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Quarter Notes-Spr10

Quarter Notes
Spring 2010
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Books: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert;
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina; Clockers by Richard
Price—what an ear for dialogue!
Hobby: Oil painting—I can lose myself when
I paint. I just wish I had more time because it
eats time up.
Movies: All About Eve (explanation needed?),
Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell was a goddess), Godfather I & II Goodfellas, Harold and
Kumar go to White Castle (I’m sorry, I laughed
myself silly.)
Musician or Performance: Oh man, that’s
too tough to pin point.
Food: In the cold weather—a bourbon old
fashioned, followed by a pork roast, apple
sauce and buttered noodles.
Met moment: Renee Fleming and Dmitri
Hvorostovsky in the Met’s production of
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. It was as if the
opera was written for them; and the Met’s
production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha; it
grew on me more and more with every
performance.
Vacation: My husband Jamie and I like to get
in the car and just go. I could drive anywhere
with him and it would be the best vacation in
the world. (Met broadcasts continue Saturday afternoons through
May 8!)
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A Letter from WCPE’s General Manager
WCPE’s Member Magazine
Vol. 32, No. 1
This program guide is published quarterly to enhance
appreciation and understanding of classical music. It is
sent to individuals and firms who contribute financial
support or services to WCPE. Quarter Notes is co-edited
by Terry Marcellin-Little and Deana Vassar.
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Deborah S. Proctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager
David Ballantyne . . . . . . . . Assistant Program Director†
Peter Blume . . . . . . . . . . Business Development Director
Kenneth Bradshaw . . . . . . . . . Assistant Music Director†
Curtis Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Outreach Director†
Howard Burchette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Announcer
Phil Davis Campbell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Announcer
Bob Chapman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Announcer
Tommy O. Denton . . . . . . . Member Services Director†
David Faircloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Announcer
John Graham . . . . . . . . . Outreach Engineering Director
Stuart Holoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Assistant†
Ken Hoover . . . . . . . . . . Thank-You Gift Coordinator†
Brian LeBlanc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Announcer
Terry Marcellin-Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Publications†
Tara Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community Liaison†
Eric Maynard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webmaster
Jane O’Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Volunteer Coordinator
Stu Pattison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Data Services Director†
Katherine B. Peters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Member Services
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Dick Storck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Director†
John Taffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Assistant
Deana Vassar . . . . Publications & Promotions Director†
Rae C. Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Director
William Woltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Music Director†
† WCPE Staff Announcers
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Opera this quarter
WCPE Opera House & The Met
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Sundays this quarter
Great Sacred Music, Peaceful Reflections
& Preview!
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Monthly calendars
March, April & May
14 Lately we’ve read & heard
An obsessive quest and a formidable
journey: Glenn Gould & Sharon Isbin
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Spring membership drive
Exciting new CDs and more...
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Speaking with...
Pianist Mayron Tsong
20 Classical community
22 Composer notes
David Ballantyne on Samuel Barber
23 Listening by appointment
Featured works this quarter
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Spring highlights
By Kenneth Bradshaw
Design: Sherer Graphic Design
Illustrations: Nick Meglin
WCPE Staff
Home, sweet home
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Who am I?
“We can bring not only music, we can give
the people peace…”
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ON THE COVER
American composer SAMUEL BARBER wrote one of the
most stunning pieces of 20th century music. His
Adagio for Strings will be our “tranquil tune at noon”
on Barber’s March 9th birthday. We’ll start the day
with his Overture to School for Scandal and enjoy his
Second Essay for Orchestra on Concert Hall at 7pm.
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Thank YOU very much!
You made last year a success and we’re starting 2010 off right, too!
The Spring Drive will be later than usual this
year. It’s because of a late Easter; to avoid
fundraising during Holy Week, we’ll start the
Membership Drive after mid-April. You know
how WCPE operates, but our newest listeners
haven’t been to “community radio school” yet.
We’ll keep the Membership drive short and
interesting—with all the good music you
expect. In my December newsletter I told you
that most of our gifts come in response to our
mailouts. (Remember, over the course of a
year those letters help us silence two of every
three fundraising days.)
But to get a new listener to trust us with their
first donation, we have to ask them directly to
make their first pledge; that means a
Membership Drive now and then. We need
one in April after tax day is over.
We’ll have new Thank-You Gifts that I
think you’ll like, including special compact
discs chosen by our individual announcers. I
hope you’ll take a few moments to look
through this issue of Quarter Notes and see if
any particular thank-you gift catches your
fancy. Many would also be perfect gifts for
your friends and family, especially those who
are just beginning to appreciate Great Classical
Music. Consider The Listener’s Encyclopedia of
Classical Music, a 975-page paperback reference book.
Help keep the Membership Drive short!
Make a “silent” pledge right now! The idea
behind a Silent Pledge is simple—your early
pledge through the mail goes toward the overall fund drive goal. Because we’re closer to the
goal with your advance pledge, we can play
more music during the drive and eliminate
some pledge breaks.
Silent Pledges work! I hope you noticed the
many Silent Hours during our past fund drive
when we played
longer works during
the evening, and we
shortened the length
of the drive because
we were able to skip
the first couple of
days! It was possible
because of your
Silent Pledge we
received through the
Deborah Proctor
mail ahead of time.
WCPE’s Great
Classical Music is here for you on the radio or
on TheClassicalStation.org whenever you want
to listen. Now I hope you’ll decide to be here
for WCPE, and not only agree that WCPE
and Great Classical Music are worthy of your
generous support, but that you’ll do something to show how much you really care!
As always, your gift will count toward
any new thank you gift you hear during the
drive. Feel free to give us a call when you
hear about one you’d like.
Please take a moment right now to grab
your checkbook or your keyboard and make
your Silent Pledge while you’re thinking about
it. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing the
music you hear each day is here because of
your commitment to WCPE’s continuation.
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ou came through for WCPE and
Great Classical Music! Everyone
pitched in, from longstanding local
listeners to newfound friends across the
Nation. Let me give you a very heartfelt
“Thank You so Much!” for helping us end 2009
almost in balance.
Something Special Really makes the
Telephone Ring! We have found that the
most successful way to encourage new listeners
to become new Members is to give them a
challenge; to offer extra encouragement showing that their personal pledge is important.
Challenges do make the phone lines light up!
Member Challenges are something special;
so special that we call them Angel Challenges
because we value the generosity of the
Members who make them and they bring
extraordinary results. I’m sure you’ve heard us
refer to them during past fund drives.
We hear from more new Members when we
have an Angel Challenge offered because we
can say “if you’ll call in now with your pledge,
our Angel will add to your new member
pledge….” You’ve heard this often because
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Angel Challenges work. Challenges are made in
amounts of $250 or more and often wind up
being more than doubled. If you can make a
challenge, please check off the “challenge” box
on the return card and we’ll take it from there
—and Thank You!
Deborah S. Proctor
General Manager
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Mozart:
Beneficial for
babies?
O
ne of the latest studies focusing on the medicinal power
of music proposes that a little
Mozart might help premature babies
grow faster! This new research out of
Israel, just published in Pediatrics journal,
seems to show that little ones serenaded
with Wolfgang’s music for half an hour
daily expend less energy, thus enabling
them to put on the pounds more rapidly.
Dr. Dror Mandel, the lead researcher
on the study from Tel Aviv University’s
School of Medicine, says “The music
makes them calmer. Unlike Beethoven,
Bach or Bartok, Mozart’s music is composed with a melody that is highly repetitive. This might be the musical explanation. For the scientific one, more investigation is needed.”
More studies to come—we’ll keep you
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Monday Night at the Symphony
Mondays at 8pm
Acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and
compelling conductors of our time, Gustavo
Dudamel (left) began his tenure as the eleventh
music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic this
past fall. WCPE spends one Monday Night at the
Symphony with this orchestra, which has grown over
the years under the leadership of Otto Klemperer,
Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Andre Previn and
Esa-Pekka Salonen, among others. Every Monday
WCPE visits with the world’s best symphony orchestras. Listen for more on these upcoming programs,
or go to TheClassicalStation.org. For schedule, see
calendars on pages 11–13.
Back to Baroque Weekend
Primarily Piano Weekend
March 20 – 21
(includes Bach’s 325th birthday, Sunday,
March 21) The English word “baroque” comes
from the Italian “barocco” which, strictly translated means “bizarre.” However, the intent of
the Italian was more along the lines of “exuberant.” The true nature of the Baroque era was
to express order, especially where the universe
was concerned. The Baroque era in music
reached its zenith between 1700 and 1750.
