Diva” from Norma
D Minor (Tempest)
8:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 4 in D
Minor
10:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: “Vocalise”
4 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Ponchielli: “Dance of the Hours”
from La Gioconda
in E-flat (Emperor)
12:00 p.m. Mozart: Concerto in C for Flute
and Harp
2:00 p.m. Respighi: Suite no. 1 from Ancient
Airs and Dances
3:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F
3 in G
10:00 p.m. Grieg: Lyric Pieces no. 4
5 Friday
8:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
10:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 94 in G
(Surprise)
12:00 p.m. Debussy: “Prelude to the Afternoon
of a Faun”
4 in G Minor
4:00 p.m. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor
Minor
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: “The Wood Dove”
9:00 p.m. Mahler: Symphony no. 1 in D
(Titan)
6 Saturday
9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C
11:00 a.m. Brahms: “Academic Festival
Overture”
1:00 p.m. Sousa: “The Washington Post” and
“Hail to the Spirit of Liberty”
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E-flat
4:00 p.m. Debussy: La Mer
5:00 p.m. Sousa: “Stars and Stripes Forever”
7 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Handel: Organ Concerto in F
11:00 a.m. Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a
Theme of Thomas Tallis”
1:00 p.m. Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D
3:00 p.m. Dukas: Symphony in C
4:00 p.m. Schubert: “Ave Maria”
Minor
10:00 p.m. Brahms: String Quartet no. 2 in A
Minor
8 Monday
9:00 a.m. Bach, J.C.: Sinfonia Concertante
in C
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Serenade no. 9 in D
(Posthorn)
12:00 p.m. Liszt: “The Gondolier” from Venice
and Naples
2:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini
3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5 in E
Minor
5:30 p.m. Strauss II: “Roses from the South”
7:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: “1812 Overture”
10:00 p.m. Bax: “Tintagel”
9 Tuesday
8:00 a.m. Rossini: Overture from Semiramide
9:00 a.m. Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D
WCPE derives its income from
listener donations and grants from
foundations and businesses.
Donations are tax-deductible.
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11:00 a.m. Parry: Lady Radnor’s Suite
1:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
3:00 p.m. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A
Minor
7:00 p.m. Franck: Symphonic Variations
8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in
E-flat (Eroica)
10:00 p.m. Wagner: “Siegfried Idyll”
12:00 p.m. Chadwick: Suite Symphonique in
E-flat
2:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5
(Reformation)
4:00 p.m. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A
(Trout)
5:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 in D
(Classical)
10 Wednesday
14 Sunday
8:00 a.m. Grieg: “Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen”
9:00 a.m. Couperin: Concert Pieces
11:00 a.m. Schumann: Symphony in G Minor
(Zwickau)
12:00 p.m. Pachelbel: Canon in D
2:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21
in C
5:00 p.m. Couperin: The Mysterious
Barricades
8:00 p.m. Debussy: Images for Orchestra
10:00 p.m. Chopin: Nocturnes
7:00 a.m. Copland: “An Outdoor Overture”
11:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C
(Jupiter)
12:00 p.m. Copland: Four dance episodes
from Rodeo
2:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 in
A (Italian)
4:00 p.m. Schubert: Fantasia in C (Wanderer
Fantasy)
5:00 p.m. Copland: Appalachian Spring
11:00 p.m. Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.
