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N May/June 2021 Volume 49, No. 4 Spring Orgy® Period 95.3 FM Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin, Act I; Matacic, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra (Orfeo) WHRB Bach: Goldberg Variations, S. 988; Schornsheim (Capriccio) Handel: Water Music; Glover, London Mozart Players (Univer- sal Classics) Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Simon (VoxBox) 95.3 FM Ravel: Jeux d’eau; Simon (VoxBox) Barber: Adagio for Strings; Toscanini, NBC Symphony (RCA) Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-fat; Gansch, Sieghart, Spirit of Legend has it that the WHRB Orgy® tradition began over Europe (Cryston) seventy-fve years ago, in the spring of 1943. At that time, it is Elgar: Cello Concerto in e; du Pré, Barbirolli, London Sym- said that one Harvard student, then a staff member of WHRB, phony Orchestra (EMI) 5:00 pm FROM THE TOP returned to the station after a particularly diffcult exam and 6:00 pm WARHORSE ORGY cont. played all of Beethoven’s nine symphonies consecutively (from Verdi: Messa da Requiem; Stella, Dominguez, Gedda, Modesti, 78 rpm records) to celebrate the end of a long, hard term of Karajan, Vienna Symphony (Orfeo) studying. The idea caught on, and soon the Orgy® concept was Mozart: Oboe Quartet, K. 370; van den Hauwe, Leskowitz; Salzburg Soloists (Naxos) expanded to include live jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, and even Allegri: Miserere; Preston, Westminster Abbey Choir (DG) sports Orgies. The Orgy® tradition lives on today at WHRB. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Wang, Abbado, Mahler During the Reading and Exam Periods of Harvard College, Chamber Orchestra (DG) Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”; Studer, Meier, Ab- WHRB presents marathon-style musical programs devoted to a bado, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Philharmonic (DG) single composer, performer, genre, or subject.
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