Names like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel (just to
name three) were at the forefront of this movement. This is not to be missed!
April 17 – 18
Who comes to your mind when you think of a
virtuoso pianist? Over the centuries, the world
has seen and heard many great talents, something for which to be grateful. Over two days,
the piano will be the featured instrument, with
numerous virtuosi, playing compositions we
have grown to love over the years—some of
which we come back to again and again.
Passover
Sundown, Monday, March 29—
Sundown, Tuesday, April 6
Taking place the first two nights of Passover,
the Seder is the most important event in the
Passover celebration. Usually gathering the
whole family and friends together, the Seder is
steeped in long-held traditions and customs,
as is the music. WCPE will present music for
the Passover Seder on Monday evening,
March 29, at 6pm.
Easter Day
Sunday, April 4
Great Sacred Music and Peaceful Reflections will
showcase music for the Feast of the
Resurrection (commonly known as Easter).
Check program listings for details.
In the Gardens of Spain
Weekend
May 15 – 16
Stretching sun-drenched and untamed to the
south of the wild and majestic Pyrenees, the
passionate nation of Spain works a mysterious
magic. WCPE focuses on music heard in the
gardens of Spain, from the Baroque gardens of
Central Spain, the Mediterranean gardens of
the coastal region and the Islamic gardens of
Southern Spain. The music this weekend will
be as wonderful and diverse as the Spanish
gardens themselves.
Memorial Day Weekend
May 29 – 31
Many of our listeners, as well as the volunteers
and staff at WCPE, either have loved ones or
friends who made the ultimate sacrifice for our
country. WCPE honors our nation’s fallen
soldiers with patriotic music throughout this
weekend, featuring Taps at 3pm on Monday,
May 31st.
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THE MET
Live from New York City
on Saturdays at 1pm
3/6 Verdi’s Attila,
a popular opera of the
1850’s, has been called
“tub-thumping” and
“forcefully direct.”
Violeta Urmana,
Ramon Vargas, Carlos Alvarez and Ildar
Abdrazako with conductor Riccardo Muti.
3/13 Shostakovich’s The Nose • Humor and
satire prevail. Suppressed after only 16 performances in Russia in the late 20’s, it resurfaced—in the Soviet Union—in 1974.
Gergiev conducts with Popov, Gietz and Szot.
3/20 Janacek’s From the House of the Dead
examines truthfulness and sincerity in a prison
setting; where free will is suppressed, hope triumphs. Margita, Streit, Hoare, Mattei, White
and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
3/27 Thomas’ Hamlet • Dessay, Larmore,
Spence, Keenlyside and Morris star in a classic
tale where, ultimately, Hamlet lives on; a wellloved variation on the Shakespearian tragedy,
as conducted by Louis Langree.
4/3 Verdi’s Aida • Carignani conducts, with
He, Zajick, Licitra, Guelfi, Colombara and
Kocan. During the time of the Pharaohs, jealous Princess Amneris stands between her
beautiful Ethiopian slave, Aida, and Radames,
the warrior who loves her.
4/10 Mozart’s Die Zauberflote stars Kleiter,
Shagimuratova, Polenzani, Gunn, Pittsinger
and Konig led by Adam Fischer tell a different
kind of Egyptian tale; it examines courage,
virtue, wisdom and true happiness.
4/17 Verdi’s La Traviata • The critic wrote,
“He does not have an artist who understands
and can perform what he creates,” Verdi didn’t
have Gheorghiu, Valenti, Hampson and
Slatkin!
4/24 Puccini’s Tosca • Worlds collide with
tragic consequences for a famous singer, the
painter who loves her, his fugitive friend and
the chief of the secret police. Levine conducts
with Mattila, Kaufmann, Terfel and Del Carlo
OPERA this quarter
5/5 Rossini’s Armida • Renée Fleming is
Armida, the beautiful and ultimately vengeful
Saracen sorceress who bewitches a Christian
warrior in her bid to weaken the crusade and
have him for her own. Frizza conducts with
Brownlee, Ford, Zapata, Banks and van
Rensburg Riccardo.
5/8 Berg’s Lulu • Her nearly hypnotic effect
on others breeds tragedy. Levine leads a performance with Petersen, Sofie von Otter,
Lehman, Schade, Pittsinger and Morris.
For more on these operas and the Met season,
visit www.operainfo.org.
wcpe
Opera OH House
Thursdays at 7pm
with host Bob Chapman
3/4 Smetana’s The Bartered Bride • After a
surprise revelation, true love prevails over the
combined efforts of ambitious parents and a
scheming marriage broker in the first great
Czech opera. Sung in German by Lorengar,
Wunderlich and Frick.
3/11 Mozart’s Don Giovanni • Ruocchio
Archives • An infinitely nuanced nobleman
and rake lives for his libido, arrogantly flouting the most basic social conventions in a
retelling of the Don Juan story. This 1958
recording stars Siepi, Corena, Danco,
Dermota and Della Casa.
“But nevertheless, it’s music
ultimately that matters in
opera, and opera is a piece
of music reaching out as
a vision in sound reaching
out to the world.”
— John Eaton
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Pavarotti sings the role of Nemorino in Donizetti’s
L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love), April 15.
3/18 Massenet’s Werther • Sensitive young
poet can’t cope with rejection by a woman
who’s already engaged, leading to suicide in an
adaptation of Goethe’s novel. Hadley, Von
Otter and Upshaw are featured.
3/25 Nielsen’s Saul and David • Denmark’s
greatest 20th-century composer sets the
Biblical story of the aging King Saul’s jealousy
of the young David, taken from the Book of
Samuel. Sung in Danish, it stars Haugland
and Lindroos in the title roles.
4/1 Wagner’s Parsifal • Allegory on the conflict between Christianity and paganism, good
and evil, light and dark, physical passion and
spiritual abstinence in Wagner’s summation of
his life’s work. Jerusalem, Van Dam, Hoelle,
Meier, Tomlinson.
4/8 Halevy’s La Juive • French opera
addressing the conflict between Jews and
Christians—with a surprise ending. Isokoski,
Shicoff, Miles are featured.
4/15 Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore •
Ruocchio Archives • Naive Nemorino believes
that a love potion—sold by a quack doctor—
will help him win Adina’s heart. Stars
Sutherland, Pavarotti, Cossa and Malas.
4/22 Some of the best-loved stars of the
opera stage sing the most heart-stopping
melodies ever written: Oh, mio babbino caro,
Summertime from Porgy & Bess, Casta
Diva and more.
4/29 We’ll sample from a 2009 DVD
recording of Richard Strauss’ Der
Rosenkavalier featuring Renee Fleming,
Sophia Koch and Diana Damrau. Christian
Thielemann leads the Munich Philharmonic.
5/6 Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa • Blood-thirsty
tale of crazy love, abduction, political
persecution, execution and vengeful murder.
Features Leiferkus, Gorchakova, Larin,
Kotscherga.
5/13 Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri •
Ruocchio Archives • Madcap antics of a blockheaded male chauvinist, Mustafa, and the shipwrecked Italian girl, Isabella, who tames him,
are set to some of Rossini’s most buoyant writing. Horne, Ramey, Palacio, Battle.
5/20 Korngold’s Die tote Stadt • Standing
at the juncture between German Romanticism
and 20th-century Surrealism, Paul is obsessed
with the memory of his deceased wife, Marie.
Features Sonnegardh and Dalayman.
5/27 Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers •
Irreverent parody and scathing satire on
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice by France’s greatest
composer of operettas. Stars Dessay, Beuron,
Fouchecourt, Petibon.
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Great Sacred
MUSIC
Sundays at 8am
This time of the year witnesses a large number
of fasting days, feast days and celebrations in
both Judaism and Christianity.
Judaism
Sunday, February 28, Purim • The story of
Esther in the Tanak informs this joyous time
in the Jewish Liturgical Calendar when the
Jewish people, living in Persia, were saved
from genocide. Monday, March 29, Passover
begins at sundown with the Seder, concluding
on Tuesday, April 6. Sunday, April 11 is
Holocaust Remembrance Day. Wednesday, May
19— Shavout. This day is celebrated as the
time in which the Ten Commandments were
given to Moses.
Christianity
The five Sundays that comprise the Season of
Lent (a time of Penitence) will already be in
progress, with the Third Sunday of Lent being
March 7. March 28, Palm Sunday and Holy
Week following until sundown on Saturday,
April 3. Sundown on Saturday, April 3
through Sundown on Sunday, April 4 —Easter
Day —is celebrated in both the Eastern and
Western Churches (an unusual occurrence, in
that these two branches of Christianity use differing methods of dating the major feast days).