2 (London)
11 Thursday
15 Monday
8:00 a.m. Offenbach: “American Eagle Waltz”
10:00 a.m. Dvořák: American Suite
11:00 a.m. Traditional: “Taps”;
Williams: “Song for World Peace”
1:00 p.m. Copland: The Red Pony Suite
2:00 p.m. Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
3:00 p.m. Hayman: “Servicemen on Parade”
5:00 p.m. Williams: “Liberty Fanfare”
10:00 p.m. Delius: Florida Suite
12 Friday
9:00 a.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 3 in A
Minor (unfinished)
10:00 a.m. Schubert: Octet in F for Strings
and Winds
12:00 p.m. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat
2:00 p.m. Borodin: Overture and “Polovtsian
Dances” from Prince Igor
3:00 p.m. Handel: The Gods Go a’Begging
Suite
7:00 p.m. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
9:00 p.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 2 in B
Minor
10:00 p.m. Widor: Suite for Flute and Piano
13 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 24 in
F-sharp (For Thérèse)
(Miracle)
11:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B
Minor (Pathétique)
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9:00 a.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 4 in D
11:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 26 in
D (Coronation)
12:00 p.m. Hovhaness: “Prayer of St. Gregory
for Trumpet and Strings”
2:00 p.m. Liszt: Fantasy on Hungarian Folk
Themes
5:30 p.m. Waldteufel: “Estudiantina”
7:00 p.m. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
10:00 p.m. Borodin: Petite Suite
16 Tuesday
8:00 a.m. Anrooy: “Piet Hein Rhapsody”
10:00 a.m. Mozart: Serenade no. 13 in G
(Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
12:00 p.m. Bach: Trio Sonata in G
2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 5 in
F (Spring)
3:00 p.m. Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E
Minor
4:00 p.m. Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso
8:00 p.m. Franck: Symphony in D Minor
10:00 p.m. Chausson: “Poème”
17 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Handel: Water Music
11:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto no.
1 in G Minor
12:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping
Beauty
2:00 p.m. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an
Exhibition
3:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 6 in C
5:00 p.m. Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto
7:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 36 in C
(Linz)
2 in C Minor
18 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Paderewski: Polish Fantasy for
Piano and Orchestra
10:00 a.m. Brahms: Variations on a Theme by
Haydn
12:00 p.m. Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-flat
1:00 p.m. Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
2:00 p.m. Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A
Minor
3:00 p.m. Weber: Symphony no. 1 in C
C-sharp Minor (Moonlight)
10:00 p.m. Delius: “In a Summer Garden”
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
b. 1805 (this year marks the
205th anniversary of her birth)
19 Friday
(Morning)
10:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1
in B-flat Minor
12:00 p.m. Debussy: “En Bateau”
1:00 p.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 1 in A
Minor
3:00 p.m. Gounod: Petite Symphony in B-flat
for Winds
4:00 p.m. Ippolitov-Ivanov: “Procession of
the Sardar”
7:00 p.m. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Symphony no. 1
in E Minor
8:00 p.m. Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 in D
20 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Ravel: Noble and Sentimental
Waltzes
9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F
(Pastoral)
11:00 a.m. Cui: Suite in the Popular Style
1:00 p.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 in
D Minor
3:00 p.m. Borodin: Nocturne from String
Quartet no. 2 in D
5:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D
21 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Telemann: Trumpet Concerto no.
2 in D
11:00 a.m. Vaughan Williams: English Folk
Song Suite
(Haffner)
3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
in C
4:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
5:00 p.m. Tárrega: “Recuerdos de la
Alhambra”
10:00 p.m. Schumann: Scenes from Fairyland
22 Monday
8:00 a.m. Rossini: Overture to The Thieving
Magpie
9:00 a.m. Bach, W.F.: Sinfonia in F
11:00 a.m. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2
in G Minor
1:00 p.m. Britten: Simple Symphony
3:00 p.m. Rodrigo: Fantasia for a Gentleman
4:00 p.m. Beethoven: “Leonore Overture”
no. 3
7:00 p.m. Britten: Young Person’s Guide to
the Orchestra
10:00 p.m. Schubert: Sonata in A Minor
(Arpeggione)
23 Tuesday
8:00 a.m. Falla: “Ritual Fire Dance” from El
Amor Brujo
(Clock)
12:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
from String Quartet no. 1 in D
2:00 p.m. Strauss, R.: Horn Concerto no. 2
in E-flat
3:00 p.m. Falla: Four Dances from The ThreeCornered Hat
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7:00 p.m. Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 7 in D
Minor
10:00 p.m. Sibelius: Swanwhite Suite
24 Wednesday
9:00 a.m. Bach: English Suite no. 2 in A
Minor
10:00 a.m. Goldmark: Rustic Wedding
Symphony
12:00 p.m. Franck: “The Breezes”
C (Waldstein)
3:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
4:00 p.m. Rossini: Overture to The Barber of
Seville
8:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
9:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D
25 Thursday
9:00 a.m. Copland: Appalachian Spring
10:00 a.m. Smetana: “Vysehrad” from Má
Vlast
11:00 a.m. Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite
B-flat
1:00 p.m. Telemann: Overture in D from
Tafelmusik
2:00 p.m. Bernstein: “Make Our Garden
Grow” from Candide
3:00 p.m. Dvořák: String Quartet no. 12 in F
(American)
Minor (Choral)
10:00 p.m. Copland: The Tender Land
26 Friday
8:00 a.m. Copland: Three dance episodes
from Rodeo
10:00 p.m. Williams: “Hymn to the Fallen”
from Saving Private Ryan
27 Saturday
8:00 a.m. Ray: Selections from Homestead
Dances
10:00 a.m. Carpenter: Adventures in a
Perambulator
12:00 p.m. Copland: Suite from Billy the Kid
2:00 p.m. Barber: Adagio for Strings
4:00 p.m. Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
5:00 p.m. Still: Symphony no. 1 (AfroAmerican)
28 Sunday
7:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Gould: “Amber Waves”
Copland: “Prairie Journal”
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E Minor
(From the New World)
4:00 p.m. Schumann: New England Triptych
5:00 p.m. Hanson: Symphony no. 2
(Romantic)
10:00 p.m. Humperdinck: Moorish Rhapsody
29 Monday
8:00 a.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.
2 in F
10:00 a.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in
B-flat
12:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: “Hebrides” Overture
2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 3 in D
(Polish)
3:00 p.m. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
5:00 p.m. Donizetti: Ballet music from The
Siege of Calais
10:00 p.m. Chopin: Nocturnes, op. 9
30 Tuesday
Ignacy Paderewski
b.1860 (this year
marks the 150th anniversary of his birth)
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9:00 a.m. Liszt: “Les Préludes”
in C Minor
12:00 p.m. Ravel: “Pavane for a Dead
Princess”
Minor
4:00 p.m. Alkan: Waltz (Scherzo) from Etudes
7:00 p.m. Schumann: Manfred Overture
8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor
10:00 p.m. Bach: Trio Sonata from The
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eye on education
Eye on Education
by Tara Lynn
We’re off to a great
start with the WCPE
Educational Fund!
Round one yielded
$1,977.67, with a little
more trickling in from
sustaining membership
gifts. The Educational
Fund committee
has been meeting to
discuss guidelines and interviewing potential
recipients of the funds. We hope to have
news about our first dispensation by the fall
membership drive so that you can see our
progress. If you would like the committee to
consider supporting a particular educational
nonprofit group that focuses on classical
music, please send its contact information
and a description of how it benefits the community to [email protected].
Four WCPE members volunteer their time
and energy to the Educational Fund committee: Anne Scoggin, Doug McAllister,
Carolyn Zahnow, and Jack Gartner. The four
staff members on committee are Kenneth
Bradshaw, Rae Weaver, Stu Pattison, and I.
Visit theclassicalstation.org/features_
education.shtml to read more about these
individuals and discover what makes them
assets to the committee.
Recently I spoke with Community Music
School’s executive director, Carol Walborn.
What is Community Music School?
Community Music School was established in
Raleigh in 1994 to provide children whose
families could not afford music education programs with an opportunity to take
private lessons for one dollar per lesson,
including an instrument. Over the past 15
years, Community Music School has served
over 1500 music students from Raleigh and
neighboring communities in Wake County.
Various locations in Raleigh were used to
provide the lessons until the school could
find a location suitable for classroom and
performance needs. This summer we will
move into a new facility, which will allow
us to increase enrollment from 125 to 175
students. To be eligible, students must be
certified for the federal Free and Reduced
Lunch program—and, of course, have an
interest in learning to play an instrument
or sing.