The Season of Easter lasts 50 days, ending on
the Day of Pentecost (considered to be the
birthday of the Christian Church), May 23.
Great Sacred Music will be a wellspring of
riches that flow from these two religious
traditions.
2/28 Handel’s beautifully moving oratorio
Esther will be sung for the Jewish Holy Day
of Purim.
3/7 & 3/14 Music for the Christian penitential Season of Lent and the Jewish Sabbath
will be prominent on these two Sundays.
3/21 J. S. Bach’s monumental work, Mass in
B minor, is featured on this date of his birth.
3/28 Music for the Christian observance of
Palm Sunday & Holy Week, especially
Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives,
and music for the upcoming Jewish observance of Passover are scheduled.
4/4 On Easter Day enjoy Resurrection and
Ascension by the station’s namesake, C. P. E.
Bach, as well as Part 3, Resurrection, from
Franz Liszt’s massive choral undertaking,
Christus.
4/11 We’ll hear solemn music for Holocaust
Remembrance Day and a Bach cantata written for the First Sunday of Easter.
4/18 – 5/23 Each week will highlight a liturgically appropriate Bach cantata for the
Sundays of Easter leading to the celebration
on the Feast of Pentecost, May 23.
EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Selected Sundays at 3pm
WCPE will air highlights from the
2009 Eastern Music Festival (EMF)
which has taken place each summer in
Greensboro, NC, for 48 years. EMF has
renowned Maestro Gerard Schwartz as
its current music director, and we look
forward to outstanding performances and soloists.
3/28 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Easter Overture;
SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy;
DEBUSSY La Mer
4/11 BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 1 in D minor
(Peter Serkin, Piano)
5/9 BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3; Piano
Concerto No. 4 in G (Horacio
Gutierrez, Piano)
5/23 AITKEN Song-Dance;
DVORAK Symphony No. 8
in G
Maestro Gerard Schwartz
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4/11 Alessandro Scarlatti was the father of
Domenico Scarlatti. We will enjoy some of his
keyboard music including a Toccata in G.
Sundays at 9pm
with host Rob Kennedy
3/7 Antonio Vivaldi used only a few verses
of the 13th century poem Stabat Mater in his
setting. Our version features Quebec contralto
Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Tafelmusik.
3/14 George Frederic Handel’s Chandos
Anthem In the Lord I put my trust will be performed by The Sixteen under the direction of
Harry Christophers.
3/21 Giovanni da Battista Pergolesi set all
verses of the medieval poem Stabat Mater in
this version which features soprano and alto
voices.
3/28 Arcangelo Corelli is deservedly wellknown for his ravishingly beautiful concerti
grossi. His C minor Concerto is on tonight’s
playlist.
4/4 J.S. Bach’s Easter Oratorio dates from
1725. It will be the centerpiece of our Easter
Festival which will also include music from St.
Thomas Church, New York.
4/18 North German organist Dietrich
Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) was a major
influence on organists of his time including
Johann Sebastian Bach. The Prelude, Fugue
and Chaconne in C is representative of the
master’s style.
4/25 Chanticleer, the renowned professional
male chorus from San Francisco, sings Mass
in D by Mexican composer Ignacio Jerusalem.
5/2 The British Boy Band, Libera, infuses
the much-loved Canon by Johann Pachelbel
with youthful energy in a stunning performance on tonight’s playlist.
5/9 Our Music for Mother’s Day program
features Ave Marias and Regina Coelis from
many composers.
5/16 Henry Purcell wrote his Ode for St.
Cecilia’s Day for the Feast of St. Cecilia in
1692. St. Cecilia is the patron saint of music.
5/23 Jean Baptiste Lully was a composer of
the French Baroque. Selections from his ballet
Music for the Sun King are on this evening.
5/30 Antonio Cabezon (1510 – 1566) was a
blind Spanish organist of the Renaissance period. Several Fabordones and Diferencias will
be featured.
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latest and greatest of the classical releases every
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Great Classical Music! You have something in
common with the actor, because he, too, is a
WCPE member. Tune in to hear an interview
with Alec this evening at 7pm.
April 4: Join us for lovely music for Easter
Sunday evening. We’ll enjoy the newest in
choral classics including Conspirare-Company
of Voices singing Eric Whitacre’s setting of ee
cummings’ poem, i thank you God for most this
amazing day.
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CLAUS PETER FLOR 1953
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17 Wed
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FREDERIC CHOPIN 1810 (200TH ANNIVERSARY!)
LORRAINE HUNT LIEBERSON 1954
MN@S: London Symphony
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BEDRICH SMETANA 1824
CELEDONIO ROMERO 1918
MYUNG-WHA CHUNG 1944
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BERNARD HAITINK 1929
OH: The Bartered Bride
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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER 1915
The Met: From the House of the Dead
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5 Fri
J.S. BACH 1685 (325TH ANNIVERSARY!)
MODEST MUSSORGSKY 1839
ERICH KUNZEL 1935 (75TH ANNIVERSARY!)
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS 1887
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LORIN MAAZEL 1930 (80TH
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MAURICE RAVEL 1875
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FRANZ SCHREKER 1878
DAME JANET BAKER 1933
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BYRON JANIS 1928
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CPE BACH 1714
ALAN HOVHANESS 1911
PEPE ROMERO 1944
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BELA BARTOK 1881
OH: Saul and David
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9 Tue
SAMUEL BARBER 1910 (100TH ANNIVERSARY!)
THOMAS SCHIPPERS 1930 (80TH ANNIVERSARY!)
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PIERRE BOULEZ 1925 (85TH
KYUNG-WHA CHUNG 1948
10 Wed
27 Sat
PABLO DE SARASATE 1844
SIR CHARLES GROVES 1915
FERDE GROFE 1892
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH 1927
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RUDOLF SERKIN 1903
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THOMAS ARNE 1710 (300TH
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MIKHAIL PLETNEV 1957
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DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES 1944
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ARTUR SCHNABEL 1882
CHRISTINA ORTIZ 1950
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FRANZ L ACHNER 1803
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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO 1895
GARRICK OHLSSON 1948
The Met: Aida
FRANZ VON SUPPE 1819
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI 1882
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MURRAY PERAHIA 1947
MN@S: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Easter
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SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER 1943
LOUIS SPOHR 1784
HERBERT VON KARAJAN 1908
MN@S: Vienna Philharmonic
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ANDRE PREVIN 1929
GIUSEPPE TORELLI 1658
YEHUDI MENUHIN 1916
OH: Oh Mio Babbino Caro, Casta Diva, more...
RANDALL THOMPSON 1899
STANLEY RITCHIE 1935
7 Wed
LEIF OVE ANDSNES 1970
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JOHN WILLIAMS (GUITAR) 1941
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ANTAL DORATI 1906
JERZY MAKSYMIUK 1936
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YEFIM BRONFMAN 1958
The Met: Die Zauberflote
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JOSEF L ANNER 1801
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD 1928
MONTSERRAT CABALLE 1933
MN@S: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM 1879
ZUBIN MEHTA 1936
OH: Highlights from Der Rosenkavalier
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JOHN & RICHARD CONTIGUGLIA 1937
FRANZ LEHAR 1870
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HEINZE HOLLIGER 1939
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RICHARD WAGNER 1813
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JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833
PETER I. TCHAIKOVSKY 1840
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LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK 1829
The Met: Lulu
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CARLO MARIA GIULINI 1914
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ALICIA DE L ARROCHA 1923
JOHN BROWNING 1933
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ANATOL LIADOV 1855
WILLIAM GRANT STILL 1895
JACQUES HALEVY 1799
JOACHIM RAFF 1822
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VLADO PERLEMUTER 1904
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DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU 1925
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ISAAC ALBENIZ 1860
ERICH KORNGOLD 1897
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GUSTAV LEONHARDT 1928
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MARIN MARAIS 1656
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ALAN MARKS 1949
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JULES MASSENET 1842
GABRIEL FAURE 1845
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PAUL PARAY 1886
HANS-MARTIN LINDE 1930
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JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR 1697
MN@S: La Scala Philharmonic
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN 1842
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ERIK SATIE 1866
DENNIS BRAIN 1921
MN@S: Los Angeles Philharmonic
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KARL GOLDMARK 1830
CLIFFORD CURZON 1907
EMIL VON REZNICEK 1860
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY 1931
ENRIQUE BATIZ 1942
HANS PFITZNER 1869
AUGUSTIN BARRIOS 1885
CYPRIEN KATSARIS 1951
U.S. Armed Forces Day
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI 1567
L ARS-ERIK L ARSSON 1908
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WALTER SUSSKIND 1913
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A Romance on Three Legs:
Glenn Gould’s Obsessive
Quest for the Perfect Piano
By Katie Hafner
McClelland and Stewart • 241 pages
A review by Chris Speck
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hat a thrillingly odd biography
this was! Instead of having one
principal, as in most biographies,
A Romance on Three Legs has three: Glenn
Gould, the quirky piano genius from Toronto,
Verne Edquist, his meticulous near-blind
piano tuner, and his beloved Steinway concert
grand, CD 318.
To a classical concert pianist, pianos are
much more than meets the ear. Apparently,
this brand of genius can hear things, feel
things, that are little more than dog whistles
to the rest of us. Gould had a peculiarly light
touch, which suited the Baroque music he
loved to play. He had unique demands for his
pianos and gave Steinway technicians fits trying to meet them. He spent his entire career
in search of the perfect piano.
As much a contemporary history as a biography, A Romance on Three Legs tells us much
we already know about Glenn Gould, his brilliance and sweetness and sensitivity as well as
his hypochondria, his phobias and his strange
strange habits. Author Katie Hafner dutifully
describes his youth and early successes, including the splash he made with his mid-1950’s
recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. She
covers his disdain for public performances and
fascination with studio recording. She also
includes his notoriously less-than-positive
opinions of other classical composers and
musicians (he once dismissed Vladimir
Horowitz as a faker).
What is new however is the lengths to
which Hafner goes to describe the inner workings of the piano and the arcane art of piano
tuning. What’s the best wood to use for a
piano’s soundboard? What exactly is “bellying”? What does a piano “voicer” do? What are
hammers, dampers and jacks, and just how
complex is a piano’s action, anyway? Indeed,
this book teaches us almost as much about the
piano as it does about Gould himself.
Hafner also treats us to a brief history
of the Steinway company as well as to a
lucid biography of Verne Edquist. She
chronicles his riveting journey from sightdeprived lad on a desolate Saskatchewan
farm, to door-to-door piano tuner in
Toronto, to Canada’s top piano technician. His two decade-long collaboration
with Gould resembled master mechanic
to star auto racer. Behind the scenes, he
was there for most of Gould’s recording
sessions, making sure that old CD 318
never went out of tune. They were even
competitive about it, seeing who can
spot an out-of-tune-note first. Their
conversations often revolved around
how to tinker with CD 318 until its
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hammers traveled the right distance, until it
achieved “an immediate bite” or sufficient
“contrapuntal control.”
Gould was utterly reliant upon Edquist,
who was finely attuned to Gould’s peculiar,
and some would say mystical, needs. This relationship intensified after the fateful drop the
piano suffered at the hands of negligent piano
movers in the early 1970s. Like stubborn
lovers in a doomed relationship, Gould would
not give up on CD 318. He and Edquist
toiled through endless tunings, tweaks and
desperate contrivances to salvage the damaged
instrument and restore it to its former glory.
LATELY we’ve heard
Hafner, of course, discusses Gould’s premature death at 50 in 1982, as well as the man’s
legacy in music. She provides the obligatory
where-are-they-nows of the major players in
this odd little history, and gives due mention
of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, a biopic
as quirky as its subject matter.
And what of CD 318? It was sold to the
National Library of Canada in Ottawa. And
when other concert pianists play it, sometimes
they swear they can feel, in that intuitive —
some would say mystical—way that pianists
have, the old instrument pining for its beloved
master. Sharon Isbin: Journey to
the New World
Sony Classical • 88697-45456-2
A review by Deana Vassar
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erendipity is a splendid thing. It (with
the help of an apple) helped Newton
work out his ideas about gravity. And
there would be no chocolate chip cookie (!!!)
had Ruth Graves Wakefield of Toll House
fame hadn’t made a serendipitous “mistake”
baking her favorite dessert one afternoon. And
it’s likely that one of the pre-eminent virtuosos
of our time, Grammy winner Sharon Isbin,
probably would have never discovered the guitar had her brother not given up so quickly on
his dream of being the next Elvis Presley.
Big brother Isbin had absolutely no
patience for practice and Sharon says that
when he realized that his instructor was more
keen on him
learning Guiliani
instead of
Jailhouse Rock
that she was then
able to not only
start working out
chords on the
guitar that their
parents had purchased for him,
but she also snagged her brother’s class-time
with his former teacher.
Sharon Isbin’s latest recording, the splendid
Journey to the New World, proves once again
One of the great guitarists
of our time takes us on a gorgeous
trip through the ages.
that she is doing what she was born to do.
Isbin’s vision for this varied collection is a trip
across time from Renaissance lute tunes, to
English folksongs like the dancing Drunken
Sailor, and the wistful Wild Mountain Thyme,
to an old familiar American folk tune
Wayfaring Stranger featuring a plaintively
beautiful Joan Baez, to the world premieres of
two suites. The folk-journey that is the Joan
Baez Suite by John Duarte and Isbin’s playing
is technically stunning as she weaves through
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Strings and Threads Suite.
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Mayron
Tsong
Concert pianist and UNC
professor, Mayron Tsong, recently spoke with Deana Vassar
about music and her upcoming
lecture series.(When Mayron
sets a date for the series, we'll
make sure you know all the
details! She’s a very inspiring
speaker on the power of music.)
Deana Vassar: The upcoming lecture series:
the passion behind that is the accessibility of
[classical music]?
Mayron Tsong: It’s not only that, but that is
one of the by-products. The main impetus
behind the project is how I think of music
when I’m playing…you don’t get a window
into that very often; mostly what happens is
someone comes out on stage and they play
and they don’t say anything. Or, the trend
recently has been to have a few sentences that
you say. But to actually be able to demonstrate
and to pick up on whether or not…you’re
hearing it the way that I’m hearing it, regardless of whether you had any musical background at all…There’s kind of a narrative that
I’m associating with the music…for me certain sounds sound like this, or this is (kind of )
this color…
DV: Oh, my gosh! Are you a synesthete*?
Mayron: No, no (laughs)…I wish I was…but
I feel that energy.
DV: Have you heard the latest studies — it
claims that we are all synesthetes. It was published in Psychology Today…in one study,
everyone under hypnosis had some form of
synesthesia.
Mayron: I need to get that article…But even
more than that, it’s not just color but all the
different things that you can feel through the
music…things that you could never experience. I could feel what it might mean to fly…
what it might mean to do types of acrobatics
that I could never do in ‘real life.’ So…what I
feel and think of while I’m playing really has
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musical terminology, at all…I had a research
leave this semester…[there were] other fellows
who were involved…seven other people from
across the university in different disciplines. I
had to give a presentation…it really was an
experiment and it turned out really well.
Everybody seemed to understand certain elements of rhetoric, of visual art, of kinesthetic
feeling—that there are so many branches that
music can reach out and touch in people–that
there’s no reason to amputate them by getting
stuck in the terminology when really it’s just
there to express what is already happening
within us. That was my feeling behind [the
lecture series].
DV: Let’s go back to the beginning…I’m seeing you as a little girl with 45 pianos and cats.
Mayron: (laughing) Yes, cats and two sisters
and a brother and a mother and a father. Yes,
we had one piano in the kitchen, beside the
refrigerator…I had a bed that was between
two pianos and the bed served as the
bench…we had a…ramp right down into the
basement where pianos could just roll into the
workshop. Sometimes the cats go involved,
too. They would jump on the pianos…I don’t
know if it was music really, but there were a
lot of piano notes being played, that’s for sure.
It was my job to help my Dad…he would
rebuild them and I would play and people
would buy the pianos…We were a team…I
think it helped me professionally because I
really had to adjust to so many different
pianos early on…now when I go and play at
different places it really doesn’t faze
me…Horowitz wanted his own piano with
him, and Kuerti at some point, and I’ve never
(for me) felt that was necessary…We get to
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know instruments like we get to know different people—we figure it out.
DV: Did you ever want to rebel—be a
violinist?
Mayron: (laughs) I actually do play violin. My
first instrument was a violin. It just didn’t
click with me. There’s something about the pedal with a
piano… It really is, people call
it, the soul of the piano…you
can play so many notes and
have so many different voicings,
it can make you feel like you are
on Pluto or it can make you feel
like you are on the bottom of
the sea depending on how you
voice and how you pedal.
DV: You’re a professor at
UNC…but you’re also still a
touring artist, you played
Carnegie Hall not too long ago.
How do you do that balancing
act?