Where do you get your funding and
instruments?
Community Music School, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization, is funded in part by:
the City of Raleigh, based upon recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission; the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake
County with funds from the Grassroots
Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts
Council, a state agency, Wake County, and
the United Arts Campaign; and the North
Carolina Arts Council, a Division of the
Department of Cultural Resources. In addition, we receive funding from the Triangle
Community Foundation’s Grantmaking
Program and area businesses, corporations,
and individuals. Community Music School
has fifteen professional music teachers who
are dedicated to the program. They are
willing to work for less than scale to ensure
that these children have the same opportunities for quality music education as do other
children in our community.
Our Instrument Loan Program provides an
instrument to a student for as long as he or
she is enrolled in the program. The instruments are donated by individuals and area
music programs and businesses. Without
these instruments, our students’ families
would not be able to enroll their children in
music education.
If you’d like to learn more about
Community Music School or donate an
instrument, please visit www.cmsraleigh.org
or call 919.832.0900, extension 3. When
you make your next donation to WCPE, ask
for a portion of your donation to go to the
Educational Fund so that we can help organizations like Community Music School q
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in the community
Concert at the Fortepiano:
Handel and Scandal
By Curtis Brothers
An absolutely scandalous event took place
June 13, 2010, at the new Wake Forest
Birthplace Museum: women played music
in public! At least, that is what Kathaleen
Chandley said would have been the case on
June 13, 1810, the approximate year the fortepiano featured was manufactured. At that
time, women played at home, men in public.
The lecture and concert were hosted by Ms.
Chandley, who has taught music for over
forty years in Wake Forest, NC. It included
a demonstration of an early 19th-century
Broadwood fortepiano, which was donated
by Susan Brinkley and family. The lecture
was a history of John Broadwood and Sons,
which has made fine pianos of different types
for over 250 years for both royalty and the
general public. The company, which holds
the longest Royal Warrant of any company in
the U.K., was responsible for many technical
innovations in the evolution of the piano.
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In late 1817, Broadwood and Sons shipped
a fortepiano to Ludwig van Beethoven with
the serial number of 7362. It remarkably
resembles the instrument donated by the
Brinkleys, down to the beautiful rosewood
veneer. If the instruments weren’t made from
the same tree, the trees were close cousins.
The Broadwood production ledger for serial
number 3865, the fortepiano in the museum, is missing, but it is safe to suppose that
it predated the Beethoven gift.
The concert consisted of six pieces, three
solos and three duets. The first was by
Robert Bremner, a gig (or gigue) from a
facsimile of a harpsichord and spinet medley
published in 1765. Next were the first movements from two Beethoven sonatas: opus
27, no. 2 (the famous “Moonlight” sonata),
and op. 110. Ms. Chandley was then joined
by her friend Patti Davis, who was once a
WCPE volunteer. They performed Bach’s
“Sheep May Safely Graze,” Handel’s “Arrival
of the Queen of Sheba,” and the first movement of Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”
The beautiful performances by these two
ladies was no scandal after all. q
lately we’ve read
Music for the Common Man:
Aaron Copland During the
Depression and War
by Elizabeth B. Crist
Oxford University Press; 201 pages
By R.C. Speck
By permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
To what extent was Aaron Copland a
Communist? Or perhaps a ‘progressive’? We
all know Copland’s passion for folk music: the
cross-cultural melodies that made him popular, the jazzy rhythms that made him famous.
We know him also for giving the Americas a
musical identity separate from Europe’s.
But how much of this passion was the ideological journey of the composer? To what
extent was his journey aligned with progressivism and similar movements shaping the
political world in the 1930s and 1940s?
And what was the role that music, especially
Copland’s hybrid, groundbreaking music,
played in this, both socially and politically?
These are the questions that author Elizabeth
Crist takes on in her book Music for the
Common Man: Aaron Copland During the
Depression and War.
A scholarly and highly informative work,
Music for the Common Man details how
Copland’s music embraces “class-based
politics of the Popular Front and the ideal of
ethnic pluralism.” Crist begins with Copland
in the Great Depression, which she claims
“revivified collectivist energies” and “invested
aesthetic philosophies with greater social
urgency.” Copland’s political affiliation with
the Communists during this time gets ample
coverage. His music does too, such as the
proletarian song “Into the Streets May First”
and his Piano Variations.
Crist discusses Copland’s relationships with
Latin American composers Heitor VillaLobos and Carlos Chávez and the influence these men had on Copland’s “El Salón
México” and Billy the Kid. Crist also covers
Copland’s work in government programs for
cultural exchange and discusses his “Danzón
Cubano” in detail (“The opening is purely
percussive, with a syncopation characteristic
of Latin American
rhythms as well as
African American
ragtime”).
Crist offers much
on Copland’s
war years output,
namely “Fanfare
for the Common
Man” and the gorgeous Appalachian
Spring. His
“Lincoln Portrait”
gets much attention. Interestingly, Copland’s
first choice for this piece was poet Walt
Whitman, but the commission asking for
these pieces already had a writer’s portrait
from another composer. So Lincoln it
was. Crist expounds on how Copland and
Whitman shared much ideologically. But
Abraham Lincoln was an excellent choice,
and Crist describes how important Lincoln
became to the American Left. Crist also
writes about the debt “Lincoln Portrait”
owes to African American music of the antebellum South, its syncopation, and its use of
the “Camptown Races” melody.
The story continues into the McCarthy era.
Crist includes Copland’s famous “I have
never at any time been a member of any
political party” letter and covers his less-thanforthcoming interview with McCarthy himself. In the end, Crist ties Copland’s fortunes
to the progressivism of the 1930s and 1940s.
When the American Left began to change
in the 1950s to take on an anticommunist
stance reflective of the Cold War, much of
the idealistic collectivism of Copland’s youth
became discarded. Modern composers had
less interest in Copland’s grand and accessible style (Copland had always been the
anti-Schoenberg), while leading intellectuals began to find middle class tastes banal.
Copland’s star began to fade.
Crist’s premise is not so much that Aaron
Copland was an integral part of the
Left’s political culture during the 1930s
and 1940s, but vice versa. In the case of
Copland, ideology is married to music, and
one cannot properly be discussed without
the other. q
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lately we’ve heard
A review of Candlelight
By Ken Hoover
Nacht, Heilige Nacht” (“Silent Night”), sung
the German Boys Choir; and Schubert’s
other-worldly “Ave Maria,” sung by the
incomparable Ingrid Kertesi. Harold Darke’s
setting of Christina Rosetti’s poem “In the
Bleak Midwinter” was chosen in 2008 by an
international panel of choir directors as the
greatest Christmas carol.
I would call to your attention some of the
less well-known gems in this collection,
like Gustav Nordqvist’s heart-melting “Jul,
Jul, Strålande Jul” (“Christmas, Christmas,
Radiant Christmas”), and Samuel Adler’s
selections from The Flames of Freedom,
sung by the New London Children’s
Choir. Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum
Mysterium,” composed in 1994, is already a
phenomenal choral classic.
Candlelight illuminates holiday selections
from The Classical Station and was produced
by Naxos of America, Inc., for WCPE in
2009. It comprises two CDs and 39 tracks
of music.
The impetus for this holiday CD set was a
quote from Edith Wharton: “There are two
ways of spreading light: to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it.” This lovely
thought inspired staff, listeners, classical
music magazines, and old friends, whose
contributions all came together in the making of this collection.
One of our goals was not to repeat the same
old collection of standard holiday favorites
that has been done so many times before
but to offer a collection that reflects variety,
diversity, and freshness.
There are a few familiar favorites like The
Nutcracker Suite; the irreplaceable “Stille
There are both joyful and reflective selections
from the Renaissance era to the 21st century.
There is “The Holly and the Ivy” and an
utterly charming “Chanukah Suite.” There
are vocal, instrumental, and orchestral selections. This is the kind of music you could
play while opening gifts or during a holiday
dinner; or you could crank up the volume
and concentrate on hearing in detail all it has
to offer. It makes a perfect holiday-time gift.