DV: Let’s talk pianists—Alicia de Larrocha.
Mayron: Oh, we just lost her. She is wonderful! I saw her perform a few times and she was
tiny, a tiny woman and she’d come and play
like a firecracker. She had so much energy in
her. I loved her Mozart, of course, and her
Spanish music. She was really one of the first
very successful female pianists.
DV: Who was told “you'll never
make it.” [Because of ] those
tiny hands!
I saw Alicia de
Larrocha perform a
few times and she was
tiny, a tiny woman
and she’d come and
play like a firecracker.
She had so much
energy in her.
Mayron: You know I’m lucky
because my teaching at UNC is
flexible enough that if I need to
go somewhere I can move students around, they’ve been really wonderful… It can be hard…for instance,
when everybody else is having a break, usually
I’m playing somewhere…I don’t get a break.
DV: Let’s talk about the music you love, the
music you play…
Mayron: Well, for me, Russian music—there’s
something about the harmonies that are just
to die for. The unabashed opening, the exposure of raw emotion, there is no self-conscious
filtering of the music…sometimes they are
actually criticized for that—it’s not intellectual
enough, it’s not structured enough—but I find
it essential…When I was 12 years old I was
playing a piece by Rachmaninoff, and I had
been upset for some reason…In that state, I
went to the instrument and for the first time I
had that feeling where I started to play something that really was beyond my reach, it was
a very big piece, but I identified so much with
[it]…I realized that, all of a sudden, I was
playing the piece even though I hadn’t been
able to the day before…That was the Second
Piano Concerto…
Mayron: (laughs) Those tiny
hands! Exactly. Yet, she came
out there and you wouldn’t be
able to detect at all that there
was any deficiency in any way.
If she hadn’t been able to rise
above that then we wouldn’t
have had her.
DV: Horowitz.
Mayron: Horowitz: amazing,
amazing, amazing, the early
recordings especially I love so
much. He was a wizard, he
could do anything. You got the
sense that he had a bag full of
tricks all of the time…
DV: Alfred Brendel.
Mayron: When I listen to Brendel sometimes,
I have to listen to him in short bursts because
there’s so much going on that I don’t want to
miss a thing…I almost sometimes get tired,
physically tired, mentally tired because I can
just see everything that he has thought all of
the hundreds of times that he’s tried this one
passage. You feel so indebted to this person for
his monumental devotion. To hear the complete interview with Mayron Tsong, visit
the interviews quick link at TheClassicalStation.org.
*syn·es·thete: A person who experiences synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a sensation produced in one modality
when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as
when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. Famous musical synesthetes: Franz Liszt, Jean Sibelius, Amy Beach, Leonard
Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Tori Amos, Helene
Grimaud, Robyn Hitchcock, Stevie Wonder.
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Hilary Hahn plays Barber’s
Violin Concerto on his
birthday, March 9. Hear
that on Concert Hall at
9pm and then Sylvia
McNair sings Knoxville:
Summer of 1915.
Samuel Barber:
The History
Behind His
Famed Adagio
By David Ballantyne
T
he history of classical music is just as
littered with “one-hit wonders” as that
of its less legitimate offspring, pop
music. Mercifully, many composers do not live
to hear themselves described in this way.
Nonetheless, the name of Samuel Barber is
inseparable from his magnificent Adagio for
Strings, one of the most moving compositions
of the 20th century.
The piece began as the second movement
of a String Quartet, composed in the summer
and fall of 1936. Two years later, at Toscanini’s
request, Barber arranged the piece for string
orchestra, and the conductor premiered it on
radio in November of 1938.
Essayist Thomas Larson describes how the
1942 Toscanini recording was spontaneously
selected by radio producers across the States
on hearing the news of the death of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. “By 8:00 p.m. engineers at WGN in Chicago and at ABC and
NBC radio in New York, were, unbeknownst
to one another, cueing Barber’s lament.” Quite
a tribute to a piece that had only been recorded three years earlier.
“Since then,” Larson continues, “the Adagio
has become a secular hymn, America’s great
song of mourning. It has been featured in
funerals and memorials and remembrances
and wakes, from the deaths of presidents and
movie stars, scientists
and princesses, to
those who lost their
lives on 9/11. At
memorials, prior to its beginning, mourners
are invited not to bow their heads and pray
but to listen and reflect.”
Secular or not, Barber’s Adagio is a work of
an emotional intensity that is immediately
obvious to a modern audience. In 2001, The
Last Night of the Proms, usually a joyous
celebration of music in London, was given
over to Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC
Orchestra in “perhaps its longest and most
emotional performance ever.” The performance date of September 15, 2001, was not lost
on the mainly English audience.
Subsequently, in 2004, the UK radio program, BBC Today, began a competition to
find the saddest music in the world. After
receiving more than four hundred nominations, they listed the top five on a website for
voting. Barber’s Adagio polled more than 50
percent of the overall vote.
I am indebted to Thomas Larson for his
eloquent memoir of the Adagio and I give full
credit to him for the quotations used here.
But let us not forget Barber’s early achievements. Clearly, he had music in his blood. At
the age of 9, he wrote a heartfelt confession to
his mother, a pianist:
Dear Mother,
I have written to tell you my worrying
secret. I was not meant to be an athlete.
I was meant to be a composer. Don’t ask
me to try to forget this unpleasant thing
and go play football.
Barber attempted his first opera at the age
of 10 and became an organist at 12. Entering
the Curtis Institute at the age of 14, he
became a triple prodigy in composition, voice
and piano. At the tender age of 18, he won
the Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia
University for his Violin Sonata.
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WCPE offers these special weekly programs. Find
program details for these on pages 6 –10!
MONDAY • Monday Night at the Symphony @8pm
THURSDAY • WCPE Opera House @7pm
SATURDAY • The Metropolitan Opera @1pm (in season)
SUNDAY • Great Sacred Music @8am, Preview! @6pm,
Peaceful Reflections @9pm
MARCH FEATURED WORKS
All programming is subject to change. For a complete list of
today’s music, go to TheClassicalStation.org.
1 MON 8am CHOPIN “Heroic” Polonaise;
9am CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F
minor; 12pm CHOPIN Fantasie in F minor,
Op. 49; 3pm CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in
B flat minor; 5pm CHOPIN Waltz in A flat,
Op. 34 No. 1; 7pm CHOPIN Piano Concerto
No. 1 in E minor; 10pm CHOPIN Four
Nocturnes
2 TUE 9am BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture
No. 2; 11am SMETANA Bartered Bride:
Overture and Dances; 12pm MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo; 2pm
SMETANA String Quartet “From My Life”
(orchestrated); 3pm SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 1, “Spring”; 4pm BIZET Children’s Games;
8pm SMETANA Ma Vlast (My Fatherland);
10pm BACH Cello Suite No. 3 in C (for
guitar)
3 WED 9am GRIEG Holberg Suite;
10am MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22
in E flat; 12pm VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on Greensleeves; 2pm SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A, “Trout”;
5:30pm LEHAR Giuditta: Waltzes; 7pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C
minor; 8pm LALO Cello Concerto in D
minor; 10pm DELIUS In a Summer
Garden
4 THU 8am BRAHMS Academic Festival
Overture; 10am VIVALDI Four Seasons;
12pm BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata
No. 14, “Moonlight”; 2pm
VIVALDI Lute Concerto
in D; 3pm BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 in C
minor; 4pm LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody
WCPE celebrates Frederic Chopin’s
200th anniversary • b. 3.1.1810
No. 2; 10pm BORODIN String Quartet No. 2
in D
5 FRI 9am MOZART Horn Concerto No. 2
in E flat; 10am SCHUMANN Symphony No.
3 in E flat, “Rhenish”; 12pm VILLA-LOBOS
Prelude No. 1 in E minor; 1pm TELEMANN
Viola Concerto in G; 2pm BACH Orchestral
Suite No. 2 in B minor; 7pm BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, “Eroica”; 9pm
DELIUS Florida Suite; 10pm FOOTE Piano
Trio No. 2 in B flat
6 SAT 9am HAYDN Symphony No. 101,
“Clock”; 10am WAGNER Tannhauser:
Overture and Venusberg Bacchanale; 11am
BRUCH Concerto for Two Pianos; 12pm
STRAUSS JR. Tales from the Vienna Woods;
4pm TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B
minor, “Pathetique”
7 SUN 7am RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin;
11am MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; 1pm
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite; 3pm RAVEL
Pavane for a Dead Princess;
5pm RAVEL La
Valse
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8 MON 9am C.P.E. BACH Cello Concerto in
B flat; 10am RACHMANINOFF Piano
Concerto No. 3; 12pm DELIUS Walk to the
Paradise Garden; 2pm C.P.E. BACH Symphony
in F; 3pm MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.
5, “Reformation”; 7pm RODRIGO Concierto
de Aranjuez; 10pm HOVHANESS Alleluia and
Fugue for Strings
9 TUE 8am BARBER Overture to School for
Scandal; 10am BACH Concerto for 2 Pianos,
BWV 1061; 12pm BARBER Adagio for Strings;
2pm MOZART Concerto in C for Flute and
Harp; 3pm DVORAK Symphony No. 5 in F;
5pm WAGNER Lohengrin: Act III, Prelude;
7pm BARBER Second Essay for Orchestra;
8pm MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
in G minor; 10pm BARBER Knoxville:
Summer of 1915
10 WED 9am MOZART Symphony No. 25 in
G minor; 11am SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5
in B flat; 1pm DEBUSSY Prelude to the
Afternoon of a Faun; 2pm SAINT-SAENS
Carnival of the Animals; 5pm WALTON Orb
and Sceptre March; 7pm SARASATE Gypsy
Airs; 8pm RACHMANINOFF Symphonic
Dances; 10pm VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The
Lark Ascending
11 THU 8am ALFVEN Swedish Rhapsody
No. 1; 10am BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D;
11am MOZART Concerto No. 10 for 2 Pianos;
1pm HANDEL Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 6;
2pm WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2; 3pm
FAURE Dolly Suite; 10pm ELGAR Light of
Life: Meditation
Bela Bartok
b. 3.25.1881
DEBUSSY Images for Orchestra
15 MON 8am CORELLI Suite for Strings;
10am HAYDN Divertimento, “Chorale St.
Antoni”; 12pm BIZET Carmen Suite No. 1;
2pm CHOPIN/DOUGLAS Les Sylphides; 3pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor;
5pm REZNICEK Donna Diana: Overture;
10pm RESPIGHI Adagio with Variations
Ma
12 FRI 9am ARNE Symphony No. 3; 11am
BRAHMS Serenade No. 2 in A; 12pm CHOPIN
Grand Valse Brillante in E flat; 2pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake: Suite; 5pm DVORAK Carnival Overture; 7pm BIZET Symphony
in C; 9pm TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture;
10pm GERSHWIN Lullaby for Strings
16 TUE 9am HAYDN Symphony No. 104,
“London”; 10am BACH Brandenburg Concerto
No. 6; 12pm RESPIGHI The Dove; 2pm
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”;
3pm MENDELSSOHN Concerto in E for 2
Pianos; 7pm DVORAK Symphony No. 8 in G;
9pm SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 in C,
“Great”; 10pm VILLA-LOBOS Brazilian
Popular Suite
13 SAT 9am VIVALDI Violin Concerto in E
flat, “The Raging of the Sea”; 11am
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”;
12pm HAYDN Symphony No. 94, “Surprise”;
4pm BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F,
“Pastoral”; 5pm ROSSINI William Tell:
Overture
17 WED 8am GRAINGER Irish Tune from
County Derry; 9am MOZART Symphony No.
39 in E flat; 11am HERBERT Five Pieces for
Cello and Strings; 12pm BALFE Bohemian
Girl: Overture; 3pm STANFORD Symphony
No. 3, “Irish”; 4pm WEBER Invitation to the
Dance; 7pm STANFORD Irish Rhapsody No.
1; 9pm SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 in D
minor; 10pm BRIDGE An Irish Melody
14 SUN 7am TELEMANN Trumpet Concerto
No. 2; 11am MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 4, “Italian”; 12pm TELEMANN
Tafelmusik: Overture in B flat; 3pm STRAUSS
SR. Viennese Good Nature Waltz; 4pm
18 THU 8am ELGAR Coronation March;
10am RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Golden Cockerel:
Suite; 12pm FAURE Berceuse; 2pm RIMSKYKORSAKOV Scheherazade; 3pm DEBUSSY
Games (Jeux); 5pm RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
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May Night: Overture; 10pm JANACEK Idyll
for String Orchestra
19 FRI 9am MOZART Piano Concerto No.
21 in C; 11am GRIEG Norwegian Dances, Op.
35; 1pm TELEMANN Concerto in E flat for 2
Horns; 2pm LISZT Les Preludes; 3pm DVORAK “American” String Quartet; 7pm
MOZART Symphony No. 30 in D; 8pm
ELGAR Symphony No. 1 in A flat; 10pm
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio, Op. 70 No. 2
20 SAT 9am VIVALDI Cello Concerto in B
minor; 10am HANDEL Music for the Royal
Fireworks; 11am COPLAND Appalachian
Spring; 12pm LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1,
“Triangle”; 4pm TELEMANN Concerto in E
for Flute, Oboe d’amore and Viola d’amore;
5pm STRAUSS JR. Voices of Spring
21 SUN 7am BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in
D; 11am BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E;
1pm BACH English Suite No. 2 in A minor;
3pm MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain;
4pm BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; 5pm
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
22 MON 9am DVORAK Slavonic Dances,
Op. 72; 10am BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
in F; 12pm CHOPIN Polonaise Fantasy in A
flat; 2pm MOZART Piano Concerto No. 26,
“Coronation”; 4pm WAGNER Die
Meistersinger: Prelude, Act 1; 7pm MACCUNN Land of the Mountain and the Flood;
10pm FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
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23 TUE 9am MOZART Symphony No. 41
in C, “Jupiter”; 10am DEBUSSY Children’s
Corner; 12pm SCHREKER Valse lente; 1pm
ALBINONI Oboe Concerto in D minor,
Op. 9 No. 2; 2pm BRAHMS Piano Concerto
No. 1 in D minor; 4pm BEETHOVEN Fidelio:
Overture; 8pm SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8,
“Unfinished”; 9pm BRAHMS Horn Trio in
E flat
24 WED 8am TELEMANN Trumpet
Concerto No. 1; 10am DVORAK Piano
Quintet No. 2 in A; 12pm SCHUMANN
Arabeske in C; 2pm BRUCH Suite on Russian
Themes; 3pm MENDELSSOHN Violin
Concerto in E minor; 7pm HOLST St. Paul’s
Suite; 8pm SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A
minor; 10pm ARENSKY Variations on a
Theme of Tchaikovsky
25 THU 9am BEETHOVEN Symphony No.
1 in C; 10am MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A;
1pm GRIEG Symphonic Dances, Op. 64; 2pm
DVORAK The Hero’s Song; 3pm BERLIOZ
Harold in Italy; 5pm BARTOK Romanian Folk
Dances; 10pm VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
26 FRI 8am BERLIOZ Roman Carnival
Overture; 9am-10pm ALL-REQUEST FRIDAY; 10pm SAINT-SAENS Havanaise
27 SAT 8am BACH Orchestral Suite No. 1 in
C; 9am SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata; 10am
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn;
11am GROFE Grand Canyon Suite; 12pm
D’INDY Symphony on a French Mountain Air
28 SUN 11am DVORAK The Golden
Spinning Wheel; 12pm BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”; 2pm
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 1 in C
minor; 3pm EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL;
4pm BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14,
“Moonlight”; 5pm SIBELIUS Karelia Suite
29 MON 8am WALTON Crown Imperial
March; 9am TELEMANN Water Music; 11am
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Tale of Tsar Saltan:
Suite; 2pm TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Suite
No. 4, “Mozartiana”; 3pm BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in D, “Ghost”; 4pm WALTON
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue; 5:30pm JOSEF
STRAUSS Music of the Spheres; 6pm A
PASSOVER CELEBRATION; 7pm MOZART
Symphony No. 31, “Paris”; 10pm DEBUSSY
Dances Sacred and Profane
30 TUE 9am VIVALDI Concerto in D minor
for 2 Violins; 10am GLAZUNOV Raymonda:
Suite; 12pm BRAHMS Academic Festival
Overture; 2pm DEBUSSY Suite Bergamasque;
3pm SAINT-SAENS Symphony No. 3 in C
minor, “Organ”; 5pm PACHELBEL Suite in B
flat for Strings; 8pm BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 1 in C; 9pm SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
31 WED 9am HAYDN Symphony No. 96,
“Miracle”; 11am SMETANA The Moldau;
12pm BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1;
2pm HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in E flat; 3pm
DVORAK Serenade for Strings; 7pm HAYDN
Symphony No. 45, “Farewell”; 9pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor;
10pm LALO Two Aubades
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No. 1 in E minor; 12pm
CASTELNUOVOTEDESCO Guitar Concerto
No. 1; 5pm BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
4 SUN 11am TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto in D; 12pm MOZART
Symphony No. 36, “Linz”; 2pm RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter
Overture; 4pm BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2 in B flat; 5pm
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D
5 MON 8am STRAUSS JR. The Blue
Danube; 10am SPOHR Nonet for
Strings and Winds; 12pm DEBUSSY En
Bateau; 2pm LISZT Piano Concerto No.