Candlelight is offered as one of the selections of thank-you gifts for our fall 2010
membership drive. A donation of $100 (or
$150 for two) will assist WCPE in its mission of maintaining and preserving Great
Classical Music and will provide you with
the pleasures of Candlelight whenever you
choose. It is our hope that the light of Great
Classical Music will shine in this CD set and
be reflected wherever it is played and heard
throughout the world. q
WCPE is listener-supported classical radio. Please do your
part to help continue this vital service. Donate by going to
theclassicalstation.org or calling 800.556.5178.
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composer notes
Luigi Cherubini:
an Italian in Paris
By Bob Chapman
Much admired by musicians, Luigi
Cherubini (1760–1842) was Beethoven’s
favorite contemporary composer. What
Beethoven and many others particularly
admired was Cherubini’s ability to weave his
polyphonic virtuosity, Classical stylistic polish, and truly Romantic sense of drama into
music of extraordinary depth and dramatic
power.
Cherubini was born in Florence, Italy,
on September 14, 1760, the son
of a musician. In the preface of
his autograph catalogue of
his own works, Cherubini
notes that he “began to
learn music at six and
composition at nine.”
By the age of 17, he had
composed a number
of ecclesiastical works,
including three Masses.
In 1784 Cherubini
moved to London, where
he wrote two operas for the
King’s Theatre. During his
two years in the English capital,
Cherubini attracted the attention
of the Prince of Wales and held the post
of composer to the king under King George
III. It was probably this position that won
him an invitation to visit Paris.
In the summer of 1785, Cherubini visited
Paris for the first time, securing an introduction to Marie Antoinette. He soon took up
residence and quickly established himself
as a major musical figure. The first work
Cherubini presented in Paris was the opera
Démophon, in a style adapted to the prevailing French taste—a cross between the more
severe, essentially cosmopolitan style of the
mature Gluck and the overtly Italian but
still highly dramatic manner popularized by
Piccinni, Salieri, and Sacchini.
In 1789, Cherubini became musical director of the Théâtre de Monsieur, an Italian
opera company whose repertoire included
the works of Paisiello and Cimarosa. Amid
the tumult of the French Revolution, the
company was reconstituted, and Cherubini
became its composer-in-residence. The
result was a string of French-language operas
beginning with Lodoïska and culminating in
the works that are regarded as his masterpieces: Medée (better known in Italian as
Medea) and Les Deux Journées.
In 1805, Cherubini arrived in Vienna, where
he was present at not only a performance of
Les Deux Journées but also the premiere of
Beethoven’s Fidelio. The two composers met
but seem to have found little in common,
least of all a common language. Shortly after
Cherubini’s arrival, French troops
occupied Vienna, and Cherubini
was obliged to organize and
conduct the musical soirées
that Napoleon gave at
Schönbrunn Palace during his stay.
During the Napoleonic
years, Cherubini
remained an honored
figure, despite his
royalist leanings; from
the restoration of the
Bourbon monarchy in
1814 until the revolution
of 1830, he served as superintendent of the Royal Chapel and
in that capacity composed a number
of sacred works, including the formidable
Requiem in C minor. In 1822, Cherubini
became director of the Paris Conservatory,
a position that wielded great power over
French music for several decades. The most
important composition of his final years was
the Requiem in D minor, intended for his
own funeral.
The Philharmonic Society of London commissioned a symphony, an overture, and a
cantata by Cherubini, and during his career
Cherubini wrote six string quartets, a string
quintet, and six sonatas for harpsichord.
Although they have mostly vanished from
the stage, Cherubini’s French-language
operas were seminal works in the development of Romantic music drama. They
effected a stylistic revolution in French opera
that paved the way for the Parisian grand
operas of Berlioz and Meyerbeer. q
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the death in 2008 of her former husband, James
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Franceine Perry Rees died at her home in Greenville, N.C., on April 2, 2010. The
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