1, “Triangle”; 3pm RAVEL Noble and
Sentimental Waltzes; 4pm BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 3; 7pm SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 in C
6 TUE 9am BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 in
D; 10am SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No. 5
in F; 12pm WAGNER Siegfried Idyll; 1pm
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5:
Romanza; 3pm BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in
E minor; 5:30pm R. STRAUSS Der
Rosenkavalier: Waltzes; 8pm BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique; 9pm DEBUSSY La Mer
Ferrucio Busoni
b. 4.1.1866
APRIL FEATURED WORKS
7 WED 9am VIVALDI Cello Concerto in B
minor; 11am MOZART Piano Concerto No.
24 in C minor; 1pm BACH Violin Concerto
No. 1 in A minor; 2pm CHOPIN Four
Mazurkas, Op. 17; 3pm SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9 in C, “Great”; 7pm GLINKA
A Life for the Czar: Dances; 8pm RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1; 10pm
HOLST Egdon Heath
Apr
1 THU 9am RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on
a Theme of Paganini; 10am BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto in D; 12pm DVORAK In
Nature’s Realm; 2pm RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto No. 2; 3pm BUSONI Turandot
Suite; 5pm RACHMANINOFF Vocalise; 10pm
RACHMANINOFF Variations on a Theme of
Corelli
2 FRI 8am BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.
3; 9am DVORAK New World Symphony; 11am
TELEMANN Tafelmusik: Overture in D; 12pm
MOZART Piano Sonata No. 11 in A; 2pm
RODRIGO Fantasia for a Gentleman; 3pm
MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor; 7pm
WAGNER Good Friday Music; 8pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat
minor; 10pm WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B flat
3 SAT 8am BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.
21, “Waldstein”; 9am MOZART Clarinet
Concerto in A; 11am CHOPIN Piano Concerto
8 THU 9am BRAHMS Serenade No. 1 in D;
11am DVORAK Violin Concerto in A minor;
12pm C.P.E. BACH String Symphony in C;
2pm TARTINI Devil’s Trill; 3pm DEBUSSY
Spring (Symphonic Suite); 5pm
MENDELSSOHN Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Overture; 10pm MOZART Adagio and Rondo
in C minor
9 FRI 8am GRIEG Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen; 9am COPLAND Rodeo: Dance
Episodes; 12pm SAINT-SAENS The Swan;
2pm MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C;
3pm TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty: Suite;
7pm LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1; 8pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor,
“Choral”; 10pm DVORAK Nocturne in B
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10 SAT 9am HAYDN Symphony No. 99 in E
flat; 11am BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.
4 in G; 12pm ADAM Giselle: Selections; 5pm
RAVEL Bolero
17 SAT 9am CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in
B flat minor; 10am RAVEL Mother Goose
Suite; 12pm ADDINSELL Warsaw Concerto;
5pm GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor
11 SUN 11am MOURET 1st Suite of
Symphonies; 12pm LISZT Fantasy on
Hungarian Folk Themes; 2pm HANDEL Water
Music; 3pm EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL;
5pm HOLST The Planets
18 SUN 7am SCHUMANN Papillons; 11am
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A, “Trout”; 1pm
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 15,
“Pastoral”; 3pm CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.
2 in F minor; 5pm MOZART Piano Concerto
No. 17 in G
12 MON 9am TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for
Strings; 10am LALANDE First Caprice; 12pm
DEBUSSY Two Arabesques; 3pm FRANCK
Symphony in D minor; 5:30pm LANNER The
Suitors; 7pm SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1,
“Spring”; 10pm TCHAIKOVSKY Andante
cantabile
13 TUE 9am BENNETT Piano Concerto No.
4; 10am MOZART Horn Concerto No. 3 in E
flat; 1pm GRIEG Lyric Suite, Op. 54; 3pm
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D; 5pm BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2; 7pm HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, “Military”; 8pm
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor;
9pm TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B
minor, “Pathetique”
14 WED 9am HANDEL Concerto Grosso,
Op. 6 No. 5; 10am CHOPIN Andante
Spianato and Grand Polonaise; 12pm DELIUS
Hassan: Serenade; 2pm COPLAND Red Pony
Suite; 3pm RACHMANINOFF Symphony No.
3 in A minor; 7pm SAINT-SAENS
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; 8pm
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor; 9pm
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E flat
ril
15 THU 8am VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
English Folk Song Suite; 10am BORODIN
Symphony No. 3 in A minor; 1pm MOZART
Symphony No. 25 in G minor; 2pm DELIBES
Coppelia: Suite; 3pm BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, “Eroica”; 5pm
BACH Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring; 10pm
SIBELIUS Rakastava
16 FRI 8am OFFENBACH Barcarolle; 9am
SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No. 4 in C
minor; 10am RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and
Dances; 12pm BIZET L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1;
2pm MENDELSSOHN Octet in E flat; 3pm
DVORAK Bagatelles; 4pm BEETHOVEN
Coriolan Overture; 7pm MOSZKOWSKI
Spanish Dances, Book 1; 8pm BRUCH Violin
Concerto No. 1 in G minor; 9pm BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 in F
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MAY FEATURED WORKS
3 MON 9am HANDEL Occasional Suite in
D; 10am DVORAK Symphony No. 5 in F;
12pm DEBUSSY Girl with the Flaxen Hair;
2pm BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C
minor; 5pm SIBELIUS Finlandia; 7pm
BRUCH Scottish Fantasy for Violin; 10pm
LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci: Intermezzo
4 TUE 8am REZNICEK Donna Diana:
Overture; 10am GLAZUNOV Ballet Scenes;
1pm BIZET Carmen Suite No. 2; 2pm SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 in D; 3pm SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E flat; 7pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F,
“Pastoral”; 9pm SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto
No. 2 in G minor; 10pm BUTTERWORTH A
Shropshire Lad
5 WED 9am PONCHIELLI Dance of the
Hours; 10am RESPIGHI The Birds; 12pm
PONCE Sonata Romantica; 2pm SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor; 4pm COPLAND El Salon Mexico; 8pm MOZART
Symphony No. 29 in A; 9pm HOLST The
Planets; 10pm BARRIOS Three Pieces for
Guitar
6 THU 8am ROSSINI William Tell: Overture;
9am WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2; 10am
DVORAK Symphony No. 8 in G; 12pm
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LISZT Les Preludes; 3pm HANDEL Music for
the Royal Fireworks; 5:30pm LEHAR Gold and
Silver Waltz; 10pm GLUCK Dance of the
Blessed Spirits
7 FRI 9am BRAHMS Serenade No. 2 in A;
11am TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
in B flat minor; 1pm BRAHMS Variations on a
Theme by Haydn; 3pm TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture; 4pm
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture; 7pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio italien; 8pm
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D; 9pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor
8 SAT 8am GOTTSCHALK Grand Scherzo;
9am BACH Triple Concerto, BWV 1044; 10am
R. STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 1; 11am
DVORAK Czech Suite; 12pm GOTTSCHALK
Grand Fantasia Triumfal
9 SUN 7am BEETHOVEN Consecration of
the House Overture; 11am GRIEG Peer Gynt:
Suite No. 1; 1pm BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet
Orchestral Music; 3pm EASTERN MUSIC
FESTIVAL; 5pm VIVALDI Four Seasons
10 MON 9am PARRY An English Suite; 10am
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, “Spring”;
12pm LECLAIR Overture No. 2 in D; 3pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A; 4pm
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”;
7pm ELGAR Enigma Variations; 10pm
MASSENET Last Sleep of the Virgin
11 TUE 9am BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in
E; 10am CHOPIN Grand Fantasia on Polish
Airs; 12pm DVORAK Symphonic Variations;
2pm BIZET Symphony in C; 3pm LIADOV
Eight Russian Folk Songs; 5pm ROSSINI
Barber of Seville: Overture; 6pm DEBUSSY
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; 7pm STILL
Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”; 10pm
LIADOV Prelude, Waltz and Mazurka
12 WED 9am MOZART Bassoon Concerto in
B flat; 11am MASSENET Le Cid: Ballet Music;
12pm FAURE Pavane; 2pm ROSSINI Fantastic
Toyshop; 4pm FAURE Masques and
Bergamasques: Suite; 7pm MASSENET
Picturesque Scenes; 8pm BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1 in C minor; 10pm FAURE Dolly Suite
13 THU 8am SULLIVAN H.M.S. Pinafore:
Overture; 10am BORODIN Symphony No. 1
in E flat; 12pm MOZART Piano Concerto No.
Louis Moreau
Gottschalk
b. 5.8.1829
21 in C; 2pm HAYDN Symphony No. 103,
“Drum Roll”; 3pm MENDELSSOHN Piano
Concerto No. 1 in G minor; 5pm SULLIVAN
Pirates of Penzance: Overture; 10pm CHOPIN
Nocturnes, Op. 9
M
14 FRI 9am BIZET Children’s Games; 11am
MOZART Symphony No. 31, “Paris”; 12pm
HANDEL The Gods Go a’Begging Suite; 2pm
GRIEG Holberg Suite; 3pm CHOPIN
Krakowiak, Concerto Rondo in F; 4pm
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture; 8pm
DEBUSSY Nocturnes; 9pm DVORAK Cello
Concerto in B minor
15 SAT 9am RODRIGO Concierto de
Aranjuez; 11am ALBENIZ Asturias; 12pm
GRANADOS Spanish Dances, Set. No. 4; 2pm
ALBENIZ Sunday Festival in Seville; 3pm
LLOBET Popular Catalan Songs; 5pm FALLA
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
16 SUN 7am GLINKA Jota Aragonaise; 11am
GRANADOS Spanish Dance No. 5,
“Andalusia”; 1pm ALBENIZ Spanish Rhapsody;
2pm FALLA Three-Cornered Hat: Four Dances;
3pm GRANADOS Poetic Waltzes; 5pm FALLA
Suite populaire espagnole
17 MON 8am MOZART Cosi fan tutte:
Overture; 9am HAYDN String Quartet in C,
“Emperor”; 10am DVORAK Slavonic Dances,
G I V E AT T H E C L A S S I C A L S TAT I O N . O R G O R C A L L 1- 8 0 0 - 5 5 6 - 5 1 7 8
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Greensleeves; 10pm DVORAK Serenade for
Strings
21 FRI 9am BACH Oboe Concerto in F,
BWV 1053; 10am BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2 in D; 12pm TELEMANN Trumpet
Concerto No. 3; 2pm CLEMENTI Symphony
No. 3, “Great National”; 3pm GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue; 5pm TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave; 8pm RACHMANINOFF Piano
Concerto No. 2; 9pm RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
Jules Massenet
b. 5.12.1842
Op. 46; 12pm SATIE Gymnopedies Nos. 1 and
3; 3pm BEETHOVEN Clarinet Trio in B flat;
4pm MOZART Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat;
7pm BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture;
10pm FINZI Prelude and Romance for String
Orchestra
22 SAT 8am CORELLI Concerto Grosso, Op.
6 No. 6; 9am WAGNER Die Meistersinger:
Prelude, Act 3; 11am VERDI Sicilian Vespers:
Four Seasons; 12pm WAGNER Tannhauser:
Overture and Venusberg Bacchanale; 3pm
DVORAK New World Symphony; 5pm WAGNER Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and LoveDeath
23 SUN 7am MOZART Piano Sonata in F;
12pm SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A
minor; 2pm BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in
D; 3pm EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL; 5pm
GRANADOS Spanish Dances, Set. No. 1
24 MON 8am OFFENBACH La Belle Helene:
Overture; 10am DELIBES Sylvia: Suite; 11am
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor; 1pm
SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata; 3pm
MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2 in D; 5pm
STRAUSS JR. A Night in Venice: Overture;
7pm STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite; 10pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Melancholy Serenade
May
18 TUE 8am SAINT-SAENS Danse Macabre;
10am BACH Concerto in D minor for 2
Violins, BWV 1043; 12pm WEBER Concertino
in E flat for Clarinet; 2pm MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”; 3pm MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat; 5:30pm
STRAUSS JR. Roses from the South; 7pm
PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf; 9pm GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony; 10pm R.
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
19 WED 9am HANDEL Concerto Grosso,
Op. 6 No. 11; 10am SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4 in D minor; 12pm BACH Sheep May
Safely Graze; 2pm MOZART Symphony No.
35, “Haffner”; 3pm BORODIN Prince Igor:
Overture/Polovtsian Dances; 7pm SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 4, “Tragic”; 8pm MAHLER
Symphony No. 1, “Titan”; 10pm TARREGA
Capricho Arabe
20 THU 8am COPLAND An Outdoor
Overture; 10am MOZART Flute Concerto No.
1 in G; 12pm RAVEL Le Tombeau de
Couperin; 2pm C. SCHUMANN Piano
Concerto in A minor; 3pm ELGAR Sanguine
Fan; 5pm VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on
25 TUE 8am SVENDSEN Norwegian Artists’
Carnival; 10am PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kije
Suite; 12pm HANDEL Amaryllis Suite; 2pm
DVORAK Symphony No. 7 in D minor; 3pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 in B flat; 8pm
BERLIOZ Harold in Italy; 9pm BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G; 10pm MOZART
String Quintet in C, K. 515
26 WED 9am SCHUMANN Symphony No.
3 in E flat, “Rhenish”; 10am BEETHOVEN
Clarinet Trio in B flat; 11am VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending; 12pm LARSSON Pastoral Suite; 2pm RAVEL Sonatine;
3pm RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Tale of Tsar Saltan:
Suite; 7pm MOZART Serenade No. 9,
“Posthorn”; 9pm GOUNOD Symphony No. 2
in E flat
27 THU 8am BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 1; 10am HAYDN Symphony No.
92, “Oxford”; 12pm SCHUBERT Sonatina in
D; 2pm TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2,
“Little Russian”; 3pm RAFF From Thuringia;
5pm HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel:
Overture; 10pm VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five
Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
28 FRI 8am MENDELSSOHN Hebrides
Overture; 9am –10pm ALL-REQUEST FRIDAY; 10pm BARRIOS La Catedral
29 SAT 8am GERSHWIN Three Preludes;
10am COPLAND Billy the Kid Ballet Suite;
1pm ALBENIZ Suite Espanola: Three
Selections; 3pm KORNGOLD Captain Blood:
Suite; 4pm BARBER Overture to School for
Scandal; 5pm CHADWICK Symphonic
Sketches
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30 SUN 7am TELEMANN Paris Quartet No.
9; 11am DVORAK American Suite; 1pm
GERSHWIN Concerto in F; 3pm NELSON
Sonoran Desert Holiday; 4pm BERNSTEIN
Candide: Overture; 5pm COPLAND
Appalachian Spring
31 MON 8am GOULD An American Salute;
9am DELIUS Florida Suite; 11am COPLAND
Red Pony Suite; 12pm J. WILLIAMS Liberty
Fanfare; 2pm GERSHWIN An American in
Paris; 3pm TAPS, J. WILLIAMS Hymn to the
Fallen; 4pm SOUSA Stars and Stripes Forever;
5:30pm OFFENBACH American Eagle Waltz;
7pm IVES Variations on America; 10pm BERNSTEIN Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
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Jim Rees had more stories than anyone could imagine —about composers, performances he’d heard, artists
he’d met— and he loved to share them. Jim believed that music, too, should be shared.
When he passed away in April 2008 he gave his collection of nearly 3000 classical CDs to WCPE.
Jim was born in 1935 in Lancaster, PA. He came
to Greenville, NC, in 1966 to teach speech and
broadcast communications at East Carolina
University. By the time he retired as professor
emeritus he had touched the lives of countless students. He was very proud of ECU’s music department, and sometimes produced recordings by school
ensembles. He was a huge supporter of WCPE’s effort
to establish a remote transmitter in Greenville.
Jim loved Russian music, Rachmaninoff in particular,
and fulfilled a dream near the end of his life by taking a
river cruise with the Russian National Orchestra. One day
an attractive woman invited him to “come have dessert
with Mike.” Mike turned out to be Mikhail Pletnev,
the conductor and pianist. Jim was thrilled, and had
another great story for me when he got home.
He also brought back a small bag of Russian soil
to spread on Rachmaninoff ’s grave in New York. A
friend completed that mission for him.
Jim’s gift to WCPE, together with a generous
donation of nearly 300 full-length operas from the
family of the late Al and Eleanor Ruocchio, have
done much to enrich the WCPE listening experience. We miss our friends very much. But they
are still with us every day as we share their
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